Linux Mint 20.2 Released With Cinnamon 5.0 Desktop

[bachchain]

One thing that doesn't use any extra RAM is a decent colour scheme. The current one for Linux Mint looks absolutely awful. Virtually all black with a weird green highlight.

I think it's supposed to resemble mint chocolate

[antonyshen]

Tried Mint for a while but found Ubuntu Mate performs better and offer much more flexibility to me. Especially love the awesome little fun toy: Mate Tweak, really love this one!

[andyprough]

Looks really nice. That wallpaper is really slick, and I really like the black/green color scheme, as usual.

Wow there sure are a lot of whiners on this board these days. Some of you must be getting paid per whine or something.

[unis_torvalds]

I meant by show no effort publicly about a Wayland implementation with Muffin ... pretending that Wayland it's a very distant thing in the future it's a little odd nowadays.

Fair enough.

[tornado99]

calc , so why do they ship a default theme with the shutdown button, lock screen button, and terminal icon practically invisible?

Plenty of people never change from the defaults, so they can't even get that right...

[furtadopires]

Not sure what you mean by "denial," but as a downstream distro of Ubuntu LTS, they have stated that (naturally) there will be no consideration of Wayland until it is the default display server in Ubuntu LTS.

X.Org is currently still the Ubuntu LTS display.

I meant by show no effort publicly about a Wayland implementation with Muffin, as you answer yourself. I would understand they not defaulting to Wayland yet due to being based Ubuntu lts / Debian (which both already have some kind of wayland support), but pretending that Wayland it's a very distant thing in the future it's a little odd nowadays.

[unis_torvalds]

One thing that doesn't use any extra RAM is a decent colour scheme. The current one for Linux Mint looks absolutely awful. Virtually all black with a weird green highlight.

Mint ships with thirty-five packaged themes, plus the ability to customize your own. A theme determines all the colours, icons, window dressing, highlight colours, etc.

You can select a theme by going to Menu -> Preferences -> Themes

[calc]

One thing that doesn't use any extra RAM is a decent colour scheme. The current one for Linux Mint looks absolutely awful. Virtually all black with a weird green highlight. Even in the screeshot shown you can see some buttons blending into the menu, and the terminal icon is basically invisible.

Clearly you have never used it at all.

It changes to whatever color you want, when first login it asks you what settings you want to use.

And there are additional themes you can use afterwards if you care to change them.

[unis_torvalds]

Are they still in denial with Wayland?

Not sure what you mean by "denial," but as a downstream distro of Ubuntu LTS, they have stated that (naturally) there will be no consideration of Wayland until it is the default display server in Ubuntu LTS.

X.Org is currently still the Ubuntu LTS display.

[calc]

Saying GNOME is like MacOS would imply GNOME is nice to use as opposed to the reality of its tablet focused, anti-multitasking hell.

Perhaps more like an attempted hybrid of macOS and iOS. Its even more obvious with their Gnome 40 changes.

And nobody would really blame them for going tablet focused back in 2010 when it looked like that was the way the market was actually headed. But it became pretty quickly that was not the case, even after Microsoft killed off Windows 8 due to all the backlash the Gnome devs just doubled down on it.