Trying out the Cinnamon desktop with NixOS and I'm pleasantly surprised by how good it is! It's mainly x11 right now, but I can live with that.

One hiccup though, the online accounts tool wouldn't work until I added

services.gnome.gnome-online-accounts.enable = true;

The official wiki didn't have any notes about needing to do that, so I added them. Now I'm wondering how much of my config could be extrapolated into fixing the docs for the tools I use.

https://wiki.nixos.org/wiki/Cinnamon

#NixOS #nix #wiki #documentation #CinnamonDesktop

Episode 7 of Dark Blue Weekly released

https://darkblueraven.com/sites/news/dbw-e7.php

#darkblueweekly #darkblueproject #opensource #freesoftware #linux #linuxfromscratch #grapheneos #budgiedesktop #cinnamondesktop #linuxmint #libvirt

Is Linux Mint burning out? Developers consider longer release cycle

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://nerds.xyz/2026/02/linux-mint-longer-development-cycle/

Update: Thanks trashHeap for reminding me to check about:support in librewolf, which fairly quickly led me to the solution: ditch Cinnamon.

Okay fellow linux folk, here's one that I'm sure someone just *has* the answer to:

I'm running Cinnamon Desktop 6.4.10 on Debian Trixie, and it seems like quite frequently when I start playing video, especially in librewolf, several of my cores suddenly jump to 100% and I get a toast for like a *fraction* of a second saying something about "cinnamon-subprocess-wrapper".

I'm about to just say screw it and swap over to KDE Plasma, but I would be mildly annoyed since I just finished getting everything set up the way I like in cinnamon, and I haven't used Plasma in years.

Does anyone have any ideas that could help me find and kill this resource sink?

#Linux #Debian #Debian13 #CinnamonDesktop #Cinnamon6

Well, that's the last of the leftover turkey done.

Also, #Linux #Mint is really nice. I guess I'm mostly talking about #CinnamonDesktop right now, but there's a lot of work done in the area of community, graphical tools, and… stuff that's worthy of praise.

Mint has always been about making Linux easier on the front end. I remember trying out their first release almost twenty years ago (fuck, I'm old…). It based on #Kubuntu back then with a KDE 3.x desktop. Basically, it was Kubuntu with non-free media codecs and some extra software out of the box.

They grow up so fast…

Today's top linux tip: when you have a laptop with an intgrated GPU and an external one, do NOT switch to the integrated GPU in Linux, then, at some point in the future, go to the UEFI and set it to only use the dedicated GPU.

Doing so results in using software rendering, which will upset you for *weeks* because you forgot about changing either of these settings, and 30 instances of "cinnamon --replace" showing up in htop will confuse you.

I thought I ruled out GPU issues because I observed the same behaviour whether I selected "Cinnamon" or "Cinnamon (software rendering)" as my desktop environment.

It would have been nice to have some kind of warning "Hey, you've opted to use hardware rendering but llvmpipe ain't gonna cut it!", but I think I definitely deserve the lioness's share of the blame :)

#LinuxMint
#CinnamonDesktop
#Nvidia