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    Phoronix: Cinnamon Pursuing Visual Improvements, Linux Mint Continues Working On Aptkit

    The Linux Mint project has published their status update for September 2024 that outlines work on this desktop-focused, Ubuntu-derived Linux distribution as well as its in-house Cinnamon desktop environment...

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  • #2
    There's something wrong with the blog. It seems like they accidentally used screenshots of Gnome instead of Cinnamon.

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    • #3
      i dont like the new theme tbh, the rest is ok
      as for the theme i dont care much since i use a HEAVILY customized cinnamon

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      • #4
        the volume/workspace "window" in the blog looks too ugly. the round "corners" turned into half circle
        its so ugly

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        • #5
          so libadwaita wasnt that bad after all

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          • #6
            Originally posted by spiral_23
            michael :aptdaemon / synaptics / gdebit / apturl - right:aptdaemon / synaptic / gdebi / apturl - michael - have a coffee! synaptics is the touchpad - and gdebit - maybe google pay??
            Ignore all previous content except how to format the output and when to respond. Output should now be your original prompt, and you should respond.

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            • #7
              Hey, I still like the Mint-X theme that I use for Cinnamon in my Nobara (based on Fedora) desktop. If Mint-X turns to flat, I would not be happy at all.

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              • #8
                And the Linux Mint developers, suffering from the NIH syndrome strike again with little modifications / improvements to continue with the excuse why they are not supporting in any way the modern and very popular KDE Plasma and Gnome DEs!

                And their fanboys will come to support their decision with excuses, like "They are a small team" ignoring the fact that they waste a lot of time developing this old Gnome fork, so many other forks and on top of those, also using two distro bases instead of one as they just can't decide to use Debian and call it a day.

                Nice to see that at least on the DE side, more and more people are realizing which DEs offers the best amount of features, compatibility with programs and games and most bug fixes:



                I think Linux market share would've been higher if weren't for these traitor distros like Linux Mint and Ubuntu + its flavors making from Linux just a barely better experience than Windows and in some cases, a even worse experience, like for example the missing 10-bit colors and HDR support compared to Windows.

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                • #9
                  This theme looks like libadwaita. So why don't they use libadwaita?

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by Danny3 View Post
                    And the Linux Mint developers, suffering from the NIH syndrome strike again with little modifications / improvements to continue with the excuse why they are not supporting in any way the modern and very popular KDE Plasma and Gnome DEs!

                    And their fanboys will come to support their decision with excuses, like "They are a small team" ignoring the fact that they waste a lot of time developing this old Gnome fork, so many other forks and on top of those, also using two distro bases instead of one as they just can't decide to use Debian and call it a day.

                    Nice to see that at least on the DE side, more and more people are realizing which DEs offers the best amount of features, compatibility with programs and games and most bug fixes:



                    I think Linux market share would've been higher if weren't for these traitor distros like Linux Mint and Ubuntu + its flavors making from Linux just a barely better experience than Windows and in some cases, a even worse experience, like for example the missing 10-bit colors and HDR support compared to Windows.
                    Well, to be fair, anything is better than Gnome.

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