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  1. How much time do you think it will take the developers to implement Wayland?
  2. Will something like plank be adapted to cinnamon Wayland?
  3. Can I make panels in cinnamon floating like KDE or gnome? I didn't find any info on that.
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[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)
  1. Years.

  2. IDK

  3. No.

Cinnamon development is glacial. It works, but the project simply does not have the resources to properly keep up or even triage important fixes.

It's one of the reasons I didn't stick with mint, and tend not recommend it if someone can use something else. When I stopped using it, the setting that was supposed to allow games in fullscreen to display without compositing was borked, costing you frames and latency. It had been that way for years.