Linux Mint 22.1 Beta

[@Home-o2v4h]

Those who want to use the new theme in Linux Mint : Search Themes on menu > Open Themes app > Advanced Settings > Desktop > cinnamon

[@13thravenpurple94]

Excellent video 👍 Thank you 💜

[@fabricio4794]

To change icons and themes downloaded is just go to your home/your folder crtl+h keyboard and paste icons on .icons and themes on .themes folders

[@demerdemer328]

The Mint Beta comes with very old Kernel 6.8. I have use this iso and modified with kernel 6.11, also integradet nvidia Drivers 565.77 out of the box, my installer works completely with secure boot. The better Mint ❤

[@JeffM---]

Interesting that there are few nature scenes in the wall papers...they mostly look like AI images. A sign of the times.

[@sparkspl]

Any news on driver manager coming to LMDE?

[@PaxAlotin]

Don't expect any official changes until LMDE-7 comes out.

[@ZKRblackhawks]

@@PaxAlotin New Cinnamon versions come out always on LMDE too. LMDE also gets the updates too.

[@PaxAlotin]

@@ZKRblackhawks Yes --- I know that. But when it comes to integrating the new version of Cinnamon - it relies on the Debian cycle - not the Ubuntu one. I checked and was told by someone who works on LMDE that the updated Cinnamon won't be added until LMDE-7. That's scheduled for summer 2025.

[@electricalbatross5797]

Does anyone know if touchpad gestures work on Cinnamon Wayland? Or is it still exclusive to touchegg on X11?

[@Priimerra]

I have tried cinnamon on arch, one week ago. There was no gestures on wayland. The whole wayland sessions is stil labeled experimental sadly.

[@electricalbatross5797]

@@Priimerra This always gets me a lot of heat, but I am NOT changing my stance on this; Experimental status should not affect the implementation of touchpad gestures. Literally every other wayland DE has them. It's oftentimes among the first things that get added in. Cinnamon could literally use GNOME's implementation and it would work fine. If we can get touchpad gestures on X11 (a feat I didn't even think possible until people started doing it), I don't see what the hesitation is to get it running on a display server that was literally made to support it.

[@Priimerra]

@@electricalbatross5797 No. It is not that simple at all. In Wayland you have to have compositor. Each de has its own compositor, and that think controls many things. Like gestures. This is Linux tho and you CAN change compositor to other one. But as far as I know the ones that are not tied to any de, do not have gestures implemented. This is sad to many but mint team is focused on desktop. Laptops are far far afterthough. It is their distro they can do whatever they want. If you want to use great gestures on Wayland but that is not heavy de try ElementaryOS. It has the same base as mint and their Wayland implementation is perfect. Writing this I have remebered that there is Niri compositor. It is Wayland wm/compositor an I thin it has gestures.

[@electricalbatross5797]

@@Priimerra fair points, I completely forgot about how compositors would affect that.

[@tonywise198]

Still my favourite Distro, and this Beta runs fine, even on an old Surface Pro 3 of 2015 vintage. The only "down" comments I'd have are rounded corners at the top and square corners on the bottom of a window is just half-baked and weird. Also the fancy "dialogue" boxes are just fluff, and if you are going this route, why not the log-in box as well?

[@soberconversations]

performance mode is not available for some of the older cpus

[@jimw7916]

just install cpupower-gui

[@NYCamper62]

I'm confused about Mint's wayland & ntfs support. But I'll still be dual booting for some time so whatever.

[@TechnoMinded-qp5in]

If KDE Plasma keeps breaking I might go to Linux Mint I think Cinnamon desktops are more stable than KDE my desktop environment keeps breaking so I am looking around for something else for some reason the taskbar likes to have a stroke.

[@matyasmarkkovacs8336]

That's the reason I choose Fedora Cinnamon. KDE 6 is too buggy.

[@TechnoMinded-qp5in]

@@matyasmarkkovacs8336 I thought it would be cool using KDE was getting a kick out of it but themes barely work and have a stroke it might be XFCE or Cinnamon in the future though Linux is getting good I wish browsers like Opera GX would work this is why I dual boot for physical performance it's not bad but the whole thing glitches and freezes making it impossible to use.

[@J_SavedbyGrace_Eph28]

Cinnamon just works. I use it on my Arch machine and Mint on my dual boot so I can still play games (shout out LOL addiction lol) Between it and XFCE4 I don't see much better. i3 is a nice window manager too. Just depends on what you want I guess.

[@horseathalt7308]

*I've just switched to Linux Mint* Works well, and is fast too even with my 2014 Core i3-4160T with 4 GB ram. I'll be dumping Windows 10 and will not use Windows 11.

[@dead_art]

It looks like Linux is at war on "redundant" and "unnecessary" file systems. BCacheFS, ZFS and RaiserFS are virtually dropped under various excuses. Moreover, now there is a "regression" that makes the use of NTFS troublesome. A passable excuse for dropping it as well. What's remained? The standard ext234 and BTRFS that corrupts its RAID volumes.

[@javabeanz8549]

BCache has a developer problem, and was suspended from updates in one kernel version. Reiser is out of date, the developer is in prison, and is onboard with the removal. And if most of the users are NOT using ZFS, why waste time with it?

[@dead_art]

​@@javabeanz8549 I've already said that in each case there are excuses made. Most users are NOT using Linux, why waste time with it?

[@grandmaster6448]

A kuku 😂

[@zyndr_]

Are they EVER going to fix their crappy installer trashing your Windows EFI partition? This bug has existed for years now, and Mint devs just keep ignoring it.

[@javabeanz8549]

kinda like Microsoft, eh?

[@bradl7439]

Mint hasn't trashed the Windows EFI partition on my PC. I've installed it several times with different releases, and each time it has seen Windows and added it to the GRUB menu. Windows on the other hand........😭🤬

[@tonywise198]

Trashing a Windows partition? I call that a bonus and a WIN.

[@justliberty4072]

The Windows-trashing-Linux problem is, for those systems where I still 'need' Windows not and then, why I install them on separate drives. This is so convenient. You can just ignore Windows until you need it (or more likely need to update it...) and switch via the BIOS. Once you set the boot drive order to your current requirements, it becomes either a Linux or Windows machine, as you desire.

[@istvantorok4819]

I have a laptop with a 2 GB SSD with W10, and Linux Mint. I have no issues with the EFI partition. I think once there was a warning, telling that the filesystem is corrupted for the EFI partition (even the boot process was fine), I ran filesystem repair, and is OK.

[@laurentitolledo1838]

hope flatpaks gets massively updated as well for LM22.1.. there are so many missing apps in LM22 compared to LM21.3

[@deultima]

That's because in version 22 they added a new feature that hides Flatpak Apps that are not officially released by the software developer. If you want to see all the Flatpak Apps like in 21.3 go into the Preferences in the Software Manager and toggle on the option "Show unverified Flatpaks" And you will once again have access to the entire Flathub Store.

[@SrWorfwood]

There are no missing flatpak apps, they're all there. The difference is that by default Mint 22 only shows verified apps, you can choose to see unverified apps in the software manager settings.

[@deultima]

@@SrWorfwood Exactly what I said, but for some reason KZbin deleted my reply?

[@laurentitolledo1838]

@@SrWorfwood even showing the "unverified" apps, the list is shorter. Had to "hunt" down some of those apps from their own homepage....

[@Priimerra]

​@@laurentitolledo1838 what? They use flathub from what i know? Everything what is on flathub is on mint. IF not you can always add flathub in 5 seconda.

[@bernardmueller5676]

I am a huge fan of Linux Mint, but I hate Wayland.

[@Bdogy]

Linux needs to figure out the anti cheat thing so I can switch forever

[@Danglutas]

You can also say goodbye to those competitive games that aren't even really fun.

[@aviationrambler]

It's been figured out. Complain to the publishers.

[@mchenrynick]

You'd think that either the Xbox or the PS5, since everything connects via USB, give the user the option to game with a keyboard instead of the standard d-pad controller. Then you could run AAA games on the console and 'feel" like you're gaming on a PC. This could be an option to get away from Windows.

[@ordinaryhuman5645]

That isn't a Linux thing, it's a developer-rejects-Linux-as--platform thing. Choose which games to support and enjoy accordingly.

[@jer1776]

Write your lawmakers and get kernel level anti cheat banned.

[@Nooneyouknow1980]

Hello

[@SwitchedtoLinux]

Greetings

[@jimw7916]

@@SwitchedtoLinux and salutations

[@danteerskine7678]

​@@SwitchedtoLinux did Linux solve the wireless connectivity problems like Bluetooth?? Both Android and iOS, also based on Linux, everything has worked for more than a decade when it comes to wireless connectivity