Fedora 37 Cinnamon - Observations
I'm doing a much briefer examination of Fedora Cinnamon than with other distros and DEs, for various reasons. For one, I would expect my favorite applications to install and work as they always do. For another, I'm less familiar with the current version of Cinnamon than I am with other DEs, and I don't want something I write to sound negative just because I didn't immediately figure out how it's done with Cinnamon.
My first impression is that Cinnamon is quite attractive. It allows icons on the desktop like Budgie, that is, they're fixed, not movable. Everything is located in a place that I personally found appropriate. After creating 8 virtual desktops in the system settings, I was able to install a "Workspace switcher" widget on the bottom panel to display them (as in the image, above). I wasn't able to center them in the panel, even though the list of widgets included the same spacers that are found elsewhere, but that could have been just another example of my unfamiliarity with Cinnamon. I just didn't want to spend too much time trying to figure it out, so I moved on.
My second impression is that it doesn't give the subjective feeling of being "snappy" at all. Sometimes, I'd click the mouse to take an action, and I'd need to wait from 2 to 5 seconds to see anything happen. On the other hand, during the time I worked with Cinnamon, not once did it stop accepting input from the keyboard and force me to reboot. Also, the mouse scroll wheel always scrolled wherever that was needed. On the KDE version of this distro, I usually needed to grab a scroll bar with the mouse cursor and drag it up or down.
The Console for this DE (I assume it's GNOME) works well. Preferences are implemented a little differently that I'm accustomed to seeing, but additional profiles are easy to create, and once the text was enlarged a bit, and the cursor changed to a blinking underscore, I was as comfortable using it as I've ever been with Terminology. Setting my new profile to be the default worked the same way as elsewhere.
Sadly, the file manager (Nemo) is not as appealing as Dolphin. After I'd set up my NAS shares (no problems there), they did not appear listed in the file manager. And I couldn't figure out a way to add them. In other distributions, I've sometimes needed to individually create a "bookmark" for each share in order to get it to show up in that DE's file manager, but even that didn't work here.
Nemo did access my NAS very easily from its Network location, making it easy for me to fetch the documents I use when configuring any distro. And afterwards, by navigating to /mnt, I was able to explore all the shares that I'd mounted there. I wasn't able to populate my /home directory with symlinks from /mnt. I tried two of them, which didn't work, so I didn't take the time to create another ten of those.
That's about as far as I went with these observations. Fedora Cinnamon isn't for me, personally, but I realize that my needs are probably not the same as most users'. Fedora's Cinnamon spin definitely does some things better than their KDE spin, in their current versions. Perhaps both with improve with time.