Linux Mint 18 released

eg2505 said:
I'm confused,i know there are many flavors of mint,
What is cinnamon based on?
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Cinnamon is the desktop environment...you can get it with either Mint flavour (Debian or Ubuntu based). Cinnamon started off as Gnome.

Vinnige-r Fanie...we even started the sentence the same (obvious) way :)
 
faniedry said:
technically if you load it on ubuntu... you've created linux mint! :D
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Learned something here, as I loved cinnamon as its most like windows 7

So how does one actually do it? Sudo get on cinnamon?
Or does one recompile a custom version?
Fascinating stuff Linux with its possibilities
 
I am subscribing I learn alot about Linux when I don't ask questions. Continue.
 
eg2505 said:
Learned something here, as I loved cinnamon as its most like windows 7

So how does one actually do it? Sudo get on cinnamon?
Or does one recompile a custom version?
Fascinating stuff Linux with its possibilities
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No clue. That's a little beyond my level of linux-geek.
 
faniedry said:
please don't feel good about a thoron endorsement :(
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Why not? I mean this is how I learn, by asking questions!
I was taught to ask as many questions as possible as a show of interest.
Many times I don't ask enough only to wish I knew about something later on that becomes apparent.
I know people get annoyed, but if you don't ask, simple fact is you won't know.
 
eg2505 said:
Why not? I mean this is how I learn, by asking questions!
I was taught to ask as many questions as possible as a show of interest.
Many times I don't ask enough only to wish I knew about something later on that becomes apparent.
I know people get annoyed, but if you don't ask, simple fact is you won't know.
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LOL don't worry... ask away, and I want to know as well... I was just having a go at Th[-]m[/-]oron - as you do ;)
 
eg2505 said:
I understand, so what is the best for ease of use most like windows?
Cinnamon? Or KDE?
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They're both the same really. You get the taskbar and the start menu on the lower left like XP/7/10. KDE just got more customization and the Plasma theme aka Aero of Windows 7 that everybody is missing. Also there's great KDE apps like Dolphin file manager, k3b, Amarok, ktorrent, Krita etc. It uses a bit more resources prolly.
 
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Which one reads NTFS systems natively?
Cinnamon or KDE? Or has that requirement fallen away now?

Also which comes with vlc/Firefox preloaded?
 
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