One of the greatest leaps of the latest Linux Mint release is the introduction of a new feature called fractional scaling.
Just like Ubuntu This comes especially in handy when you want to connect your PC to a 4K display to enjoy a wholesome viewing experience. In addition to fractional scaling, an additional useful feature is the monitor frequency adjustment that allows you to tweak monitor fresh rate in the Display settings to your satisfaction.
This provides the icing on the cake in ensuring you get the best monitor display. Another grand entry into the latest Mint release is a file network file sharing utility known as Warpinator , which is a reimplementation of a utility called giver which was featured in Mint 6, a decade ago. This tool ships out of the box and enhances easy file sharing between clients in a local area network. From the tray applet, you get options for on-demand switching. Nemo is the default file manager for the Cinnamon Desktop environment.
Occasionally, users would encounter degraded performance arising from loading file thumbnails, resulting in slower browsing of files in directories.
To address this issue, enhancements have been introduced to handle the way thumbnails are displayed. This will also have the effect of speeding up file transfer of heavy files with external volumes.
Linux Mint 20 ships with a spectacular collection of background images from various contributors such as Jacob Heston , Amy Tran and Alexander Andrews. Netix Ltd. University of Ruse. UPC Ceska republika. Be a Lama, Inc. Dark Penguin Network. FH Aachen. Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nuremberg.
Funkfreunde Landshut e. Hochschule Esslingen University of Applied Sciences. NetCologne GmbH. Netzwerge GmbH.
University of Frankfurt. Hellenic Telecommunications Organization. MyAegean team, University of the Aegean. University of Crete. Tele Greenland. With Cinnamon 4. In normal mode the resolution you set is the resolution you see. Take a 13" Macbook Retina A display like this one looks perfect in px and that unfortunately means reducing the actual resolution to px and not using HiDPI.
Another issue with HiDPI is multi-monitor support. You could plug an external monitor to this Macbook in the hope to stay in HiDPI on the laptop but to be in normal mode on the monitor. That wasn't possible before though, either all screens or none at all could be in HiDPI Fractional scaling addresses these limitations. Middle-clicking the keyboard applet cycles keyboard layouts.
Cinnamon screensaver supports custom commands, making it possble to use alternative screen lockers with Cinnamon. XApps improvements Xed received the ability to join lines together and to remove trailing whitelines before saving files. Xviewer received fullscreen and diaporama toolbar buttons and remembers if its window was maximized. In Xreader a print button was added to the toolbar.
Other improvements Gdebi, the tool used to open and install. The login screen Slick Greeter supports stretching backgrounds across multiple monitors.
System improvements Apturl switched backend from Synaptic to Aptdaemon. APT recommends are enabled by default for newly installed packages not for upgrades. Snapd is disabled by default and APT packages are not allowed to install it. Live sessions running under Virtualbox automatically get their resolution bumped to a minimum of x This release ships with linux-firmware 1. Artwork improvements The Mint-Y theme provides a nice variety of colors. A community project was started on Github to gather feedback and fine-tune these colors to find the right balance between colorful vibrant hues and contrast levels which don't take the user's focus away from the content being shown on the screen.
Yellow folders are also available. Main components Linux Mint 20 features Cinnamon 4. Effects transition was smooth and clean. In fact, Mint was back to its familiar good graphic performance.
This makes the ordeal all the more weird. Mint has an exceptionally good performance on older hardware. On T60p, the memory footprint was extremely low, at around MB, less than most distributions. Isadora is a very green release, both color-wise and when it comes to power consumption and utilization, which translates into extended battery life. While most contemporary distros offer slightly less than three hours on the T60p 6-cell battery, Isadora offers close to four hours. I used bootchart to time the machine startup with Mint installed over Lucid.
Compared to its parent, Mint is about 5 seconds slower on T60p, if you recall my article on boot times from just a few days ago. Must be the extra drivers that Mint loads. I did not time the performance on the external disk, as it cannot be directly compared with installations on a local disk. Linux Mint 9 has a very soft, very smart theme.
But if you don't like it, you can switch to a number of other themes, including stuff used in previous versions, which makes for a breeze of nostalgia. Lightning and Wild Mint look quite lovely. Isadora packs a very decent and varied arsenal that tops that of Lucid, with GIMP included and Pidgin as the default instant messenger.
You also get a handful of useful system tools, like Giver, upload manager, backup software, remastering software, USB writer, firewall GUI, and the wrapper for Windows Wireless drivers. Last but not the least, you have the smart, level-oriented Update Manager. Isadora is unto Helena what Karmic was unto Jaunty. Karmic was not a revolution. Unfortunately, neither is Isadora. Overall, the operating system is all good and well, but the extra edge of wow that was always there is gone.
Comparing Lucid and Isadora head to head, Isadora does bring a handful of improvements, which should not be sneezed at. You get multimedia out of the box. Compiz is there, too, and it works fairly well on older hardware with inferior cards, although not perfectly.
On the other hand, Isadora introduces a few glitches and problems that even out the advantages. While the live session is a one-time affair, you cannot neglect the first impression.
Failing to boot once or twice can also ruin a man's day. Slight visual inconsistencies do make a difference, a bad one. Isadora gave a spotless performance on the newer hardware, save for the generic problems, which mainly revolve around the visual glitches. On the older machine, there were troubles and I guess I should blame the built-in open-source graphics drivers as they did cause issues with Lucid here and there.
It is entirely likely that I'm befouling Isadora because of something completely unrelated, but I cannot ignore the facts or the weird symptoms. It could all be the evil manifestation of things called DMS and KMS or whatever, modules sitting atop the year old implementation of X Windows, but it did spoil things a bit.
Overall, at the end of the day, Isadora is a very good distribution. But it lacks the extra edge that always made Mint super-shine. Given the choice between Ubuntu and Mint, this time, it's a tie, which means Linux Mint lost. It also speaks highly of what Ubuntu managed to achieve with their LTS.
If you like Mint, Isadora is a good choice. If you are looking for a breathtaking experience, this time, I'm afraid it's not going to happen.
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