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Which Official Ubuntu Flavor Is Best for You?

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Linux.com; By Jack Wallen 		Mail this story
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When Mark Shuttleworth decided to nix Unity, the choice was obvious to Canonical—make GNOME the official desktop of Ubuntu Linux. This begins with Ubuntu 18.04 (so April, 2018) and we’ll be down to the official distribution and four recognized flavors.

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flufferbeer ·
Seems to me that Linux Mint has REMAINED number 1 on DistroWatch.com for consecutive years on end for a definite reason! And that's true whether its for the "flavors" Cinnamon, MATE, Xfce, GNOME or KDE.

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seatex ·
Linux Mint Cinnamon has been my primary for several years now. It's what I install for others as well. I get very few support calls afterwards.

And even if Canonical keeps neglecting Ubuntu on the desktop, Mint could always make LMDE their primary version, based directly from Debian.
cabreh ·
I agree! Linux Mint Cinnamon has been my main OS for a few years now and I see no reason to change to anything else. The only thing I do is disable the Mint modification scripts for the software.

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