Modern Linux Mint Cinnamon Design - Tutorial for beginners

[@robertdonnan2893]

Like others have said, this is exactly what I was looking for. Thank you. Once I get my new SSD I’ll be moving to Linux and will only use windows for apps or features I can’t find in Linux.

[@DasIllu]

I switched a year ago. There is nothing i can't do on Linux. It sometimes just takes a bit or research. But atm Linux distributions are rapidly evolving and i find myself more and more thinking "Oh, this i couldn't have done that with windows"

[@CalebPilarowski-ox9iz]

@@DasIllu I agree to an extent. I'm still waiting/hoping that valorents anti cheat will work on Linux but right now it does not unfortunately.

[@lor7780]

@@DasIllui mean there are certain apps that don’t work with linux, isnt that just a fact

[@DasIllu]

@@lor7780 Most stuff plays nice with Wine/Proton. And for the "apps" that just don't behave, there are native alternatives. Btw, i dislike the word "app". An app is a shitty piece of software for mobile phones that drains your battery for no additional value. Programs on the other hand... 🙂

[@LiterateGoblin]

@@lor7780 of course, but the rapid improvement over the last five years certainly promises good things in the next five.

[@_karte_]

to the point, no bs. tutorial videos should be more like this.

[@waltherleonardo8652]

true

[@Banus-]

every tutorial should not be locked behind a paywall either

[@bashirhasanbony6065]

This is what i was looking for. Simple, Easy to understand, Easy to implement. Thank you.

[@cypress2647]

This is amazing, you fixed every problem I had with mints UI. I didnt think it would be possible

[@muctebanesiri]

Thanks. This is one of the most beautiful tutorials I've ever seen 😂

[@paintedjaguar]

Good. Clean and pretty default desktop without a lot of external mods.

[@_Ahmed_15]

This was great thank you. I've switched over to using linux full time now and this guide was easy and concise to follow.

[@davidwayne9982]

I'm on LMDE6-- and LOVE it.... came back to mint (debian version) after starting there years ago and going through about a 100 other distros.... :)

[@Treborius_73]

My weather Applet shows no sun, only rain. 😢 Maybe a bug? 🤣Thank you for this tutorial. I'm a Linux newbie (MS-Windows 11 user🙈). I'm passionate about Linux Mint. It's so user-friendly. My old Thinkpad X240 is running again. It's so fast and smooth.😍

[@iulianhagea5815]

Mayb you live in England :P

[@MarkIngle1959]

your educational manner is amazing, thankyou for this

[@matt_lewis]

Great tutorial. My desktop never looked so good.

[@DrOofer99]

Very nice theme. I enjoyed the video. Thanks for the amazing tutorial! :D

[@3izz99]

I just received a Very Old small factor office pc from my uncle, it has a Very Old amd (E-350 like from 2010), 2Gb of ddr3 ram and had a 500Gb HDD,and i just said “you know what, i want a second pc, lets renovate it”, so i cleaned it, cleaned the old thermal paste and swapped the HDD with a new 256gb ssd, upgraded the RAM to 8Gb and then installed Linux Cinnamon, and it runs smoothly as butter, i can use it know to follow some podcasts when i game, watch YT, Netflix, Twitch, use Spotify ect, that’s great

[@raelnarag]

Thanks a lot for this tutorial, my Spiral Linux desktop is now minimalistically elegant

[@JrKinabalu]

Thanks mate. Your sharing is giving a new breath to old pc.

[@rgmtb]

Exactly what i was looking for! Thank you 🙏

[@lucklassen]

Thank you for sharing! I have transformed my Linux Mint as you did! And it looks slick baby!

[@daviddamasceno6063]

That's an amazing setup, I'll definitely try it when I instal Linux Mint, probably next week. Thanks a lot!

[@LabSatCICESE]

Thank you for sharing this tutorial. I used it as a guide and I really like the way my desktop looks now. Following this configuration method I ran into a little problem, and I would like to share a few comments about it. My computer is running Linux Mint 21.2 and Cinnamon 5.8.4, with an Intel i5 CPU and Nvidia GPU. When the computer wakes up after being in sleep mode, the text in the panels disappears, and the panels are no longer transparent. The problem seems to be the transparency extension. After some reading, it seems this issue is not new; however, a (not very elegant) workaround goes as follows: 1) go to "extensions", and click on the gear icon of "transparent panels"; 2) once the config window for transparent panels appears, click on the "more options" icon (three horizontal bars in the upper right corner); and 3) select "reload transparent panels". This quick fix recovers the expected appearance of the panels. It's a bit annoying but much less than looking for and killing the panel processes in the terminal and then relaunch it.

[@leerobinson8709]

Thanks for this. Very easy to make minor adjust to suit my style. Looks great!

[@Kiwi-tk5ku]

i love watching Linux customizations

[@sonsieface]

very well done, thank you - simple, clear instructions and well presented

[@comoseabien]

Hi! Thank you for the tutorial. The only thing I haven't been able to set up is the "Transparent panels" on my applets is actually missing. Am I doing something wrong?

[@fexploder3281]

I was actually digging the default panel choices Linux Mint came with since it resembled Windows but this looks very cool too!

[@guyman1570]

Honestly I liked the fact that it is very Windows-like more than this Mac-like style.

[@fexploder3281]

@@guyman1570 Yeah, and I've used a Mac before in school so I would be fine with a Linux that looks like Mac too.

[@alves8105]

really nice, concise and effective, thanks.

[@Ameripple]

I came here to know if Cinnamon looks more beautiful than GNOME 46. I will install a GNOME 46 Linux later to do a test to know if GNOME 46 can have the beautiful desktop same as the one in this video. Thank you for this video.

[@Misc_VG]

Thank you. It's a great tutorial, just what I need for my Linux Mint fresh install.

[@ericturner2477]

Thank you for such a great tutorial. It was easy to follow, and I like the results!

[@jcsmith9518]

Very well done and I almost done the same thing to mine yesterday. You showed me some mods that I well also try. Thank you.

[@Draconicrose]

I don't need this tutorial, but I liked the look and found the video pleasant to watch. It's well done! Only thing I would change in the theme is the cinnamon menu icon. I'd either change it to the bento box menu, or at least just make it smaller. alternatively, I'd add it to the "dock" at the bottom, for a more "mac os"-y feel.

[@MichaelJenkins910]

Thanks for a clear and easy to follow tutorial!

[@holthuizenoemoet591]

exactly what i was looking for

[@cesarthg]

Hey Jean, congratulations! It's an excellent tutorial, minimalist just like the personalization of your setup. Thanks for sharing.

[@MrCrazyjoe259]

Very clean, I like this setup a lot

[@NMH360]

0:44 ahh yes, I love my "fork monitor" 👌

[@mauriciom1620]

Thanks man. I'm coming from kde plasma and the customization was a pain in the ass. I feel more comfortable with cinnamon now.

[@nigel7880]

Brilliant! Mint could come this way, it's as nice or better than stock imho.

[@will.isnull]

Seriously man, you're a G for this. I love the new desktop look, thank you for the tutorial!

[@charisagape8297]

thank you so much i relly love how detailed and easy it was to follow through.

[@Mermer-16]

Is Mint Xfce as easy to customise? I'd guess it doesn't have all the options for themes. I'm more interested in the panel placement and the intelligent hide/show feature.

[@60_069]

Very straight forward. Just got into linux. Thanks mate.

[@Arek1125]

really nice one,i like this gnom-y look

[@toffer9613]

please make more... the video was super helpful, plus the accent is awesome

[@aanrofik]

very nice, I like your style.. thank you for sharing

[@odkdsjf]

Good job explaining it step by step.

[@hotsauce7954]

what I exactly I've been looking for.. thanks !!

[@facundotiede]

oh lord, this is the best customization so far, and is exactly what I want! thanks! wihtout download stranges or third things!

[@BitsOfTruth]

I like it much. Thanks. Can I do this in a separate work space and keep my original? Thanks.

[@achaziel]

Wow, so sieht Cinnamon ja mal richtig gut aus. Mal ne andere Frage, werden die Panels auch auf allen anderen Bildschirmen angezeigt/gespiegelt?

[@frankdaeran352]

👍 Very good tutorial, thanks! What mic setup are you using?

[@derekr54]

Very nice changes you have made to Mint.

[@haroonahmed1077]

Man I had one problem with Linux mint and that was too old fashioned UI. But now I know we can make it extremely awesome. Wow ..

[@ColeHartman1]

Great beginner tutorial, thank you.

[@monkeysausageclub]

Fantastic tutorial.

[@aoerstroem]

Very inspiring. Thank you for taking the time to share

[@qsatar]

Amazing tutorial. Subbed.

[@_indrid_cold_]

I have just implemented exactly this on my XPS-15 laptop with the latest Mint/Cinnamon and it looks sensational. Thank You!

[@ekaterinaburakova8629]

GNOME-ifying Cinnamon 👍 Well done!

[@ekaterinaburakova8629]

Next time you showcase your theme, demonstrate more windows and apps to show how they pick on the theme and their fresh look :)

[@intmeinvoid]

Very good tutorial, easy to follow along.

[@sunilkhusial]

Can you also change it to look like mac os s little bit. I mean the panel from below to up and more things.

[@DavidHamilton5]

Perfect!! Thank you so much for this

[@chaoswolf9452]

very helpful, and strait forward, thank you.

[@kychemclass5850]

V good. Well demonstrated, nice and efficient.

[@rmcellig]

Excellent video!!! Thanks.

[@TheKannix0815]

Simply great!

[@DieterFrueh-cp1go]

Ach cool ich habe gerade festgestellt dass dies hier das equivalent zum deutschen Kanal ist😊

[@lineax5927]

Vielen Dank für das gute Video! Mein Abo hast du!

[@oliveiragabriel2095]

Nice and clean,thanks and keep up good work:):)

[@DavidHamilton5]

Perfect!! Thank you for this

[@fs4nty]

nice vid. theres some way to only make transparent the bottom taskbar?

[@adhrasreoshiathoi1091]

Great Video. Thank you!

[@thetanweerali]

Looks gorgeous man, Imma do that in a couple minutes. :)

[@MrCrazyjoe259]

Love the transparent panel but it does not resume after the screen turns off idling after awhile

[@mdwaliullah9609]

thanks. in very short video but heavy effectfull

[@LinuxOrt]

You're welcome

[@Kharishi]

unfortunately after you maximize one of your apps, the transparencies will gone, i hope there will be options/settings to left it transparent

[@riwajropakheti1613]

it is better to install plank and apply it at bottom instead of adding another panel. Only then, the setup will somewhat look like gnome desktop, if you really want it to look like gnome desktop. Also, it is better to keep top panel fixed rather than in hide mode so that the top panel won't cover close, minimise, maximize buttons on top corner.

[@longiusaescius2537]

Huh

[@MJIK.]

Den Deutschen höre ich doch raus, danke für das Tutorial!

[@manikantanks9715]

Clean precise to point

[@2003shiromusta]

Thanks for the video!

[@logansfury]

It looks like new users of Mint have been using your video recently to customize their own desktops. I just saw this linked in the forums today. That is a beautiful wallpaper. Do you happen to still have the link to that?

[@coala1911]

FANTASTIC!!!!!!

[@loopsbrother2903]

Very good video

[@honzakoran]

Is there a way to make the bottom panel hiding like on mac os?

[@arthurrock4979]

Man, I know I'm gonna regret it, but I'm sick of Windows already. Thanks for these tips. On my setup, I will get rid of the top bar (can't stand Ubuntu double, because of both the top bar, and side), and will do my best to avoid the terminal messing up the whole experience, for the hundredth time ☺️. Sorry, but I belong to the 96-98% of pc users, who don't find fun searching for command lines to copy off the internet, to paste in that damn terminal, just to fix the stupidest little problem that pops up, when everywhere else you fix much more complex problems in the matter of a few button clicks.

[@Lucas-on9cm]

nice and simple. Thanks!

[@shadow_ytc]

Thx it's really cool and easy for beginners like me : )

[@dietervmorgan]

Great content thank you!

[@SmittyRG]

Perfect! Just what I was looking for. Thank you!

[@prashant7634]

Loved it 👏

[@KevinAli66]

Great tutorial!!

[@raughboy188]

I made a decision. I decided to go with cinnamon desktop on debian. For know i use official ubuntu and latest version has serious problems because in every new release of official ubuntu they tie more and more stuff to snap packaging. Cannonical seems to have plan to make official ubuntu snap dependent completely. If you like ubuntu avoid official ubuntu and go with derivatives or any flavour such as ubuntu mate,kubuntu,lubuntu etc. but avoid official ubuntu unless you don't mind snaps.

[@didinjivi1427]

Thanksss its my favorite to..👍

[@timfd.w.4163]

Perfect set. Clean but complete

[@deultima]

Awesome!

[@dimifisher]

I cant change the inside color of the windows to green in cinamon so i always install lxde with Linux mint, is there a solution to that in cinamon?

[@SavagePitch]

So cool, thank you so much

[@rx7700xt_benchmark]

Danke für das Video ;)

[@reck5624]

good work

[@realjoecast]

I need to find out how to square up the edges and make the title bar thinner: Edit: figured out how to square the edges. on mine i had to change the button theme.

[@ice479]

Love that german accent