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 ...

Don't settle for GNOME just because it's popular or the default choice.

Your Linux Mint desktop can do a lot more than just look pretty and collect icons.

To put Cinnamon to the test, I used my faithful old Lenovo ThinkPad R61. This 2008-vintage notebook is powered by a 2.2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor T7500 and has 2GBs of RAM. I also used it on my ...

Linux Mint rose to popularity when both Ubuntu and Gnome decided to fork ways and push their own shells and desktop environments (DEs). Linux Mint took Gnome and created Cinnamon on top of an Ubuntu ...

Recently I’ve reviewed the latest ‘consumer’ version of Ubuntu, namely 12.04, and found that it was pretty far away from being perfectly consumer friendly. The entire UI was scattered and disorganized ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The final rease of Linux Mint 17.1 Cinnamon and MATE was announced this weekend. I have picked up both versions, and I have ...