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I've just booted the live ISO in VirtualBox, and the default desktop is clean, slick, and fast. I've got an Ubuntu 11.10 VM on this machine as well, which took much longer to boot and is all around less responsive. Linux Mint GNOME3 is a step in the right direction IMHO, my is still heavy to run on my four year old Dell XPS. Because GNOME3 uses the GPU directly, my poor old mobile series nvidia gets extremely hot and slow to respond when using GNOME3. I'm currently running ArchLinux+awesome on my laptop, but I might switch to Mint12 LXDE since I'd rather have something non-rolling release on my laptop since I never use it, and LXDE might be something nice to try.

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  chronicle symptom that ,once installed never leaves. 
  Symptoms : sudden urge in speed and featherness. 
  Has been observered every 12 months for the few last years. 
  Scientist weren't willing to bet this phenomenon could reappear in 2012 but they should have.
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I've got some people running Lubuntu (LXDE + Ubuntu), but I think I'll gradually switch them over to LXDE Mint, since it seems like a much more cohesive experience.

On a related note to my GNOME3 point (From the Fedora 17 Alpha release notes) [http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_17_Alpha_release_notes]

"The Miracle includes GNOME 3.4 and KDE 4.8. There is also a rendering improvement to let more users, even those with older hardware, enjoy the GNOME shell goodness"

I really hope that this GNOME 3.4 improvement is an upstream improvement, and if it isn't, that Fedora submits a patch upstream so that other distributions can benefit from this. Linux Mint GNOME would be an option for my laptop if it wasn't for the GPU limitations.

Recommended especially if you run propietary ATI drivers. Also, stock Linux Mint (Gnome) really doesn't fit multiple screens. The top bar and menu are fixed to the main screen, even if you place it below the extra screen. Really a PITA to use on multiple screens, way over-engineered IMO as it's the trend in both Gnome and KDE world lately.

> Really a PITA to use on multiple screens, way over-engineered IMO as it's the trend in both Gnome and KDE world lately.

Yes, this new generation of window managers seems to suck with my three monitors. Looks like I'll be sticking with XFCE for the time being (considered KDE, but looks like someone decided to make the whole thing really ugly since the last time I used it).

> considered KDE, but looks like someone decided to make the whole thing really ugly since the last time I used it

Poor theming is the last reason you should use another DE. KDE makes it very easy to retheme.

I had Ubuntu 10.04 gnome on my EEE pc 901 (Celeron, 1G ram, 16 G flash disk), I just installed this on it, it's definitely peppier, also Flash is smoother on youtube. It's a keeper.

Linux/LDXE is almost weightless on this six year-old Dell laptop.

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