Cinnamon is one of the most popular desktop environments for Linux computers, with many folks using it instead of Unity and other available desktop options.
Version 3.0 of Cinnamon was recently released, and now there’s a helpful video on Youtube that walks you through the new features and improvements:
The what’s new in Cinnamon 3.0 video spawned a thread on the Linux subreddit, and folks there weren’t shy about sharing their thoughts:
Varikonniemi: “This looks really promising, i would say this is the first time i get the feeling it is better than unity. I however have not sat down with it, so actual use experience may differ.”
Mowalle: “I’ve been using Cinnamon since around 2.2. IMO, the only things that Unity does better than it are the HUD (not the Dash, but the alt-menu thingy) and the merging of app menu, titlebar and top panel to save space. I find Cinnamon has a lot of little tweaks and details that make it just nice to use. For example, the you can right-click the sound applet to change the audio output device. It also comes with an inhibit applet by default, so no need for caffeine. Unity is not bad, but to me Cinnamon takes the lead.”
Moonwork: “I’m a big fan of Cinnamon and have been for a few years now. Atm I’m running Ubuntu 16.04 with Cinnamon as the Desktop Manager.
But I have to say, considering that was a “See What’s New” -video, it feels like there’s quite a few things that were standard in the previous versions.
Having said that, this looks awesome and I can’t wait to start using it properly. (I installed 3.0 just last night.) So far the only weird thing has been the oversized icons on the desktop and in Nemo. But I assume those are remnants of the old config files and will disappear once I reinstall when Mint 18 comes out.”
Thedjokatu: “Touchpad off while typing is awesome. All desktop environments need to enable that as an option! Nothing I hate more when using a laptop than errant clicks because of a touchpad.”
TRL5: “It completely screws gaming up though, and the timeout is either short enough to not always work, or long enough to be annoying if you go back to mousing immediately after typing.
I prefer just learning how to type on a laptop, though I agree it should be available as an option.”
Postingcrap: “That all looks incredibly trivial, things that other DEs have had for years.”