Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

[Maros Zatko]

On 01/28/2013 06:49 PM, Gerald Henriksen wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 12:26:14 -0500, you wrote:
>
>> On 01/28/2013 11:56 AM, inode0 wrote:
>>> What concerns me isn't that Linus and Alan don't like it.
>> To be fair Linus (more quietly) went back to GNOME 3 after his initial
>> loud complaints. He is still using it since he just posted that he was
>> to G+ yesterday.
> Which is likely more a statement about how poor the alternatives are
> than a change of his views of Gnome 3.
exactly!
>
> While I wait to see what this new Gnome mode looks like, the choices
> facing Linux users aren't great - either the desktop has gone off on
> strange path (Gnome-shell), simply don't like (KDE) or lacks the
> developer base to provide a suitable experience.
>
I've used gnome 2.x, when 3.x came out I had no other option
than to (finally) switch to tiling since my beloved DE was gone
and not going back.
Other "options" I've tried (XFCE was some of them) had either
some "child" issues or didn't satisfy my needs at all (no, can't
stand KDE either).