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The new and improved dual monitor support primarily addresses a longtime complaint from Cinnamon users with more than one screen: there was no way to set up your panels independently. That's been fixed, which means you can now have a completely different panel on each of your monitors. In fact, you don't have to have multiple screens to take advantage of this one. The updates to the panel mean you can now set up your single monitor with multiple instances; for example, one at the top and bottom of your screen (though I'm not sure why you'd want to).
Wait, did you catch that in the last paragraph? Cinnamon 2.6 has a new feature that addresses a longtime complaint from users. In fact, there are quite a few new features that can be traced right back to user-submitted bugs and feature requests, which is another thing that feels increasingly rare in Linux desktops.
This release sees the Cinnamon developers focusing on some of what are sometimes call "paper cut" fixes, which just means there's been a lot of attention to the details, particularly the small, but annoying problems. For example, this release adds a new panel applet called "inhibit" which temporarily bans all notifications. It also turns off screen locking and stops any auto dimming you have set up, making it a great tool for when you want to watch a video or play a game.
It can be a challenge to strike a balance between project vision and what users think they want, because what they say they want is not always the same thing as what they want or need. Has this update of Cinnamon managed it?
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(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 15 2015, @10:44PM
Mint frustrated me when it would fundamentally break with a release upgrade. Either it would be un-bootable if you did the in-place upgrade, or something that previously worked fine (like audio or wireless) wouldn't work after doing a wipe/reinstall.
I moved to the rolling release to avoid these problems, then they did away with my rolling release, the XFCE version so that they could focus on coming up with yet another fucking desktop to try to force on me.
OR, they would pull stupid little shit on you. For example, ever since the 80's I've enjoyed my Unix fortunes. After one Mint upgrade, I suddenly started seeing fortune quotes from "Husse", who apparently was a Mint forum moderator that died so they made fortune files with his quotes, which seemed to occur more often than not as compared to the other fortunes. Unfortunately, they were not funny (e.g., I'm sorry but I simply don't understand what you mean is one of the "funny" ones), profound, interesting, etc., but they were not only installed by default, if you tried to use the package manager to remove them, the fortune package and mintsystem would be removed. So now you have the annoyance of having to figure out where the fortune files were kept and delete them. Making them un-removable with the package manager was done either deliberately or through incompetence, either of which doesn't fill me with confidence.