When “if it ain’t broke don’t fix it” becomes a Linux desktop environment.

The latest version ofMATE – 1.10 – was released recently and now you can experience it in its full glory on Linux Mint. The Linux Mint team announced the release of version 17.2 last week and I wasted ...

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 ...

So far in this series I have looked at Xfce (lightweight but full-featured), KDE (one view of the future of desktops, extremely configurable), Gnome 3 (a very different view of the future, very ...

Linux Mint is the top operating system on the DistroWatch, having risen to stardom after the debacle of Unity and Gnome 3 Shell. It offered the time tested, good old WIMP paradigm, which made it ...

While other operating systems dabble with mobile or push the bleeding edge, Mint’s shaping up to be the Old Faithful of the Linux desktop world. Linux Mint 17.3 “Rosa” continues a series of stable ...

The team behind Linux Mint has released beta ISOs for Linux Mint 19.2. The new betas come in three flavours, Cinnamon, MATE, and Xfce. There are many common updates to them all such as changes to the ...

Here’s how you can install the MATE desktop on your Linux Mint 13 Cinnamon system. This will let you use either desktop by switching the desktop session on the Linux Mint 13 login menu. 1. Click the ...

Not everyone will agree with me. They'll find Mint's other default desktop MATE to be much more their speed. MATE is a fork of that old Linux desktop favorite, GNOME 2.x. While I haven't looked at the ...

The Linux Mint project yesterday unveiled version 15 of the increasingly popular desktop operating system, with upgrades to the MATE and Cinnamon desktop environments as well as new applications for ...

The Linux Mint project recently unveiled Linux Mint 17.3. The latest release from this Ubuntu-based Linux distro just might be the best Linux desktop around. Linux Mint 17.3 arrived a few days late ...