Linux Mint 21 hits beta, and it's looking fresh
, it performs reasonably well on a fast 64-bit PC without hardware OpenGL acceleration. Cinnamon is a more complex desktop, and in the Mint 21 beta it uses rather more RAM – 630MB – than the other two, but only 7.9GB of disk.
Although Mint is a mature product and this is based on an LTS version of Ubuntu, all the same, these are beta products. The resource-usage numbers may well change, and it wouldn't be fair to measure performance. It suffices to say that we encountered no show-stopping problems at all with any of the editions. The last few Mint blog posts suggest that the major effort now is going into testing upgrade and update functionality.
The Cinnamon desktop uses GNOME tech so it's better for hiDPI and fractional scaling, but it's clunkier to customizeof overlap between the three desktops, though. Xfce is maybe a little bit more responsive in use, and it handles vertical panels the best of the three. If you prefer horizontal panels, MATE is very customizable and works well. If you need fractional scaling, or different monitors at different scaling factors or refresh rates, Cinnamon handles those better.
Mint 21 is shaping up very well indeed. If you want a no-fuss, no-mess desktop OS, perhaps to replace an
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