Cinnamon seems to be forgotten/underappreciated, I really enjoy using it.
I've tried a range of different desktops environments, and I end up finding cinnamon just does what I expect, with reasonable defaults.
> Cinnamon seems to be forgotten/underappreciated, I really enjoy using it. I've tried a range of different desktops environments, and I end up finding cinnamon just does what I expect, with reasonable defaults.
Cinnamon is pretty cool. It’s old school desktop paradigm but clean and modern looking. I urge anyone who likes XFCE to try Cinnamon.
My main issue with Cinnamon is that fractional scaling doesn’t work well (to be fair, it only works in Gnome and KDE) but since Cinnamon handle bigger text very well, I have a nice experience just by checking « bigger text » in accessibility settings (while XFCE will scale text up but will keep the rest - mostly icons - really tiny).
The Linux Mint Cinnamon version is actually pretty good: https://linuxmint.com/download.php
But also, XFCE has always worked well enough - it's lightweight, responsive and has most of the features you'd expect, albeit little to no eye candy.