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>Muh distros
Who cares? Talk about the thing that actually matters.
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Linux Mint comes in three DE flavors, two of which are known to be conservative by design, so their supposed outdatedness can be justified as a feature.. Cinnamon serves as the flagship desktop, and is thus burdened with certain expectations of modernity. Due to its superficial similarities with Windows and ease of use, this is what a significant portion of new Linux are exposed to, adding a lot of pressure to provide a good first impression.
I've begun to question if Cinnamon is truly up to the task of being a desktop worthy of recommendation among the general populace. Technology is moving fast, and other major desktop environments have been innovating a lot since the birth of Cinnamon. One big elephant in the room is Wayland support, which is still in an experimental state. The recent developments in the Linux scene to drop X11 support have put this issue in the spotlight. If there isn't solid Wayland support soon, Cinnamon users will be left in the dirt when apps outright stop working on X11 platforms. Now, there's reason to believe that it's just a matter of time for this one issue to be addressed, but that still leaves a lot of other things on the table. GNOME's latest release has introduced HDR support, which is yet another feature needed for parity with other major platforms. How long will Cinnamon users have to wait for that to become accessible?
Even if patience is key to such concerns, there's still a more fundamental question about the desktop's future. Cinnamon inherits most of its components from GNOME, but many of these came all the way back from 2011 when GNOME 3 launched. To this day, there are still many quirks that are remnants of this timeline. For instance, Cinnamon is still limited to having only four concurrent keyboard layouts. This is an artifact of the old X11-centric backend that GNOME ditched as early as 2012. This exemplifies the drift that naturally occurs with forked software, and it's only going to get worse at the current velocity.
I've begun to question if Cinnamon is truly up to the task of being a desktop worthy of recommendation among the general populace. Technology is moving fast, and other major desktop environments have been innovating a lot since the birth of Cinnamon. One big elephant in the room is Wayland support, which is still in an experimental state. The recent developments in the Linux scene to drop X11 support have put this issue in the spotlight. If there isn't solid Wayland support soon, Cinnamon users will be left in the dirt when apps outright stop working on X11 platforms. Now, there's reason to believe that it's just a matter of time for this one issue to be addressed, but that still leaves a lot of other things on the table. GNOME's latest release has introduced HDR support, which is yet another feature needed for parity with other major platforms. How long will Cinnamon users have to wait for that to become accessible?
Even if patience is key to such concerns, there's still a more fundamental question about the desktop's future. Cinnamon inherits most of its components from GNOME, but many of these came all the way back from 2011 when GNOME 3 launched. To this day, there are still many quirks that are remnants of this timeline. For instance, Cinnamon is still limited to having only four concurrent keyboard layouts. This is an artifact of the old X11-centric backend that GNOME ditched as early as 2012. This exemplifies the drift that naturally occurs with forked software, and it's only going to get worse at the current velocity.
>Fork GNOME 3 because of dissatisfaction with its vision
>Create a new DE out of it called Cinnamon that satisfies the original need
>Years pass, GNOME sees many improvements and new features, such as full Wayland support and more than 4 keyboard layouts
>Meanwhile, Cinnamon is still stuck in 2011 with a bunch of shoehorning through backports from upstream
Is this DE forever doomed to be like this? The feature parity is only growing bigger as time passes.
>Create a new DE out of it called Cinnamon that satisfies the original need
>Years pass, GNOME sees many improvements and new features, such as full Wayland support and more than 4 keyboard layouts
>Meanwhile, Cinnamon is still stuck in 2011 with a bunch of shoehorning through backports from upstream
Is this DE forever doomed to be like this? The feature parity is only growing bigger as time passes.