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Wayland heading for default as Mint devs add to Cinnamon 6 • The Register (www.theregister.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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TLDR: XFCE and Cinnamon devs are ~~begging~~ beginning to work on Wayland support.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How did Mint fuck up year-based version numbering? I did a fresh install on a laptop this year and briefly worried project had died.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

It's not actually based on the year. There have been 21 other major releases at various intervals starting with 1.0 in 2006. It just happens to be close to the current year right now.