Cinnamon • Originally developed as part of Linux Mint and a fork of GNOME Shell, Cinnamon grew into a desktop environment that's portable, good looking, feature-rich, and compatible with just about every popular Linux distro. It's based on the GTK+ 3 toolkit, and compatible with everything from its original home, Linux Mint, to other distros like Arch and Fedora. Cinnamon has been praised for bringing a very Windows-like UI to Linux, which breaks down the door to users who may be intimidat...