Cinnamon is windows-like by default. The others aren't.3gengames wrote:Cinnamon, XFCE, and MATE can all be configured to be Windows-Like. By default, they're just not.
Lxde and xfce can look very similar to windows when configured properly.
Sure, all those desktop environements and/or windows managers can be configured to look pretty much anthing you can imagine, however, as a user I probably do not want to spend more than a couple of minutes configuring the GUI. What I liked with Cinnamon is that it looks like windows by default - sure the colours etc... are very different, but I mean how the task bar is layed out and how things are organized.Cinnamon, XFCE, and MATE can all be configured to be Windows-Like.
I like the concept of a "lightweight" desktop like XFCE/LXDE but for some reason I do not like them very much, I could not tell why exactly. They are not quite windows like by default.
Sure, but window managers comes without any task bar so you're back into something that is Windows3.1 like in its interface. Also, it takes hours to configure one to look half-decent, as they tend to be extremely ugly by default.Linux can be used without a desktop environment. I use Linux with a window manager but not a desktop environment.