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The animation of the GNOME screenshot tool, bundled with Cinnamon, changed from a screen black-out to a white flashing. I did not like the black-out animation to begin with, but it was tolerable. Now though, the brightest colour flashes into my eyes from the full surface of the computer screen each time I take a screenshot.

No, just no. Big no.

When I am working with a dark-theme user interface and press PrntScr, the last thing I would like is a white flash into my face, and there is no way of turning it off.
GNOME, you screwed up once again (last time). What on earth were you thinking?!

Thankfully, there is mate-screenshot, which does not hurt my eyes each time I press PrintScr. In fact, it thankfully is completely free from annoying animations! What's more, mate-screenshot actually memorizes the last selected directory for saving, whereas gnome-screenshot, as you might guess, does not.

(I know I could have used -y, but I wanted to see how much space it needs.)

And then, all I needed to do was to unassign the keyboard binding for "Take a screenshot" in the keyboard preferences, and then assign it as a custom shortcut to mate-screenshot.

This is the Linux luxury. Don't like the way something bundled with the distribution behaves? Replace it.

So why don't you us Mate ?.

It supports dark theme and Alt+Tab task manager is like that of Windows 95-2000, just with bigger icons. No clicking possible, just cycling with Alt+Tab, and Cinnamon has useful keyboard shortcuts out like Super+E for file manager of the box.

But I have occasionally used the MATE panel on top of an auto-hiding Cinnamon panel, since MATE has supported multiple rows and task switching by scrolling for a long time.

Perhaps the most important benefit of Cinnamon is the ability to control volume and screen brightness through the scroll wheel while the mouse points at the speaker or battery icon respectively in the taskbar.

This is highly convenient.