5/31/2023 0 Comments Linux mint mate 19.1 desklets![]() This is a step I should have taken years ago, but then, better late than never, as the saying goes. There are 1 or 2 workarounds to deal with, but they are a more than acceptable compromise given that Windows is out of the picture. Not to mention the spying and forced upgrades.įor all the Windows-based programs I was using there is a Linux version or an acceptable replacement. No more Windows worries, patches that go wrong and need to be patched themselves if not uninstalled, etc. I can tell you, it’s been sheer bliss for both of us. Wow !! BTW, antiX detected Wifi even easier than Mint. We were ready to ditch it and to buy her a new one, but I had a brainwave: why not install Linux and wipe the disk clean of Windows. I was inclined to install MX, but got a bit worried about it being able to detect my Wifi.Īnd then, 1 month later my wife’s 2 GB RAM/32 GB hard disk with Win 8.1 installed started to act up in such a way that it was no longer usable, and I could not find a fix. ![]() And if there were something serious the teams would fix it.Īs for my Linux experiment, it no longer is an experiment, I took the plunge and installed Mint on my laptop on 1st Feb. I am not at all convinced System D is that bad for 1 simple reason: if it were neither Ubuntu nor its children such as Mint would be so popular and stable. Mutter performance improvements.Įxisting users should read the changelog of their preferred desktop environments to make sure that they know about any known issue in the hey there, nice to hear from you again. Upstream changes from the GNOME project, e.g.VSync can be turned off in the System Settings.Input lag reduced on systems with NVIDIA graphics cards.Nemo displays the file creation time on supported file systems.Desktop settings were updated and visual improvements were made to icon sizes and spacing in Nemo.Nemo file manager is three times faster than before according to the Linux Mint development team.New panel layout ships with window list with app grouping and window preview.Select a desktop layout during First Steps on the welcome screen.Artwork improvements and new theme variants.The Firewall configuration was added to the First Steps section of the welcome screen.XAppIconChooserButton provides a button which shows an icon or an image.XAppIconChooserDialog displays a dialog to choose an icon name or path.XAppPreferencesWindow offers a multi-page preferences window.XAppStackSidebar to create icon sidebars.Language Settings and Input Methods were split into two different applications.It uses an Xapp sidebar and a headerbar in the new version of Linux Mint. The Software Sources program window has a new look.It includes a new button to remove old (unused) kernels. The Update Manager lists mainline kernels and their support status. ![]() Here is a short list of important feature additions: The release notes highlight known issues and new features among other things. Release notes have been published for MATE, CINNAMON, and Xfce separately as usually. ![]()
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