Linux Mint 20 | Installation and New Features

[@Dac_DT_MKD]

My favorite distro just got better. And I'm glad that Linux choose the wallpaper that I submitted (Lupin) to be an official wallpaper of Mint 20.

[@miket.7055]

@@VzVegeta i want to get a cat now because of your profile pic

[@ahmadyogi1340]

@@miket.7055 Now I want nothing because of your profile picture

[@-bazoona3654]

which one of them is yours?

[@SwitchedtoLinux]

Excellent overview. I will be covering this myself on my stream today!

[@mobarakjama5570]

Hello S.T.L I'm in a pickle right now well sort of, I'm running Linux mint and I have a little problem with the theming, when ever I add a themes there are inconsistencies between the Window Borders and Controls, I wanted to use different themes for different sections, but some apps don't listen to the Window Borders theme at all instead they obey whatever theme applied to the Controls, so I was wondering if there's way I can get passed that issue, Thanks love your Vids.

[@vitorazevedo4472]

Mint is always a safe bet! Stable, fast and customisable. If you want a distro for five years without any problems, it's Mint!

[@edalder2000]

I use Linux Mint because it just works. Very stable.

[@adriantrummer6126]

Exact same reason i use Windows 10😃

[@SB-qm5wg]

Just don't change the screensaver

[@call_me_stan5887]

@@SB-qm5wg well xfce for me - no screensaver :D

[@johnsmith-gs4qf]

@@adriantrummer6126 Yeah, the Telemetry works great at sending Microsoft all your personal data!

[@kurshtivk8876]

true.

[@radui7468]

I installed linux mint on my parents computer a few years ago. Even though I told them I don't think they know it is not windows. It works great.

[@MyReviews_karkan]

I have installed it on my sister in law's computer a year ago and, to this day, she never knew what it was and never had a single complaint from her, period. She just tells me "my computer is so fast, what did you do to it" 😂

[@MichaelJHathaway]

@@MyReviews_karkan 😄

[@MichaelJHathaway]

The irony in all of this is that Linux Mint was once accused of being insecure. And now may be the single, loudest voice we have against Canonical's encroachment towards a closed source Linux.

[@mr_cupcakes1808]

meanwhile debian sits on the corner silently

[@MichaelJHathaway]

We all feared Canonical becoming the Microsoft of Linux. But now that Canonical is partnered with Microsoft and the latest Windows update blatantly reflects the strong union with Canonical and Ubuntu, the nightmare has come true. Snap packages and Ubuntu integration into Windows is only the beginning.

[@mr_cupcakes1808]

@@MichaelJHathaway Maybe we should start taking people away from ubuntu. We should offer them manjaro or fedora, also maybe mint should focus more on LMDE also

[@JohnnyThund3r]

I never recommend Ubuntu anymore, Canonical always dose this stuff, back in ~2009ish, I remember getting very used to the GNOME desktop as a brand new Linux convert testing the waters, then because I was new I decided to update to the latest version because Ubuntu kept bugging me to update, I suddenly got Unity installed unexpectedly, that was it for me and Linux for like 5 years after that, it was the most infuriating thing to have my computer suddenly change EVERYTHING about my workflow like that, I think I even went on the forums to complain and I got all these snotty dweebs telling me Mobile is the future and in a few years I won't even be using a keyboard anyway... It's 2020 btw, none of that happened... Mint was almost made for people like me at that time, it doesn't change that much over time and still pretty much looks like Windows XP in all the good ways. Thus it's my number one recommend distro for new users, if you know absolutely nothing about computers or very little and want to keep it that way, Linux Mint is the distro for you, hands down.

[@Battledongus]

So true. when LM sounded off in their blog calling out snaps and making it perfectly clear they will not enable them i was very glad to b e a mint user.

[@busdriver1261]

I've been running Linux Mint (19.2) since I switched from Windows last year and will be uprading to 20 when it's released :o)

[@igorthelight]

Update to 19.3 first :-)

[@pilotamurorei]

i just got on 19.3 two days ago and they have a beta for 20 already. Meh, ill stick with this for awhile until they do something that is something i absolutely need, considering most of the hardware on my pc is already quite dated (core i5 2400 is ancient nowadays).

[@cootason]

well worth it its got most everything people need. :)

[@Innocentdarkness72]

i loved this review, they put lot's of work in it, nice weekend chris....

[@a-liberal-patriot]

Your comments about removing the snaps is enough for me. Goodbye Ubuntu, hello Mint!

[@lucasb0rges]

@DSL Linux Mint has a Debian version, so if Ubuntu goes crazy with their decisions they have a plan B

[@ShiroCh_ID]

isnt removing snap is just as easy as eat? i mean just do sudo/doas apt purge snapd -autoremove

[@aseemsharan]

@@ShiroCh_ID Yes, and that's what he explained in the video as well. Ubuntu installed snap even after uninstalling.

[@Gomotianu]

I've never clicked on a notification so fast

[@derekr54]

I look forward to updating my Dell laptop to Mint 20 from 19.3

[@rogereisnaugle6012]

I just installed Fedora on a dell that came with Vista. Gone for good Not real powerful, but surprisingly fast. I used to say windows installs virtual anchors with every update.

[@call_me_stan5887]

Well I don't since the kernel 5.3 and up, including 5.4 is a disaster when it comes to my laptop (wifi-wise).

[@Hare_deLune]

@Fredd Colour Green Good to know. : )

[@markconger8049]

I have Mint 19.3 on a very low end Lenovo laptop and it screams! It is so stable, and with the Samsung NVMe as the boot disk it comes up from cold start to login in under 15 seconds.

[@digitalsparky]

I can't wait for stable to be released, that's when I'll update my computer to it - production computers = stable :P.

[@freedomvanguard8185]

@John Kunai me 2

[@MichaelJHathaway]

RWXROB can update his stream server ))

[@dayanandjha2886]

@@douglasward718 it will update when stable comes?

[@mauriciorosales1259]

Not boring, just works! Nice review

[@joelmativet3647]

LMC is not boring at all, it is highly configurable and ajustable, a few extensions have been added to Nemo by default (not the extension Terminal, tho...), there are lots of applets, desklets, system extensions... The workflow is very intuitive letting you easily work with keybindings too, if you so wished..!! A lot of people just don't know all these things are available..!!

[@MichaelJHathaway]

Chris meant that it is boring because it is rock stable and you don't have to constantly tinker with it. Yes, Cinnamon is highly configurable. It has functionality of may programs built into it. Like start button functions which acts like Whiskers. And the panel is configurable to even mimic a Mac look and feel without the addition of Panel program. It has Windows 7 paradigm loaded from the start because this is most popular.

[@wmd40]

I really like this. I love how it has a more simple "old" layout. I love how things are more complicated but they actually work lol. When there's issues there's actually fixes that work and don't ruin it.

[@Hare_deLune]

Thanks, Chris! You helped me make the transition to Linux, and I've never looked back. : )

[@SamichHunter]

From what I see, I really like how the Mint team are treating Snaps! I am now going to do some research on Warpinator because it looks interesting. Mint has always been just a plain simple distro that works for almost everything I ask it to do. I really appreciate the spit and polish, as you mentioned, and the attention to open attitude as far as making sure that when I expect an APT install I don't get something else! Thank you for this video and just remember, YOU DA MAN!

[@thisispw]

Running Linux Mint Cinnamon on both my laptops for some time, so easy and brilliant. Reads and talks to everything I use, thank you for all your info Chris.

[@StarcoreLabs]

Thank you for a great review of Linux Mint 20. I've been using it as my main OS for the last 3 years. It is stable and I love the direction the develops are taking things. Its great they've blocked snaps from being installed automatically. I prefer native .deb packages. But, I'll use an app.image if I have to. I'm looking forward to the full release of LM20.

[@kneejo-tube]

Love Linux Mint. In all the 20 years of toying with linux I can finally say it can be my daily driver. It was the first distro that allowed me to install set up my system, including those pesky Nvidia drivers, all with just a few clicks. No more terminal. Although it did take them a few versions to get that right, at least for my PC.

[@MaxProgramming]

Oh wow LM 20. Thanks for this video

[@dpack6339]

As with most other people I started with Ubuntu and 18.04 was my jam. I tried 20.04 and it is now going in a direction I do not care for. Now looking to switch to Mint XFCE 19.3. No forced snaps and lighter desktop than Gnome.

[@BulkybearOG]

Best gaming experience I've had on any Linux is xfce with compositing turned off.

[@turqoiseketchup4414]

I still have a buttload of 32bit computers, but I use LMDE, which, being based on Debian, will continue to support 32bit CPUs for at least a while.

[@juzujuzu4555]

If you have at least one new computer, installing distcc service on that computer would allow you to install Gentoo on those 32bit machines and using that distcc for compiling. With Gentoo you can compile directly to your architecture, have all the optimizations based on that architecture and only compile and install dependencies that you need, for example remove gnome and KDE support from all packages automatically. Gentoo is for advanced users, but it's amazing.

[@bertnijhof5413]

For 32-bits I can recommend the newest FreeBSD 12.1 with xfce and e.g. conky. It is almost like running Linux :) Of course the CLI is slightly different.

[@albundy7718]

If you still want to use Snap, you have to remove just one File "nosnap.pref" thats all. Not recommended but its still possible.

[@lucasb0rges]

Or you can add # in the last two lines and save it

[@melleslotema6452]

Excellent video! Thanks. Linux Mint is my go to distribution, I always seem to come back to it. For years. I have been running the 20 beta for some days now. Just installed it.. and it is working excellent. And I have a very picky machine (MSI GS63-8RE - a machine which I will never buy again! Not playing nice with hardware/software standards). But Mint.. well, it just works. Always. I'm the tech in the family. So, after a lot of Windows headaches, my mum (now in her 70s) has been running Mint for more than 3 years now. She never has a problem. And I never have to fix anything. It is just *that* good.

[@patmower46]

I've been using Mint for a long time. Been a Debian Linux type for almost all the time.Tried using Open Suse, or whatever, and fedoria, and Centos. Forget them. East of use and more often then now "Never Fail" operation is what makes me feel good!

[@lowellhouser7731]

Linux Mint really is what Ubuntu should be. Snappy and Flat both need to die in favor of Appimage.

[@jarradtait5322]

I resent flatpak being placed beside the closed source implantation that is snappy. Sure it's no AppImage but let the best "man" win fairly

[@lucasb0rges]

I see people want all of these sandboxed packages to die, including appimage.

[@jarradtait5322]

@@lucasb0rges those are the same people who suffer from dll hell, dependency hell and the lack of any backwards compatibility. I want old stuff to work, whatever gets it done

[@tyh2989]

@@lucasb0rges The only appimage I use is Etcher. The idea of a bunch of untrusted applications on a system is a big no-no.

[@zeetoo6306]

What's wrong with Flatpak? They've been a lifesaver for me on Clear Linux.

[@ShubhamMishra-uw9yi]

I am long time windows user and i tried pop os and zorin previously but today i switch to mint 20 and fall in love instantly . Very easy to adopt for people who come from Windows , same shortcut same layout but no lag. 😊

[@Appalling68]

I am a SUPER happy Mint user (for over two years now). Mint 19.3 is my daily machine, although I have been experimenting with vanilla Arch (with Cinnamon DE) on a separate ssd in my system. I am very glad that Clem and the Mint team gave the big finger to Canonical and completely nixed Snaps and snapd from the kernel. I'll never understand why anyone would want to install and run a spyware browser like Chromium especially given Ubuntu only offers it as a snap with no root privileges. My worries of Canonical (and maybe even M$) messing with and f**king around with their version of the Linux kernel have forced me to start learning Arch and also taking a look at Mint DE (which is certainly not ready for prime time). Linux Mint rules! :-)

[@jonathanmcdonald7512]

Linux mint saved my old macbook pro. I got on the dean's list at my local state university, and otherwise, I would have been too broke to buy an old cheapo deal, and had to eat the debt and drop out. Literally, I was eating ramen, and weeds i found on the side of the road. Linux mint is very damn cool.

[@desktopmonologues]

Really nice video, Chris. Mint is always a rock solid distro you can count on. Boring, yes, and that's what we need.

[@peterjansen4826]

I am ready for Mint now. I compiled Wine myself and got Lutris to use it. :)

[@pete9715]

Linux Mint always fixes Ubuntu an that's amazing.

[@rokonzamann]

so why they don't push those fixes to upstream ubuntu ¿

[@KuittheGeek]

I absolutely loved my time on Linux Mint, and I still have it on most of my computers. I have moved my main PC over to vanilla Arch, but I use Cinnamon and I have it themed with MintX so it looks like stock Mint. I love the consistency across machines. I am definitely looking forward to the Mint 20 release as I have an MSI laptop with hybrid graphics, so that will be much appreciated.

[@fatbeard8072]

LM was my second Distro and I have stuck with it since. Boring, maybe, but like CTT states, you can do so much with Linux, you can change the Environment and the File Manager if you like how other Distro's work but don't actually like that particular Distro. I have a 10+ older PC and LM works well for me. I am glad that they are improving NEMO since it is definitely like Windows and I don't care if it is like Windows, it works. I will probably go to Mate for LM20 because I know with my aging system it will just become more and more taxing on it. Thanks CTT!

[@TomChamberlain]

My main machine is running Mint 19, it's great. I just installed 20 on my 5 year old Lenovo and it's running very nicely.

[@AutoAddiction]

Just installed linux mint on my 13 year old AMD X2 6000 Dual Core PC from watching your videos today. The performance and visual effects are better than Windows 10. My old Pc feels like a Mac from a few years ago. I can't believe I'm just getting into Linux, it's insane.

[@troyy2307]

I just installed Linux mint 20 On my Dell e6400 the other day and it works great!

[@sheikhejab]

I think this is the most reliable channel for linux tips..so just subscribed and could your also make a video about tuning performance of linux mint?

[@sheikhejab]

@John Kunai thanks brother

[@angelrivera8013]

Thank you both! 🙌🏼

[@cmdrkubawolf]

Beta Mint 20 is more stable and no problematical then Ubuntu 20.04 for my personal use. I only install it, change same preferences, add few apps and it simply working. I like Ubuntu, it was my first distro many years ago, but now after install my things to do list is much longer.

[@rwbimbie5854]

Wooo !! Mint20 Been waiting for this vid for ages ("ages" being over a week)

[@slagish]

Imagine looking forward to updates to your OS, rather than dreading the fact they could take down your machine, install crapware you don't want, or mess up all your preferences. Mint is that oasis.

[@NYCamper62]

TY for helping explain the deal with snaps.

[@eugenek1180]

So exciting! Can't wait for the official release. Linux Mint is the best!

[@ssronxae]

I'll be 77 on the 31st of January.....installed linux mint 18 on hp z400,made usb installer for lmde 4, installed it. Works good. I am a very green newby determined to learn linux.

[@mylinuxgr5050]

Looks really cool with the dark theme and new Nemo. A great spin of Ubuntu and the non-snap thing is important because it allows choice. I will wait for the official release to test it in a VM. Boring or not, LM can be tweaked to anything the user wishes. I installed the LM Debian Edition this year and I fell in love with it, especially after I added a bspwm window manager

[@crashedcorvette666]

I always give you thumbs up before I even watch the video! Thankful that you don't charge to watch your videos!

[@brentsummers7377]

Very nice review, very encouraging to know that the Linux Mint team continues to put out really solid releases. I find Linux Mint 18.3 XFCE works extremely well on my older desktop. It's a really polished distro. Then again Windows 10 and Xubuntu 16.04 also work extremely well on my pc.

[@juzujuzu4555]

I still use 32bit laptop, it's quite possible the exact last batch of 32bit laptops that was released. Almost nobody will have 32bit machine as their main driver though, but I would hope at least certain easy to install Linux distributions would support 32bit machines.

[@bertnijhof5413]

I use a 32-bit Pentium 4 HT as back-up server for my Linux desktop and I use the latest 32-bits FreeBSD 12.1 with zfs, xfce, xrdp and conky :) It is almost like running Linux, except the CLI :)

[@ThatLinuxDude]

It seems even Microsoft is starting to phase out 32-Bit, so expect 32-Bit OSs to start becoming a rarity in the future. Have you tried booting into a 64-Bit Linux BTW? 32-Bit Operating System running computers can sometimes actually run 64-Bit Operating Systems.

[@Blueeeeeee]

There's still LMDE and other Debian based distributions like MX !

[@bertnijhof5413]

@@ThatLinuxDude I use it on a Pentium 4 HT (3.0GHz) on a 2003 HP 510 SFF motherboard, so it is pure 32-bits according to Wikipedia. Only two of the later 2004 Pentiums for OEM usage did support 64-bit. Besides I like FreeBSD, basically Unix/BSD is the father of Linux.

[@juzujuzu4555]

@@ThatLinuxDude I think that computer might work with 64bit Linux, it's ancient single core Celeron laptop from 2007, and it was slow as duck even at 2007. It has great display for it's age and it has 2gb of RAM, so it is still quite capable running Linux. I think 64bit systems use more RAM, so even if those would work, I would prefer 32bit. And when 32bit era finally ends, that laptop has served so long that I'll happily recycle it. Or I might install 32bit Gentoo in it, and use my other computer as distcc server to do the compiling, just because that would be pretty cool thing to do.

[@jefferyrlc]

It's nice to see Mint still trucking. I don't use it personally, but is almost always my go to recommendation to people who need to get off Windows.

[@deanlawson6880]

Thanks for the video Chris! While I use and really like MX Linux (currently 19.2 and I use the AHS - Advanced Hardware System on my awesome dual-Xeon main desktop), I also like Linux Mint. Thanks for the videos!!

[@APRICEPRODUCTION]

I really love the look and feel of Linx Mint I also love that you completely customize the layout more so than Windows, tried it out on memory stick, but the thing that holds me back is going full linux. Lack of software to compete with After Effects and its Rotobrush :( otherwise i'd make the move fully today!

[@azrela8277]

Mint might not be the latest fad, but it’s my go to OS. It’s stable, comes with a great set of applications out of the box, has a clean, understandable UI, and has always been rock solid stable for me. It has treated me well.

[@bittersweet5161]

A nice, informative video! I only recently (past few months) switched to linux full time (sans a server computer I can't change bc of windows spaces storage; tried a little bit of ubuntu dual booted in 2013), and I've really been enjoying it! I started with Ubuntu Studio bc it was geared towards audio production, which I often do, but I had issues with XFCE and having hybrid graphics on my laptop, and it became unstable when I switched it to Cinnamon, so I switched to Pop_OS! (I still install the ubuntu studio group of apps though for audio work). Pop_OS surprisingly had better support for my audio interface, but had a lot of instability problems and unresponsive window problems! Switching to a Cinnamon again felt better, but brought instability again which I'm not experienced enough to deal with. So I ended up installing what I heard was the most stable Linux Distro (based on Cinnamon, which I really enjoyed), Linux Mint! I've genuinely been having a great time with it, and have been experiencing a lot fewer issues, and much fewer things I had to fix to get it working in a way I like! I still have some minor jank from time to time, but I hope update 20 will deal with some of those (screen framerate issues, being forced to run everything on the nvidia card in my laptop and not switching between the two, some minor instability). My one comment on my linux experience (besides some of the jank I experienced as a person with only minimal coding knowledge) is that there aren't any really intuitive tools to change the color schemes in detail on Gnome and Cinnamon (I only tried KDE for a short moment, but I only saw some minor changes available). I found a lot of the themes I could find didn't really fit what I wanted, either in ideals as a whole or in color schemes, so I ended up editing the CSS code for one that was close to what I wanted, and got a result I mostly like. I was happy finding that it was simple enough to do, but I don't like that there's not a simple GUI tool that you can use to change things Real-Time, and that you have to edit a theme and log out and log back in to test it. I'm hoping to try installing Linux Mint 20 when it comes out as a stable release (as long as I don't see any major complaints about stability or such) and hope it'll be a good experience! I did a thing on my last install where I have /home and the rest of / as separate partitions, hearing that it'd make moving installs easier. I hope so!! If anyone has some tips on that, I'd appreciate it, I'll make sure to back everything up ahead of time tho and also try and find some guides on it if I can (main Q being how to make sure it doesn't delete my files in the /home directory when I change installs and such). (she/her!)

[@markconger8049]

I love Mint. If they would make a version for the Raspberry Pi 4 then I’d be Mint everywhere. Mint 19.3 MATE is on my budget Lenovo IdeaPad S145 laptop and it just works! It’s also on two Dell T3610 workstations and just works. What more can you ask for than solidly stable and attractive as well? I will be trying Mint 20 on a spare machine when it’s out of beta, and then migrate my other machines in due time. I’m not a fan of jumping first. I will say that Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 64-bit combined with the MATE desktop is very nice on the new 8 GB Raspberry Pi 4. That’s about as close to the Mint experience on Pi as I can get currently.

[@Battledongus]

the prompt to test is not new but the "please remove installation media and press enter" pre reboot is. Its handy since new users may not know its fine to remove it.

[@P4NCH1]

2:00 No, I have the same issue with dual monitors since forever on Mint (both, MATE and Cinnamon). Was hoping but doesn't seem like they fixed it in this version T_T Sys info: Linux Mint 19.3 Tricia 64-bit | Kernel 5.3.0-53 | MATE 1.22.2 | Compiz 0.9.13.1 | ASUS TUF GAMING X570-PLUS | AMD Ryzen 7 2700 | 2x8GB DDR4 3000MHz | SAPPHIRE NITRO+ RX 590 8G G5 | Kingston A400 480GB | Banghó 20" LED HDMI | SONY VPL-ES7 Proyector (with HDMI to VGA adaptor)

[@P4NCH1]

Well, finished watching. Seems that there are some changes :D Anyways, I still was gonna do a clean install it on my PC when it launches :)

[@mailbuoy52]

I've been running Linux Mint for years. I have three machines, a Mint, Chromebook and Windows 10. For the past years I've exclusively used my Linux machine, only starting up my Windows machine to install updates. Enough is enough. Last night I downloaded 20.2 and reformatted my Windows machine to Linux Mint 20.2. So long Windows.

[@KID01011988]

I currently run Linux Mint 19.3 on my secondary computer and I really wait forward to get the newest stable release. The 19.3 manages to run smoothly on old machines with limited resources and I hope that the 20 will be optimized in similar way.

[@AI-ec2qb]

Thank you Jesus for Linux and Mr. Torvalds, and Chris too... I have been waiting every single day for this moment!

[@jamesschraw9396]

@ChrisTitusTech would you consider doing a video series on Mint LMDE 6? maybe a review and opinion piece, and a gaming performance video? I'm sure you're fairly busy but I'd be very interested in it as a windows gamer considering the leap to linux.

[@Steven_nevetS]

Mint is my distro of choice. Its easy to use, everything works on it. Will be upgrading for sure

[@danamurray735]

Linux Mint has always been and always will be one of the absolute best distros ever!

[@pavlospilakoutas]

19.3 has no issues with 4k res. Its strange that there's a bug with a newer release. I saw in neofetch u changed the res without issues 👍

[@ChrisTitusTech]

I should add that after updating and reseting displays, it fixed my issue. However, even if it wasn't I could still launch displays and manually set it. It also supported the 4k display, but because how I was capturing it on a secondary port on my GPU it read my resolution funky.

[@pavlospilakoutas]

@@ChrisTitusTech 👍 thank you

[@pavlospilakoutas]

@gilkesisking when there is a major update, i always update the kid's laptop first 😄 With every release the mint team always posts solutions to errors after testing and solutions. Thankfully, never had any of it

[@serjfromsiberia6325]

I've already intalled Linux Mint 20 Beta on my laptop and looks like it's already pretty stable. Where I got troubles reinstalling drivers, microsoft fonts in Ubuntu 20.4, Linux mint did just fine. I think I'll stick with it.

[@cootason]

This is looking really really good. going to install it on my system and have a mess about on it. I still have Manjaro and Ubuntu installed on mine but its always great to see the changes to Mint :)

[@bernds1488]

that's the spirit! each drive can have 4 primary patitions and loads of logical drives.

[@RedLine_Renesis]

I've been using Mint 19 for my work environment. Specifically for Azure Data Studio and Azure Storage Explorer. I struggled a little bit to find an equivalent to monosnap for editing screen captures (adding arrows to point at stuff) but stumbled upon Shutter. Also had a little bit of a rough start with that one because I could not edit the screenshots. Turns out I didn't have a set of older dependencies for that matter. Now it works, with an occasional crash here and there but does the job. Although still looking for that monosnap similar brother. Great distro nonetheless.

[@duelingo8731]

Try Flameshot instead of Shutter. It is a killer application.

[@RedLine_Renesis]

@@duelingo8731 Thanks, will definitely give it a go.

[@KwanLowe]

After dealing with Snaps once for an Octave install, I ended up ripping it out and building from source. Maybe in a year it will be ready. By this I mean that it works on multiple distributions, has a clean way of managing permissions to the filesystems, and allows non-Ubuntu backends.

[@TheNoirKamui]

Im using linux mint 19.3 on my office pc. Maybe I will wait till 20.1 even just to be sure ^^

[@RetosSpace]

Great vid ,going to jump from Windows to Linux,not a power user ,should I start with Mint 19.3 or another distro? Thanks Chris,great channel ,

[@JorgeGarcia-ne3ws]

old mint lifer here! hurra, hurra! long live king mint 20!! hey don't forget to donate to them plus hopefully they will get back the 32bit going on again (maybe with the deb version?)! ps. contrary to what so many tube influencers out there say, there are a lot of - good working order- older PCs out there! no PC left behind! not every country is like the USA with waste, lack of ecological policies, disaster health care, etc. the rest of the world is out here as are millions of people in need of many things, 32bit computers included.

[@kenshin7440]

Thx CTT awesome video Waiting for more about phones and any news about Debian ^^ you are the best

[@rafakwolf]

I'm using Linux Mint for work and home as well, it's a really nice distro, super recommended

[@geoman1420]

I upgraded my 19.3 to 20 by booting from a USB and erasing only the root partition (home is on another partition). After installation i had to reinstall my extra packages (using Backup Tool), removed .cache and Caja settings from .config Everything worked fine.

[@iPondR]

Boring? BORING IS GOOD :D Thanks for the vid preview CTT you pretty much nailed it. Mint gets my support.

[@djdrummond7237]

Watching on my fresh copy of linux!

[@PearComputingDevices]

I can't wait to install this on my XPS de! Yeah!

[@litemint09]

I wonder if the combo mouse and keyboard Logitech MK240 would be able to function on it, the last time i tried installing and i have problem binding it, gone to the net and no fix so i uninstalled mint at all.

[@MichaelJHathaway]

If you have problems, try upgrading kernel to liquirix

[@silentgameplays]

Great video,this is my distro of choice as well,its what ubuntu could have/should have been,without snaps and glitches.

[@rsamuel255]

hi,Chris how can i upgrade from 19.3 to 20 live,just quited w10 for good

[@rsamuel255]

thankz for you feed back.i w'll wait for stable release to clean my disk

[@ffederel]

Hi, I have a question. I know it doesn't have its place here, but I don't know where to ask. I have linux mint cinnamon 19.3 and I would like to acquire a budget camera (such as a canon m200, or a sony a5100, or a panasonic lumix g7, for instance). The idea is to use it mainly for streaming. I'm afraid that Linux Mint possibly doesn't support these cameras and I'm quiet lost.

[@sheikhshakilakhtar6844]

Can you explain the concept of "point releases" in Mint? If I am using Mint 20, will I not get the updates of 20.1 when the latter is released?

[@mikaelrask]

yes you will be notified when a point released in linux mint is released.

[@MichaelJHathaway]

Mint is built upon LTS 2 year release cycles of Ubuntu, however it receives point releases approximately every 180 days through out the year, ie. 20, 20.1, 20.2, 20.3... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Mint_version_history

[@rickmode9557]

Hi Chris, Do you have the cli version of the update/upgrade from 19.3 to 20 ?? If so would you share that, thanks Rick

[@brads2041]

I liked the interface and tried it once. The biggest issue I had was a completely borked Python environment - and it's possible I did that myself, I'm a noob. But I need Python to be working correctly so I backed out to Ubuntu 20.04. But I'd like to try mint again. I'm also looking around for how to install mint and then grab my Ubuntu home directory (which I backup using duplicity)

[@mikewurlitzer5217]

I'm still running Linux Mint 19.2 Tina and as it has been working so well, I've been very reluctant to "upgrade/update" as the ONLY issue I've had was an "update/upgrade" in Thunderbird eliminating my ability to easily communicate with my Google Calendar/

[@sting_ray263]

I am a long time Windows user. I installed Linux Mint 20 on a USB. I can open files, create new files (word, excel). Most windows users would want to run softwares. If I can find a software that runs on Linux (say Keepass), then how can I run it ? How can I run simple windows software thru Wine ? How can we find and install wine ? ... These are elementary questions to you, but to Windows users like me, it is a big matter ...

[@OGWT]

One of the main reasons I stopped using Microsoft anything was due to their belief that they knew better than I what software I wanted and how best to install it (with or without my input). When Canonical/Ubuntu pulled this Microsoft-esque action to install something without regard for my preferences, I also dropped Ubuntu. At least with Mint, I have a choice to install snap or not.

[@ThatLinuxDude]

You don't really have that choice in Mint 20 though by default because they vendor locked their users out of snapd.

[@OGWT]

@@ThatLinuxDude But there IS a workaround. There is a choice.

[@Blueeeeeee]

@@ThatLinuxDude I mean it's a simple as removing a file as far as I know ? And there's documentation for that, it's not like they don't want you to know about it.

[@lucasb0rges]

@@ThatLinuxDude You're wrong.

[@duelingo8731]

@The Feren OS Dev Just remove the snap lock file in that scenario. It is just one command or one file to delete in the GUI.

[@jpal754]

Looking forward to it

[@danieljohnston3708]

I'm looking forward to trying this one out

[@Antiar]

Hello, hope you are doing well. I'm using ubuntu in sandbox. And I'm practicing my java programming. More towards the android apps. I'd like your advice, which Linux OS/distro should I lean towards. I'm completely noob and just want to learn and be comfortable with the environment.

[@geoffhalsey2184]

Windows XP and 7 refugees love the familiar Mint GUI. Change those icons and throw in the infamous "Bliss" background and on the surface it's a clone. Does that make it boring? Boredom, like Beauty, is in the eye of the beholder.

[@baracuda9052]

This looks great. The best thing is display app improvments. Have used 19.3 and now on 19.4 good OS for work, only bummer on linux is the performance loss compared to windows.

[@TheLinuxYes]

when i think back to when i got my first computer and got online for the first time (oct, 1997) and then to today, and think, what are the most amazing things i've seen that involve computers. two things come to mind: the arrival of the Internet and Linux/open source software. those two things blew my mind the most, in spite of all the amazing hardware changes since 1997. got on linux in 2006 and it still gets to me to this day. learned to hate microsoft after doing helpdesk, networking in the windows world. bad memories

[@TheBrimurray]

Nice video, giving me an urge to try Mint instead of stock Ubuntu?!... mmnn?

[@TheBrimurray]

**Update** Been running flawlessly on my Entroware Poseidon desktop for last couple of weeks now. After some fine tuning and moving panel to the top of my screen I am now "coming off" my loved Gnome DE. Many great little applets and extensions to replace the Gnome extensions. Also no more (maybe once a week) shell freeze forcing hard reboot!

[@lorenzobalducci8882]

Is this the first linux distribution that supports running a specific application with nvidia graphic card while using the integrated for the rest?

[@EdResleff]

I'm going to try Mint 20 ASAP. But, I'm running it 19.1 on an old ThinkPad T500. Do you have any suggestions about staying on 19 or moving to 20? And, just so there's no confusion, I am running Mint on my newer Dell that has plenty of horsepower. I just use the Lenovo as a test laptop of the older college days to prove it still has life (I didn't say blazing speed)...!

[@Blackcountrysteam]

New user to mint but yes looking forward to mint 20 hoping the display scaling works OK

[@cthedosboss5113]

thank you very much chris : )

[@eclipsenow5431]

Also, I'd love to hear CTT's thoughts on the Lenovo announcement about compatibility with Linux moving forward.

[@dallase1]

Mint is Not Boring, it's one of the few versions of Linux that still has system sounds.\, speaking of System Sounds, does Mint 20 still have system sounds? Will I be able to upgrade my 19.03 to 20 without problems or having to do a fresh replacement install to Mint 20.