![]() ![]() In many cases, having one can help for maintaining stability and performance). However, once I was done with the partition setup the installer warned me for not having created a swap partition (a ‘swap partition’ is identical to what Microsoft Windows calls the ‘page file’ which is a virtual ‘RAM’ that sits on your main storage device. Linux Mint uses Ubuntu’s awesome installer without any custom features, it’s a very popular installer so I won’t go into the details. If I were to open it through the start-menu (by either searching for it or by navigating) that would’ve easily added few more megabytes to the memory consumption reading thus reducing its accuracy. This is also crucial on many occasions and when possible this is something I always do. I also added ‘system monitor’ app icon to the panel for measuring the memory usage. The only changes I made were enabling the user auto-login while installing, and disabling the update managers (both ‘minstinstall’ software manager and the Flatpak update manager, more on them later) & welcome screen on desktop start-up. I tried not to tweak any settings before measuring the performance data (to keep their accuracy as high as possible of course). I also made sure to securely delete data on the test partitions (efi, boot and ‘root’) using the ‘shred’ command so that I’m left with a ‘clean’ system. Not only all these 3 operating systems were tested on the same hardware, they were also installed into the exact same partition table. I could’ve added Ubuntu 16.04 LTS data too, but that was tested on my old Dell laptop which breaks the purpose of comparing performance, so I skipped it. ![]() I’ve compared the performance data of Linux Mint 18.3 Cinnamon (Boot-up speed, Memory usage, Power usage, System responsiveness, shutdown delay…) with Linux Mint 18 Cinnamon and Ubuntu 17.10. 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). ![]() Before I begin the review, here’s the hardware details of the laptop that I used to test it: Apart from the kernel 4.10, it also features X.org 1.18.4, Firefox 57.0, LibreOffice 5.1.6.2, GIMP 2.8.16, Rhythmbox 3.3, Timeshift 17.11 (snapshot based system restore utility), ‘mintinstall’ Software Manager 7.8.8 with many improvements, and Cinnamon 3.6. įor this Linux Mint 18.3 Cinnamon review I downloaded the 64-bit ISO (1.9GB). This was fixed in Kernel 4.10 which Linux Mint 18.3 Cinnamon features, lucky me I guess □. This is good news for me because the touch-pad of my Asus laptop had a major issue with Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (or in pretty much any distro that had a Kernel version below 4.10) where it refused to work after waking up from ‘Suspend’. However, Linux Mint 18.3 is based on the up-to-date Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS. Now, both Linux Mint 18 Cinnamon (which I reviewed last year) and Linux Mint 18.3 Cinnamon are based on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. This in tern gives Linux Mint developers enough space to ‘breath’ a little and fully concentrate on what they do best: development of their awesome desktop shell & other native Linux Mint user-applications. Because Ubuntu LTS (Long Term Support) provides security & maintenance updates up to 5 years & it is already based on a solid foundation set by Ubuntu. As far as I can see, this is working great for them. They now rely on the core of Ubuntu LTS releases as the foundation for their operating system. There you can toggle auto-arrange of desktop icons and what the icons should be arranged on.Īs for renaming the Google Calendar shortcut icon and the Thunderbird launcher icon changing name instead, I can't reproduce that here.Few years ago Linux Mint changed their release strategy. You can configure this behavior by right-click on your desktop and from the context menu moving your mouse onto the Desktop submenu. " is alphabetically sorted before "Thunderbird". (Or browse them online )Īnyway, so after adding the Thunderbird launcher to the desktop and then adding a shortcut from Firefox to the desktop that indeed moves Thunderbird icon down as "Link to. Desklets are things you can add to Cinnamon to customize your desktop with functionality. Not a Desklet (at least I think you mixed that up as I can't find a Thunderbird Desklet). When adding a launcher from your menu to desktop the icon is still called a launcher. ![]() I can't reproduce your issue other than that indeed, if you add a new desktop icon the other icons can get moved if that is needed to keep them sorted by name. On default, the icons on the desktop are sorted by name automatically. ![]()
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