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Lack of Wayland support is the single thing I have wish it had. Gnome is so smooth on Nvidia in comparison but in every other way I prefer and still use cinnam

Lack of Wayland support is the single thing I have wish it had. Gnome is so smooth on Nvidia in comparison but in every other way I prefer and still use cinnamon

greendude29 6y ago
Hmm, interesting. I user Gnome on Nvidia, but use the open drivers since Nvidia was difficult to get to a stable state. Did you just install the nvidia drivers from your OS's repo or get them directly from Nvidia? NB: The free drivers are working splendidly by the way
- noir_lord 6y ago
  akmod-nvidia because it just works on a 2080.
- orestarod 6y ago
  The free drivers work in the sense that you get a working desktop. But by no means can you get good performance on something that puts something other than light burden to your card. Nvidia gives no clues as to how to implement clock boost over the minimum base frequency in driver, so the free driver only uses the minimum available computing power, enough to get the desktop running.
croh 6y ago
Cinnamon with Mint is very stable and tuned, very good to get job done. It has very low cpu consumption. I don't know why but gnome always eats lots of resources. Plus this very old famous bug, keep me away from gnome-shell for good. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=733297 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=733297
- einpoklum 6y ago
  Nitpick: Mint (the distribution) uses Cinnamon as one of the options for a desktop environment.
- BearOso 6y ago
  > Cinnamon with Mint is very stable and tuned Unfortunately not. Muffin, the compositor is based on a really old version of Mutter, and it’s missing a lot of performance work and fixes that make latency lower and output less likely to hitch, hidpi works better, etc. They need to just drop their fork and use the upstream version. They haven’t added anything significant to Muffin to justify keeping it—-the differences to gnome are done with other packages.

Lack of Wayland support is the single thing I have wish it had. Gnome is so smooth on Nvidia in comparison but in every other way I prefer and still use cinnamon

greendude29 6y ago

Hmm, interesting. I user Gnome on Nvidia, but use the open drivers since Nvidia was difficult to get to a stable state. Did you just install the nvidia drivers from your OS's repo or get them directly from Nvidia? NB: The free drivers are working splendidly by the way

noir_lord 6y ago
akmod-nvidia because it just works on a 2080.
orestarod 6y ago
The free drivers work in the sense that you get a working desktop. But by no means can you get good performance on something that puts something other than light burden to your card. Nvidia gives no clues as to how to implement clock boost over the minimum base frequency in driver, so the free driver only uses the minimum available computing power, enough to get the desktop running.

croh 6y ago

Cinnamon with Mint is very stable and tuned, very good to get job done. It has very low cpu consumption. I don't know why but gnome always eats lots of resources. Plus this very old famous bug, keep me away from gnome-shell for good. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=733297 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=733297

einpoklum 6y ago
Nitpick: Mint (the distribution) uses Cinnamon as one of the options for a desktop environment.
BearOso 6y ago
> Cinnamon with Mint is very stable and tuned Unfortunately not. Muffin, the compositor is based on a really old version of Mutter, and it’s missing a lot of performance work and fixes that make latency lower and output less likely to hitch, hidpi works better, etc. They need to just drop their fork and use the upstream version. They haven’t added anything significant to Muffin to justify keeping it—-the differences to gnome are done with other packages.