cinnamon

A Linux desktop featuring a traditional layout, built from modern technology and introducing brand new innovative features. (by linuxmint)

Cinnamon Alternatives

Similar projects and alternatives to cinnamon

NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a better cinnamon alternative or higher similarity.

cinnamon reviews and mentions

Posts with mentions or reviews of cinnamon. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-20.
  • The Bun Shell
    17 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Jan 2024
    Many mobile apps are written in JS/TS with React Native.

    Linux desktop environments like Cinnamon [1] also use JavaScript for the UI. Linux Mint with Cinnamon is invariably among the top 3 Linux desktop distributions (on distrowatch [2]).

    If anything, stats probably don't accurately capture how ubiquitous JS is.

    [1] https://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon

  • GNOME's Dynamic Triple Buffering "Ready To Merge"
    1 project | /r/linux | 8 Dec 2023
    Will it be ported to Gutter and Cinnamon? There's a feature request open from 2022 but no answer https://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon/issues/11141
  • Can't install Mint
    1 project | /r/linuxmint | 6 Dec 2023
  • "Devs have better things to do"/"Linux is not Windows" excuses for bad UX
    1 project | /r/linuxsucks | 28 Nov 2023
  • Lobotomizing Gnome
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Jul 2023
    I agree that there is a balance between customization and "cleanness" in design and implementation.

    However, I think the GNOME 3 and 4 designers went too far and alienated many users:

    https://www.zdnet.com/article/linus-torvalds-finds-gnome-3-4...

    https://medium.com/@fulalas/gnome-42-the-nonsense-continues-...

    https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/wte7tr/gnomes_design...

    https://linuxreviews.org/GNOME_Developers_have_Made_Their_Mo...

    https://www.osnews.com/story/133955/gnome-to-prevent-theming...

    When a designer's "coherent vision" eclipses the needs of the software's users then users get frustrated and either fork the project or go to another project. MATE (https://mate-desktop.org/), Cinnamon (https://github.com/linuxmint/Cinnamon), and Unity (https://unityd.org/) exist largely because of how far the GNOME 3 designers went and how they were not willing to compromise their "coherent vision":

    https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=121162

    https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=1910

    https://web.archive.org/web/20101129161856/http://www.pcworl...

  • Scale my screen greater than 200% ?
    1 project | /r/linuxmint | 23 Jun 2023
  • Memory Leak in Cinnamon? (LMDE5 with default Cinnamon)
    1 project | /r/CinnamonDE | 21 Jun 2023
    I'm not sure what the devs want to see in a case like this, but I'd try to report it either on the LinuxMint-Forums or on the cinnamon issue tracker on github.
  • Fedora Cinammon and KDE, are they Wayland and secure boot on as Gnome?
    1 project | /r/Fedora | 17 Jun 2023
    And I read Cinnamon being not yet out with a Wayland session as meaning that it’s in the works, but according to the Cinnamon team, “We still don't have any specific plans for implementing Wayland support…and we're not in a hurry to do so” (https://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon/issues/10787)
  • Wayland transition attempt, 2023 edition
    2 projects | /r/kde | 17 May 2023
    Mind you, it's much easier to crash a Wayland compositor than an X11 window manager because so much more has to be done in the compositor process; Cinnamon devs mentioned this flaw as a major reason they won't support Wayland yet, because if a panel widget crashes, it will also crash the entire desktop.
  • F38 (Cinnamon): mouse cursor not stopping at right edge of screen on HDMI tv
    2 projects | /r/Fedora | 30 Apr 2023
    I tried a few searches through open cinnamon issues but nothing really stood out yet OTOH, I know some of the recent changes to Nemo/Cinnamon had caused issues which I've run into myself in F37 (such as the new themes, some Nemo drag-and-drop issues, and another issue with Nemo's input focus when clicking the toolbar button to a new folder while you are renaming a file) so still plausible this could be a Cinnamon-specific bug.
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