whyswitch - mint17

Mint 17 - Cinnamon

**WHAT SUCKS
    slow, laggy
        windows often take 5s+ to close
    black screen for 60s+ on login
    crashes at least twice a week
    no WM buttons on dialogs
    notifications in general
        appears in high-traffic part of screen, no click-through
        on-click behavior disruptive
        don't stack
        no config whatsoever
    synaptic override, difficult to use for updates
        "just use the cinnamon one"
    no workspace grid, applet is half-baked
    xbacklight broken  *not sure if mint- or trusty-rooted
        acpi_backlight fails
    the settings manager
        no kupfer integration
        even laggier than everything else
    no ctrl+alt+backspace
    rubbish support
        irc channel is either copypasta script or borderline hostile
    alt-tab across workspaces difficult to get working
        dconf:org/cinnamon/muffin/keybindings/switch-panels
    no --remove flag for add-apt-repository ?

**WHAT DOESN'T SUCK
    the mpris2 integration?
        written by some applet dev, pulled in and never updated
    applet system
    more customization than most modern DEs
    symbolic icons instead of normal svg/raster
        except for the updater icon, which is ofc displayed by default
    lockscreen w/ clock
    nemo file manager
        ppa:webupd8team/nemo
    hexchat installed by default
        have to fix autojoin