Roine Bertelson (MUD / Make Use Of)
"Linux Mint has always been a little stubborn about big changes. While much of the Linux world spent the last few years marching toward Wayland, Mint calmly stayed parked on X11 like someone watching the chaos from a safe distance with a cup of coffee. Not because the developers were ignoring the future, but because their flagship desktop simply wasn’t ready for it. That situation is finally shifting. After years of quiet groundwork, Cinnamon can now run on Wayland, which removes one of the biggest technical barriers Mint has been carrying around."
"If you have used Linux Mint for a while, you already know the project does not chase trends. Mint’s philosophy tends to be calm, conservative, and slightly allergic to shipping half-baked features. When other distributions started pushing Wayland sessions years ago, they also inherited a long list of strange bugs, missing features, and confused users wondering why screen recording suddenly stopped working. Mint simply chose to sit that phase out.
Instead of rushing a Wayland session that would feel incomplete, the developers waited until Cinnamon itself could realistically support the transition. It might not make headlines as quickly, but it does align with Mint’s reputation for boring stability, which is honestly one of the reasons many people use it in the first place."
"Linux Mint has always been a little stubborn about big changes. While much of the Linux world spent the last few years marching toward Wayland, Mint calmly stayed parked on X11 like someone watching the chaos from a safe distance with a cup of coffee. Not because the developers were ignoring the future, but because their flagship desktop simply wasn’t ready for it. That situation is finally shifting. After years of quiet groundwork, Cinnamon can now run on Wayland, which removes one of the biggest technical barriers Mint has been carrying around."
"If you have used Linux Mint for a while, you already know the project does not chase trends. Mint’s philosophy tends to be calm, conservative, and slightly allergic to shipping half-baked features. When other distributions started pushing Wayland sessions years ago, they also inherited a long list of strange bugs, missing features, and confused users wondering why screen recording suddenly stopped working. Mint simply chose to sit that phase out.
Instead of rushing a Wayland session that would feel incomplete, the developers waited until Cinnamon itself could realistically support the transition. It might not make headlines as quickly, but it does align with Mint’s reputation for boring stability, which is honestly one of the reasons many people use it in the first place."
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