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Some fun Linux distro news for you this morning as the Linux Mint team have a fresh blog post up on what they've been doing and it's quite exciting to see.

The first thing is that for the Cinnamon desktop environment they're working on a Night Light feature. Previously they shipped Redshift but now they're working on one that's properly integrated, and plan for it to work with both Wayland and Xorg. On top of that they're also continuing the work to port key Cinnamon dialogs to Clutter.

A fun announcement in the post is that they've begun working with Framework, who make the popular modular laptops. According to Mint lead Clement Lefebvre, Framework want "to achieve full compatibility with Linux Mint and the Cinnamon desktop" and their laptops are "packed with components we don’t have or technologies which we hadn’t really focused on yet" so it will "boost new areas of development for us". Lefebvre now has a Framework Laptop and seems to like it quite a lot.


Pictured - Framework Laptop 13, credit: Clement Lefebvre

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emphy Nov 4
Great fan of mint, and keeping an eye on the framework for my next system.

Still hoping, against all hope, that someone will come along and mod in a classic-thinkpad-layout keyboard with trackpoint included.
I was a Mint user on my laptop up until a few days ago (decided that I like KDE with Wayland more than Cinnamon and made the jump to Fedora), but when I was using Mint usually ran `redshift -O 1000` twice for a strong night light. Actually, being able to do that is one of the things that I miss from X11.

Also still grumpy with Framework. I ordered a kit from them I while back but it didn't work while the returns process took an unnecessarily long amount of time to get it returned, especially since I really needed a laptop at the time and had waited a very long time for it to arrive. That was on top of the high price of the unit itself. Probably won't go with them again to be honest which really sucks because I absolutely agree with the idea of a repairable, modular laptop.
More support for framework is great and all but Mint is built on ubuntu which already has official support. I would be more interested to see something like arch or nix getting together with framework in a more official capacity. Particularly given the last time framework forums polled people arch seemed to be the overwhelming majority of linux users.
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