I have just converted 3 of my windows 7 PCs to Linux Mint Cinnamon, and they will stay that way.
Yes, I quite like Mint Cinnamon.
I have Mint Mate as well, but haven't had the time to play with it much.
Last week I installed Linux Mint 15 MATE (64 bit) in VMware Player (running in Linux Mint 14 MATE).
It's lightning fast (it's the fastest modern OS I've played with).
The Linux Mint 15 MATE (64 bit) VM:
- Took ~6 minutes to install (I skipped the languages)
- Took ~10 minutes to update everything
- Booted up in ~15 - 20 seconds!
- Used ~350 MB of RAM (measured by the VM's system monitor)
I'm giving serious consideration to replacing Linux Mint 14 MATE (64 bit) on my HDD with it.
The only thing holding me back is, my friend promised to sell me his 512 GB SSD, so I might wait for that to happen.
Hi there
Problem IS fragmentation -- I tried SUSE LINUX and MINT Cinnamon -- I absolutely MUST have MS office and Photoshop for the foreseeable future so I tried installing VMWARE hoping to get a Windows virtual machine up and running for these applications -- no way can I use anything else other than Photoshop or Office and they don't work on WINE properly either.
SUSE 12.3 (current release version) gave me some problem about "Kernel headers missing" -- so I tried to do what I found on Google - install the kernel source package and then try again -- now I was getting some sort of "Hard stop -compile / run time error" with some totally bizarre messages (at least to me they seemed to be). There's no way any average person could even BEGIN to sort this mess out (and I still haven't).
On Cinnamon the situation was even worse - the application appeared to install but just did NOTHING AT ALL when trying to start it up.
VMware Player runs correctly on my Linux Mint MATE 14 (64 bit).
I went to VMware's site and downloaded the bundle and installed it with no problems.
I don't know why it wouldn't work in your SUSE LINUX and MINT Cinnamon installs.
Are you sure you downloaded the correct bundle?
I used to see that message when I tried to install VMware Tools in my Fedora VM.
It was a pain to get the necessary files (development headers?) and install them.