I think Cinnamon might even be one of the first desktops other than the big two that is going to be finished (more or less) with Wayland support.
Personally, I have been using window managers for years. You’d think that would make the transition easier (sway is even explicitly designed as a drop-in replaced for i3wm), but you need to configure so many of the tools around it (task/statusbar, screensaver/lockscreen, clipboard manager …) and I just couldn’t be bothered. I’m definitely past that “tinker with all the things”-stage of being a Linux user …
Agreed. I use Arch, Debian, and Mint with Xfce on all of them. It’s stable as a rock in every iteration.
That being said, Debian’s the distro famous for out of date packages, so its a little silly that Mint has it beat in this regard, especially when updates to everything else are much more frequent.
I also work as a sysadmin maintaining all these devices, and every time I move files between the laptops running Mint I’m confronted with Xfce’s old file transfer dialog. You’re gonna love the improvements 4.20 made when it finally hits the repos.
Come to Mint. We’re standing by X11, and Cinnamon looks better than Plasma.
You aren’t standing by X11, Wayland support just isn’t finished yet.
Well, I guess I’m not responsible for the mistakes of the devs.
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I think Cinnamon might even be one of the first desktops other than the big two that is going to be finished (more or less) with Wayland support.
Personally, I have been using window managers for years. You’d think that would make the transition easier (sway is even explicitly designed as a drop-in replaced for i3wm), but you need to configure so many of the tools around it (task/statusbar, screensaver/lockscreen, clipboard manager …) and I just couldn’t be bothered. I’m definitely past that “tinker with all the things”-stage of being a Linux user …
I use CachyOS with Cinnamon, so…why not both?
And an older version of Xfce than Debian
Why
Because it just works. Which is what an OS and DE need to do first and foremost.
based.
Agreed. I use Arch, Debian, and Mint with Xfce on all of them. It’s stable as a rock in every iteration.
That being said, Debian’s the distro famous for out of date packages, so its a little silly that Mint has it beat in this regard, especially when updates to everything else are much more frequent.
I also work as a sysadmin maintaining all these devices, and every time I move files between the laptops running Mint I’m confronted with Xfce’s old file transfer dialog. You’re gonna love the improvements 4.20 made when it finally hits the repos.
Cinnamon can be installed on most mainstream distros, actually. I definitely agree that it looks better than Plasma.