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Multiple Workspaces.
Flexibility
Cinnamon desktop environment makes it easy to use and navigate due to 
the high flexibility in the Graphical User Interface. For example, if you use 
only a few applications, it can be challenging to get reduced applications 
or those running in the background from the toolbar. One of the features 
you can use to solve this is to reset the operating system buttons to a selec-
tor. This way, you can easily click on any operating system without much 
hassle. Also, Cinnamon desktop has a helpful menu that gives you access 
to a few features and utilities, including desklets, create a new document, 
and more.
Nemo
Like any other desktop environment, Cinnamon has its fair share of auto-
mated apps. Another one that caught my eye was the file manager, Nemo. 
You will have worked closely with other file managers like Nautilus and 
Krusader. With Cinnamon, that’s when you get exposure to this great 

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app. Nemo comes with a clean user interface, and the feature buttons are 
well-positioned. Compared to using Nemo with Nautilus and Cinnamon, 
Nemo seems to have a much better alliance with Cinnamon compared to 
Nautilus.
Nemo File Manager.
Stability
As of October 2013, Cinnamon has ceased to be a GNOME frontend over 
GNOME and no longer needs GNOME to be installed. Share desktop 
space with its rights. Since then, the developers have added many features, 
and as of this writing, the latest release is Cinnamon 3.6.7. Cinnamon is 
very stable and works well with several Linux distributions.
Cinnamon Apples
Cinnamon apples are all the features in your panel below, such as a cal-
endar or keyboard layout switch. In the Administration tab, you can add/
remove pre-installed applets. You should check out the apples you can 
download. The weather and CPU Indicator applets were my choices in 
addition.

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