Released Linux Mint 19.1: with Cinnamon 4.0 focus on performance
Linux Mint comes to version 19.1 and focuses on optimizing the code to improve performance, particularly with regard to the Cinnamon 4.0 desktop environment and related applications.
The Linux Mint project, led by the French Clement Lefebvre, has announced the release of Linux Mint 19.1, the latest version of the well-known Linux distribution derived from Ubuntu. Linux Mint 19.1 continues to use Ubuntu 18.04 as a base, like the previous version 19, but uses the Cinnamon 4.0 desktop environment and sees updates in the available software.
Cinnamon 4.0, environment derived from GNOME Shell, brings with it improvements, especially as regards the performance aspect. This is true both for the system interface (the shell) and for applications, such as the Nemo file manager. Particular attention was paid to reducing the impact on memory, but also to revising the rendering to optimize the graphic pipeline.
As for changes directly visible to the user, Linux Mint 19.1 has a new default layout of the panel: from a mode that resembled Windows XP (or Vista), with the open applications shown on the panel, you switch to a Windows 7 mode, with open applications shown as icons and the possibility to fix them on the panel itself. You can choose the mode you prefer, but the default one is the Windows 7 style one.
The Cinnamon suite software has also been updated, such as the XApps (basic applications such as the text editor or multimedia player) or the update manager. As in all new versions of the distribution, even Linux Mint 19.1 there are news regarding themes and backgrounds.
Linux Mint 19.1 will be supported until 2023, and will be replaced in 2020 by Linux Mint 20, which will be based on Ubuntu 20.04. More details on the Linux Mint blog are available.
