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Cinnamon Desktop Linux Linux 101 Moving to Linux

Three surprising reasons I like the Cinnamon desktop

I wrote about my five reasons to like Cinnamon back in April, and in the time since, I've found even more reasons to like and...

David Both
July 25, 2025February 4, 2026
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Cinnamon Desktop Linux 101

Five things I like about the Cinnamon desktop

I’m not a distro-hopper; I’m a desktop-hopper. But I try many different desktops just to see what they’re like. Cinnamon boasts features usually found only in desktops with much greater resource consumption, like GNOME or KDE Plasma 6.X.

David Both
April 22, 2025February 4, 2026
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Cinnamon Desktop Linux

Cinnamon: A Tale of Forks and Familiarity in the Linux Desktop Landscape

Cinnamon is a familiar interface to welcome newcomers transitioning from Windows or macOS.

Don Watkins
January 13, 2024February 4, 2026
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Build a system that even a fool can use and only a fool will want to use it.

— Shaw’s principle

Why I’ve Never Used Windows

On February 12 I gave a presentation at the Triangle Linux Users Group (TriLUG) about why I use Linux and why I’ve never used Windows.

Here’s the link to the video: https://www.youtube.com/live/uCK_haOXPFM 

David Both ATO Interview

Last October at All Things Open (ATO) I was interviewed by Jason Hibbits of We Love Open Source. It’s posted in the article “Why today’s AI isn’t intelligent (yet)“.

“systemd for SysAdmins” Now Available

May 13,2025

My latest book — a #1 New Release on Amazon — “systemd for Linux  SysAdmins” is now available from my publisher, Apress, and on Amazon.

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