Linux desktop environments have come a long way in the last few years. Once upon a time the KDE user interface looked a lot like Windows while GNOME provided a simple UI with panels at the top and ...

Tired of desktop environments (DEs) that keep “improving” things that already worked perfectly? Does your modern Linux desktop feel like it was designed for someone else’s workflow? Well, MATE ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Before going into the hands-on description of the upcoming release, I would like to mention a couple of news items which were included in the Mint Blog Monthly News for October 2017. The biggest item ...