Theming Cinnamon is just superior IMO. Gnome doesn't let you theme all apps for no reason, on KDE theming is unnecessarily complicated and on Cinnamon it's just perfect. Drag your stuff into icons or themes and apply it to one of the four categories. No hassle, no PhD needed, just works.
Cinnnamon still uses more GTK3 apps, which is why it works so well. GNOME is still mid-transitition to GTK4, which is themed differently and still has a lot of changes due to its delevlopment. At some point it's probably gonna be the same
I really liked the video and discovered some interesting Applets, but as a Mint/Cinnamon lover that also thinks it looks WAY too old by default I found a quick way to make it look more modern without changing so much stuff. Simply choose the "Mint-Y-Light-Dark" theme, then the "Papirus-Dark" icons (HUGE boost in terms of freshness, and both included in the default Mint Cinnamon installation), move the Start menu and docked programs to the center (like in Windows 11) and with the right greyscale wallpaper the OS looks 10 years younger with settings you can change in less than a minute! Not taking anything away from your video of course, I love theming and this one you showed came out really nice, just wanted to add something super quick I do to my Mint computers that I want to keep close to stock without looking like Windows '98 :)
@@DevJeremi well, it's a matter of preference but I can totally see why you think that. It was the same for me when I used only Windows and first experienced that change, as I always swore by the bottom left positioning of the Start button and menu since Windows '98. My preferences changed when I got Windows 11 as soon as it got released, then I added a M1 Mac Mini to my setup and I started using Fedora/GNOME more and more. I got back to Mint from Fedora since then, but at that point it was the only DE where my menu was on the bottom left by default and it kinda felt both odd and outdated to me, which is why I moved it to the center.
not gonna lie, if you wanna use cinnamon you have to use linux mint. I tried cinnamon on arch and theres way too many missing things which are only on linux mint
@PCs454 Cinnamon under Mint has some features that aren't in the other distros implementation of Cinnamon. Like e.g. uninstalling applications right from the starter.
Great job showing off one of my favorite desktop environments! I honestly don't change a lot of the aesthetics of the default look of cinnamon. But one thing I did do for nostalgia is change the log in and log out sounds to Windows 2000 log in and out sounds. It always makes me happy hearing those sounds!
I love themes made by LinuxMint team, the only changes I made it only one panel on top with grupping windows at center and Cinnamenu instead of build one menu. For themes I use Faded-Dream theme on panel to make it transparent, Mint- L-Dark-Blue Gtk to match it and Mint-Y-Sand for Icons.
Thanks for a spectacular video about customizing Cinnamon. I just didn't know it was this quick and easy to make it just exactly how many of us would like it. But, I'm a Noob, so I'm learning.
i personally used the "cinnamon dynamic wallpaper" extension when i was on cinnamon, which changes the wallpaper depending on the time of day there's also an equivalent for kde plasma if you know where to look
man, compiz windows, magic lamp are some super cool extensions that i used on kde, and i found out i could use them on cinnamon too, and the jasper theme, which makes apps look modern is so cool!
Man, I've been using mint for a while with a few customization's, but I learned a few things from this video to maximize my efficiency and make my desktop look a little bit more modern. Thanks!
Great video Michael, I've tried Cinnamon before and It was hard for me to customize it, I found Gnome better tho, but Cinnamon has some pretty good features.
I was literally thinking about installing Linux Mint on my Laptop yesterday hoping it would fix a issue I've been having with other distros but didn't because I am not a big fan of the Desktop (I want a KDE version of Linux Mint). After having watched this video I will probably install Linux Mint soon :)
KDE is the most customizable desktop in linux, however theming in KDE is weird. Most themes look unstable or inconsistent except the default breeze theme. Theming in GTK desktops is better. Cinnamon is the best option for this. I very like GTK + Orchis dark theme (black + macos+solid version). The only problem with cinnamon, it's currently not good at providing a great wayland experience for now. I know it will change soon! I also hope they will remain the incredible touchpad gestures customization in wayland too
This has so much good customization! Changed most of it, but didn't want a bottom panel and kept default menu. Though, I used to be able to open up my pinned programs with Super+Number. However, now when I do that it starts searching for some reason.
Cinnamon is probably the middle ground between gnome and ode. I have to wait though till they release a wayland version because the x11 with 4k and scaling still has screen tearing
"Especially someone switching for the first time." Yeah Windows refugees aren't going to like their "Start" panel up top, not a majority of users at least..
Only thing that hate and biggest reason why i prefer pop os to linux mint is icons. I want keep system icons as Linux Mint intended but also i want to keep all other applications that i install with icons that developer provided. I like everything to be NATIVE, and Linux Mint doesn't give me that opportunity.
You know that you can change what icon you use, right? If your doing half and half, you might have to set them manually, so it take a bit of effort, but you can just set whatever icon you want. Just click properties and click on the big icon picture in the basic menu (first one that opens), then put in whatever picture you want.
@mapu1 Currently im not on linux mint but i can say that i tried it, but i wasnt able to change icons for apps that i installed on desktop. Maybe i can do this in specific location but i didn't find it
Why aren’t the bottom corners of all the windows rounded? Is it possible to change that? Could you display a rounded black corner on the desktop screen's edge?
Is there a way to get rid of the blur effect on image thumbnails in the file manager? I do a lot of work with Minecraft textures and low resolution files look awful when blurred.
@@Shaker-qw3mm he has done it - check out his 'replicating GNOME in KDE' video. This is also like replicating GNOME in Cinnamon. There's just something about GNOME UI that's just addicting if you use GNOME and like it. I customized my KDE setup to be GNOME, with my own couple tweaks.
@@jmacdono As a joke it was funny, Gnome is the worst looking and customizable DE out there, this video reminded me of Homer when he took the design of his brother's car and made as horrible as he could lol
@Alejandra2005 Cinnamon is great by default and 6.4 won't be bad either and it's not like they'll forbid you from making Cinnamon look like it used to, also Gnome/KDE ricing is a very visually pleasing topic so of course a lot of people will look into that, it's not a Cinnamon specific thing
I love Linux Mint and how much customization it supports. It would be my desktop of choice if only it was better suited for multi-monitor setup. The fact that you cannot have the panels appear on all the screens, or at least have multiple instances of same applets is awful. Really makes it difficult to hop to other applications or adjust things like sound settings while having a full-screen application open, like a game.
Too much trouble to look a little descent. Imagine if there’s a problem with your applets and you have to reset them and by doing so, it breaks your taskbar. This happened to me and is one of the reasons why I prefer KDE instead. It offers a great UI by default without having to spend a lot of time customizing it. Nice customization though!
I've read that Cinnamon is pretty much stuck on X11 and won't see Wayland unless someone does a full rewrite of the code. Any thoughts on this? Imo its not really a DE of the future if it will stay that way.
Does anybody have some themes to suggest that include image thumbnail previews for folder icons? It's a feature of windows 10 I really enjoy and would love to see for my linux system to make navigating folders full of pictures easier.
Customizing Cinnamon in a 7 minute video only to make it look like Gnome intead of using Debian with regular Gnome instead: *signature look of superiority*
@jmacdono And people wonder why no one wants to move to Linux ... too much negativity in the community. I have a few older laptops mixed in with my newer ones including a 2014 MacBook Air that can't run Cinnamon but does just fine with MATE. I'll likely be passing this down, keeping more e waste out of the trash, and I'm sure whomever gets it will be more than happy to have a functional machine and if I can "jazz" it up with better looking graphics, that's even more of a positive
I have heard burn-in is not that bad as long as you don't use overall bright imagery anymore. Kinda scared since I also want to get one without having the Davinci Resolve interface burned in
That's... that's just GNOME. There's no reason to use Cinnamon if you're not using it the traditional way, because you'll just be using GNOME with older components. And again, two panels are just waste of space. The original panel is already both space efficient and is easy to read.
@@MichaelNROH Ok, sorry then, it seems RUclips is simply just doing RUclips things... The comment I made was sent, and I even saw it on the comment section, but hour later the comment was gone... I did make a comment related to "ocs-url" which is the app used for "cinnnamon-look" and other sites from that domain. Sorry for the inconvenience. With that app you don't have to manual extract and put files you download to your certain directory, this app simply download, unpacks and transfers everything you need to proper place - and if that place does not exist, it just creates one. It is very Linux-new user-friendly and simply wanted to mention it since this fits to the topic of your video, that's all
I made mine into Windows XP for a laugh one weekend, then just left it like that
This
same happened to me
same happened to me
same happened to me
I miss XP, bros...
Theming Cinnamon is just superior IMO. Gnome doesn't let you theme all apps for no reason, on KDE theming is unnecessarily complicated and on Cinnamon it's just perfect. Drag your stuff into icons or themes and apply it to one of the four categories. No hassle, no PhD needed, just works.
Cinnnamon still uses more GTK3 apps, which is why it works so well. GNOME is still mid-transitition to GTK4, which is themed differently and still has a lot of changes due to its delevlopment. At some point it's probably gonna be the same
I really liked the video and discovered some interesting Applets, but as a Mint/Cinnamon lover that also thinks it looks WAY too old by default I found a quick way to make it look more modern without changing so much stuff.
Simply choose the "Mint-Y-Light-Dark" theme, then the "Papirus-Dark" icons (HUGE boost in terms of freshness, and both included in the default Mint Cinnamon installation), move the Start menu and docked programs to the center (like in Windows 11) and with the right greyscale wallpaper the OS looks 10 years younger with settings you can change in less than a minute!
Not taking anything away from your video of course, I love theming and this one you showed came out really nice, just wanted to add something super quick I do to my Mint computers that I want to keep close to stock without looking like Windows '98 :)
For me having start on center is the stranges idea that M$ ever got.
@@DevJeremi well, it's a matter of preference but I can totally see why you think that. It was the same for me when I used only Windows and first experienced that change, as I always swore by the bottom left positioning of the Start button and menu since Windows '98.
My preferences changed when I got Windows 11 as soon as it got released, then I added a M1 Mac Mini to my setup and I started using Fedora/GNOME more and more.
I got back to Mint from Fedora since then, but at that point it was the only DE where my menu was on the bottom left by default and it kinda felt both odd and outdated to me, which is why I moved it to the center.
My mint uses:
- Graphite desktop and apps theme.
- Tela circle icon theme.
- Panel on top.
- Planck (dock) centered at the bottom.
Edit: How to make Cinnamon look like GNOME
The answer is update to Cinnamon 6.4
I'm considering switching to Mint. This is very helpful as I didn't know it was that customizable.
Well if you're on Arch you can just use Cinnamon
no need so switch. just do sudo install cinnamon
not gonna lie, if you wanna use cinnamon you have to use linux mint. I tried cinnamon on arch and theres way too many missing things which are only on linux mint
@PCs454 Cinnamon under Mint has some features that aren't in the other distros implementation of Cinnamon. Like e.g. uninstalling applications right from the starter.
@@gelbphoenix oh. hm guess so. but like you can also uninstall from the store page too right
Great job showing off one of my favorite desktop environments!
I honestly don't change a lot of the aesthetics of the default look of cinnamon. But one thing I did do for nostalgia is change the log in and log out sounds to Windows 2000 log in and out sounds. It always makes me happy hearing those sounds!
I love themes made by LinuxMint team, the only changes I made it only one panel on top with grupping windows at center and Cinnamenu instead of build one menu.
For themes I use Faded-Dream theme on panel to make it transparent, Mint- L-Dark-Blue Gtk to match it and Mint-Y-Sand for Icons.
Thanks for a spectacular video about customizing Cinnamon. I just didn't know it was this quick and easy to make it just exactly how many of us would like it. But, I'm a Noob, so I'm learning.
Cinnamon never looked so good. Makes me want to actually use it.
i personally used the "cinnamon dynamic wallpaper" extension when i was on cinnamon, which changes the wallpaper depending on the time of day
there's also an equivalent for kde plasma if you know where to look
That'a a nice one
Conky and Plank are really great extensions for more customization
If conky is what enables wobbly windows, I am all for it. With my poor eyesight, these sort of visual things make me focus better (and smile a lot)
Wow, I had no idea cinnamon was this customizable. Kinda makes me want to try it out.
man, compiz windows, magic lamp are some super cool extensions that i used on kde, and i found out i could use them on cinnamon too, and the jasper theme, which makes apps look modern is so cool!
Man, I've been using mint for a while with a few customization's, but I learned a few things from this video to maximize my efficiency and make my desktop look a little bit more modern. Thanks!
2 panels is just waste of space imo
@@C0SSTY technically, it's just one panel since the bottom one is on autohide. But I personally like only one vertical panel to save vertical space.
I put my dash on top panel but only opened apps are showing. I still launch apps from overview dash.
Great video Michael! How about a video on how to make Cinnamon and/or Gnome look and "feel" like Windows and see how close you get to a 100%? 😋
Much improved, thank you.
Great video Michael, I've tried Cinnamon before and It was hard for me to customize it, I found Gnome better tho, but Cinnamon has some pretty good features.
Thanks for the video it's great. I've been using Mint for a few months and yes it's really great.
Not going to lie, I like the default more.
I just don't like the icons and I always change them. Currently I only put apps in the center of the menu. Simplicity is Cinnamon's strong point.
And Merry Christmas to you, too Michael.
Interesting. Cinnamon is not my favorite, but based on this video I am tempted to give it a try sometime in the future.
I was literally thinking about installing Linux Mint on my Laptop yesterday hoping it would fix a issue I've been having with other distros but didn't because I am not a big fan of the Desktop (I want a KDE version of Linux Mint). After having watched this video I will probably install Linux Mint soon :)
"Open up the web browser of your choice-"
MY EYES!!!
Good timing for this video, considering the default cinnamin will change its design. On a serious note, very epic suggestions
looks good. i think i wanna try this
KDE is the most customizable desktop in linux, however theming in KDE is weird. Most themes look unstable or inconsistent except the default breeze theme. Theming in GTK desktops is better. Cinnamon is the best option for this. I very like GTK + Orchis dark theme (black + macos+solid version). The only problem with cinnamon, it's currently not good at providing a great wayland experience for now. I know it will change soon! I also hope they will remain the incredible touchpad gestures customization in wayland too
Nicely done
Cinnamon over plasma
Debatable
Cinnamon better then gnome sure
no
hilarious
Linux Mint over Ubuntu
@@no_name4796 Gnome is a prison,Cinammon is freedom.
Thanks!!
This has so much good customization! Changed most of it, but didn't want a bottom panel and kept default menu. Though, I used to be able to open up my pinned programs with Super+Number. However, now when I do that it starts searching for some reason.
awesome video, thanks michael
It's like Gnome and KDE had a child
Messing with the CSS of themes to make it your own is also fun!
Hey Michael, that's cool man, thanks for this.
Cinnamon is probably the middle ground between gnome and ode.
I have to wait though till they release a wayland version because the x11 with 4k and scaling still has screen tearing
I personally love cinnamon catppuccin theme
Helpful - oh yes!
"Especially someone switching for the first time."
Yeah Windows refugees aren't going to like their "Start" panel up top, not a majority of users at least..
I do daily drive cinnamon desktop and have added my own customization to make it my own
Only thing that hate and biggest reason why i prefer pop os to linux mint is icons. I want keep system icons as Linux Mint intended but also i want to keep all other applications that i install with icons that developer provided.
I like everything to be NATIVE, and Linux Mint doesn't give me that opportunity.
You know that you can change what icon you use, right? If your doing half and half, you might have to set them manually, so it take a bit of effort, but you can just set whatever icon you want. Just click properties and click on the big icon picture in the basic menu (first one that opens), then put in whatever picture you want.
@mapu1 Currently im not on linux mint but i can say that i tried it, but i wasnt able to change icons for apps that i installed on desktop. Maybe i can do this in specific location but i didn't find it
@@mapu1 And this is not really cool to find and change every icon manually
@@shadyKING057change the icon theme? try papirus
Can you make a video about linux mint security and how to make it more secure
Could you do a cinnamon vs kde comparison?
Kde can be as simple as possible and if you want to customize you can replicate it to look like any DE.
I used cinnamon for 2 months and got bored.
Ich persönlich finde kde plasma für ex-windows user besser.😅
Why aren’t the bottom corners of all the windows rounded? Is it possible to change that?
Could you display a rounded black corner on the desktop screen's edge?
So I have been using Linux mint with gnome desktop environments it works great with the Gnome look and feel
"how to make cinnamon look like gnome"
Is there a way to get rid of the blur effect on image thumbnails in the file manager? I do a lot of work with Minecraft textures and low resolution files look awful when blurred.
Thanks for making this vid! It would be great to also have a quick overview of what you can do with KDE Plasma in terms of customization.
A quick overview of KDE customization would be an hour long at least
@@Shaker-qw3mm he has done it - check out his 'replicating GNOME in KDE' video. This is also like replicating GNOME in Cinnamon. There's just something about GNOME UI that's just addicting if you use GNOME and like it. I customized my KDE setup to be GNOME, with my own couple tweaks.
I think I already covered most features several times already
You don't need to gnomify everything
Yeah, you don't. Somebody might.
Yes you do, because it is the best look for a modern Linux OS.
@@jmacdono nah
@@jmacdono As a joke it was funny, Gnome is the worst looking and customizable DE out there, this video reminded me of Homer when he took the design of his brother's car and made as horrible as he could lol
@Alejandra2005 Cinnamon is great by default and 6.4 won't be bad either and it's not like they'll forbid you from making Cinnamon look like it used to, also Gnome/KDE ricing is a very visually pleasing topic so of course a lot of people will look into that, it's not a Cinnamon specific thing
But that's just Gnome with extra steps 🤨 or Mate
Kinda.... but for me, I'm one of those who can't get enough of GNOME UI.
lol, I recently switched to Ubuntu Cinnamon and then u made a video about the DE xD
I love Linux Mint and how much customization it supports. It would be my desktop of choice if only it was better suited for multi-monitor setup. The fact that you cannot have the panels appear on all the screens, or at least have multiple instances of same applets is awful. Really makes it difficult to hop to other applications or adjust things like sound settings while having a full-screen application open, like a game.
yeah ... multi-monitor on linux just suck ....
Enable wobbly windows job done
good one
i'll change it to Windows 95 :)
Please make video on optimising linux mint for older laptops. I have i38th 256gb ssd Asus laptop
Bro posted it in the same day I switched to mint after nuking my manjaro 💀💀💀
Well, perfect timing I guess
Too much trouble to look a little descent. Imagine if there’s a problem with your applets and you have to reset them and by doing so, it breaks your taskbar. This happened to me and is one of the reasons why I prefer KDE instead. It offers a great UI by default without having to spend a lot of time customizing it. Nice customization though!
Can anyone tell me if Mint has the ability to change the power plan with a single click, like in Ubuntu? How to set it up?
I've read that Cinnamon is pretty much stuck on X11 and won't see Wayland unless someone does a full rewrite of the code. Any thoughts on this? Imo its not really a DE of the future if it will stay that way.
That's probably a hoax, since they already rolled out an experimental Wayland session which kind of works
@@MichaelNROH Kind of? Is it sort of a compatability layer or a native rewrite? 😄
@@ellef9331 No it's experimental. Wayland is just a protocol and a compositor that handles it. The compositor is just not done
Does anybody have some themes to suggest that include image thumbnail previews for folder icons? It's a feature of windows 10 I really enjoy and would love to see for my linux system to make navigating folders full of pictures easier.
Customizing Cinnamon in a 7 minute video only to make it look like Gnome intead of using Debian with regular Gnome instead: *signature look of superiority*
If linux mint supports wayland, i would love to use it
i mean it has a wayland session
@@mihairomulus2488that is still very experimental, outdated and do not offer the same experience as something like Plasma or even Hyprland offers.
Great video! I'd love to see a similar video for MATE 💙
MATE, really? And I guess while we're already in 1998, we might as well do one for Xfce.
@jmacdono And people wonder why no one wants to move to Linux ... too much negativity in the community.
I have a few older laptops mixed in with my newer ones including a 2014 MacBook Air that can't run Cinnamon but does just fine with MATE. I'll likely be passing this down, keeping more e waste out of the trash, and I'm sure whomever gets it will be more than happy to have a functional machine and if I can "jazz" it up with better looking graphics, that's even more of a positive
I am in the matrix
gnome w/ dash to dock...
It would be great if you do the same with mint xfce)))
XFCE is on the list, but it's gonna be a while
👍
Does this apply only for Linux Mint or I can install cinnamon on my Fedora?
It should work on any distro as these customisations are DE specific and not distro specific
@@antiwokehuman thanks!
did you watch the video ? he litteraly say you can ...
Works on any Cinnamon Desktop, regardless of the Distribution.
I pretty much have to use a slideshow as I have an OLED monitor.
I have heard burn-in is not that bad as long as you don't use overall bright imagery anymore.
Kinda scared since I also want to get one without having the Davinci Resolve interface burned in
i dare you to use plasma for a day or so
He already uses it, and has been torn between plasma and gnome for a while. You can find a lot of them on the channel.
@ ah ok
Yes, you could style Cinnamon to have a shell like layout, or you could use gnome shell
That's... that's just GNOME.
There's no reason to use Cinnamon if you're not using it the traditional way, because you'll just be using GNOME with older components.
And again, two panels are just waste of space. The original panel is already both space efficient and is easy to read.
We could say it's now minty! :)
just gnome ??? .. just download gnome !!!!
How to make it look good? Use something else. ;)
KDE plasma gang?
Arch gang?
fedora kde here !
Challenge almost impossible.
old green and white mint logo is the best. the new one is kinda lame.
thanks for removing my yet another comment that was aimed just to give more help with yout video theme...
No comment was flagged or deleted yet. Either this comment is bait, or you just didn't sent it
@@MichaelNROH Ok, sorry then, it seems RUclips is simply just doing RUclips things...
The comment I made was sent, and I even saw it on the comment section, but hour later the comment was gone...
I did make a comment related to "ocs-url" which is the app used for "cinnnamon-look" and other sites from that domain.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
With that app you don't have to manual extract and put files you download to your certain directory, this app simply download, unpacks and transfers everything you need to proper place - and if that place does not exist, it just creates one.
It is very Linux-new user-friendly and simply wanted to mention it since this fits to the topic of your video, that's all
Why some people like Cinnamon dunno. Heavy, oldish.
heavy? nah
oldish? not really, looks really good and consistent, clean
top tier DE
@mihairomulus2488 not the best, but top 3. So, yes, top tier.
How to make Cinnamon beautiful? Install KDE! XD
Mint has so ugly themes by default 🤮