Desktop environment Cinnamon 3.0 will be default in Linux Mint 18, which will be published in may/June (exact date not reported by the developers – preparedness).

The Cinnamon 3.0 is not a radical, but theit are some innovations.

The main innovations:

*Window management improvements on tiling, mapping and unmapping windows, compositor’s window groups and tracking of full screen windows

*Improved out of the box touchpad support (edge-scrolling and two-finger-scrolling can now be configured independently and are both enabled by default)

*New accessibility and sound settings (both rewritten as native cinnamon-settings modules)

*Battery powered devices can be renamed

*Different favorite applications can now be set for plain-text, documents and source code files

*Panel launchers now include application actions

*Animation effects are now enabled by default on dialogs and menus

*Favorites and system options can now be disabled in the menu applet

*The photo-frame desklet now also scans subdirectories

*Improved support for GTK 3.20, Spotify 0.27, Viber

Updated: You can upgrade to Linux Mint 18, following the official instructions

Installation into Linux Mint 17.3:

Don’t forget that this operation can harm the health of your system!

sudo apt-get updatesudo apt-get upgrade

Reboot the system

sudo reboot

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gwendal-lebihan-dev/cinnamon-nightly sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install cinnamon

Reboot the system

sudo reboot

sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade

Tip:

When will the release of Linux Mint 18 should remove the installed repository. You can re-enable this repository if you want to update, don’t update every day. At least once a week.

Good Luck!!!