5 Simple Ways To Make Cinnamon Feel at Home on Ubuntu (and Trisquel)
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I don't get why you love Cinnamon so much. It's not bad, but I find it to be a cluttered mess.
What's the alternative? The mess that is the current Trisquel 6/7 desktop which not only looks bad, but isn't that customizable? How about MATE? Sure if you want Trisquel to look like Gnome 2 and pull in all those Gnome 2 packages and dependencies when the world moved to Gnome 3 and GTK3 years ago.
I tried Elementary OS in Trisquel 6 and hopefully the release Isis soon so we can get the desktop in Trisquel 7.
I tried to install Cinnamon on Trisquel and I hit nothing but problems. Nemo kept crashing so I uninstalled it.
Is this Trisquel 6 or 7? They stopped updating Cinnamon at 2.0 for Ubuntu 12.04 (for which 6 is based off of), but 2.2 is available for Ubuntu 14.04 and Trisquel 7.
It was Trisquel 6.0. This was last year, it may have improved since then. I don't like buggy software on my system. Just a comment, to some the default desktop may be "ugly" but I was more impressed with the fact that the distro just worked and detected my hardware and the performance was superb. I've tried so many distros where the hardware is not detected even on a live boot, it shows a lot more thought has gone into Trisquel. They haven't taken an existing distro and just respun it without thinking about driver support.
Cinnamon is great and elegant! Having said that though I haven't used it since I removed the Manjaro partition that contained it (since it also contained non-free things).
In terms of elegance and tidiness I think KDE plasma is a little bit behind. Not by far, but a little bit behind.
Have you seen Plasma 5? It was released a few days ago.
I hadn't. I've just now seen a page on it, went here to edit my post, and I was too late :)
Anyway, my opinion on KDE Plasma 4 is still that's it isn't as good as Cinnamon.......
KDE Plasma 5 has got impressive screenshots, though, and I'm excited about trying out that lockscreen - the old one's in too many ways a piece of rubbish.
The lockscreen was improved in later versions of Plasma 4, you'll probably see it in Belenos. But the new lockscreen is even better. :)
Plasma 5 looks pretty cool. Does Triskel 7 come with it? Or will Triskel 7 auto-update to it?
How does Plasma 5 compare to gnome3, mate, and lxde, in terms of ram/cpu? Is there any down-side to KDE?
What's the key combination for this search feature? Does it work like Synapse?:
http://www.kde.org/announcements/plasma5.0/screenshots/krunner-kde.png
Trisquel 7's repository almost only contains what the Ubuntu 14.04 base contains. KDE Plasma 5 is out of it and will probably always be. You will have to use a PPA.
"Plasma 5 looks pretty cool. Does Triskel 7 come with it? Or will Triskel 7 auto-update to it?"
As Magic Banana said, Plasma 5 won't be in the 7.0 repos because 7.0 is based on Ubuntu 14.04. Ubuntu will include Plasma 5 in 14.10, so Trisquel 8.0 will include it. That will be in about 2 years from now, based on Ubuntu 16.04. You can follow the instructions here to add the PPA. Those are bleeding edge builds, though.
"What's the key combination for this search feature? Does it work like Synapse?"
In Plasma 4, the key combination for KRunner is Alt+F2. It's probably the same in Plasma 5.
EDIT: That PPA will work in Trisquel 7 but not in Trisquel 6.
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