• Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    3 days ago

    Is mint still using that old gnome fork DE? KDE Plasma might be a nicer and still familiar experience for people coming from windows

    • vala@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      It’s a fork of Gnome but its well maintined, very familliar to windows users, and very reliable.

      I personally pefer KDE but Cinnamon is likely a better choice for new users.

      Not to mention, Mint itself is a super reliable distro. I use Fedora but keep my partner on Mint and she has maybe 10% of the issues I do.

    • Chris L@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      Yes, Mint uses Cinnamon desktop by default, which I believe was forked from Gnome. I like it, although I’m using Kubuntu at the moment. Cinnamon has that Windows-y look and feel to it, and retains some of the Gnome advantages.