Monthly News – November 2024

Hi everyone,

I hope you are enjoying the BETA so far!

This release introduces new features, tools, and artwork, so we anticipate a good number of bug reports. Every single fix helps us refine and improve the final release. Your feedback during the BETA phase is extremely important to us.

Linux Mint 22.1 is our second release based on the 24.04 package base. Some of the updates address long-standing usability issues we had  in some of the components we replaced. We’re confident these changes will lead to a very stable release.

So far, we’ve received 43 reports. Thank you very much to all the BETA testers for helping out and providing feedback. And many thanks to all of you for your support and your donations.

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A total of $11,849 were raised thanks to the generous contributions of 401 donors:

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$265, Alain B.
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$119, Thomas S.
$108 (2nd donation), Elmar V.
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8 comments

  1. Hello, dear Clem, I thank you and your team very much for the hard work you have done on the best Linux distribution Mint!

    Clem, turn the problem in the Nemo file manager to the absence of two very important functions – there is no viewing and editing photo-audio-video files that are located in the properties of the file itself. This function is required for both viewing and editing information about media files – title, album, genre, year, rating, and more. XFCE’s Thunar file manager has had such a feature for a long time and it works out of the box, but Nemo still doesn’t, which is sad.

    The second function missing is to put a password on any file, be it a video, a document, or a folder with images. In the same Thunar there is a third-party plugin, it seems called GCryFolder, to put a password on any file.

    You should also pay attention to a small slowness in Nemo, when files become several thousand more and sometimes weigh a lot, and sometimes a file manager and even a FileRoller It crashes.

    Still, it would not be enough to call the system monitor by clicking on the panel with the right mouse button. And support for fb2, epub, rtf, doc/docx and chm files to be read in xreader.

    Thank you so much for working in the convenience of Linux!

    1. Sounds like you are asking for a bunch of plugins, some of which you could write yourself via existing nemo features. As for fb2 or epub files, just open them with one of the many free readers available.
      What’s a chm file?

    2. epub is supported on xreader, I have version 3.2.3 and can read epub files without problem.
      For doc/docx, use libreoffice, why would xreader open those? It’s out of scope.

      If Thunar uses a plugin for putting password to files, then nemo can do the same, no reason for it to be part of nemo itself.

  2. Linux Mint is excellent, I’ve been using it as my main system for years.

    I’m in Brazil.

    A suggestion for version 22.1 is to leave the Start menu floating, detached from the taskbar, like KDE Neon.

    It would be very beautiful!

    Hugs and congratulations on the excellent system!

  3. Cordial saludo y gracias por crear LinuxMint, la mejor distribución de todas.

    Solo quiero exponer la necesidad de mejorar el sistema para compartir archivos desde LM hacia Windows sin necesidad de acudir a trucos y modificaciones del sistema, es decir, que desde el gestor de redes u otra herramienta, se pueda compartir sin tantos traumatismos.

    Gracias por tener en cuenta la sugerencia.

    1. He wrote (translated with Google translate):

      Kind regards and thanks for creating LinuxMint, the best distribution of all.
      I just want to express the need to improve the system for sharing files from LM to Windows without having to resort to tricks and modifications to the system, that is, so that from the network manager or another tool, it can be shared without so many traumas.
      Thanks for taking the suggestion into account.

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