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Presently on Linux Mint 14 Cinnamon which looks far more stable than 13 so far.
Things listed below applies to Linux Mint 14 Cinnamon as well but please do check the Update 1 Notes Mentioned for any changes.
Linux Mint 13 Cinnamon is more stable than Linux Mint 13 Mate, atleast on my hardware.
Presently I'm using Linux Mint 13 Cinnamon and following is wrt that only.
*Bumblebee gets installed smoothly without even a single glitch. Graphics card is Nvidia GeForce 525M.(Both old and recent releases)
*Bumblebee-UI work in flawless manner.
*Cuda Toolkit runs in awesome manner.
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Now available via repo
*WXCam, a very good and light alternative to Cheese for webcams
and gets compiled easily. Every Single required dependency is avilable via repository.
*Mobile Media Converter works good. It uses mencoder for encoding
purpose.
*Supertuxkart RC1 8.0 works flawlessly using discrete graphics via bumblebee-UI
*PlayOnLinux and IDM works fine.
*For me Indicator-stickynotes does the job well.
*Boot-UP Manager & Grub Customizer are another two cool apps for handling services and customizing grub and works flawlessly.
*Tor Browser Bundle is another awesome app & works perfectly.
*For programming purpose best and lightweighted app available is geany and works well.
* Google Earth,Picase,Minitube,Guake Terminal,
Deluge,Virtualbox,Banshee,Smplayer,
Smtube,Counter Strike 1.6 using wine via playonlinux,
AMXMode for Counter Strike,AngryBirds,Gnome-PPP,
Dropbox,VLC,Gimp,Scorched 3D,Nexuiz, all these works without
any problem atleast to me.
*weather@mockturtl, places-bookmarks@dmo60.de, ShutdownApplet@shelley
are some aweome applets which works flawlessly.