![]() That traditional look and feel has finally been tweaked a little for Cinnamon 4.0. ![]() ![]() It uses a very familiar paradigm: a bottom panel that holds a button menu on the left, a good-old Windows XP-style windows list in the middle, and a system tray on the right. It has been a mature, stable project for some time, and it hasn't seen much in the way of change in years. In this iteration, like many predecessors, Cinnamon is the desktop that really shines for Linux Mint. Diehard Mint and KDE fans can still get KDE working via a PPA, but it's not officially supported by Linux Mint. Previously, there was also a KDE version of Linux Mint, but it was dropped last year because the KDE stack is different enough that all the bits that make Linux Mint, well, Minty, just didn't work with KDE. On top of those, there's also an XFCE version. There are two homegrown projects, Cinnamon (really Linux Mint's main desktop) and MATE, which started as a kind of Cinnamon light and has since become a very capable desktop in its own right. The project recently released version 19.1, which comes in three desktop flavors. Or if what you have now happens to be Ubuntu prior to 18.04 and you're dreading the upgrade to GNOME, suddenly Mint is worth a look. But if "it" happens to be Windows 10, well, hope you haven't tried to upgrade yet. It's worth asking then, why switch from what I have now to Mint? Well, if you're happy with what you have now, stick with whatever it is. The team behind Mint is just building a desktop operating system that looks and functions a lot like every other desktop operating system you've used, which is to say you'll be immediately comfortable and stop thinking about your desktop and start using it to do actual work. It isn't "changing the desktop computer paradigm," or "innovating" in "groundbreaking" ways. There's a good reason for that popularity: Linux Mint just works. For a distro that has seen little press lately, Linux Mint manages to remain popular with users. All of that is anecdotal, but it still points to a simple truth. When I ask fellow Linux users which distro they use, the main answers are Ubuntu. When I see someone using Linux at the coffee shop, it usually turns out to be Linux Mint. When I watch a Linux tutorial or screen cast on YouTube, odds are I'll see the Linux Mint logo in the toolbar. Further Reading Mint 18.1 review: Forget about Wayland and get comfy with the command lineWhile the new release may not have garnered mass attention, and probably isn't anyone's top pick for "the cloud," Linux Mint nevertheless remains the distro I see most frequently in the real world.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |