Linux Mint Has Three Flavors. Which Is Right For You?

The main question is not which uses more or less ram, but actually, which version is more stable than the other. [ Yes, stable ]

Thanks for explanations, versions of Linux for a new user is always confusing thing!

My first Linux experience was with RedHat Linux 5.2. I may still have the box the floppies came in. Most current experience is with Ubuntu.
I'm going with Debian.

You gave no information about the differences other than this one takes less resources than this one which takes less resources than this one, based on that anyone with a brain would just choose xfce but of course to make a actual informed decision you'd have to know what you failed to mention and that is exactly what are you giving up by choosing the ones that are less resource intensive as you didn't say anything about this this video is basically useless

Maté is actually a tea drink in Uruguay. I don't know why the Linux Mint people decided to use it as their moniker for one of their three distros. BTW, I am disappointed that Cinnamon does not have the fun screen savers that Xfce and Maté have. Thank you for your fun video!

I discovered Mint, Bodhi, Kali and Ubuntu in the same week in 2012. I stuck with Mint and Kali to this day.

Also how big of a deal is the HHD vs SSD for mint? My HDD is 2tb anyways but just wondering if the type itself matters or the capacity is the issue.

LOL "start mining bitcoin". The other day I opened my download folder (windows) and see a file I didn't download. I check properties and signature. It was some crypto company lol. Although the signature was not authenticated, so may not have anything to do with that company. Point is this is why I'm switching to Linux lol. I'm still gonna run AV on my Linux though. Just to feel better. I don't really download stuff from browsers and if this is true that the mint team vets everything they put in their app store, then I shouldn't need to worry. But it still feels better to scan stuff.

hey
i'm currently using Mate but it slows down laptop when i do browsing on brave browser
even SSD & 6gm ram is installed
should i go for XFCE ?

Linux meh

xfce can connect to cloud like google/microsoft? mate can? (cinnamon can)

First time i watch this video on your channel and it is very informative, polished and easy to understand. thank you m8

Cinnamon has a resource leak of some kind. There's a common bug that's unsolved where Cinnamon uses a huge amount of CPU.

if you're a newbie at this, I recommend making an automatic, clean install.. and don't do a manual partitioning.
I did that and my first Mint experience was even slower than windows 😅

I have some hardware left from the time that I was mining. Intel Gold G6400, 8gb ram DDR4 3200mhz and an NVME Disk. What is recommended for that hardware? The machine will be used mostly for browsing and some light photo editing.

any recommendations for me ! gt710 - i5 4590 T 8gb ram ! ( i want to play some games like rocket league and farlight )

17 minutes and I learned next to nothing from this video. I already knew Xfce was the lightest. But what are the substantial differences between these OSes? Does Cinnamon have some core feature(s) that Xfce or MATE don't? That's what people need to know.

I don't need a 17 minute video that is basically, "this one's faster than this one, try it and see what you like." I could have come to that conclusion on my own.

I'm watching this video so I don't have to install an OS, realize it doesn't have something I want, then change again.

Installed it but used the OEM option and didn't verify the ISO as it was tooooo complicated. Please advise and shall I reinstall like you say?

I successfully run Cinnamon Mint on an HP Stream PC13. It has judt 2Mb ram and a 32Gb SSD. It runs perfectly.

How can somebody be skinny and fat at the same time?

My favourite after 8 years is xfce. I tried MATE and cinnamon and they crashed. I have been with Xfce for the past 5 years❤

Mate is very good desktop enviorment

I am new to Linux. If you want to get another desktop like KDE can you choose it rather than those three?

i recommend mate

Don't forget about their new Debian-based option. It's likely to be the one that takes over as Canonical de-emphasizes their end-user desktop efforts.

Dereck Taylor, Thank you very much for the wonderful overview and history of the Linux Mint Editions and their Desktop environments, and to boot I learned I new overviews of Linux Mint. Subscribed

But... muh KDE?

The "once upon a time" KDE .
But , my favorite flavor is "Matè" ... And i like the right pronunciation of it .

Does Ubuntu or Mint cinnemon Need more CPU Ressources,? I have enough RAM and an SSD but an Pentium 6200 :)

Thank you very much for such a good video. Keep up the good work!

Hey folks! Turn your old computers into Linux machines! I just installed Mint Cinnamon 21.1 version 5.6.7 on a 2013 ASUS Q500A with an Intel i7-3632QM (4 cores, 2.20 Ghz) + integrated graphics, 8gb RAM,, and it runs incredible when compared to Windows 10, which had been turning it into a brick with every subsequent windows update. It's certainly still a little slow, and I wish I had looked a little harder at which version to get because I bet it would feel like a rocket with a lighter flavor of Mint. Revive your old hardware! I don't regret it, and neither will you!

Xfce is a way of life!

10 year old machines can easily run cinnamon. If you don't have a quad core, maybe prefer xfce.

I would probably run the xfce Linux 🐧🖥️. My windows 7 Tower keeps crashing with blue screen error, & I've had technical tech savvy & looks like 10 is killing my windows 7 medion Tower which was bought from Aldi, in the 2-year warranty is had the tower since 2009. & Windows 10 is very sloppy, I use to be happy with 32-bit in windows XP ran like bloody vortex, if Linux ran that 32-bit I would feel right at home and be very happy Linux looks a little bit like XP service pack 3. My best bet will probably be xfce Linux Mint 🐧. Vanessa Linux Mint. But I've practise a bit in chrome book 📖 terminal commands 👍🏿 Audacity software runs fast. It only took me less then five minutes to install in Linux tool 📚📖. Terminal Commands are great but being informed by wine 🍷 which can help U install fl studio 9.

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🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣ur linux uses 700 mb i just started taskmanager and my windows uses 5.4Gb🤣🤣
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Hi. I just want to say that Linux Mint is better for beginners than Zorin Os. That's all.
EDIT: and if you're not a beginner, Linux Mint is still better, so Zorin Os isn't good for anything really.

Know what linux I started with? Kali. Big mistake.

I chose Xfce, everything suits me!

I don't use Mint, I use EndeavourOS but I do use the XFCE/XFWM4 DE/WM. I am very happy with them so far. Super light and easy to use. It lets me set my desktop up how I want it, allows me to set my own keybindings for tiling. If you want to use tiling, you can. If you don't, you don't have to. You can make it whatever you want which I appreciate.

Gnome 2 was the best ever. Any desktop that does not by default clearly shows a difference between window in focus and windows not in fucus is broken design.

Might try Linux again when windows 10 support ends but last time I tried Linux, I didn't like it. The other issue I have is how to replace Visual Studio. I haven't seen anything for Linux that comes close.

very nice, going with xfce simply because it's going on an ancient machine and retro is for the feel.
otherwise cinnamon looks great, I might upgrade to it from win10, I just downgraded to windows 10 from windows 7 finally, it's awful!

I'd go fo cinnamon. It looks really cool. I have also used XFCE on old hardware but now I use MX instead.

What is the minimum hardware for Linux Mint Cinnamon ?

People don’t remove applications from Windows once installed ?? That makes no sense.

Funny thing is these are the 3 DEs I tend to use everywhere. Even on Arch.

My main pc I run windows but on my laptop I really love Linux Mint Cinnamon. I’ve tried a few and just didn’t click with them always came back to Mint. Wife uses Macs so I’m always hopping all over the different machines for various reasons. I like being familiar with all of them to be honest.