Happy New Year!
Many thanks for your support and for your donations. We received $10191 in November and $24146 in December. The number of donors was also quite impressive: 383 in November and 751 in December!
I’d like to thank you all for this and what it means to us. It doesn’t just help us financially, it makes us feel awesome and extremely proud of you, of us, of our project and our community. Thank you!
Linux Mint 21.3
The BETA phase for Linux Mint 21.3 has been relatively quiet. We received 50 bug reports. 35 of them are closed.
We’ll tackle the remaining 15 this week and make the preparations for a stable release and an upgrade path.
LMDE 6
LMDE 6 will receive all the new updates featured in Linux Mint 21.3. This will happen shortly before the stable release.
21.3 EDGE ISO
During BETA testing we identified compatibility issues between Linux Mint and new hardware devices (recent AMD graphics but also wireless chipsets and SSD controllers used in Acer laptops). These are solved by upgrading the kernel series from 5.15 to 6.5.
We’ll therefore prepare a new EDGE ISO for Linux Mint 21.3 shipping with a kernel 6.5.
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What is the main reason to use the kernel 6.2 (with LM 21.3 EDGE ISO)? LM update manger shows current info, that this kernel should have EOL on February 2024 (next month?!).
EDGE ISO is extremely important due to the well known fact, that notebooks with INTEL CPU gen13 does not boot from any ISO with kernel 5.15.
I wonder the same thing. Why not use kernel 6.6 which is LTS and “ends” on December 2026? I’m sure they have their reasons, but I’d like to know just to learn.
Mint uses Ubuntu Kernels from kernel.ubuntu.org, same as Ubuntu’s HWE initiative, not upstream Linux Kernels from kernel.org
6.2 is the latest available there
The kernel will be updated to 6.5 by February 2024 and lastly to 6.6 LTS by August 2024. Linux Mint 21 is based on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS which maintains 2 kernel series, LTS and Hardware Enablement (HWE). The LTS kernel will always be 5.15 while the HWE kernel is updated every 6 months by February/August based on the latest Ubuntu non-LTS (interim) release kernel version and the last HWE kernel version will be the 6.6 LTS which will come with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. To use the HWE kernel install ‘linux-generic-hwe-22.04’ apt package and reboot. Kernel 6.5 is currently available by installing the ‘linux-generic-hwe-22.04-edge’ apt package which is like a staging package for the next HWE kernel update
Hi,
Tony explained it really well. We’re using LTS kernels for our releases and the latest available HWE kernel at the time, assuming it already has support for proprietary drivers, for our EDGE ISO.
That said, I made a mistake in this blog post. It is kernel 6.5 (from linux-generic-hwe-22.04-edge) we tested, not 6.2 (HWE), and that’s the one we’ll ship with.
I updated the blog post to reflect this.
2024 will be my 10th year using Linux Mint, I started with Mint 17 “Quiana”. Never looked back!
I started with xfce desktop, tried Cinnamon when I used Mint 18.3, but went back to xfce.
It has served me well on three desktop computers.
Thank You to Clem and all those at Linux Mint who provide and maintain such a great operating system.
It’s a Happy Tenth Anniversary for me personally, and A Happy New Year to Linux Mint and all you other Mint users.
Oh this so warmed my heart 🙂 On my second year myself with Cinnamon, and never looking back 😀
I too wondered about the choice of a 6.2 kernel, I have been using 6.2.0-39 and predecessors for a while with 21.2 Cinnamon, and suffered very slow recovery from suspend.
Then I found kernel 6.5.0-14 in the repository, tried it, and my slow suspend recovery vanished. Now rarely more than a second, on a not so hot (by modern standards) machine, Ryzen 3 300G with internal graphics. Suits me fine. I too migrated in the 17.something era, on an ancient core2quad with a bios dating from 2008. That is now running LMDE6. Love it, would never go back to Redmond Rubbish. Working on migrating others, pace slowly accelerating as we get closer to Dec’25.
Sorry John, it was a mistake. The post should have said 6.5.
Happy New Year Clem and Team. Thank you for making the best Linux distro and desktop environments and for protecting user freedom and Free Software Principles. Wishing you and the team a fantastic and fun 2024.
I’d be happy to donate but don’t have credit card/paypal. Can you please add some more common options for Europeans such as iDeal?
Happy New Year to the whole team; a question: why LMDE 5 will not benefit from updates as LMDE 6 will?
LMDE 5 is based on Debian 11 and this version of Debian is now in the “Old version section” of Debian repository
https://wiki.debian.org/DebianOldStable.
Since the release of Debian 12, Debian 11 like LMDE 5 is only updated for major security issues.
It is recommended to upgrade LMDE 5 machines to LMDE 6 to benefit from optimal support.
Happy New Year 2024.
Thank you for all the hard work. I am quite excited for Mint 21.3
Will there also be a Mesa update?
Hi Clem,
Pray you have a blessed 2024.
To help with dyslexia, please be kind enough to pop a comma in the donation values $10,191 in November and $24,146… (much easier to read). Thank you in advance! 🙂
Kind regards.
Awesome! I can’t wait for the upgrade!
Sadly, one Cinnamon menu bug I and some others have been reporting since LM 20 was first released doesn’t appear to be fixed yet in Cinnamon 6.0 in the beta (https://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon/issues/11123). I hope this get figured out soon!
Sorry, I meant since LM 22, not LM 20.
Geez. Again, I’m sorry, I actually meant LM 21. Apologies for my typos.
Happy New Year!
Hopefully this year we’ll get a fix for the iwlwifi driver. After occasional disconnects with kernel 6.1, upgrading to newer ones made it worse. With kernel 6.5 it’s so bad, I can get even tens of disconnects per hour. And them sometimes it works for an hour or two, and then more random disconnects. So for now I reverted to kernel 6.1, which sadly no longer gets updates, but at least the wifi is a lot more stable with it – despite still getting many disconnects a day.
I have an Intel AX201 on an MSI PRO Z790-P WIFI (MS-7E06) motherboard on Linux Mint 21.2 Cinnamon. Intel has been doing a very poor job in recent years.
Hello, I am very surprised to read you. I have 2 machines equipped with Wifi (Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX200 & Intel Wi-Fi 6E AX 211) which work with kernel 6.1 and I have no stability problems with Wifi.
Hi Clem,
Are there any plans to implement tool like Spotlight search is on macOS? Another feature I’d like to see is the ability to do a restart and have all your applications and windows open back like they were. MacOS does this also for unsaved files. I’m not sure what wizardry it would require.
Maybe Ulauncher serves you as a substitute for Spotlight
Albert Launcher
I’m not a Mac person, so never used Spotlight, but I’ve found a search tool called Recoll that locates virtually any item or keyword for me. Inside Emails, Documents, archives – it finds everything. I set it up to re-do it’s index scan during the night, via cron. Works very well. Recoll is in the Mint Software Repos. I also install it’s helper apps: cpan Image::ExifTool, antiword, unrtf. The first index can take a while, but subsequent runs usually go much faster. Never used a better search tool.
I think integrating Gnome’s search system in the Mint menu could also work, I think it shouldn’t be too much hassle since Cinnamon is based on Gnome but idk.
In the meantime you could try Cinnamenu which has search options for files, web search and browser history.
If you use spotlight only to run applications, you can just press the Super key and start typing, that works pretty well… 😉
To clarify. I use Spotlight to find files (finds by name and contents of the file), do quick calculations, start applications or navigate quickly to some specific system setting. I used to use Albert previously on Linux to get somewhat similar results, but it’s not working correclty for me anymore. Like for example I type in chrome and it will suggest me some obscure directory instead of the crome browser. Among other issues.
I see…
I wasn’t aware of Albert, thanks for that! 🙂 It seems to be pretty configurable, including enabling and disabling plugins – maybe it can be configured to refine its queries and get you a better result? 🙂
@Thomas Hansen It was also freezing and crashing and strangely the “3” key on my keyboard stopped working when Albert was running. Maybe it was bound as a hotkey or something, but I ended up just uninstalling it. I’d rather have this kind of very useful tool to be available by default instead of having to troubleshoot things.
Godbless Clem and his team.
Thanks for all your work. Also thanks to all supporters. Have a good 2024!
Wish you a happy 2024! God Bless! Mint is THE distro I always recommend, because you manage to satisfy all users: from complete computer newbies, to Windows converts to long-time Linux users. Everything is so simple yet powerful and customisable.
BTW my GitHub name is Secret-chest but I changed the comment name to this one, to reflect my new website…
Happy New Year! And congrats to the LM team for their continued great work! Looking forward to what you guys do in 2024!
Hi,
Wish you a happy new year!
May I ask whether it is feasible to upgrade from EDGE ISO for Linux Mint 21.2 to EDGE ISO for Linux Mint 21.3? Thanks a lot!
Best regards
Yakun
Thanks team for developing such a great OS. I changed to Mint from windows 10 back when mint 19 came out, and Ive never looked back. Mint is my weapon of choice, never had a days problem, never crashed, never frozen, it just works!!!!! And finding solutions for me is a welcome challenge that takes me back to my 80s computer days. Well done team, and keep up the good work!!!! Looking forward to the next update 🙂 Long live the penguin !
Any update for LM 21.3 Cinnamon ? Awaiting………….
Happy New Year and many thanks to Clem and the whole team! I’ve been using only Mint for more than 15 years now and LMDE for the last 4 years, I think. The Forums have answered all my problems – thanks so much to the experienced guys who check in and help out us, less experienced ones. Such a great family of users!
Downloaded Mint 21.3 mate and cinnamon. Copied .ISOs to Ventoy disk. Booted 21.3 mate from the Ventoy. Seems to be working. More later!
I installed Mint 21.3 mate on an NVME drive without difficulty and quickly installed several of my favorite application programs. So far my limited testing shows no problems.
To Jerry : Does it work with LMDE 6 iso on Ventoy? I tried and it doesn’t work for me.
LMDE 6 boots fine from the Ventoy flashdrive. I had trouble when I first tried Ventoy but some helpful folks pointed out that when the system says it is through copying the ISO to the Ventoy, it probably isn’t done. They said to type sync in a terminal and wait until it returns a prompt. Ventoy is very new to me.
Happy New Year to the entire Mint team 🙂
Thank you for your excellent work on EDGE ISO which will certainly be very useful for installing Mint on recent machines.
Thank you also for shortening the deadline for publishing the LMDE. It is very satisfying that the development, release and update priorities of LMDE gradually become similar to those of Mint 2x.x !!
Today I dream of a version of Mint for my RPi5 🙂
Sincerely.