From: mnieuw@zap.a2000.nl   
      
   On Sun, 23 Jun 2013 16:27 -0500, sctvguy1 wrote:   
      
      
   >>   
   >>> Funny thing is the way Ubuntu is going Mandriva could have been   
   >>> a much more popular distribution with its greater openness and wider   
   >>> choices in the desktop environments.   
   >>   
   >> I think a lot of that is down to hype.  Ubuntu has been hyped all the   
   >> way to the moon and back, and now they are doing the same thing with   
   >> Mint.   
   >>   
   >>> Ubuntu is closing itself to attempt to become Microsoft clone IMHO.   
   >>   
   >> More like a Mac clone, actually.   
   >>   
   >>> I understand that the later desktops there are more popular with   
   >>> people migrating from Windows.   
   >>   
   >> Cinnamon is very popular among Mint users.  It was developed by the Mint   
   >> developers themselves and it is a GNOME2-like interface around GNOME3.   
   >> However, the Mint developers have now forked GNOME3 for the next   
   >> Cinnamon as the upstream GNOME code - developed at RedHat - had evolved   
   >> too much in a direction that no longer allowed the Cinnamon developers   
   >> to do what they wanted to do.  Similarly there is also MATE, which is a   
   >> fork of the old GNOME2 code.   
   >>   
   >> The hype around Ubuntu and the fact that Ubuntu proper originally came   
   >> with GNOME and now comes with Canonical's own Unity has also put a   
   >> damper on the popularity of KDE.  Not many KDE users in either   
   >> alt.os.linux.mint or alt.os.linux.ubuntu.   
   >   
   >I first used Mint as Mint 7 "Gloria" KDE.  I prefered that to the GNOME   
   >version.  I moved on to PCLOS KDE and have pretty much stuck with it(trying   
   >the MATE DE on PCLOS, along with the KDE version).  Mint never really has   
   >supported KDE except as a community version, even though it is generally   
   >excellent.   
      
   Mandriva 2010 I consider the best Linux I have used so far. Regretfully, it   
   is way behind with updates of course, so I am now trying Mint Mate, which is   
   usable. But it screwed up my carefully layed out partition table, even though   
   I prepared a partition for it (it moved the beginning of the extended   
   partiton a little forward).   
   Anyway, I don't like that the user interface on Linuxes changes ever faster.   
   Why can't it stay the same for 10+ years? That at least is one plus point for   
   Windows XP, and I think why Linux is not a good general public desktop (as   
   yet). I'm not into 'eye candy', I want a usable desktop which I don't have to   
   relearn all the time.   
      
   Mat Nieuwenhoven   
      
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