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Linux Mint 19 'Tara' Cinnamon Will Be Faster (betanews.com)
Mint developers say they feel the app-launching time on the Linux distro seemed slow when using the Cinnamon desktop environment. So, they are working on fixing it. BetaNews reports: Windows build time was four times slower with Cinnamon compared to Metacity, while recovery time was nearly four times slower too. So yes, app-launching on Cinnamon -- as of today -- is slow comparatively. The big benefit to pinpointing a problem, however, is that it is the first step in solving it. And so, Linux Mint 19 Cinnamon will be faster as a result. "We developed a little script and a method to measure how long it took to flood the desktop environment with the creation of 200 windows. We could then measure the time reported by the script to build these 200 windows, and the time it actually took the desktop environment to recover from it and have these windows placed/mapped correctly and ready to be interacted with. Both measures were significantly higher in Cinnamon than in other desktops," says The Linux Mint Team.
Linux Mint with Cinnamon is one of the few pieces of software that doesn't piss me off. It sucks that it uses systemd, but systemd is less bad than the lack of trust I have in Microsoft. Today, it's all about using software that sucks less than its alternatives. I have no love for software anymore. Okay, maybe I have a little love for Mint. For now. But that's it.
Cinnamon devs, if you can hear me, can you please let me lasso files in Nemo when it's in details view? I'll suck your dick man