MX 19 Repository: The Cinnamon Desktop Thread

[KBD]

Once quickly installed on my craft installation, everything seems to work.

It has panel window previews and a nice window overview that set it apart from many other desktops.

But it is also a big resource hog, 900mb initial ram requirement for me.
My first desktop was at Linux Mint, but for me personally, back then (2014/15), too unstable, no day without freezing or other bugs and I ended up at opensuse and xfce.
Looks quite nice optically though!

It can be sped up:
https://easylinuxtipsproject.blogspot.c ... -mint.html
I think Cinnamon was only using 700mb ram for me after a few tweaks.

[wdscharff]

It can be sped up:

Of course it can. That was the first start after installation, there is always plenty of room for optimisation, with every distribution and every desktop.
Last week I installed Mint Cinnamon on a trial basis, which was a bit more "economical" at 780-800mb.

It was just my curiosity to see Cinnamon on my computer again. On my working horse I like it a little bit simpler visually.

[finickyrelic]

It should work on Buster. LMDE 4 uses Cinnamon 4.6.7.

I'll try to make some time to backport it. Do not attempt to add the Debian testing repository to MX and install it from there, since that will most likely break your system.

Thank you, Stevo!

[ne0h]

is it possible to install cinnamon 5 on linux mint 19, or would it be better to use cinnamon 21? in mxlinux, is cinnamon version 5 present?