Linux Mint 21.2 is out now as the latest distribution built on top of Ubuntu, coming with various careful improvements to the base software included.
Available with Cinnamon 5.8 / MATE 1.26 / Xfce 4.18, a Linux kernel 5.15 and an Ubuntu 22.04 package base with a plan to receive security updates until 2027. Until 2024 they will continue to use the same Ubuntu package base, so upgrades will be "trivial" to do.
While it may not seem like the most exciting release, that mostly describes what Linux Mint do. They're not aiming to be the flashiest around as their aim is just to have a good desktop Linux distribution for everyone. For a quick highlight of some of what's improved in this release:
- Touchpad improvements for login screen.
- Multiple keyboard layouts for the login screen.
- Keyboard navigation improvements for the login screen.
- Wayland session support on the login screen.
- Software Manager got a UI refresh.
- The Pix photo app got a big upgrade rebased on gThumb 3.12.2. This includes:
- Better performance, faster image loading, faster navigation
- Support for AVIF/HEIF and JXL formats
- Improved support for GIF, RAW and TIFF images
- Improved zoom controls
- + lots more
- Artwork and theme improvements. Like Cinnamon 5.8 having a whole new desktop styling system.
- XDG Desktop Portal support to XApp to provide better compatibility with Flatpaks and GNOME apps.
- Dark Mode global setting.
- Gesture support for window management, workspace management, tiling and media controls.
- Nemo file manager features multi-threaded thumbnails.
See more on the Linux Mint website.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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been a mint adept for ages, i think the cinnamon menu could do with an upgrade
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Quoting: dziadulewiczOr do i miss something fundamental? I mean, Linux Mint is great and all but that's the deal of it in practice it seems.Unless you can point to examples of this actually happening, this is theory, not practice. Your post smacks of FUD. And might I point out that according to your GOL profile, you run another distribution that builds on top of Ubuntu. Are you equally worried about the security of Pop!_OS, seeing as it is totally reliant on its Ubuntu base?
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Wasn't the reason I decided to "main" Linux Mint but it has been extremely well-mannered when it comes to gaming. I've been able to install and run - giver or take a Flatpak or two - everything, games, launchers, utilities so far. LMDE which I like very much as well could be a little bit more restrictive for gaming on Linux. If Mint ever switched to Debian stable, I hope it could come up with some solution for extensive hardware compatibility, let's say in the same manner with MX's HWE editions.
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slaapliedje Jul 18, 2023
Quoting: vengador4201I was going to ask if anyone is running LMDE and ask how it is compared to the main Mint release. If I didn't use Debian, I would probably run that.Quoting: dziadulewiczA big hand to Ubuntu also: Linux Mint is based on Ubuntu LTS and Mint uses Ubuntu's software repositories without any compensation
And Ubuntu uses Debian's repositories, though I don't know for sure that it's "without compensation". That's kinda how open source software works.
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Quoting: reedloveOf course, you can take this all with a grain of salt because it's personal opinion, blah blah blah. =]Nah. My personal opinion agrees with you, so that makes it all gospel truth.
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Quoting: dziadulewiczLinux Uprising ended up on numbers where 0.7% came from Mints repos, 99.3% from Ubuntu's. If this is true even to day, it is huge.So did Canonical, or even Debian, write all that software in those repos?
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slaapliedje Jul 18, 2023
Quoting: Purple Library GuyNo, but to be fair a lot of the software in those repos are by the writers of the software.Quoting: dziadulewiczLinux Uprising ended up on numbers where 0.7% came from Mints repos, 99.3% from Ubuntu's. If this is true even to day, it is huge.So did Canonical, or even Debian, write all that software in those repos?
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I just don't get their disdain for KDE Plasma. I used to use Mint for YEARS. And was a paying client. Then they said a whole lotta "nope" for KDE. My best guess is that Clem hates KDE and left the community to support Plasma users. But when the Mint "tools" came out, Plasma was left in the dust.
In my mind Mint does not innovate much, and are a little too conservative for my tastes these days, but if they still had an officially supported Plasma edition, I would not hesitate to install it on a newbies computer (or my Grandma's).
In my mind Mint does not innovate much, and are a little too conservative for my tastes these days, but if they still had an officially supported Plasma edition, I would not hesitate to install it on a newbies computer (or my Grandma's).
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slaapliedje Jul 18, 2023
Quoting: ronnocI just don't get their disdain for KDE Plasma. I used to use Mint for YEARS. And was a paying client. Then they said a whole lotta "nope" for KDE. My best guess is that Clem hates KDE and left the community to support Plasma users. But when the Mint "tools" came out, Plasma was left in the dust.I think Mint is the 'not the big DE' distro, as they don't ship a Gnome version either. They try and ship options for all the smaller / alternate DEs. I guess whatever works for them, but I'm generally a Gnome user, so for the most part stick to Debian. Although a big part of that is how long I've been using Linux, I've seen many excellent Debian based distributions come and go over the decades. Storm Linux and Corel Linux were really good for a short while. Mint and Ubuntu definitely have lasted a long time, and I don't see them going away, but it has taught me to just stay with Debian.
In my mind Mint does not innovate much, and are a little too conservative for my tastes these days, but if they still had an officially supported Plasma edition, I would not hesitate to install it on a newbies computer (or my Grandma's).
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