https://linuxmint.com/rel_zara_whatsnew.phpNew Notes Desklet, Faster shutdown, Kernel 6.14 and a whole lot of other redesignsTime to updoot, MIntchads!
Why use this over Zorin?
>>106485212zaza linux
>>106485212fingerprint authentication is bretty gud
>>106485254- not made by random russian - doesn't have paywalled edition providing no benefit
How the upgrade works?I have LMDE 6, so this is not my version, but I guess a new version of LMDE will come out someday. Does the upgrade wipe my OS drive and all the configurations/programs?
>>106485605I just clicked next through their update wizard a few times and restarted. Everything is the same.
>>106485254Mint is basically Ubuntu if it was good
>>106485212>Faster shutdownIt takes like 2 seconds to shutdown anyway lol. Did they get it down to just 1 or something?
Updooters have such hurry.How is the new release?
>>106485212>Faster shutdownI'd prefer faster boot, but ok.
>>106485700it's basically the same. I guess theming is better now since they maintain their own libadwaita fork.
>>106485212>Check "New Features" for Cinnamon Edition>Small updates to sticky notes>IPTV application improvements>Updated (new?) fingerprint setup>Some tweaks to theme integrations>Fix for an EDID color correction oddity>Security updates through 2029BASED.This is EXACTLY why I use Mint.No huge "innovations" that I don't need.No wasted effort "reimagining" desktop computing.Mostly existing things that got a little bit better.Best of all, there's no rush, so I'll update in another month.
Updooting right now
>>106486380Same reason I like XFCEThere's some fags here who call it "dead" literally just because it takes 2 years between releases and it's just small improvements. Why do you need your DE to have an updoot every fucking month?
>>106486424That was easy
>>106486446Installing the new kernel.
I just installed this. Didn't have Linux on this machine before then.Odd that the screen won't go to sleep after 15 minutes despite that being what I set it to. It tries to, the screen goes black, but before it can turn off completely the screen turns back on. Other than that I'm not having any issues.
Does cinnamon support fractional scaling yet?
>>106486467>new
>>106488830as well as gnome, partially. doesn't hit every program so not there irl
>>106488830No
>>106488830>>106489389>>106488956>Does cinnamon support fractional scaling yet?>No
>>106489413It doesn't. Only on the experimental Wayland session, maybe. I just scale the fonts to 1.2 and that's good enough for me.
The new theme has a more modern blueish tint i like, the stock software is the best in linux, only uninstalled a couple of appsThere is one thing I need urgent help with, on previous windows, adding a grub entry for cpu scaling to performance worked fine after grub-update, not it doesnt apply the setting, can not figure this out yes really need to
>>106486424It's weird, normally they announce the new release and provide the update a few days later. But this time I got it on the update manager BEFORE the site had the new release.
HOLY FUCKING SHIT WHAT IS THE GOD DAMN OBSESSION WITH ROUNDED CORNERSI WANT SQUARE FUCKING CORNERS YOU GOD DAMN APPLE COCKWOGGLERSIF I WANT AN APPLICATION THAT'S SAFE FOR TODDLERS TO SWALLOW, I'D ASK FISCHER PRICE TO DEVELOP IT
>>106489513Round is good
>>106488869Unstable kernel breaks networking on many thinkpads. Newer isn't better. Tested is.
>>106488869This is a fail, from gnome to fedora who can't even do a simple correction.
>>106485212can i test drive it off a ssd before commit?
I FUCKING SMELL MODERN. THIS UPDATE BETTER NOT HAVE MODERN ANYTHING.
Luv me mint
>>106485605>I have LMDE 6, so this is not my versionSame.>LMDE will come out someday.They said they'd start on LMDE 7 once Zara is out.>>106485627>Everything is the sameWonderful, isn't it?>>106486103>better now since they maintain their own libadwaita forkI've noticed a bunch of things I feel could complain about Mint (coming from Windows), is actually something to blame Gnome for.
>>106485254>Mint: packages from 2023-2024>Zorin: packages from 2021-2022Zorin is even more outdated than Mint. Probably half the shit people want won't work on it.The only reason people use Zorin is because it looks like windows. But honestly it's looks peaked with Zorin10/Zorin11.This is not to say that Mint is a good distro either. Anything that doesn't ship with KDE/GNOME is literally a niche or hobby distro.>>106485605LMDE is generally released 3 months after the latest Debian. So, it'll take another month or two before they release it.>>106488567There's probably a device or application waking up your PC.>>106488830Get a display which doesn't require you to use scaling.
>>106489805>>106486380They forked Adwaita to decouple Cinnamon theming from Gnome's UI decisions. It's technically a pretty major update.
>>106489513rounded corners are for white men only
mint chads I kneel
>>106489435Once again, vital help needed with grub-update not applying the correct cmd setting or cpu scaling, on previous versions it worked, same lowlatency kernel, what could that be??
>>106485212>am 5'7" male>developer job in an officeAm I a desklet?
Cinnamon or the rat?
>>106491575Xfce is much lighter and Cinnamon isn't really that much ahead in terms of features. So, Xfce.
>>106491575Cinnamon is fast as fuck on my 7 year old Dell. Well, much faster than Win 10 anyway. You'd need some real old piece of shit to make xfce necessary. Not tried it on my other 11 year old laptop, but since Debian KDE is great on that, I'd imagine Mint Cinnamon would be fine too.
It just werks
>installs linux mint cinnamon edition>sets Mint-X as theme (as Mint-Y and Mint-L are for pansy zoomies)>cracks open a white monster>*sluuuuurp*yup, its time to linux.
>>106486446>>106486467Why is it blue now.
>>106491953>>cracks open a white monsterWeird flex but ok
>>106491999lurk moar
>>106492047I spend enough time on this board of nonces as it is thanks.
>>106485212Does Linux Mint have a pulseaudio/systemd/wayland free offering? If not, they can go fuck themselves.
>>106492297no. for schizos there's void and gentoo.
>>106491953Here ya go frendo
>>106492324So, Linux Mint is for brain damage degenerates? Got it.
>>106490666>Wonderful, isn't it?Yes
>Still uses the ancient abandoned libgnomekbd with a hard limit of 4 simultaneous keyboard layoutsWhen will Cinnamon stop being stuck in 2011?
>>106491644Cinnamon apparently has the worst battery life between all DEs.
>>106491575The difference between Xfce and alternatives was meaningful back in 2009 when people were running Netbooks with 2GB of RAM. Xfce isn't as lightweight as it used to be, and your CPU wastes more time and memory a browser tab than the difference between DE/WM. Try Cinnamon in live environment, and if it's fine, go with it.Disable animations if you really care. I think that's supposed to be good for battery life, but I disable them because I find them distracting.
>>106492579That's why I never installed it and I don't even use laptops. The thing smells of bloat. XFCE ftw
>>106492544Use case for more than 4 keyboard layouts?
>>106485700>Updooters have such hurry.Good morning sar.
>>106489752>Red boxes around random shitOk buddy
>>106485432Is there any built in telemetry?
>>106492669Yes, but nothing to worry about.
>>106486380Still no HDR support meh
>>106492579lately seen an irc user quote some discord faggot from some bridge, saying just "life" after the discord faggot spouted something boring and uninteresting about "battery life"the ensueing butthurt for hours is priceless. i still seek enjoyment from it by telling you about it right now. the internet is soooo complicated, buddy. you have no idea what you're in for.
>>106492579That just because of the frenchie's video. Never any difference on my machines.
>>106492579Wayland has even better battery life since it can just display overlays instead of copying framebuffers redundantly.
>>106490829It's a nothingburger. The UI elements are still the same Adwaita rounding that look nothing like the GTK3 windows. You also still get popups that glue to the window as seen in the Calendar app.
>>106489780It's HAMTAROOOOOOOOOOO TIIIIME (CHIK CHIK CHIKI CHIKI BOOOM)
>>106492633One for my native language, US for general purpose use, Greek for my secondary language, Russian for calling people online bitches, and Spanish for my lessons.
>>106493107As long as it changes the colours to match the theme, I'm glad and thankful for their efforts.
>>106493142Hope this helps.https://askubuntu.com/questions/107945/cant-add-more-than-four-keyboard-layouts
>>106493142US International with Dead Keys for US and Spanish, fixed.
>>106493158For it to succeed , it also needs to be supported across the Linux community. Other distros that offer GNOME need to support both the original and forked Adwaita, and that could prove problematic. Arch users have to use the AUR at the moment.
>>106493180>>106493177Even then, you can't even type in Japanese without installing extra packages that override your config. This was also the case in early GNOME 3, but they added support for IBus directly in the shell in 2012, so Japanese and other moonrune scripts work out of the box and can be switched between effortlessly. This also eschewed the layout limitation.https://help.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.6/i18n-ibus.html.enAll I want for Christmas is Cinnamon with this.
>>106493322Then use GNOME. With Dash to Panel on the bottom it's pretty much Cinnamon anyways.
>>106493338I already do that, but it's a mere imitation of a real taskbar. Also, GNOME's war on theming is appalling, and I want an out.
>>106493222From what I understand it's meant to be a compatible drop-in replacement. Applications wouldn't need to target it specifically. Systems or apps which have their fork will be themable, systems/apps which don't won't be themable.>As a soft-fork, libAdapta is regularly synchronized with new versions of libAdwaita to maintain compatibility>The library includes a compatibility header, allowing developers to switch between libAdwaita and libAdapta with minimal code changes
>>106485212>An Android companion app called StyncyNotes was written by Graham Bygrave. It's available at https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.grating.styncynotes.>literally naming your app "stinky notes"Why are FOSS devs like this?
Why does it always take a million years for new versions of mint to release? It’s not like it’s some massive undertaking to update repos.
>>106492669>>106492709Snapshots and uploads your fingerprint to the NSA Nothing personnel
>>106493465You either get Stinky Notes or some retarded acronym you need to google the meaning of. There's no in-between in FOSS. I've made my peace with it.
