Cinnamon 6.6 introduces a redesigned menu, smoother animations, and extensive fixes across applets, improving the desktop experience.

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.

  • addie@feddit.uk
    5·
    1 day ago

    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
      2·
      22 hours ago

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

      • addie@feddit.uk
        1·
        9 hours ago

        systemd-networkd gets installed by default by Arch, integrates a bit better with the rest of SystemD, doesn’t have so many VPN surprises, and the configuration is a bit more obvious to me - a few config files rather than NetworkManager’s “loads of scripts” approach. Small niggles rather than big issues.

        Really, I just don’t want duplication of services - more stuff to keep up-to-date. And if I’ve got SystemD anyway, might as well use it…