Linux Mint vs Ubuntu Cinnamon: Which Should YOU Use?

The Cinnamon desktop environment was created for Linux Mint over ten years ago, but has recently been implemented as an official Ubuntu flavour with the release of Ubuntu Cinnamon 23.04.

This presents the question of which distro provides the best Cinnamon experience and which will suit your needs best.

0:00 Introduction to Ubuntu Cinnamon & Linux Mint
1:27 Ubuntu Cinnamon Deserves Praise
3:12 Linux Mint is Loved for a Reason
4:25 Ubuntu + Cinnamon = Problems?
6:12 Is Cinnamon Even Ideal?

[omerta]

Just found your channel. Awesome videos and nice voice.

[TheRawChuck]

Mint is my favorite distro. Another one I like is Manjaro because it works right out of the box. I have used Kubuntu and I love the KDE Plasma desktop it has but my favorite is to run Mint Cinnamon and install KDE on top of it. I've been using Linux for about twenty years but I have not learned much about the actual commands, not that I haven't wanted to, however.

[WinstoneSmith]

Barely anyone seems to know about the inclusion of that kernel updater! I, for one. Thank you!

[brazildan]

It is slick and well put together. But that is subjective. One thing I love about Cinnamon that all the other desktop environments now ignore, is the ability to assign sound events to window actions such as maximize, minimize, open, close, etc. I love sounds on my desktop. KDE used to do this and more, but they removed sound events on Window events long ago. However, I use KDE currently because I have a huge screen and I DEPEND on the ability to REMEMBER an applications previous size and position. Also, I enjoy having a different wallpaper for each of my main activities. For my laptop, which is just a 15.6" screen, however, I use Linux Mint Cinnamon.

[W.A.-Linux]

I don't use both but thanks for the video, subscribed :)

[derekr]

I will stick with the Mint version of Cinnamon as you have the Mint tools as well as the desktop.

[Kayotesden]

No matter what people say, I still stick these two distros: Mint, Ubuntu, in that order.

[donvineyard]

I'm mixed on Wayland. I've used X11 for 30+ years. Wayland doesn't support remote-display...which I used almost daily. Yeah, I know how messy X11 is...I used to program in it back in X11r4. But it will be be a big loss for some of it's feature I love.

[donvineyard]

I have used LM Cinnamon for years. Debian 12 has cinnamon and it is good too. But my daily driver is LM. When LMDE 6 is released I plan to check it out. Ubuntu is becoming...problematic.

[FierroSev]

I wanted to try LM but it and Zorin are unable to see my SSD on Msi Stealth 16 A13V. Pop OS, Ubuntu, all don't have this issue.

I have tried all the recommendations, like enable AHCP for the sata controller, disabled fast boot, secure boot and a few other options. I settled with Pop Os and pretty happy with it. Ubuntu Cinnamon gave me to many issues like the shop not loading. Pop Os also has problems not always loading my sound card.

Overall, coming from Windows I am enjoying Linux. The issues feel few and far between. I do like how easy Pop makes it to enable the on board graphics, which improves my battery life. For Gaming, I will just boot into windows and leave Linux for my programming journey. Maybe, I'll load up LM on a VM and mess around with it that way.

[luclevesquephd]

Thank you for this excellent video. I've migrated from Windows to Linux only 6 weeks ago. I settled on Zorin OS because of the options to change between the various Windows displays, such as 7, 10, 11, etc. Now that I am acquainted with Zorin and Linux, there are some frustrations that I am having with Zorin, such as a buggy Software store and a disappearing CopyQ from the system tray. These are not fancy installs, just download from the software store and I have to deal with bugs. My question is: Do we see these types of issues with Linux Mint and Ubuntu Cinnamon? I just want to install the software and have no problems. Thanks.

[REDGTA]

It might seem silly to the younger linux users, but the only reason I still use Linux Mint Cinnamon is the cinnamon screensaver. Xscreensaver used to be standard on every Linux distro. Gnome and KDE only have "blank the screen" options now. I think it's ridiculous to have to wake up my home desktop computer screen and log back in to be able to use it when there is no security risk. I was able to get cinnamon screensaver to work in KDE, but had to install the cinnamon desktop. Xscreensaver won't work when they fully switch to wayland in the near future.

[deepchange]

Linux mint is perfect os for my macbook pro 2011 17 inch. Ubuntu cinnamon is very similar to Linux mint and runs very smoothly. For me there is no big difference

[majoraslayer]

Linux desktop at some point a "no-compromises" experience? I thought compromises were the only way to use it.

[taniadisuria]

using mint xfce edition right now. nice so far

[RobertKeenanComp-U-Right]

could you please do video on LMDE VS LM.

[MODEH]

I started using Linux recently on my decade old laptop and it's reusable and much better than before and I tried Ubuntu and I really like it's interface but I'm thinking to install Linux alongside windows on my main computer which uses Celeron to improve gaming performance so what distro do you recommend me ?

[stevenanderson]

For support of the latest hardware you need to be running a arch based distro i started with mint and ubuntu but if you have hardware 2 years old you need a arch based distro i just tried to install mint i have a 6700xt graphics card it did not go so well but manjaro easy peazy.

[neandertalac]

So we now have Kubuntu and KDE Neon, Linux Mint and Cinnamon Ubuntu, and Xubuntu and LMDE. These teams need to stop competing each other, maybe do something together.

[Alex_Khouri]

Supporting Cinnamon as a main desktop environment was clearly an attempt by Canonical to draw users away from Mint. The reality is that Cinnamon is only one of several reasons why people pick Mint over Ubuntu (and it isn't even really one of the bigger ones), so it seems like a waste of time to me.

Fingers crossed that LMDE eventually becomes mainline. The biggest hurdle seems to be driver management (which is currently non-existant on Debian), but I'm confident that Clement as his team can work it out.