Do people on this site have much experience of this OS? It's a very neat looking OS so I have swapped to it as an experiment, but there are a few fairly basic problems with it, and there doesn't seem to be much support.

Why would you want that OPS!post your machine specs,maybe someone will give you advice on a better supported Linux OPS for your machine!.

I've used Mandriva, Fedora then Ubuntu for a few years, then Mint Cinnamon when Unity came along and I've looked at loads of others. I'm fed up with waiting up to six seconds for the Cinnamon menu to appear, e-Os looks simple and fast.

Asus Pundit P1-PH1 has dual core about 3HZ and 1GB RAM, 180GB disk.

For that machine i suggest Xubuntu 14.04LTS,if your machine handles PAE it works preety good on that much Mem ram.if not Xubuntu 12.04LTS still has support.Debian Wheezy7.1 is very good too for low end hardware.

Thanks, but I'm not sure that really answers my question - I have tried several other OSs including Xubuntu and Debian, I was asking whether there were many people on here that were familiar with elementaryOS.

There is one member here that is trying to keep that rather strange OS going on a friends computer.

I have looked into it. You are talking about Ubuntu. This is just a respin. Most respins will have all the problems of the base OS plus some of their own.

You say you have trouble with the Cinnamon Menu taking a long time to load. This is simply because it is using too much of the resources of your box.

Sounds to me like you want something that looks bright and shiny running on deficient hardware. This is not fair to your hardware.

I am running a Dell Latitude 100L with no wifi but ports for both DSL and Dial up built into it. It is running Wheezy with Xfce on it, installed from a netinstall image so I could keep it small, and the Xfce menu opens fine. This box is running a 2.4GHz Celeron and only has half the ram yours does.

Put something on there that doesn't over power your hardware. I would not recommend Xubuntu because it has too many Gnome tools and things added and it uses to many resources. Debian with Xfce would be better.

You could try Manjaro with OpenBox. They set it up nicely and are interested in keeping it light. OB is a bit of a challenge to set up if you are not familiar with it but they do a very nice job of it.

If you drive a 1962 rusted out Dodge pickup truck with a slant 6 in it (great old truck) and rip the body off and replace it with a 2010 Cadilac body it will still perform just like a 62 Dodge and that body is going to slow it down by weighing more.

Decide what you want. Pretty and slow or plain and functional.

And quit fooling around with gimic distros.

I have a Dell pentium R 1G ram cpu 2.00 GHZ with xubuntu14.04 and it's preety fast on all aspects,

after reading below

seems it is another os using apt-get.
this is just another gnu linux using apt-get backend as a package manager.

open the hood learn Linux.

Yes this is an Ubuntu respin.

I don't think the slowness of the Mint menu was caused by any inadequacy of my computer, as I haven't had any problem running any other distributions. I'm only guessing, but it may be that the delay is caused by the menu code being interpreted rather than compiled, or that it isn't in memory, or that it reads the program details off the disk every time.