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Ubuntu Cinnamon 26.04 LTS (Resolute Raccoon) Daily Build

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As Linux Mint is moving towards the Ubuntu 26.04 Base in August I have decided to play with Ubuntu Cinnamon Daily Builds to get a feel for Kernel 7.0.0 and hopefully see how well Wayland is working with it, I do know for a fact that you can not drag and drop with Cinnamon/Nemo between windows or apps, so I know it's what the Mint Team are currently working on with a promise it will be ready for the v23 release.

From my CachyOS tests I can see that Cinnamon Experimental is actually a lot further along than I thought. I am looking forward to this so I can use Fractional Scaling and dual screens at different refresh rates etc. X11 is still the best to use in Mint, but eventually everything will be wayland so I need to get everything in order than I can, chances are the majority of things will just work, but I'll get to ironing out the remaining issues I find.

I am 99% done building a ISO to play with, I'll real Hardware install it to make sure I find everything.
 
now I remember why I dislike ubuntu more than mint, wayland is causing my pc to boot to a black screen with a backlight only, the keyboard doesn't respond, all because I dare install nvidia
 
I gave up, so my pc went from CachyOS that was running ok to Ubuntu that was running fine with the slower open drivers to dying when I installed nVidia drivers (tried many versions). Then to LastOSLinux Mint, no issues since.

So my advice, if you like to tinker, CachyOS is for you, everyone else use Mint or LasOSLinux if you like my choices... It's still Mint.

Nobara was a close contender, but updates break it often. Manjaro was going great, but they switched to a rolling release - breaking my ability to make mods of it.
 
I really do recommend people start to play with Linux on a 2nd device - or dual boot if your feeling up to it - just make sure to keep backups - in case - even an image of your windows and boot drive.

But until you start to actually use Linux it'll seem weird and different, you'll keep looking to make it more like windows and complain when you notice they do things differently. But I've found after a week or two of just using it and getting used to how it works, you then go back to windows and it feels terrible. Looks good - don't get me wrong and the little niggles do go away. but the feeling of it is off.

Look I've made peace that nobody wants to get involved with development and that a much smaller user base than I was hoping would adopt it (didn't help that Windows 10 is getting ESR updates), but that's all for not much longer. so I guess we'll see. I know freezer will not be moving as his Windows 9 treats him the way he wants and so long as he's security conscious, it'll keep going so long as TLS 1.2+ is supported and his web browsers keep getting updates.

I personally found Linux really fun to learn, yes there was some annoyances, but I overcome them eventually. It's still way more fun than I was having with windows.
 
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