As Lefebvre explained, "I'm not going to argue whether Gnome Shell is a good or a bad desktop. It's just not what we're looking for. The user experience the Gnome team is trying to create isn't the ...

Linux Mint may no longer be an ideal choice for above-par performance out of the box, but it can still serve diehard users well with the right amount of post-installation tinkering. The Linux Mint ...

The final rease of Linux Mint 17.1 Cinnamon and MATE was announced this weekend. I have picked up both versions, and I have installed them on a number of computers around here, with both legacy (MBR) ...

I'll be honest: I'm a GNOME-enjoyer. I'm not a particularly big fan of KDE Plasma, but I'll tolerate it. And perhaps my most steaming-hot take: I always thought Cinnamon was a knock-off of KDE. I ...

Linux Mint has long held a cherished place in the hearts of Linux users seeking a balance between elegance, ease of use, and rock-solid stability. In 2025, that reputation is only strengthened with ...

Work on the Cinnamon desktop is being performed by the Linux Mint team all of the time. This month, it unveiled significant improvements to the themes that users can pick and introduced "styles".

There’s a reason Linux Mint is popular. Cinnamon was originally developed for Linux Mint, but it’s becoming more widespread. Linux Mint is still the only distribution to use it by default, but you can ...

How do you turn an already great distro into something better? With extensions, of course.

The Linux Mint developers have been working hard on version 18 of the popular desktop distribution. Linux Mint 18 will offer Cinnamon 3.0 and Mate 1.14 versions when it is released. There are also be ...

Linux Mint is the top operating system on the DistroWatch, having risen to stardom after the debacle of Unity and Gnome 3 Shell. It offered the time tested, good old WIMP paradigm, which made it ...