Ubuntu Cinnamon

Reader supplied reviews for Ubuntu Cinnamon Average rating 8.1 from 8 review(s) What are your thoughts on Ubuntu Cinnamon? Please include a few pros and a few cons, along with your overall impression of the operating system. Our FAQ page has tips on writing a good mini-review. Version: -- 23.0422.1022.04.2 Rating:    -- 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 out of 10 Your review (minimum 250 words): Past reviews - sort by: DateVotes Version: 23.04 Rating: 7 Date: 2023-08-03 Votes: 1 Not sure why we need another Mint with Snaps added? Couldn't we have just installed Snaps in Mint if we really wanted Snaps? Its nice to see Canonical give its blessing and support to this distro. But honestly, do we really need another distro which basically doesn't change much beyond what is already out there. I found it to run fine on my Mini PC but then again so does every OS I have tried on it. I just don't find anything compelling in Ubuntu Cinnamon to move the needle in better then any other distro already out there. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 23.04 Rating: 9 Date: 2023-07-21 Votes: 32 I think it has improved a lot compared to the LTS 22 version. Now there are not so many bugs. It feels clean and comfortable, and frankly, Ubuntu is still the best Linux distro to "install and work the next minute." Yes, Debian exists, but you have to add a thousand things that end up making it exhausting: adding users to the sudoers list, non-free repositories, installing flatpaks, etc. On Ubuntu Cinnamon snaps work pretty fast. Cinnamon is still the right choice for me. I have installed Linux Mint many times because I love Cinnamon, but I must admit that Ubuntu Cinnamon comes with a new kernel and gnome 44. All of this is very noticeable on new hardware like mine. It has a very nice brown theme, at least to me. Great job. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 23.04 Rating: 9 Date: 2023-07-02 Votes: 19 It has been asked a few times "why Ubuntu Cinnamon rather than Linux Mint?". There are some good reasons. First, it is based on GNOME 44 rather than 40, which has real improvements even if GNOME Desktop is swapped out as here. Second, there is a smaller and more even set of apps; the XApps are not used. gedit, gthumb, evince and celluloid provide basic file support. GIMP is also installed by default. Third, the authors have done great work in theming Ubuntu Cinnamon so that it offers analogues of the excellent vanilla Ubuntu themes, including icons. "Yaru-prussiangreen-dark", for example, is an option. A thoughtful feature is that Ubuntu Cinnamon uses GNOME Software, not Ubuntu's fork. That means that flatpaks, snaps and .debs are all viewable and updatable from the same application; there is not the nonsense of having two almost identical software managers after you add flatpak support to vanilla Ubuntu. The only issues are minor; there are a few slips (the login screen says "22.04" when it is not; some of the 4K wallpapers are pixelated; celluloid is a very old version). Vanilla Ubuntu blows hot and cold on keeping up with minor versions anyway, but I would like to see Cinnamon brought up to the latest minor version here: Ubuntu Cinnamon offers Cinnamon 5.6.7 and nemo 5.6.3, whereas the latest versions are 5.6.8 and 5.6.4. Similarly with GNOME Software (44.2 rather than 44.0) as, from the changelogs, there are real improvements. Ubuntu Cinnamon, somewhat to my surprise, is impressive. I dislike GNOME Desktop and the Mint "old software, even older kernel" jibe does resonate here, so Ubuntu Cinnamon was worth a try. It is now my daily driver. Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 8 reader reviews of Ubuntu Cinnamon...