Linux Mint isn’t chasing touch interfaces, rethinking the way we use the desktop, or enacting any other grand experiment. It’s just a polished, modern Linux desktop system—and that’s why people love ...

When deciding on a Linux Mint edition, users are often faced with the choice between Cinnamon, MATE, and XFCE, each offering unique features and resource requirements. This article will delve into the ...

There’s a reason Linux Mint is popular. Cinnamon was originally developed for Linux Mint, but it’s becoming more widespread. Linux Mint is still the only distribution to use it by default, but you can ...

The Linux Mint 18 betas for Cinnamon and MATE desktops were announced on Thursday, so allowing time for release candidates, and with a bit of luck, the final release could be out by the end of the ...

A while back I wrote about getting the MATE desktop (which is the fork of the widely used Gnome 2 desktop), on Fedora 17. It worked, but it had a couple of minor flaws, and I ended up going with Gnome ...

The transition from Windows to Linux can be pretty intimidating. That's why some Linux distros aim to offer a Windows-like ...

The Red Hat-sponsored Fedora Project today released the beta version of Fedora version 18, nicknamed “Spherical Cow.” The Linux desktop operating system continues its use of the GNOME desktop as the ...

I've been running MATE as my one and only environment for the last week. And boy howdy, do I have an opinion. I started out my “use every Linux Desktop Environment for a week at a time” endeavor with ...