Linux Mint Cinnamon – A sweet alternative

Actually they just released 1.4 not 1.3 as stated. Very nice. They are adding more configurability and a bit of glitz with Compiz Expo style workspace switching using the top left corner thingy. It is also getting a lot more stable.

I had a problem running it with Ubuntu 12.04 so I posted about it on the webpage. Clem gave me a detailed answer. That guy is amazing.

Quoting:Linux Mint Cinnamon – A sweet alternative

That title was obviously written by someone who has never tasted a spoonful of cinnamon powder.

Ya think?

http://www.groovycandies.com/candy/starlight-cinnamon-sunris...

Yes, I think.

Cinnamon flavor is used in all kinds of sweet treats, but cinnamon itself is not sweet. Try eating a spoonful of cinnamon powder.

Like cinnamon, chocolate flavor is also used in all kinds of sweet treats, but any kid who's ever tried to eat a spoonful of cocoa powder will never forget the fact that it, too, is not sweet.

Not to belabour this point too much but it is Cinnamon MINT not just Cinnamon. MINTS are CANDY and thus cinnamon mints are sweet (with a cinnamon flavour).

LOL

Sure, let's belabor the point just a little more.

Cinnamon Mint != "cinnamon mints" (candies).

And, even if it did, "mints" (candies) != mint.

And the distro is called "Linux Mint" not "Linux Mints" (candies).

I used to grow mint in my back yard. And -- just like cinnamon and cocoa -- mint is not sweet .

In the same vein, ginger isn't sweet, either, even though ginger snap cookies are sweet.

Rhubarb isn't sweet, even though rhubarb pie is very sweet.

Zucchini isn't sweet, even though zucchini bread is sweet.

Pumpkin isn't sweet, even though pumpkin pie is sweet.

Vanilla isn't sweet, even though vanilla ice cream is sweet.

Oats aren't sweet, even though oatmeal cookies are.

Of course, with piles of sugar, you can make sweet products out of cinnamon, cocoa, mint, ginger, rhubarb, zucchini, pumpkin, vanilla, oats -- and probably just about anything else you can think of -- but that doesn't necessarily mean that everything is sweet. ;)

@ComputerBob, the mint growing in our yard during my childhood had a definite sweet after-taste.

gus3, that might have been added flavoring from the neighborhood cats and dogs.

Bwahaha. I grow a half-dozen different mints, and some of them are sweet. With no help from the furpeople.

@Gus3, I'm not going to contradict your childhood memory, but -- aftertaste or not, If you give a mint leaf to someone, ask them chew it up, and then ask them how it tasted, they're not going to say, "Sweet."

Hmmmmmmm.

OK, I thought I had seen it all.

I hadn't.

When we were kids we used to suck the little buds plucked from clover flowers. They were quite sweet.

You pluck the flower, then pull out the single "petals" and suck the exposed white "root".

I guess there was a small amount of sugar or nectar there.

Or it could have been dog pee I guess...

Dino,

Never mind the bollocks try Cinnamon for yourself.

We had concord grapes, from a vine that my grandfather planted before I was born. The grapes were really sweet, and the newest parts of the vine itself tasted really "green" and tart.

I wonder where all that honey the bees in the wall of our house come from? I should ask the bees.

Quoting:The grapes were really sweet, and the newest parts of the vine itself tasted really "green" and tart.

Bob, nothings these days taste as sweet as it used to be, including humans. :-)

"San Francisco isn't the city it used to be, and it never was."

This planet is the weirdest place I've ever lived.