Cinnamon

A traditional desktop environment developed for Linux Mint.

Cinnamon is a desktop environment that forks GNOME 3 and preserves a more traditional desktop layout: a panel at the bottom, a hierarchical application menu, a system tray, and window-list-style task switching. The default Cinnamon experience is closer to Windows 7 / GNOME 2 than to modern GNOME's Activities-overview-centric approach.

The Linux Mint team develops Cinnamon, with Clement Lefebvre as the lead. The desktop has always been Linux Mint's flagship edition, and most major Cinnamon features (Nemo file manager, Cinnamon Spices for themes and applets, the Mint X-Apps suite) are coordinated alongside Mint's release schedule.

Cinnamon is available on most distributions through their package repositories, but the Linux Mint experience is the canonical way to use it. The combination of a Windows-like layout, sensible defaults, and Mint's stability has made Cinnamon one of the most-recommended desktops for users migrating from Windows.

License: GPL-2.0-or-later

Category: Desktop

Website: https://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon

Install

Debian/Ubuntu: sudo apt install cinnamon
Fedora/RHEL:   sudo dnf install @cinnamon-desktop
Arch:          sudo pacman -S cinnamon

Authors

Linux Mint team

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