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[โ€“] darcy@sh.itjust.works 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

ironically, cinnamon was made to be familiar to windows users (im pretty sure)

Cinnamon is one of four DEs whose reason for being is to be Not Gnome 3. Mate, a fork of Gnome 2, Cinnamon, a fork of Gnome 3 that isn't dumb and bad, Unity, from Ubuntu's "Not Developed Here" period, and more recently Cosmic or whatever Pop!_OS is calling their thing.