I have been using Mint for about a year now, and I love it, it's
amazing and perfect for someone who just wants to get the job
done. I want to know how people fork Desktop Environments on
Linux. Do they just modify the source code? What was the process
behind the making of Cinnamon? Also, I am very good in C++, so
how hard and educating would it be for me to fork something like
KDE? I don't know how much about how did they do Cinnamon or
MATE, but I guess that the forking process was basically
compiling GNOME and then just customize and tweak it, for
finally package it and create a PPA. But I don't know, I just
guessed it Acer Aspire 6930. CPU→Intel Core 2 Duo @ 2,00GHz.
RAM→3GB. Graphics card→NVIDIA GeForce 9300M GS. O.S.→Linux Mint
14.1 «Nadia» 64-bit Cinnamon ed. Catbuntu's Bloggie That's what
I thought happened, so I downloaded the KDE source...and
arrgghh! It's so confusing! There are so many folders all over
the place and you don't really know what does what unless you
study it for a while... I guess fo