Re: Cinnamon Stable ?
Are you using a Nvidia GPU with the proprietary driver, by any chance?
If so, you may benefit by disabling PowerMizer. It's buggy in the Linux drivers; I haven't been able to get any variety of Linux (and I have tried a bunch) to work with the proprietary driver on my old (Core 2 Duo/Nvidia GT220M) laptop without disabling PowerMizer. It does mean it will use more power and shorten battery life, but until Nvidia fixes the driver, it's what I'm stuck with (unless the open source Nouveau driver ever reaches true parity with the proprietary one).
On my desktop, running a GTX 760, PowerMizer works very well; no issues at all under Mint 18.1.
It's beyond the scope of this discussion to describe how to accomplish this, but there are all kinds of sites out there with tutorials on how to do it.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
