Linux Mint's Mint-Y theme, the default in both Cinnamon and MATE, continues to be refined in subtle ways. Through a series of very slight changes, Mint Y ends up with significantly improved contrast.

Mint has just released the first stable version of Cinnamon, its GNOME 2.x look-alike Linux desktop interface. Written by Steven Vaughan-Nichols, Senior Contributing Editor Jan. 25, 2012, 1:41 a.m. PT ...

The Beta version of Linux Mint 22 "Wilma" has been released. It comes with lots of changes but end users won't see too much that's new. A lack of radical changes makes it a good choice for some.

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 ...

For the operating system, although Cinnamon will run on Ubuntu 11.10, Fedora 16, OpenSUSE 12.1, Arch Linux, and Gentoo, I elected to run it on its "native" Linux Mint 12.

The Linux Mint distro clearly is the gold standard for measuring Cinnamon desktop integration. Linux Mint’s developers turned the GNOME desktop alternative into one of the best Linux desktop choices.

Linux Mint 17.1 MATE comes pre-installed with two windows managers: Macro, MATE’s own WM, and Compiz, the good old WM where you can do cool things like rotating cubes that became the signature ...

Cinnamon 2.8 is a welcome update, but it's worth noting that, while Cinnamon is now available in quite a few distros, Linux Mint remains the stablest, best implementation around.

Available for Testing Targeting Linux Mint 13, the current alpha version of Cinnamon is built on a stable fork of GNOME Shell 3.2.1 along with features from MGSE.