If you have Cinnamon, complete some extra steps to get the best appearance and dark mode, with Mint-Y themes and a better cursor.

Theme and Appearance

  1. Install paru -S mint-themes mint-y-icons to enable the simplified appearance menu in the cinnamon settings. (It will take a while to download and install)
    • paru -S bibata-cursor-theme to install better looking cursor)
  2. In theme appearance settings set desired dark Mint-Y themes, Select Bibata-Modern-Classic Cursor and in the settings tab select again to prefer dark mode.
    • The bash version of what the above command is doing: gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface color-scheme prefer-dark