![]() I mention this because you mentioned having a 4K display, so I guess perhaps videos are important to you.? Still shots are ok, but when a camera starts to move, screentearing becomes visible. Screen tearing is a really annoying horizontally splitting of the screen when a camera moves sideways. But the first thing I noticed was screen tearing in videos. I recently switched to LinuxMint 19,2 Xfce to see if it would be a proper working OS for my girlfriend who has a slower computer. However, if XFCE offers more flexibility in scaling icons, system text, and application GUIs, that sounds like a better way for me to go. If you have room, I would recommend 28" or 32" as a minimum size to make best use of 4K. This might seem to defeat the purpose of a 4K monitor (it's only 24", to fit on my desk, therefore is 185dpi) - but what I get is crisp text at readable size instead of fuzzy text. One program I tried to run did not respect the hi-DPI setting, and continued to display its GUI with the default pixel count. Otherwise everything on-screen is too small. The only setting in Cinnamon which works for me is "hi-DPI". This applies to office work - gamers won't be so bothered, they just get UHD video. Yes, it's good to have more real-estate (in pixel count) to display more of a document at one time or have several open and visible at one time, but that advantage is lost if the features are too small to see and everything has to be scaled up. The issue is not the number of pixels on the screen overall, but the relative DPI at working distance. Preparing to invest in a 4K monitor + suitable graphics card, my research indicated desktop scaling could be a problem. On the donors page ( ) you can see in the graph there's continuity in support from users that makes it possible for the core team to work on Linux Mint. But even if Linux Mint would go away, it's a free/libre open source project with people from many other distros already contributing to its development and maintenance-it would find a way to continue. But all the programs in your menu? (Aside from category Preferences) Those programs will all run on any other desktop environment.Īs for continuity: Cinnamon is a Linux Mint project and I don't see it going away so long as Linux Mint is developed. you can't use Cinnamon themes or Cinnamon applets on other desktop environments. For example if you open System Settings from your menu the items under category Appearance (how it looks) and category Preferences (how it behaves) are tied to Cinnamon. ![]() What won't run on another desktop environment are the parts tied to the look & feel of Cinnamon. It's the tool you use to start programs, manage windows and so on-but you can run your programs on any other desktop environment. Think of your desktop environment as the user interface to the operating system, with some standard utility programs included (like a file manager, terminal or calculator).
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