Usually this happens if the hardware drivers are not capable.
I'm running linux Mint (cinnamon environment) in VirtualBox. Every time I login, a message pops up talking about the OS being in software rendering mode. I tried looking it up and found that people have similar problems with Cinnamon in general using VirtualBox. My question is if I actually download Linux Mint (with Cinnamon) onto my computer, will it have the same problems as in VirtualBox?
Link talking about VirtualBox problem:
https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=66834
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