The file manager also comes with another new feature called ‘pin’. Under ‘Themes’ (‘System Settings’ -> ‘Themes’), you can also manually set the width of the scroll bars to your liking. Once you click on it, it takes you to a separate settings window that lets you set those same settings, though, using verticle & horizontal sliders (these sliders, for instance, let you further manipulate the spacing of the desktop icons compared to the previously existed fixed settings), buttons, etc.Īlso, as you can see, the previously existed colored icons are now all converted into monochrome on the desktop context menus as well. ‘Desktop’ entry which used to let users customize the icon arrangement on the desktop, is now replaced with an entry called ‘Customize’. Here’s how the same context menu looks like in 19.2: Here’s a screenshot from Linux Mint 18.3: Therefore, I’m simply comparing them with the last Mint release I reviewed, which was Linux Mint 18.3). Take the desktop right-click context menu for instance (again, please remember that I don’t know whether these changes were there in the previous releases or not, simply because I haven’t used them. That being said, there are subtle visible changes, if you look carefully. Even though I have missed a few Mint releases, the overall look has not changed at all. Mint’s Cinnamon edition maintains a very Microsoft Windows looking user interface while rendering the desktop layout. The installer is also capable of automatically creating a ‘swap partition’ (a ‘pagefile’ type file that you find in Microsoft Windows), starting with Ubuntu 17.04, which it did in this instance as well. However, I’d say that compared to the installation times of Kubuntu 19.04, it was a bit slower, although I’m sure the installer had nothing to do with it, it was probably because of the amount packages it had to install or due to the level of compression they had been compressed with. I was able to install Linux Mint 19.2 Cinnamon with my custom settings (keyboard set up as Dvorak and custom partitioning scheme) without any issues. It’s simple, stable and has worked great for me. Linux Mint uses Ubuntu’s installer by default. On rotational disks, this service can speed up the boot-up times by around 30-40% (it’s useless on SSDs), in my experience. The ‘ureadahead’ service (originally developed by Ubuntu, now abandoned) that Linux Mint still ships with, is one such example. Booting into a freshly installed OS a few times is not always necessary, but, on certain ‘Linux’ distributions, there are boot-up services that do require a few boot-ups for them to properly set things up. Then I boot into it a few times (and shut it down a few times as well) to let things settle down. It's an Asus laptop (F302LJ-FN024H).Īfter installing the OS I opened the ‘Startup Manager’ and disabled a few apps (Update Manager, Print Queue Applet and SSH key agent if I remember correctly). Intel Core i7-5500U, Hybrid GPU Setup (Intel Broadwell HD Graphics 5500, Nvidia 920M), 4GB RAM DDR3, Hybrid Permanent Storage Setup (Seagate 5400 RPM, 500 GB rotational disk and a Kingston 24 GB SSD), Qualcomm Atheros AR9565 Wireless Adapter, Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller, Realtek ALC3236 Sound Card, LED Display (1366 x 768 resolution, 60 FPS/HZ). I tested it on my Asus laptop and below are some of its hardware details: For this review, I downloaded the 64-bit ISO image (2.0 GB), and completely securely deleted the 3 partitions (‘ /EFI‘, ‘ /boot‘ and ‘ /‘) on my rotational disk, that I used to install it. I have decided to compare it with the data I have gathered on a freshly installed Kubuntu 19.04. This operating system will be supported up to 2023.Īs always, in this Linux Mint 19.2 Cinnamon review, I’ll be focusing mostly on its performance, such as the Boot-up speed, memory usage upon loading the desktop, power usage (idle), system responsiveness, shutdown speed, and system stability, although I will mention new features that I feel like worth writing about. Linux Mint 19.2 (based on Ubuntu 18.04), the latest release which I’m going to review, features the Cinnamon 4.2.3 which includes few new features, performance enhancements (such as a reduced memory footprint), improved theme and Kernel 4.15, among others. It’s been almost 20 months since I last tested one of my highly respected GNU/Linux distributions Linux Mint, the Cinnamon edition. Web-browser Video Playback & Multimedia Codecs.
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