read the comic, realize you didn’t read the title, read the title. too late.

oh nice, 20% off

most fonts nowadays are vector based, so they aren’t really created with pixels :)

Yeah I mean if you really want a UI with no JavaScript you can still use one, it’s really just a case of better defaults here (and I totally agree).

It’s very much intended. Cinnamon was forked from GNOME 3 when it was released. It was intended to preserve the old GNOME 2 layout, but ended up evolving into the Cinnamon we know today.

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Basically, it’s just some cool X11 magic that uses a matrix transformation to rotate the screen.