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A year after the previous 6.4 release, the Linux Mint development team has rolled out Cinnamon 6.6, with the desktop environment set to debut in the upcoming Linux Mint 22.3 “Zena” expected around Christmas.

The main menu receives the most visible set of changes. Its layout has been modernized with simplified navigation, cleaner category handling, optional avatars, and configurable places and bookmarks.

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[–] addie@feddit.uk 5 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

NetworkManager dependencies can now be disabled at build time...

Nice. It was a damned nuisance that Cinnamon brought its own network stack with it. All my headless servers and my Plasma gaming desktop use systemd-networkd, which meant that my Cinnamon laptop needed different configuration. Now they can all be the same.

Hopefully the new release will bash a few of the remaining Wayland bugs; Plasma is great but I prefer Cinnamon for work, and it's just too buggy for gaming on a multi-monitor setup at the moment.

[–] BlessedDog@lemmy.world 1 points 28 minutes ago

Genuinely curious about what made you choose systemd-networkd over NetworkManager. I've always just gone with NetworkManager without really comparing the alternatives.

[–] rimu@piefed.social 19 points 14 hours ago (1 children)
[–] nil@piefed.ca 6 points 11 hours ago

Hmm. It looks like Zorin now

[–] purplenimblefrog404@piefed.zip 9 points 16 hours ago

This looks so much nicer!