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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The final rease of Linux Mint 17.1 Cinnamon and MATE was announced this weekend. I have picked up both versions, and I have ...

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 ...

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 ...

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".

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

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 ...