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cpearce on Oct 11, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Canonical asks desktop users to “pay what you thin...

You can install Cinnamon (the window manager used by Linux Mint), and it's very good. It behaves "traditionally" (i.e. like Windows 7), and it's much prettier than XFCE.

buster on Oct 11, 2012 [–]

I recently switched to Cinnamon and couldn't be happier. I never really liked Unity, i used Gnome Shell and it was usable ok. But for my work nothing seems to beat the good old taskbar-based design.

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