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Monthly News – May 2023

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Hi everyone,

I’d like to thank all of you for your support and your donations.

The development cycle for Linux Mint 21.2 was closed a few days ago. Most of the
projects have been tagged, built and added to the repositories for the upcoming release.

Xfce was updated to version 4.18.

CJS was rebased on GJS 1.74 / Mozjs 102.

XDG Desktop Portal support was added to all supported desktops (Cinnamon, MATE and
Xfce). Among other things this brings a global dark mode setting.

This dark mode setting affects applications which support it and lets you choose
betweentothree
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Prefer light
Prefer dark
Let the applications decide

Among the many apps which support it, some are light by default (Firefox, Xed, Thingy,
Xreader) and some are dark by default (Xviewer, Pix). The setting is also supported by
many Flatpaks and GNOME/LibAdwaita applications.

Cinnamon 5.8 is getting gestures support for window management, workspace


management, tiling and media controls. Gestures will be supported on touchpads,
touchscreens and tablets.

The Software Manager was given a UI refresh, better scoring/sorting algorithms and a
tuned package list.

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June 2, 2023 at 11:02 am (https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4518#comment-370006


spamegg
Congrats Mint team! The new improvements sound really great. The
theming, Software Manager and the touchpad gestures were requested
/ mentioned many times on some Linux channels such as
https://www.youtube.com/c/TheLinuxExperiment/
(https://www.youtube.com/c/TheLinuxExperiment/) so it shows that
Mint devs are listening. Looking forward to Mint 21.2!

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June 2, 2023 at 11:43 am (https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4518#comment-370010


Pramukh
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Linux Mint is a great distro. My very �rst Linux OS. But


my comment was deleted by the Linux Mint team. I am
not sure what I wrote wrong. I only requested to update
the Mint Welcome app, so if we uninstall Timeshift the
app should remove the option of “System Snapshots”
under “First Steps”.

June 2, 2023 at 11:19 am (https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4518#comment-370007


Greg
Wow, exciting news, thanks Clem and the other Devs! All the
improvements look interesting, the gestures being the greatest news.
Will de�nitely grab Beta.

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Fernando Bautista (https://portalnews.co)
Cordial saludo al equipo de LinuxMint.

¿Es posible que exista un administrador de con�guración grá�co de


redes y otros detalles que ayuden a cambiar el grupo de trabajo y otras
opciones para compartir carpetas correctamente y sin tanta di�cultad?

Actualmente, lo único que sirve para compartir recursos entre


LinuxMint y Windows es un antiguo tutorial que es algo molesto de
utilizar por lo mismo antiguo:

https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=240553
(https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=240553)

Agradeceria respetuosamente si esta opción se implementa en la


próxima actualización de LinuxMint en alguna herramienta gra�ca,
sugiero trabajen en cosas más prácticas como lo anterior y menos
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cambios de colores y estética que ya es un tema muy recurrente y que


ciertamente no es tan importante como la implementacion de
herramientas que ayuden a reducir la breca entre la interoperatividad
especialmente en comparticion de recursos entre diversos sistemas
operativos en ambitos de red.

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June 2, 2023 at 1:01 pm (https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4518#comment-370014


BerlinViking
Finally gesture support! I was waiting for so long for this feature. This
will make everything so much better. If it works well, I will donate a little
to support the development of Linux Mint and say thank you.

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June 2, 2023 at 1:21 pm (https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4518#comment-370015


Cyteck
One of the things I like about Linux Mint is the way changes &
improvements & new features are implemented in small step changes
i.e. No Massive shocks. No just dumping things on the end users. I love
Mint and I think it’s WAY WAY BETTER than MS Windows and I also like
that the developers really consider the end users. Thank you Clem thank
you to ALL those involved in developing Mint. respect indeed.

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Alejandro Cerda
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Hello:
First of all, I want to thank the Linux Mint team for the great work they
do. I will never get tired of repeating it, thanks to you I was able to leave
Windows and stay in this wonderful world of Gnu Linux.
Would it be possible that the taskbar has rounded edges, and that there
is an application that allows to increase the horizontal space between
the icons on the taskbar?
Thank you very much and congratulations to the Linux Mint team and
your loved ones.
Alejandro

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François Blais
Thanks for all the work and improvements!

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June 2, 2023 at 2:23 pm (https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4518#comment-370020


Ludolph
What about support of Intel CPU’s of 13gen at LM 21.2, which requires
linux kernel 6.x. So far is major problem very poor CPU power
management.

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June 2, 2023 at 9:59 pm (https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4518#comment-370049


gerry
Yeah, I think that because it is built off Ubuntu base
22.04 , and the kernel associated with it, they can’t
move ahead of Ubuntu in terms of the kernel it ships
with.
You can use the Software Manager to update it
yourself,
but I guess the team want a kernel that has been tried
and tested with this Linux Mint 21.x cycle so they can
stand over it.

It’s unfortunate, as I need audio �x made in kernel 6.1


while others need 6.2 as you can see here
h_t_t_p_s_:_/_/_bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source
/linux/+bug/1834771

No biggie to update the kernel afterwards with Linux


Mint – it’s much more di�cult with LMDE. I had to
change my Software Sources to Debian unstable which
left me with a Frankenstein system … lol .. but the
HDMI audio works – so that’s the main thing

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June 2, 2023 at 10:58 pm (https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4518#comment-370063


Gean
In this situation you can directly upgrade using a
custom kernel.
I personally would recommend you using Liquorix or
the Xanmod (both kernel are tailored in performance in
mind, however I personally never had instability with
them), since you will just add the repositories and
install the kernel as any other package, reboot and
done.

June 3, 2023 at 1:56 am (https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4518#comment-370095


JN
Ludolph,

Do you mean that you need, only, a version of Mint with


a 6.x kernel? If so, you can get it – not, admittedly, via
Mint’s inbuilt tools, but by a kernel upgrade utility such
as UKUU. I myself am running a 6.1 kernel and that
kernel works �ne in my machines.

June 3, 2023 at 8:07 am (https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4518#comment-370104


Simon (https://www.speich.net)
I’m running Mint with kernel 6.3 for 13th Intel and have
no problems. Use Ubuntu Mainline Kernel Installer
https://github.com/bkw777/mainline
(https://github.com/bkw777/mainline)

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Ludolph
Could you recommend me the proper way how to
prepare booting USB with Linux mint +Kernel 6.x?
Because my main problem is the fact that boot with
Kernel 5.15 on machine with Intel CPU gen 13 is nearly
impossible.

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Julian Pursell
use the Debian testing netinstall, add mint sources,
make do with that until later mint version has the right
kernel.

June 4, 2023 at 8:03 am (https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4518#comment-370183


Sean Doyle
One of the easiest, and likely less approved ways, to
move your kernel forward is to install UKUU. I can
attest that doing so allows you to use the latest kernel
that Ubuntu supports as bleeding edge under Linux
Mint. Doing so is well worth supporting the individual
that maintains Ukuu, Tony George.

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Marlock
Normally the answer would be the Edge ISO version:
https://linuxmint-user-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest
/edge.html (https://linuxmint-user-
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guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/edge.html)

…but it seems the last Edge ISO was for 20.3 (with
kernel 5.19) while we’re heading for 21.1… not sure
why no newer Edge ISO is made available

Meanwhile as a cumbersome but effective workaround


you can take your PC’s disk out, put it in an external
casing, plug to another machine, install Mint to it, apply
updates including the newer kernel and then put it
back on the new machine. Linux handles head
transplants very elegantly

June 5, 2023 at 9:42 pm (https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4518#comment-370327


Mike F
For those saying you can’t get kernel version 6.1
through the standard Ubuntu repos, that is incorrect.
You simply need to install the OEM kernel: apt install
linux-oem-22.04c

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Marlock
There is also something I found only now:
https://itsfoss.com/create-custom-linux-mint-iso/
(https://itsfoss.com/create-custom-linux-mint-iso/
CUBIC can prepare custom liveboot Ubuntu and Linux
Mint ISOs, and one of the mentioned tweaks it offers is
exactly shipping the 6.0 kernel

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Mike
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An Edge ISO for Mint 21.2 is planned so that should


work better. Also there’s the oem kernels in the
repositories for LTS ubuntu that will enable support for
newer hardware. The higher the letter, the newer the
kernel build (they will not show in the Update Manager
kernel list, you can see them in Synaptic Package
Manager)

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Jessy
Clem, thank you for the update. The Software Manager is one of the
highlights of the Mint experience; I look forward to the improvements.

A question I have (and asked late last month, deep into the comments
section, so please pardon the repeat) is around the release of LMDE 6. I
believe a summer release in 2023 is a change in the cadence of the last
couple releases (roughly 7-8 months after the then-latest stable Debian
base). This is a pleasant change, and I’m wondering a) what led you and
your team to work on LMDE sooner and b) if this change will start a new
release schedule moving forward.

Thanks! This looks to be an exciting summer for the Mint project!

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Michael Webster
@Jessy

In that note in last month’s blog, he meant that Debian


12 is due for release in June, not LMDE6. Other than
investigating a bug report or two from folks testing
Bookworm, we won’t begin work on the new LMDE till
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after the Debian release.

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RJZ
As I am sure the Mint team has noticed, many of us
are starting to prefer LMDE over the headline Linux
Mint release. Please keep the LMDE work coming!

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anonymous
Clem, that #@(%ing Sucuri is still blocking access to ALL Mint pages
from my VPN provider’s connections! I have to use an anonymous link
to view the site (which also disables my font-adjusting add-on, causing
readability of pale fonts to plummet). Also can’t use your RSS feed to
know when a new article has posted. I hope you can do something
about Sucuri’s overly aggressive gatekeeping.

As usual, thanks for all the beautiful work on Mint! You guys continue to
astound.

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Henri
Same problem here with Sucuri, I have to use a web
proxy to visit this website.

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Secret-chest (https://Secret-chest.github.io)
Hi Clem, just wanna say a short thank you. I really love this distro, I don’t
want to switch. You put a lot of care into meeting the users’
expectations, making great software and making it look polished. You’re
the best. <3 Mint

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Anonymous
Awesome, great work! Can’t wait for the new release.

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Nich
What standard color will the folders have?

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Secret-chest (https://Secret-
chest@github.io)
Sand, but they will have the other colour versions too.

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Clem (https://www.linuxmint.com)
Standard color will be the same as in 21.1 but without
the stripe. The new settings will make it super easy to
switch to blue/blue.

June 2, 2023 at 6:35 pm (https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4518#comment-370029


Seba
Thanks for the constant effort to improve Mint.
I’m looking forward to using touchpad gestures, it was something that
was missing. Perhaps for future developments they can also integrate
the Power Pro�les [something that GNOME and Plasma already have], it
would be something very useful for installations on Laptops, at the
moment I use the Power Pro�les applet, but I think it is something that
should be by default in Cinnamon.

Thanks in advance!.
PS.1 I hope that for Mint 21.2 they can update the Flatpak version, there
are security and compatibility improvements that are necessary.
PS.2 I hope you can consider adding the Tela icon theme, it is one of the
most complete

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BerlinViking
Yes, power pro�les would be super helpful, as well. I’m
not an expert but my feeling is that Linux is in general
worse in battery management. I installed Linux Mint on
my XPS13 three years ago and I immediately noticed
thetoshorter
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I have also an older XPS14 and battery performance


dropped, as well. Maybe it’s due to the fact that Linux
is very common on servers and battery lifetime is not
relevant in this �eld.

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Philippe
Congratulations for the work done, you will now be able to concentrate
on the development of LMDE6.

In this regard LMDE was considered to be the second best Linux


distribution derived from Debian by Debugpoint congratulations !!!

https://www.debugpoint.com/debian-based-linux-distributions/
(https://www.debugpoint.com/debian-based-linux-distributions/)

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Jeremy Boden
+1

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RJZ
+1 also! LMDE rocks.

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RJZ
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+1 also, LMDE rocks!

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chris
i love LMDE! thank the teams!

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Ed
+1
Je suis très curieux.

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Harry W. Haines, III
+1 LMDE

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Chibouki
LMDE is the best.

June 2, 2023 at 11:18 pm (https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4518#comment-370067


Steve
I see Mint 21.2 is sticking with kernel 5.15 for LTS and 5.19 is due to
expire in August 2023 … will kernel 6.2 be pulled in since ubuntu is using
that now, or at least kernel 6.1 since it was deemed LTS?
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If not, will LMDE 6 be using kernel 6.1 like bookworm is? I may decide to
switch from ubuntu based to debian based Mint for the support in the
newer kernel version.

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Infoset
Great job!

Can we expect an improvement: renaming a �le/folder using a


gentle/slowinf double click, as in KDE?

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SebastJava
That’s already available in Cinnamon’s �le manager,
Nemo. Go to:
Preferences > Behavior tab > Behavior section: Click on
a �le’s name twice to rename it

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Mike F
That’s already been available in Cinnamon for quite a
long time, actually.

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Óvári
Can you please add in the default Cinnamon calendar applet (bottom-
right) multiple time-zones (locations)? Thank you

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Seba
I think there are applet that have this function, it
shouldn’t be di�cult to implement. They could also
add opening the calendar when double clicking on
some day [like in elementaryOS]

June 4, 2023 at 9:41 pm (https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4518#comment-370226


Anne
Replace the standard one with World Clock Calendar
and you’re good to go. I did it to show the 4 different
time zones my company works in.

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Tom
Will the Mint-X issue with dialog windows be �xed? I can’t see which
dialog option I’m selecting when using keyboard to navigate.

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Sim
When can we expect 21.2 ?

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Pramukh
I am really waiting for LMDE 6.

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Tim
Thank you Clem and the team for all your hard work!!! Please consider
bringing back KDE plasma edition.

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Bob
+1. Plasma 6 looks like its going to be great. A mint
version would be wonderful. Does anyone really use
XFCE Mint anymore ?

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Pramukh
Answering
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trust me; no other XFCE (including MX Linux and LMDE


5) works such smoothly on my HP-15-da0296tu, Intel
i3-7th, 4GB RAM machine. My laptop is quite old, but
only Mint XFCE performing well. I tried almost every
distro and every desktop environment.

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kevnad
Very good news for the gestures handling ! Does it include 1 to 1
gesture for expo/workspace switching and zoom in applications such
as xreader/evince ?

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Ludolph
Clem, will be available LM 21.2 Edge ISO with kernel 6.x? On some new
HW (like my brand new DELL Precision 3480) is not possible to boot
and install LM 21.1 via USB.

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=209943
(https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=209943)

and “nouveau detected pr support will not use dsm” problem

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Soremir
Thank you very much for your hard work. It is the best linux distribution!!
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Gabriel
Thanks!

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Warren Pettingell
Thanks for all the diligence!!

There was a past noti�cation of problems with installation on a


Secureboot machine. Will this be resolved by the release of 21.2? I have
a Windows box I’ve been meaning to evolve.

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Ínitu Castilhos
Hello! How do I create my own style of themes? Well I create a Min-Y
Theme style with Yaru-Mint icons – https://www.gnome-look.org
/p/1998332 (https://www.gnome-look.org/p/1998332)

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Jhonatan
Linux Mint is the only distro that manages to keep me as a faithful user,
it’s been 8 years that I only use Mint, mainly with Cinnamon.

Clem, if possible I would like to ask for 5 improvements for Cinnamon, I


believe they are simple:
1- Allow changing the wallpaper every N seconds, currently the
minimum is 1 minute;
2- Allow merging wallpaper from different directories (something like
the Variety app does);
3- Allow placing different wallpaper (in slide) on each monitor;
4- In the Cinnamon menu put an option to change the layout, something
similar to the Cinnamenu applet;
5- Make it so that when clicking on the Bluetooth applet it appears if we
want to allow the receipt of the �le if there is any �le pending receipt, if
there is no �le to receive when clicking on the aplet it opens the
bluetooth manager.

That’s it, sorry for putting these items here, I still have to �gure out
which page I can contribute ideas to the project.
Thanks.

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Molazziz
Why is any Firmware updates from the Ubuntu Base so painfully slow to
download?

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Ian
Are the Linux Mint Forums having issues today? I can get to the main
page for the forums, but any area I try to click on (“Beginner Questions”
for example) results in an instant error response of “http 502” (Backend
or gateway connection timeout).

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Ian
Forgot to add: The error page shows the connection
failing between “Sucuri Firewall” and “Hosting
Timeout”.

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guidgen
Yeah, I have exactly the same problem, so I guess it’s
global issue.

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opsimath
Clem – Why not put a message here to explain what is
happening?
Or on the linuxmint.com home page?
Or somewhere?

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opsimath
Clem – thank you very much for putting a message on
the forums page. Much appreciated.
Just for interest, the message reads:
We’ll be back soon!
Sorry for the inconvenience. The Linux Mint forums are
not available at the moment.
The team is doing maintenance work to improve the
database performance.
We expect to be back on Friday.

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Clem (https://www.linuxmint.com)
SMG and Xenopeek are migrating towards a database
engine which doesn’t lock tables. They’re hoping it will
signi�cantly improve performance. Because of the size
of some of the tables this migration is taking a while.

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opsimath
Another thing I have noticed is that the Community
website has changed.
Now the tutorials are no longer there.
They have been moved to somewhere that needs one
to register.
We still have tutorials in the forum.
Maybe that’s enough?

Clem – there was one by you about installing Mint on a


Mac.
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It was about eight years old, and so probably out of


date.
I could actually do with one – preferably in the forum –
because someone has a 2008 Macbook laptop.
I tell him it’s not safe to use and he should install Mint,
He doesn’t know linux and I don’t know Mac.
What do you think about tutorials?

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opsimath
Forums now working. Excellent!
Any thoughts about tutorials on community website?

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Frankie (http://mint)
Why can’t we have a working google earth in synaptic package
manager?

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Clem (https://www.linuxmint.com)
Google Earth is in the repositories. It’s regularly
updated using the latest from Google.
http://packages.linuxmint.com
/search.php?release=any&section=any&
keyword=google-earth (http://packages.linuxmint.com
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derk p
after nearly a decade of using mint i think its time to go back to
windows. i cant take the freezing desktop anymore. ive changed
browsers, ive tried everything. this is never going to be what people
want it to be.

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Adabiel
After more than 15 years of using Linux Mint and other
distributions, the Mint main system, I also come to a
similar conclusion. It always amuses me that in the
monthly news appearance the main theme is
COLORFUL ICONS etc. And things that didn’t work like
that don’t work anymore. It doesn’t mean that I don’t
appreciate the enormous work put in by the team
to work on the release of the new Mint. On the
contrary, it is my main system and I like it very much, I
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appreciate it for its simplicity without unnecessary


�reworks for the fact that it works and works well, but
it looks quite old. I think the Mint team is going in the
wrong direction. For me personally, it would be good to
go mainly in the direction of LMDE, but this is my
private feeling.

June 9, 2023 at 6:20 am (https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4518#comment-370734


Tony W
For the record, I can’t really recall Mint Cinnamon ever
freezing on me but it may have happened a few times
over the many years I have used it.

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Clem (https://www.linuxmint.com)
Same here. It’s extremely rare nowadays for GNOME or
Cinnamon to freeze. If you get freezes you need to
start by understanding a sure way to ALWAYS make
the freeze happen. Then hopefully, unless it’s hardware
related, a developer can reproduce the issue and that
can lead to a �x.

June 9, 2023 at 7:35 pm (https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4518#comment-370780


Luke
My Mint froze in the past a few times but it only
happened when I booted from a USB stick. Later I
discovered that it happened because in that case the
amount of memory to use was seriously limited. My
installed Mint never freezes. How about the memory
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limit in the ‘General’ section of the Settings – doesn’t it


work?

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bkilinc
This must be a rare case. I guess a decade long linux
user, just solves the problem or thinks of switching to
another distro. I experienced a freeze lately and
disabled hardware accelaration in �refox and it is
gone.

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Radoslav (http://mint)
I too would like to have a working google earth package in Linux mint
and lmde5. Clem, are you listening?

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keyword=google-earth (http://packages.linuxmint.com
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Adabiel
I have four user accounts and when I switch from one to another, a
black panel background appears with no icons on the left and right.
When I click on the panel bar with the mouse, a black menu without
subtitles develops and I can’t click on Start Cinnamon Again, I have to
do it manually. And this problem occurs every day, regardless of
whether I reinstall Mint from scratch.
I would like to mention that my computer is of a good class with a good
processor and a lot of RAM for linux or windows requirements

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bjo rii
Can you please make LMDE 6 in Xfce? It would be much appreciated=)

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Alex P.
Hello, Clem, many thanks for your work. Some time ago, if I’m not
mistaken, after updating Cinnamon to ver. 5.4, some system keyboard
shortcuts stopped working. In particular, the increase and decrease
opacity shortcuts no longer work, and the only way to increase opacity
is to use the mouse wheel on the window title, but this does not work
for all applications. Is it possible to �x this broken functionality?

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aio
I was using LMDE5 and with no problems. But I recently changed Wi�
card for a Wi�6 one and after looking for a solution with no positive
results I �nally tried to update Kernel.
I did this, found in a LMint blog but I don remember which one (thanks
to the person who posted this):
apt install -t bullseye-backports linux-image-amd64 linux-headers-
amd64
After reboot, wi� conection was ON and working �ne. aybe LMDE will
come with a kernel upgrade enough to make this work too, but
meanwhile i am using K6 and I don know if this is a good idea or not,
though all is working perfectly now.

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aio
Doing uname -a shows this:
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Linux mipc 6.1.0-0.deb11.7-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC


Debian 6.1.20-2~bpo11+1 (2023-04-23) x86_64 GNU/Linux

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Dude
Hello, just a suggestion about Bulky. For quite some time I was trying to
easily rename �les according to the pattern samename (1), samename
(2), samename (3) etc, so with all �les having the same names but
different numbers. Now I know how to do it, by typing ***** in “�nd” and
newname (%n). A newbie will have problems �nding the solution. Could
you just indicate this method in Bulky itself?
BTW Waiting for Victoria with lots of positive emotion

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Fashionandstylez (https://fashionandstylez.com.ng
One of the things I like about Linux Mint is the way changes &
improvements & new features are implemented in small step changes
i.e. No Massive shocks. No just dumping things on the end users. I love
Mint and I think it’s WAY WAY BETTER than MS Windows and I also like
that the developers really consider the end users. Thank you Clem thank
you to ALL those involved in developing Mint. respect indeed.

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