The Cinnamon Desktop, the GTK desktop environment developed by the Linux Mint project, has just released version 6.4. The focus of this release is on nips and tucks in the default theme, dialogs, menus, and other user interface elements. They seem to have taken a few pages out of GNOME’s book, especially when it comes to dialogs and the OSD, which honestly makes sense considering Cinnamon is also GTK and most Cinnamon users will be running a ton of GNOME/Libadwaita applications.
There’s also a new night light feature to reduce eyestrain, vastly improved options for power profiles and management, and more. Cinnamon 6.4 will be part of Linux Mint’s next major release, coming in late December, but is most likely already making its way to various other distributions’ repositories.
I’ve never understood why the energy management features like blue/red shifting are left to 3rd party apps, surely it’s time for this to become a basic built in feature available across the board for all OS.
I make this suggestion in almost complete relative ignorance of the technicalities.
I’m a long term Linux Mint user, but almost 100% Mate with some Xfce, not a single Cinnamon!
Hi, could you tell me why you choose Mint with Mate, over Ubuntu Mate ?
Any specific reasons ?
No snaps, perhaps ..
TIA
Very little tbh. If you have an ideological dislike to ubuntu/snaps, kind of makes sense. But gone are the days when mint was the only one with flash and codecs pre-installed.
For me the mint brand will also be forever tainted by the lead Dev (clem) bringing politics into it (since retracted and washed over).
I also use Mint over Ubuntu, be it with XFCE, Mate, or even Cinnamon.
The feeling is that Mint is even more polished than Ubuntu in general.
@Rabid_rabbit
Mostly it’s now historical, we selected Linux Mint Mate as the best transition for MS users to get onto Linux, so we’ve maintained that for some extended time now and are unlikely to change. Linux Mint Mate was much slicker at presenting common configuration options to the naïve GUI based end user, it might not be the case now but we are unlikely to change. Privately I’ve varied across Fedora, OpenSUSE, CentOS and now Debian. In most cases, I ‘ve no interest in the political position of the Developers, it’s irrelevant to my selection of an OS, it’s all about function, support and performance.
If I have an issue with someone’s politics then social media is the right forum, not my choice of OS.
If the bloke growing my food is a Nazi I’m not going to stop eating, I’m not going to punish myself, my friends or my family to give him some minor inconvenience.
What a courageous lead-dev, good job about your political declaration, Clement Lefevre. Don’t back down, don’t be like all the others. You are right in what you say.
The litmus test should always be if you “flip the target” do you still think that is an acceptable comment for the lead of a project to make?
For me, any exclusion goes against the very principles of FOSS.
We recently saw a similar situation with a certain browser where OSNews took the editorial decision not to report on because of the views of the lead dev. Exclusion of a group is exclusion of a group.
If you are referring to Brave browser and Brendan Eich that’s an extremely poor comparison. Clement Lefebre has chosen sides in an armed conflict between Hamas and Israel with civilian casualties on both ends. Brendan Eich had an opinion in an ongoing political debate on gay marriage that was different from that of his employer – Mozilla. Valuing an opinion over human life is fanaticism.