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Cinnamon 2.6: a Massive Update Loaded With Performance Improvements
jones_supa writes: The Linux Mint team has just announced that Cinnamon 2.6 desktop environment is considered stable and ready to download. It is a big update. The load times have been greatly improved and unnecessary calculations in the window management part are dropped, leading to a 40% reduction in the number of CPU wakes per second. Other improvements include a screensaver that does more than just lock the screen, panels that can be removed or added individually, a much better System Settings panel that should make things much clearer, a cool new effect for windows, and a brand new plugin manager for Nemo. Linux Mint users will receive the new Cinnamon as an update by the end of the month.
All the juvenile bullshit posts on slashdot are getting tiresome.
LMDE2 with Cinnamon 2.6 gets it right. No mandatory systemd, far superior interface to Gnome3.
Taking a look at Cinnamon 2.6 LMDE 2 "betsy"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAyXswmVZG0
The latest Windows versions don't support hardware they used to support in earlier versions, so Windows isn't any better.
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oh jeez,.. someone is still peddling this nonsense. here's an old answer to that old argument. if you upgrade windows, a lot of the time you have change your printer etc because the supplier won't update the drivers, its not a good money making policy to update the drivers. i've not had any problems with HP or Samsung printers on linux
"The hands that help are better far than lips that pray." - Robert Ingersoll (1833-1899)
From:
http://cinnamon.linuxmint.com/...
All the features Nautilus 3.4 had and which are missing in Nautilus 3.6 (all desktop icons, compact view, etc..)
Open in terminal (this is part of Nemo itself)
Open as root (this is also part of Nemo)
File operations progress information (when you copy/move files you can see the percentage and info about the operation on the window title and so also in your window list)
Proper GTK bookmarks management
Full navigation options (back, forward, up, refresh)
Ability to toggle between the path entry and the path breadcrumb widgets
A lot more configuration options
Short term, it’s also likely to gain the following:
A proper status bar
A layout which is more similar to Caja, where the pathbar/path-entry field is below the main toolbar and only spans accross the view pane
Configurable toolbar buttons for hidden features (view-selection, zoom levelsetc).
It is quite an old post and some of may not be true anymore, but basically gnome3 dumbed down the file manager (like windows did with removing the up navigation button). They do not mention it but I also like the dual-pane mode (aka midnight commander mode)