Cinnamon (the DE) is vewwy cozy

Ever since I moved to archlinux about 4 to 5 years ago, I've been a tiling wm user - i3 (and its wayland counterpart sway), bspwm, dwm, ... even really obscure ones like spectrwm and ratpoison, I've used the majority of tiling wm out there. Hell, I'm writing this using Hyprland. But recently, I decided to visit Cinnamon again for a few reason: - I want to try using a mouse-centric workflow again to see how it works out - I want to see how well it fares against GNOME

So I did just that: sudo pacman -S cinnamon and give it a go

When I first boot it up, a few problems occur: The icons wasn't how I remember it back when I was using Linux Mint. Thankfully, it's just missing icon theme pretty much, not a big deal.

And now, the good stuff.

I think the best think about Cinnamon is that it's really stable while also boasting a vast amount of features. I feel like most of the stuff I've used is either updating too fast or desperately in need of some features to make it actually useable^1. Cinnamon hit the sweet spot with both of these: They maintain the same look, feel and featureset for their users, while incrementally adding changes ONLY WHEN IT'S READY (i.e maintaining stable stuff while marking WIP as experimental) to improve upon it - a thing that GNOME, with their infinite wisdom, somehow doesn't understand.

The configuration is also a very strong point for Cinnamon. It have GUI tools for most of the common stuff you'd want to do, but it allow you to export just about every settings to a text file with dconf^2 (and a readable one too, take that regedit).