Linux Mint’s Clement Lefebvre reports today on the upcoming performance improvements that he and his team of developers implemented in the next major release of the Cinnamon desktop environment.
As you probably know already, Cinnamon is the default desktop environment of the Ubuntu-based Linux Mint operating system. It uses parts of the GNOME Stack at its core, which means that it’s not so lightweight as its MATE or Xfce counterparts, so launching apps isn’t as fast as you’d like it to be lately.
That’s why the Linux Mint development team spent some time earlier this year to investigate and debug any performance hogs in Cinnamon, especially when launching the pre-installed applications. They compared Cinnamon with the Metacity window manager and found out that the former was six times slower.
They also compared Cinnamon’s Muffin window management library with Metacity using an in-house built script and discovered th… (read more)
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