Re:What's new in Ubuntu 19.04
by dopeboy on Thursday April 18, 2019 @12:39PM
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After discovering Cinnamon, I haven't been able to go back.
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Re:What's new in Ubuntu 19.04
by dguaraglia on Thursday April 18, 2019 @02:17PM
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Question: do you ever feel like Cinnamon isn't as responsive as it could be?
I was using Cinnamon (first on Linux Mint and then on Manjaro) for a few months before the release of Gnome 3.32. I've switched to Gnome 3.32 and it feels much more responsive than Cinnamon. In particular cycling windows and doing anything while a notification is being displayed.
I really wish Cinnamon didn't stutter as much. It's the right amount of "desktop" I need.
IIRC Cinnamon still does compositing, so maybe you've gotten stuck on the software only path? This can happen when drivers get blacklisted for example. I use it on one of my laptops and it's been pretty smooth for me.
I sense it too - it's just sluggish enough for me to notice.
Re:What's new in Ubuntu 19.04
by freedomben on Thursday April 18, 2019 @01:40PM
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Cinnamon is a truly underrated DE. I don't use it anymore (now that I have most of the Gnome 3 shortcuts memorized, I love it) but Cinnamon took the gorgeousness of Gnome 3 and mashed it up with the classic functionality of Gnome 2. Why the community rallied around MATE and not Cinnamon I will never understand.