For those who don't know Linux Mint 22 is based on Ubuntu LTS without all the crap that exists there by default: no snaps or GTK4/ libAdwaita issues>The Snap Store is disabled>Thunderbird continues to be available in Linux Mint 22 as a native .deb package. Following the decision by Ubuntu to move it to Snap, Linux Mint is now responsible for packaging it.>With GNOME 46, libgoa/libgoa-backend 3.50 moved to GTK4 and could no longer be used by GTK3 applications. This meant that Online Accounts support had to disappear from Cinnamon, Budgie and Unity. The XApp project implemented a standalone application called "GNOME Online Accounts GTK". Not only did this bring the feature back in these three desktop environments, it also made it possible for it to be used in MATE and Xfce.>In Ubuntu 24.04, a number of GNOME applications moved to libAdwaita and stopped supporting the system theme. Since selecting a theme is a core part of the desktops shipped by Linux Mint (Cinnamon, MATE and Xfce), apps are required to support it.>As a result, the GNOME Font Viewer was removed and the following applications were downgraded back to GTK3 versions: Celluloid, GNOME Calculator, Simple Scan, Baobab, System Monitor, GNOME Calendar, File Roller, Zenity.
I'm hoping the newer Kernel will fix my graphics drivers
>>101577225>Still no proper Wayland support
>>101577790it's ubuntu, its wayland support is the same as in ubuntu
>>101577225does it have AV1 encoding built in yet?
>>101577225Mint with KDE or LXQT would be a great distro. As it stands its still better than Ubuntu.The longer these distros use GTK the more they will get absolutely dicked over by it.
>>101578037>The longer these distros use GTK the more they will get absolutely dicked over by it.How so? I don't know much of anything regarding DEs and toolkits.
>>101577225just use arch/kde
>>101577790wayland is so much old crap, son. It will NEVER be the replacement for Xorg. The fact is son, such projects over the years have come and gone and it will happen to wayland. There is always someone who comes along and says "Maybe there's a third way, a better way, and they develop it and its perfect for a few decades. Wayland is a dog pissing into the wind
>>101577225but I like gnome font viewerwhat else can I use if I switch to mint 22?
>>101578037KDE is for windows users who cant quite understand linuxKDE=Noobland
Mint fully supports secure boot now right?
>>101578175The DE does not prevent you installing and using it.
>>1015772675.17.0-1021-oem works for me, everything recent in 5.15 panics
>>101577790As it should be
>>101578037you can use mint with kde or lxqt, they are available from the default repos
Mint Devuan Edition when?
>>101578193cinnamon is exactly that too
>>101578037This. I guess they can keep Cinnamon if they want, but they should offer Plasma + Cinnamon.No point in Mate and Xfce, really. They're not bad but just not "complete" enough for a beginner, and neither does Mint try to be a system for super low-spec computers.
please be good enough to daily drive please be good enough to daily drive please be good enough to daily drive please be good enough to daily drive please be good enough to daily drive
>>101579921The only guy I know who actually dailies Linux as a personally desktop OS uses Linux Mint. He's a smart guy, and ue said it took him about a month to get everything running correctly the way he liked. He's an electrical controls programmer. So take that for whatever it is worth. I have played around with some distros and have never been able to make my play around laptop's wifi card work on any of them and that always eventually makes me switch back to winblows. Yes, I openly admit to being filtered by that. Mint and Ubuntu LTS are my preferred desktop experiences.
>>101579976Fedora Silverblue
>>101579988Haven't tried it. What does it do well?
Give it to me straight guys. Is this another meme distro?You already fucked me over recommending manjaro.
>>101580042It's the official boomer distro.
>>101579988You mean Fedora Kinoite
>>101580042its ubuntu without you having to suck cannonicals dick. good for being something that's stable and just works - i daily it on my uni laptop
EndeavourOS is the best.
>Install Arch and Cinnamon>Mint without the bloatProblem?
>>101580042manjaro is rolling releasethis is based on ubuntu ltsyou shouldn't use rolling release distros unless you have a very good reason
>>101580321If that was a real solution that existed, Fedora Cinnamon wouldn't be so literally actually broken and left to rot.
>In Ubuntu 24.04, a number of GNOME applications moved to libAdwaita and stopped supporting the system theme. Since selecting a theme is a core part of the desktops shipped by Linux Mint (Cinnamon, MATE and Xfce), apps are required to support it.>As a result, the GNOME Font Viewer was removed and the following applications were downgraded back to GTK3 versions: Celluloid, GNOME Calculator, Simple Scan, Baobab, System Monitor, GNOME Calendar, File Roller, Zenity.I am surprised Linux Mint would forgo using Adwaita apps. Now they will have the same problem as MATE where only a small handful of apps still match the desktop.
>>101577225>Linux Mint is now responsible for packaging it.so i can import a mint repo and get access to native deb stuff again?
>>101578037you can just install kde. but dont expect the native update checker to work when logged in to it.and you gotta do that thing to get the file picker to be qt and not gtk. and even then firefox might be a shit and pick gtk apps by default when opening from the download window.
>>101579921it became my daily driver after bouncing between windows, arch, debian and tumbleweednice out of the box package, default setup is good which is rare on most of linux distros from my experience, it's stable, relatively recent kernel, app store is decent and has a lot of stuffcinammon is nice and it isn't shit like it's usually said heredevs know what OS should look like, it reduces a lot of llinux tedium and i know i'm gonna get hurr durr must use terminal for everything (You)s but idc
>>101578193kde is for gnome users that get tired of their extensions breaking every update.
Is it on sudo mintupdate yet?
Still not upgrading, yet
>>101580783What's the point of GNOME's extensions other than GSConnect?
>>101580783Here's a thought: don't use a distro that breaks desktop every few months.
>>101580783kde released a broken plasma version and asked users to wait a few weeks for fixes
>>101577225Would've been easier to move to flatpak of Thunderbird
>>101581360KDE didn't ask anyone to upgrade. Not you, not the distros. KDE even offers an LTS branch.
>>101581360Gnome does the same. The Gnome packagers for Arch release brand new Gnome versions and on their forum, Gnome devs collect bug reports. Sometimes there are 5+ different crash bugs and Gnome does not release a fix until their arbitrary time limit for a point release is reached.
So how long until Mint 21 reaches end of life (if it even does)?
>>101577225>want to upload image>thumbnails are tiny and there's no way to make them bigger stop shilling this garbage
>>1015814973 more years
Thank you Mint devs for making the sound device not change after every reboot. Holy fuck that was annoying. I hope you enjoy the $40 I sent
Been having this issue in Mint 21 and 22 on firefoxAV1 videos just look like this
>fractional scaling makes the entire OS sluggishWhy can't they ever fucking get it right? It's like i have no choise but to use Windows because they actually have scaling that works without a fuckton of screen tearing or slow down to the OS
>>101582941Fractional scaling is blurry, deformed dogshit, use font scaling factor instead
Is Linux Mint LTS with stable packages (kernel etc) but the DE (Cinnamon) gets updates? Sounds like the perfect distro if this is true.
>>101583384DE gets updates every six months
>>101580272>have to deal with pacnews>have to troubleshoot random shit breaking>no rollback capability OOTBno fuck that
>>101583384Kernel is now HWE since this new version.
