Monthly News – January 2026

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Hi everyone,

Before we start with the news, I’d like to thank you for your donations and for your support!

We received donations from more than a thousand people in December! I know I talked about this before, but I’ll do it again because this number of donors in a single month is unprecedented. I like to imagine that many people gathered together at the same time just to support our project. It’s humbling and incredibly motivating. I feel really proud of this community and delighted to see how happy you are with our work. Thank you so much to all of you!

Mint 22.3

Linux Mint 22.3 was a very good release. It came out later than we anticipated, but it was very well received. The beta phase was longer than usual, but it allowed us to gather feedback, address many issues, and review some of the choices made during that time, in particular around the newly introduced Cinnamon menu and keyboard layout/IM (Input Method) configuration.

Keyboard Layouts and IM

Work continues on improving input methods. It came to our attention that some users like to use layouts which do not match their physical keyboard when using IM. I spoke with someone who writes in both French and Japanese. I do this myself on an ANSI keyboard using French/US and Mozc. He has different keyboards on different machines, some ISO/French, some Japanese, and he doesn’t care about the physical layout. He just wants the logical layout to be French when writing French and Japanese when using Mozc.

This isn’t something we anticipated, but we want to support it going forward. We’re working on making it possible to set a specific keyboard layout when configuring an input method.

Forums

I’d like to apologize to our forum users for how slow and unreliable the forums were last month. The volume of traffic we receive is extremely high, and it’s mostly coming from AIs, bots, scripts, and web crawlers. It got to the point where our server couldn’t cope and people weren’t able to use the forums.

In addition to the Sucuri WAF, it took us a while to come up with an efficient way to filter bad traffic. If you’re getting 403 errors from the forums right now, please make sure your browser is up to date.

We upgraded the server to give it 10× the CPU capacity and twice the bandwidth.

Users and Account Details

For some reason most Linux desktop environments have come up with their own tools for user administration and account details. It’s a pity because this is typically an area which belongs to distributions and which cannot be and certainly isn’t properly handled by desktops. As a result these tools lack support for a lot of new use cases and they’re not well maintained.

In the next release, the Administration Tool (mintsysadm) will handle user administration and account details in editions where the desktop tools can be hidden.

 User management in mintsysadm focuses on the most common tasks. Once a user is set up, that user can set up a password and finalize the account without admin intervention. Home directory encryption, which until now was only supported during the OS installation, is fully supported during the creation of new user accounts.

Webcams are fully supported when taking selfies (i.e. you can see yourself before taking the snap, and decide whether to mirror the webcam or not).

Avatars come with full HiDPI support and look crisp on modern hardware.

Cinnamon Screensaver and Wayland

The Cinnamon screensaver only works in X11. It’s a standalone application which runs in its own process and uses the GTK toolkit. X11 is responsible for making sure it sits on top of Cinnamon’s window manager and hides the windows when the screen is locked.

One of the goals for the next Linux Mint release is to implement a new screensaver which will:

  • Replace the existing one
  • Work in both Wayland and X11
  • Be natively rendered by Cinnamon’s window manager (compositor)

The benefits are significant:

  • Smoother transition/animation during screen lock
  • Better integrated look and feel (We’ll be using the same toolkit as the one made for the panel, menus, applets)
  • Full Wayland support (This is the last missing piece of the puzzle for Cinnamon to fully support Wayland)

This is one of the big things we’re working on right now. I’m not showing you pictures yet until this is ready 🙂

Wayland support so far has been “experimental”. Once all the pieces are in place, we can support it and start testing it as a potential solution. We know there are pros and cons to X11 and Wayland, and we want to support both. Supporting Wayland doesn’t mean we’ll start using it by default, but it makes it a possibility. As always, we’ll end up using what works best for most users.

Longer Development Cycle

If we look back at the last ten years and the projects we invested resources in, we see two things. Well, I see two things anyway, I hope you’ll agree 🙂

I think one of our strengths is that we’re doing things incrementally and changing things slowly. We are introducing change and sometimes it annoys some of our users, but we’re doing it in a way that doesn’t radically affect who we are or the user experience we provide.

Another important strength of ours, as I see it, is that we value our independence and we are able to react and develop our own solutions when we’re not happy with the alternative. We made some bold moves in the past, sticking to LTS, rejecting Snap, developing alternatives to a new GNOME that didn’t feel like GNOME, and I’m really glad we did. These decisions weren’t easy to make and some of them cost a huge amount of time and resources to implement. But looking back, I think they were key. I think we’re first and foremost an operating system: a product, a user experience. We’re also a “distribution”, but we’re not just a distribution.

Whether we “distribute” (for instance with KDE) or we actively develop solutions (for instance with XApp and Cinnamon), we spend a lot of time in release management. Releasing often is important because it means we get a lot of feedback and bug reports when we introduce changes. We follow the same process over and over again. It’s a process that works very well and it produces these incremental improvements release after release. But it takes a lot of time, and it caps our ambition when it comes to development. With a release every six months plus LMDE, we spend more time testing, fixing, and releasing than developing.

We’re thinking about changing that and adopting a longer development cycle. As it happens, our next release will be based on a new LTS and we just ran out of codenames 🙂

Stay tuned, we’ll have more information on this. Obviously the codenames strategy doesn’t matter much, but we are very interested in adopting a longer development cycle.

Sponsorships:

Linux Mint is proudly sponsored by:

Gold Sponsors:
Linux VPS Hosting
IPv6.rs
Silver Sponsors:
Datadog
Sucuri
ThinkPenguin: For Everything Freedom		 Bronze Sponsors:
AYKsolutions Server & Cloud Hosting
Agile.Coach
BGASoft Inc
C0MPLÉX1 SEO
Chargeblast
nesevo GmbH & Co. KG
Tinken Inc
VANT

Donations in December:

A total of $47,312 were raised thanks to the generous contributions of 1,393 donors:

$1000 (8th donation), Gerald L.
$382 (2nd donation), Walter G.
$380 (5th donation), Secret Adventures Kauai
$371 (6th donation), Soldev sàrl
$360 (2nd donation), IURII M. K.
$318 (16th donation), Jiří B.
$318 (5th donation), Pieter S.
$300 (29th donation), John Mc aka “Land Research Project“
$300, Anonymous
$265, Dr. M. K.
$250 (4th donation), William P.
$218 (6th donation), Michael M.
$212 (8th donation), Marcus H.
$212 (6th donation), Wolfgang S.
$212 (2nd donation), Lutz K.
$212 (2nd donation), Marco Q.
$212, Christian B.
$200 (19th donation), Tomasz E.
$200 (2nd donation), Gail N.
$200, Bob Lee
$200, dana C.
$200, Nathan E.
$200, P. K.
$200, Thomas J. P.
$159, Linux-Café Stuttgart Kaltental
$150 (5th donation), Lee R.
$150, Janette J.
$127 (2nd donation), Andre V.
$127, Andreas L.
$127, Christoph S.
$125 (7th donation), Alex O.
$125, Ian C.
$120 (2nd donation), Evan R.
$120, M.S.
$116 (2nd donation), Thomas M.
$106 (16th donation), Torsten P.
$106 (11th donation), Karl H.
$106 (7th donation), Marek Stapff
$106 (3rd donation), Jukka H.
$106 (3rd donation), TURBOKAN_TR
$106 (2nd donation), Dirk H.
$106 (2nd donation), Laurens R.
$106 (2nd donation), Malte F.
$106 (2nd donation), Michael M.
$106, Alenka S.
$106, Andrea B.
$106, Andreas F. M.
$106, David G.
$106, DR. B. R.
$106, Jens D.
$106, Jesper R. aka “Kaptajn”
$106, Jörg B.
$106, Lars K.
$106, Lars K.
$106, Manuel H.
$106, Oliver K.
$106, Patrick B.
$106, Roland L.
$106, Stefan P.
$106, Thomas J.
$106, tim H.
$106, tobiasblaser.ch GmbH
$106, VITTORINO D.
$106, Yvonne T.
$106, ZDENĚK ČERVENKA aka “neo75”
$100 (15th donation), Mountain Computers, Inc aka “MTNCOMP aka GGPCTU“
$100 (15th donation), James F.
$100 (12th donation), Michael S.
$100 (11th donation), Richard H.
$100 (5th donation), Jan A.
$100 (5th donation), JimQ
$100 (5th donation), Matt S.
$100 (5th donation), Michel R.
$100 (4th donation), Larry M.
$100 (3rd donation), Andreas K.
$100 (3rd donation), James M.
$100 (3rd donation), John M.
$100 (3rd donation), Kirby S.
$100 (3rd donation), Robert S.
$100 (2nd donation), Snap Programming and Development LLC
$100 (2nd donation), Janice H.
$100 (2nd donation), Patrick A.
$100 (2nd donation), Peter W.
$100 (2nd donation), Steve
$100 (2nd donation), Tim H.
$100, Adam M.
$100, Brandon T.
$100, Bruno H.
$100, Charles C.
$100, David C.
$100, Gary E.
$100, Jim W.
$100, John D.
$100, John L.
$100, Kevin J.
$100, Kyle C.
$100, Mario D.
$100, NILS K.
$100, Ted F.
$100, thomas K.
$100, William B.
$84 (3rd donation), Jean-françois G.
$84, Claudia D.
$75, Hayden J.
$75, Thomas C.
$75, Vincent N. M.
$74 (7th donation), Jean-baptiste P.
$74, Theoharis T.
$73 (2nd donation), Tim D.
$71, Peter C.S. Scholtens
$63 (4th donation), Edoardo R.
$63 (3rd donation), Katharina G.
$63, Christian S.
$63, Lukas Z.
$63, Tony J.
$60 (7th donation), David K.
$60, Michael J. L.
$58 (2nd donation), Wolfgang Vee aka “elch01”
$57 (4th donation), VVV
$53 (27th donation), Hans J.
$53 (24th donation), Bjarne K.
$53 (24th donation), Naoise G. aka “Gaff”
$53 (19th donation), Paul S. E. aka “Paul”
$53 (17th donation), Christian G. aka “Chrissy”
$53 (14th donation), Jyrki A.
$53 (12th donation), More Linux
$53 (11th donation), Martin R.
$53 (10th donation), Jürgen F.
$53 (9th donation), Jose L. D.
$53 (8th donation), Armin F.
$53 (7th donation), Christian T.
$53 (7th donation), erwn16 aka “erwn”
$53 (7th donation), Luis R.
$53 (7th donation), Marco van den Berg
$53 (6th donation), akaIDIOT
$53 (6th donation), Anton M.
$53 (6th donation), Colin H.
$53 (6th donation), Florian L.
$53 (6th donation), PulpKult
$53 (6th donation), Wielant B.
$53 (5th donation), Athanasios M.
$53 (5th donation), Marius M.
$53 (5th donation), Peter G.
$53 (5th donation), Stefan G.
$53 (4th donation), Alexandre H.
$53 (4th donation), Andreas N.
$53 (4th donation), Hans-peter M.
$53 (4th donation), Ian C.
$53 (4th donation), Pascal B.
$53 (4th donation), Vincent
$53 (4th donation), Wolfgang W.
$53 (3rd donation), Arie N.
$53 (3rd donation), Benoît H.
$53 (3rd donation), Hubert S.
$53 (3rd donation), Kai K.
$53 (3rd donation), Kati S.
$53 (3rd donation), Ludovic M.
$53 (3rd donation), Martin M.
$53 (3rd donation), Peter B.
$53 (3rd donation), Reinhard B.
$53 (3rd donation), Salvatore C.
$53 (3rd donation), Sebastian Münch
$53 (2nd donation), Andreas B.
$53 (2nd donation), C. J.
$53 (2nd donation), Claudia H.
$53 (2nd donation), Dominik S.
$53 (2nd donation), Eckart H.
$53 (2nd donation), G.J. Doornink
$53 (2nd donation), Hans S.
$53 (2nd donation), Hendrik S.
$53 (2nd donation), Herbert Jan K.
$53 (2nd donation), Holger S.
$53 (2nd donation), Klaus S.
$53 (2nd donation), Markus S.
$53 (2nd donation), Michael V.
$53 (2nd donation), Paolo Z.
$53 (2nd donation), Peter K.
$53 (2nd donation), Philippe E.
$53 (2nd donation), Raymond L.
$53 (2nd donation), Robert G.
$53 (2nd donation), Ronny J.
$53 (2nd donation), Seb aka “mr.pip”
$53 (2nd donation), Silvan S.
$53 (2nd donation), Simon W.
$53 (2nd donation), Stefan A.
$53 (2nd donation), Stefan G.
$53 (2nd donation), Thomas K.
$53 (2nd donation), Volker W.
$53, Andre M.
$53, Andrea B.
$53, Andreas Z.
$53, AndyNL
$53, Armin S.
$53, Austin J. S.
$53, BOGDAN C. C.
$53, Camille P.
$53, canitzp
$53, Christian K.
$53, Christian S.
$53, Christophe B.
$53, Daniel
$53, Dario R.
$53, Darshaka P.
$53, Detlef H.
$53, Di G. L.
$53, di G. L.
$53, didier M.
$53, Dieter H.
$53, Dirk Annema
$53, Dirk M.
$53, Dominik B.
$53, Egmont S.
$53, Emile T.
$53, EUGENIO B.
$53, Fabian S.
$53, Finley M.
$53, Florian K.
$53, Frank
$53, Frank H.
$53, Frank S.
$53, Gerald K.
$53, Giancarlo G.
$53, Gilles
$53, Gisela T.
$53, Isolde M. B.
$53, Ivo H.
$53, Jan G.
$53, jan V.
$53, Javier G. V.
$53, Jens W.
$53, Jim R.
$53, Joachim S.
$53, Joao M. aka “DeLinuxCo”
$53, Johannes G.
$53, Johannes W.
$53, Jon B.
$53, Julian H.
$53, Jürgen W.
$53, Klaus S.
$53, Knut G.
$53, Krings D.
$53, Lars P.
$53, LAURA N.
$53, Leendert-Jan F.
$53, Marco O.
$53, Marianne R.
$53, Markus N.
$53, Martin .
$53, Massimo L.
$53, Matjaz C. aka “TitoJBroz”
$53, MIchael B.
$53, Michael S.
$53, Michele M.
$53, Mike L.
$53, Milan M.
$53, Musie B.
$53, Oliver P.
$53, one2seven GmbH
$53, OSL Learning & Media Ltd
$53, Peter Z.
$53, Ralf F.
$53, Ralph G.
$53, razes G.
$53, Rickard S.
$53, Robert S.
$53, Roland G
$53, Roland K.
$53, RONALD O.
$53, Ronald S.
$53, Sebastian K.
$53, Simon P.
$53, Sooom.de / Thomas Schäfer
$53, Stefan H.
$53, Stefan K.
$53, Stefan Z.
$53, Sven D.
$53, Sven N.
$53, Thierry V.
$53, thomas K.
$53, Thomas P.
$53, Tilen B.
$53, tomas M.
$53, Tomi G.
$53, Uwe G.
$53, Ville O.
$53, W.H.MOLLOY
$53, Waldemar S.
$53, William M.
$53, Wolf K.
$53, Wolfgang S.
$53, Yannick B.
$51 (23rd donation), Adam K.
$50 (15th donation), Mothy
$50 (12th donation), Anthony C. aka “Ciak”
$50 (11th donation), Christophe Caillé aka “KKY”
$50 (11th donation), Stuart B.
$50 (10th donation), William G.
$50 (9th donation), Stacey F.
$50 (8th donation), Brian S.
$50 (8th donation), GELvdH
$50 (6th donation), Chris C.
$50 (6th donation), Harrison W.
$50 (6th donation), Kurt T.
$50 (6th donation), Stephen C.
$50 (5th donation), Don aka “Don“
$50 (5th donation), Doug S.
$50 (5th donation), Guillermo A.
$50 (4th donation), Brian B.
$50 (4th donation), Chad B.
$50 (4th donation), David Diaz
$50 (4th donation), Evan S.
$50 (4th donation), Ivan D.
$50 (4th donation), John D.
$50 (4th donation), Julie A G.
$50 (4th donation), Khalid T. aka “k9750”
$50 (4th donation), Peter C.
$50 (4th donation), Robert L.
$50 (3rd donation), Alan G.
$50 (3rd donation), Alejandro R.
$50 (3rd donation), Dan B.
$50 (3rd donation), David B.
$50 (3rd donation), Dominic M.
$50 (3rd donation), Eddie B.
$50 (3rd donation), Josh G.
$50 (3rd donation), Mark M.
$50 (3rd donation), Michael M.
$50 (3rd donation), P D.
$50 (3rd donation), Peter L.
$50 (3rd donation), Sharon S.
$50 (2nd donation), Allan C.
$50 (2nd donation), Bruce L.
$50 (2nd donation), Christopher D.
$50 (2nd donation), Eugene W.
$50 (2nd donation), John B.
$50 (2nd donation), Michael H.
$50 (2nd donation), Rusty D.
$50 (2nd donation), Shawn S.
$50 (2nd donation), Stefan D.
$50, Adriaan V.
$50, anonymouns
$50, Anonymous
$50, Brad S.
$50, Charles L.
$50, Curtis M.
$50, Dana H.
$50, David L. B.
$50, David N.
$50, Denny F.
$50, Diego S.
$50, Doug S.
$50, Douglas B.
$50, Evan S.
$50, Felix C.
$50, Garry G.
$50, George W.
$50, James W.
$50, Jason E.
$50, john B.
$50, Joshua H.
$50, Josiah H.
$50, Kai H.
$50, Kathleen K.
$50, Keir J.
$50, Kurt K.
$50, Loren D.
$50, Mark M.
$50, Michael C.
$50, Michael L.
$50, Michael S.
$50, Mitchell W.
$50, Nathan
$50, Nickolas B.
$50, Phillips H.
$50, Piotr S.
$50, Praneeth
$50, Randy L. aka “R.D.”
$50, Ricardo P.
$50, Riley W.
$50, Robert B.
$50, Robert G.
$50, Robert S.
$50, Ron F.
$50, Rose P.
$50, Shaun J. V. N.
$50, Shawn H.
$50, Stanley V.
$50, THOMAS R.
$50, wayne G.
$49 (9th donation), GASHIGULLIN D.
$48 (6th donation), Ingo S.
$47, Ronny K.
$45 (7th donation), Lloyd H.
$44, WALLY J.
$42 (12th donation), Pavel B.
$42 (9th donation), Frank W.
$42 (7th donation), Mathias P.
$42 (5th donation), Björn H.
$42 (2nd donation), Jörg W.
$42 (2nd donation), Steffen G.
$42 (2nd donation), Walter W.
$42, Alexander B.
$42, Alexander L. aka “Lexolas”
$42, Antonio B.
$42, Elia V.
$42, Hannelore O.
$42, Hannes B.
$42, Joerg F.
$42, Julia S.
$42, Martin K.
$42, Uwe K.
$41, Alfredo Cattaneo
$40 (3rd donation), Cecil H.
$40 (3rd donation), Charles W.
$40, Jude M. M.
$40, Ryan S.
$38 (2nd donation), Tommi AV aka “Tombie75”
$37 (2nd donation), Karl A.
$37 (2nd donation), Thomas K.
$37 (2nd donation), Walter G.
$37, Lukas W.
$37, Thomas K.
$36 (2nd donation), tommy W.
$36 (2nd donation), 何源
$36, Sheldon B.
$35 (8th donation), Ricardo M.
$35 (8th donation), Thomas H.
$35 (5th donation), Steven H.
$35 (4th donation), Keith P.
$35 (3rd donation), Carol B.
$35 (3rd donation), Rodney M.
$35, Amarjit B.
$35, David J. C.
$35, Dennis B. O.
$35, JAIME P. B.
$35, Müller S.
$35, Steven L.
$32 (4th donation), Harry F.
$31 (15th donation), Bill Metzenthen
$31 (12th donation), Alexander M.
$31 (11th donation), Peter aka “miesepeter”
$31 (9th donation), Daniel K.
$31 (8th donation), Alessio B.
$31 (8th donation), Wolfgang S.
$31 (6th donation), Gerard B. aka “Djé”
$31 (5th donation), Amir Perviz
$31 (5th donation), Johann K.
$31 (4th donation), Floris V.
$31 (4th donation), Marcus R.
$31 (3rd donation), Boris B.
$31 (3rd donation), Manfred S.
$31 (3rd donation), Stephen M.
$31 (2nd donation), Erwin T.
$31 (2nd donation), Jahn Baers
$31 (2nd donation), Joseph D.
$31 (2nd donation), Klaus D. J.
$31 (2nd donation), Tony M.
$31, Andreas L.
$31, Antje K.
$31, DAVID M.
$31, Florian N.
$31, Frank A.
$31, Gérard P.
$31, Hans J. C.
$31, Joachim G.
$31, Lars S.
$31, Olaf B.
$31, Oliver H.
$31, Paweł G.
$31, Robert M.
$31, Thomas K.
$31, Uwe B.
$31, Wolfgang H.
$30 (9th donation), Bob Tregilus
$30 (4th donation), Bart L.
$30 (2nd donation), Christopher W.
$30 (2nd donation), Judy S.
$30 (2nd donation), Paul G.
$30 (2nd donation), Simon B.
$30, Adrian R.
$30, Jan W.
$30, Markus S.
$30, Russell S.
$29, Joel M.
$28, Peter H.
$27, Gordon S.
$26 (16th donation), Roger aka “GNU/Linux werkgroep“
$26 (11th donation), Jürgen B.
$26 (10th donation), Juergen S.
$26 (9th donation), Sebastian J.
$26 (5th donation), Fais T.
$26 (5th donation), Raimund L.
$26 (5th donation), Sape S.
$26 (4th donation), Florian H.
$26 (4th donation), Mark
$26 (4th donation), Rainer G.
$26 (4th donation), Robert L.
$26 (4th donation), Udo J.
$26 (3rd donation), Alexander B.
$26 (3rd donation), Matthias G.
$26 (2nd donation), Daniel S.
$26 (2nd donation), Daniil S.
$26 (2nd donation), Dirk D.
$26 (2nd donation), Douglas K.
$26 (2nd donation), Jacob S.
$26 (2nd donation), Marco A.
$26 (2nd donation), Philipp H.
$26 (2nd donation), Sébastien T.
$26 (2nd donation), Sven W.
$26, A.B. H.
$26, Andreas L.
$26, Andreas W.
$26, ANTONIO A. G.
$26, Bernardus J. V. Z.
$26, Bernhard S.
$26, Bernhard S.
$26, Christian-Marcel C.
$26, Denis S.
$26, Dieter R.
$26, Dr. D. R. N.
$26, Florian G.
$26, GGK Managementsysteme
$26, Jan Wameling
$26, Jochen G.
$26, Lars K.
$26, Lise C-D
$26, Luca S.
$26, Lynne P.
$26, MACE B.
$26, Michael Z.
$26, MR A. W. L.
$26, Philipp K.
$26, Philipp R.
$26, Ralf K.
$26, Thomas K.
$26, Uwe S.
$26, Winfried R.
$25 (58th donation), Linux Mint Sverige
$25 (22nd donation), Richard N.
$25 (18th donation), John W.
$25 (18th donation), Vaughan Butler
$25 (13th donation), Todd W.
$25 (11th donation), John N.
$25 (10th donation), Brian H. Y.
$25 (10th donation), Edmond I.
$25 (10th donation), Robert S.
$25 (6th donation), Edward C.
$25 (6th donation), William C.
$25 (5th donation), David P.
$25 (4th donation), Chris L.
$25 (4th donation), Thomas S.
$25 (3rd donation), Andrew R.
$25 (2nd donation), Chris H.
$25 (2nd donation), Daniel B.
$25 (2nd donation), Isahann Hanacleto aka “isahann, isaque, iso“
$25 (2nd donation), Paul G. A.
$25 (2nd donation), Steven K.
$25, Anthony E.
$25, Christopher K.
$25, Emilie H.
$25, Fabricio M. D. S.
$25, Geoffry B. S.
$25, James T.
$25, James W.
$25, Keshav A.
$25, Lincoln R.
$25, Raghu M.
$25, Sarah E.
$25, wijtske I. R.
$24 (2nd donation), Ansgar M.
$24, Roland S.
$23 (13th donation), Alessandro S.
$23, David L.
$22 (13th donation), Malte J.
$22, Robert H.
$21 (75th donation), Michael R.
$21 (66th donation), Peter E.
$21 (33rd donation), Stefan W.
$21 (31st donation), Doriano G. M.
$21 (28th donation), Benjamin W. aka “UncleBens”
$21 (19th donation), Janne S.
$21 (13th donation), Rob B.
$21 (13th donation), Wolfgang N.
$21 (12th donation), Anne-christine U.
$21 (12th donation), Frank V.
$21 (11th donation), Andreas M.
$21 (10th donation), Jaime aka “¡Fuera los gringos de Venezuela! Trump, keep out of Venezuela!”
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119 comments

  2. Hi Clem

    I totally agree one of the strengths is the “slow and steady” approach, plus keeping older themes, menus etc around for those that prefer them is a big plus. People have choices and do not have to change if they do not wish to do so, as everybody ahs their own ideas of what is an improvement.

    Another major strength is the fact you and the team do listen to what people are saying and what they would like to happen. And in my opinion, you clearly communicate the reasons why things are done as they are, and why some things may not be possible.

    No one can please everybody all the time but I think you are all doing a great job and Linux Mint continues to be a fantastic distro! I look forward to the new changes

    Reply

  3. Thanks for the news, the new user account administration UI looks great.
    Would it be possible to add the things from the gecos field (room, telephone number, etc.) to it?

    Reply

    1. Hi Karl,

      It would be easy enough to support GECOS, but it’s not something people use in general, and it’s information which isn’t shown anywhere in modern desktops.

  4. Great work, Mint team!
    Re the forums, 99% of the time, I am blocked from even just displaying and reading the site (and frequently the Mint Blog, too), presumably due to the VPN I use (AirVPN). Sometimes I can get in if I switch to a VPN server in another country, but not always. That kind of aggressive gatekeeping makes it difficult to find Mint-specific answers. 😉

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    1. I’m actually using AirVPN right now and I’m able to access the Mint blog without any issues.
      It seems to be working fine on my end.

    2. I’m on ExpressVPN and I tried several location servers, but there’s an – at least – 50% chance of the site, including blog, being blocked by Sucuri. This is becoming an increasing problem on many sites, not just LM. I’m unsure what a long-term solution can be; obviously a lot of traffic through VPNs is “shady”, so I sorta get why they become blacklisted, but it hits those of us who use a VPN all the time to increase security.

  5. First!

    Always nice to be first.
    Great to see that Wayland is ready to leave experimental soon. I’ll probably switch then.
    Overall it seams that 2025 was a good year financialy for the team 🙂 Nice to see that people chip in.

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  6. What does a longer development cycle mean? Does it mean that instead of two new releases per year, there will be one release per year?

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  7. Speaking of Wayland support, I noticed one problem with 22.3 that I didn’t notice before (or maybe I haven’t tested it in a while and this has been an ongoing thing since some point after I last tested it). In the most recent Cinnamon version, if I try out the Wayland session, logging in just gives me a black screen and a completely frozen system, without even being able to drop to a terminal screen. My only option is to force it off by holding down the power button. And when I do that, I end up with a corrupted hard drive. I have to use fsck to correct it. In my previous testing of the Wayland session, it always worked perfectly fine, to the extent that the experimental nature of it allowed. I’m not sure what changed, but if anyone knows of a solution to this issue, I’d appreciate it. I’d like to get this working by the time Wayland support becomes completed.

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    1. This a known problem, and we’ll definitely have it settled before we get anywhere close to ‘completed’. For now I’d recommend rebooting first before changing session types (don’t log out and log back in to something different, *reboot* and log back into something different). This should avoid the ‘black screen’ issue here.

    3. Tried it. After rebooting, I changed to the Wayland session before logging in. It still went to a black screen and froze. I’ll just give up on testing the Wayland session for the time being. I don’t want to mess with needing to repair my hard drive too much. I’ll try it again when it’s officially complete.

    4. @Michael Webster Thanks for the hint! Mind that in the case of automatic login the I can’t think of a way for rebooting and choosing another session, so if Cinnamon is unbootable I don’t know how to fix it.
      Wither way, thanks for your hint. I’ve disabled automatic login and I’m rebooting now to test the Wayland session. Wish me luck…

    5. Hi Mike
      You wrote: “My only option is to force it off by holding down the power button. And when I do that, I end up with a corrupted hard drive.”

      To easily restart a freezed Linux use the system request functions.
      In /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq add (or change the value to 1) “kernel.sysrq = 1” and restart your computer.
      When your system freeze press simultaneously right-alt + print screen (the sysreq key) and type slowly
      r e i s u b.
      To remember the letter sequence memorise this sentence: Raising Elephant Is So Utterly Boring.
      r give the acces to the keyboard
      e send a “terminate signal” to all process except init (equivalent of kill -15)
      i send a “kill signal” to all remaining process except init (equivalent of kill -9)
      s send a sync command to keep your system consistent
      u remount the file system to read only
      b reboot

    7. Hey Mike!
      It didn’t end badly but, as expected, Wayland is not totally done yet. It solves some scaling problems (on X11 my WinRAR is so tiny I can barely read things there) nicely but it seems less performative than X11 on video playback and playing Brutal Doom, so I’m keeping myself on X11 for now. Yet it is good to see that Wayland is getting there.
      And I’m happy that the new admin tool will deal with users as I had autologin enabled on mine and the Cinnamon config tool for the users wasn’t having any effect on this, it was just being ignored and I had to manually remove the commented line from /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf.
      Cheers Mike!

    8. @Claude, what is this right-alt + print screen mode you mention? What does it do? I can’t find anything about this and I’m mistakenly pointed out to the printscreening of a selected screen area.
      Will this mode also work when pressing Ctrl + Alt + F1 (or another Function key) doesn’t work?
      Thanks for any info, cheers.

    9. I recently solved quite big problems when my keyboard and mouse input did not work. In Windows or Linux. I had to do a hard reboot. NTFS crashed. BTRFS survived. I just manually ran scrub. I recommend this FS, although LM does not support it in the sample. You need to recreate the swap file. But it is a simple operation with a few commands.

  8. I have been updating on a regular basis, and have just discovered my Photo’s
    no longer appear; cannot find any occurrence elsewhere; Any advice.

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    1. I had a similar thing happen, where thumbnails stopped being generated. I tried clearing the thumbnail cache, reinstalling the thumbnailers, etc. Everything people suggested. What I ended up doing that fixed it was to go through the list of xapp-*-thumbnailer packages with Synaptic Package Manager, uninstalling one of them, clearing the thumbnail cache, testing thumbnailing, then reinstalling the one I just uninstalled and moving to the next one in the list and repeating the process until something different happens. I discovered that xapp-gimp-thumbnailer was the culprit. I’m assuming I have a GIMP file somewhere that’s maybe corrupt or isn’t compatible with the thumbnailer in some way, and it’s causing thumbnailing to freeze up in the background when it’s read. Since I don’t do very much in GIMP anyway, and when I do, my filenames are descriptive enough, I just left that uninstalled, and everything else works perfectly now.

  9. Hi there,

    Thanks for your excellent work, I’m a long-time Mint and now LMDE user. Home directory encryption with ecryptfs is deprecated and has been for a long time, it’s basically unmaintained now. Are there plans to replace ecryptfs with something else like fscrypt?

    I use fscrypt now (set it up manually), and it works great.

    Hamish

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  10. Maybe it will be better to follow a model something similar to Ubuntu’s LTS releases. Point releases may be only for bugfix/HWE and feature developments may be done only between major releases. I think this kind of model would give more room to the team for feature developments. I don’t think the userbase would mind as many people use Linux Mint because it is stable and predictable, not because of receiving new features every 6-7 months.

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  11. Nice to hear that wayland support is nearly finished.

    Will it support primary selection / middle button paste? That’s IMO a killer feature of C.

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  12. 22.3 is a good release indeed. I only have one issue with it: keyboard layout switching is now way pickier than before. When I use I always use Alt+Shift to switch, and before 22.3 it was always easy to switch by pressing and releasing both keys in either order. Now the layout only switches if I release Shift while having Alt pressed. It’s quite annoying, and I hope I don’t have to get used to that. 🙂 If necessary, I’ll open an issue on GitHub – though those take ages to get addressed.

    Here’s a wish for mintsysadm, since I see you’re focused on improving the user experience. Please consider a service manager. It would be nice to have a list of services with descriptions and their status, so we can tweak the ones we want enabled and disabled. That’s one of the last big things that are important for proper system management and it would be great to see it in the next LTS.

    Oh… about the next LTS. 🙂 Since Ada was only released as a beta, how about Ada Reborn? 🙂 It was actually the only “main” edition based on KDE, and a full cycle later Cinnamon is really mature and will probably be ready for Wayland too. “Reborn” would be quite a fitting addition to the original name after going this far on so many fronts.

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    1. On my old laptop it was the same after updating the OS. The solution suggested in the second message of this post helped: “https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxmint/comments/1qbwcjl/keyboard_layout_switching_feels_broken_after_mint/”. That is, the keyboard layout is set in a different place. Now everything works as before.

  13. You should consider changing the naming scheme to reflect the year and month when a version was launched. Instead of Linux Mint 22.3 Cinnamon, for instance, it could be Linux Mint 2026.1 Cinnamon. That way, people look at the name and understand that this is Linux Mint, with the Cinnamon desktop environment, and was released on January 2026. That’s just my opinion.

    And please consider adding blurred transparency support to Cinnamon. COSMIC is working on that and it looks absolutely gorgeous. If you have the time, of course.

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    1. I’d also want a more significant version number. Since Mint is based on Ubuntu, I’d like it to use the version number of Ubuntu, and for LMDE the version number of Debian is it based on.

    2. I don’t think the year.month numbering is really good, for the current release cycle.
      I like the 22.3 cos it immediately says it’s the 22.x cycle – so based on the same LTS as 22, and that I can check if needed and it’s the only one I need to check. By changing to the year.month style, it’d be more complicated, especially in years like this – 2026.01 is based on 24.04, but there will be easily a 2026.x based on 26.04…huff! But also for a 2025.x release – what LTS is that based on? what number was the last LTS anyway? I’d have to check, and so any advantage is lost.
      (Not to speak of the case that the devs decided to make another point release and postpone the new LTS-basing: a real mess!)

      Maybe I’d agree if only the main version number was based on the latest LTS – 24.x for the 24.04 cycle, 26.x for the 26.04 and so on. But tbh I also like that Mint has its own version – it’s an independent project, yes it’s based on the latest LTS but is that really so important?

  14. I was unable to set up Mozc to work with ibus on 22.3. But it was already a bit hard to set it up on previous versions of Mint anyway. I’m using Fcitx now. I only used ibus because I thought emoji support was a bit better. But I can live with Fcitx with no problems.

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  15. Well it is interesting to know about it, just a couple of questions if I may:

    * Regarding the users module on mintsysadm, what the difference would be in using either the Users & Groups app and other general and/or generic solutions available? At least from the pictures it seems that you are trying to make it as close as that and I guess that it might either duplicate efforts or keep both options (I understand that many “minttools” are not compatible outside of Ubuntu/Debian/LMDE)

    * I was not expecting that Cinnamon Screensaver were the one kind-of stopping you to fully migrate to Wayland, I hope that your work there can help you into ease the transition

    * I also agree on the “going slow” development style, as someone who is looking into entering development, agile methodology is not precisely one of my strongest things, we just hope that this change doesn’t affect you that much.

    * With the next LTS available, are you going to consider migrating to a newer GTK eventually, even with the several things involved? I understand that GTK4 is kind of hard, specially given that it has been developed mainly around libAdwaita though is not mandatory, but many changes might be around and that would be helpful for you eventually

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  16. LM 22.3 is really excellent, the new menu is super adaptable. I agree that changes should be introduced slowly because of the stability that Mint has been providing to its users for years and that’s what it’s known for. When I switched from Win10 to Mint, I got a lot of recommendations for Linux Mint, which means that people recognize the quality and reliability of the operating system. You should always keep up with the times and some new standards, for me personally Xorg is OK because it’s compatible with practically all available Linux programs, so that Wayland is a good additional option for people who need it, and the fact is that still not everything works very well in Wayland.
    If new versions of Mint will be released less often in the future, I personally do not care if this will contribute to the quality of the final product, because it is nice when the system works, without headaches for the end user, and it also allows developers more time for new features and improvements to existing ones.

    I noticed that a new Fasly repository for Linux Mint appeared in Software sources. Do you plan to switch completely to fasly.linuxmint.io soon or will packages.linuxmint.com still be used?

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  18. Hi,
    I support a longer development cycle, preferably one release per year, if this will lead to a modernization of some apps, e. g. comments and highlighting text in xreader or highlighting parts of a screenshot. I miss some functionalities which I need for my daily usage.
    I expanded nemo-image-resizer last year with the support of ChatGPT codex and VScode because I am neither familiar with C nor GTK. The support was impressive, especially in the area of bug fixing. I think that these tools can play a key role with regard to advancing Linux Mint.

    Despite everything, I would like to thank the Mint team for their good work!

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  19. I agree. With all the changes now going on in the Linux world, being on a six-month release cycle with a small development team is akin to being on a treadmill.

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  20. Super happy to hear you’re working on screen savers for Mint. It seems like a silly thing, but it’s one of the things folks have commented on a lot when they walk by my desk (Linux Mint XFCE + the extra xscreensavers-gl packages). I like having the GNOME backend with Cinnamon because it means we can (BASH) script changes/customizations to the interface pretty simply. Thanks for all your work!

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    1. I assume he is only referring to the Mint screensaver. There sadly isn’t any way to run the old X11 screensavers under wayland.

    2. I don’t think they’re working on *that* kind of screensaver. What they now refer to as the “screensaver” is just the blanked screen with a dimmed background and clock that you currently get with the Cinnamon edition. I *WISH* they still had the fun screensavers like xscreensaver does. But what I think this means for you is that when Cinnamon moves to Wayland, their clock and dimmed background “screensaver” will work. And since xscreensaver is X11-based, it likely won’t be an option any longer. Screensavers of the past are sadly seen as unnecessary, outdated, and not worth including as we move forward. 🙁

    3. @Mike, sadly we have abandoned Johnny Castaway to his own fortune on his tiny island. I hope he’s fine.

      (Johnny Castaway was the “very bestest” screensaver Man has ever coded)

  21. Wow!, it’s amazing the damage AI is doing to the whole industry. Having to scale up the CPUs of a server an order of magnitude and double its network bandwidth just to deal with all this scraping. And we down here, with the price of RAM and storage.

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  22. Thank you for all your amazing work! FWIW, I think you summarise Mint’s strengths perfectly. I’m happy to accept whatever release cycle you think works best and I trust you to continue to make solid development choices. I’m pleased to see that finalising Wayland as a production option is a priority too. Keep up the great work!

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  23. I still use version 21.3 in two computers. No problem with you people opting for a slower, longer release cycle. Linux Mint if one of the best distros over there. Please keep it the best.

    Thanks for all your efforts.

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  25. This comment is a bit late, but the new System Info app on LM 22.3 is one of the most useful new features I’ve experienced in a long time. I especially appreciate how I can see which USB devices are using/sharing which bus. Good job, LM team!

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  26. I have been using Linux Mint for over 10 years already. The day I that removed WINDOW from my computer I felt relieved. My old computers (more than 15 years old) still runs so fast! I love the work that you do.

    Slow release is good, because you need time to test everything. Make sure the upgrade is stable and 100% working. I am happy with the Linux Mint and I don’t see you need a big change or upgrade.
    It’s the speed and the easy to install software from the Software manager that I love Linux mint.

    The ONLY wish that I have is to make the navigation menu or userinterface a bit more beautiful.
    But don’t change it completely, because most WINDOWS users who are switching to Linux Mint won’t be able to adapt.

    I have choosen Linux Mint, because I was a windows user.
    At that time (and still now) Linux Mint Navigation is very similar to Windows. It was for me easy to adapt

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  27. I agree, annual incremental updates would be fine for me.
    Also naming scheme should reflect release year and “pet” names could be dropped completely

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  28. As someone who has been using LM as a desktop for a long time, I have to say that a longer release cycle will be good for me. I can’t speak for those who use LM for other purposes, but one release per year sounds reasonable to me. Incidentally, I recently had the opportunity to work on Arch for a month, and only now do I understand how refined and well-thought-out LM is. Thanks for the good work.

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  29. Thank you very much for the wonderful operating system made by the Linux Mint team. There is another useful feature that I would like to use – quick file search from the main menu. Similar to how it works in Gnome and KDE. I found that this feature is in the Cinnamenu applet. But it does not work for searching by Cyrillic characters (Cyrillic is the main one on my system).
    Is this feature difficult to implement? Will we ever see this in Linux Mint?

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    2. Yeah, Krunner is really good thing about KDE. Cinnamon could probably benefit from similar solution.

  30. I heard the driver manager from Ubuntu based Mint works without issues on LMDE (with debian repos) too. If that’s the case then why not include it by default on LMDE too?

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  31. The longer development cycle is a great idea, in mho. Even one release per year is more that enough. Eg v.24 in 2026 and v24.1 in 2027; then v25 in 2028. Or even better follow the year: v26, v27 (based both in the same base), v28, …

    Keep up the good work!!

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    1. Heck they could call the versions:

      – v26 (2026, new LTS)
      – v26.7 (2027, based on v26)
      – v28 (2028, new LTS)
      – v28.9 (2029, based on v28)
      – v30 (2030, new LTS)
      – v30.1 (2031, based on v30)
      – v32 (2032, new LTS)
      – v32.3 (2033, based on v32)
      – etc

      Since LTS happens in an even year, the mid-cycle “update” version taking place on an odd-number year can use the decimal place to similarly indicate the year since they will never occur on a year ending in 0 anyway so you wouldn’t run unto a v30 LTS ▶ v30.0 “mid-cycle update” confusion issue.

  32. Wayland is working better and better on my LMDE 7 .
    It is now as reactive as X11. Good work.
    I just noticed the lost of the multiple selection in a list of emails with thunderbird when cancelling.

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  33. I really liked the yearly updates. I think it would be great to rename the naming scheme after the year, so it’s easier to understand if you’re on the latest version or not—even though 23 is kind of close to 26.

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  34. I would also opt for stable longterm releases for both LMDE and Ubuntu-based editions. Don’t need to release each six month or so. Better stable and everything works OK. Meanwhile please release up to date ISO’s more frequently for all editions. Every couple of months or so. Keep going strong…2026 will be a good Minty year :=)

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  35. Hey LM Team!
    I think if you run out of names, you can start again from the beginning, which is the letter A, but this time, name them differently, so there won’t be any confusions among codenames as the one named Ada that came out many years ago and the new 2026 “Ada”. There are a plenty of female names starts and ends with letter ‘a’ such as “Angela”, “Amara”, “Amelia”, “Aurora”, “Alessia” and so on, which I believe any AIs can help you list them well 🙂
    kudos to you all!! thank you very much!

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  36. First, I would like to thank the LM team for their constant dedication to improving Mint and Cinnamon, which is greatly appreciated.
    Regarding release cycles, perhaps one option would be to release once a year (adopting the code name of the year, e.g., Linux Mint 2027) and perform specific updates (not ISO releases) on specific dates, similar to Ubuntu’s HWE updates.
    Overall, I am very happy with Mint Cinnamon, and if reorganizing the release cycles lightens the load on developers so they can focus on the core, I have no problem with that (as long as LMDE doesn’t die). Mint is a popular distro because of its stability and ease of use, so any changes that preserve that will be welcome.

    PS. Clem, some names: Zephyr, Zia, Zirel, Ziva, Zoey, Zora, Zuzy

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  38. First of all, I want to say that I didn’t really like the new menu. It’s shorter in height — I know it can be stretched — but I find it excessively cramped and small.

    Second point: is it still worth keeping two ISOs of a “lighter” version? You should decide between MATE or XFCE; it doesn’t make any sense to maintain both.

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    1. MATE is more stable than XFCE and Cinnamon. Those who have used MATE, have experienced it. XFCE is good for very old hardware (say 15 years or older which are still in perfect condition and just need a good OS to go on further). MATE is best in stability for most hardware with moderate resources. Cinnamon is all about appearance and looks but consumes lots of resources.
      Sadly, the mint team in not focusing on improving MATE and XFCE , thats the problem. Atleast, once every 2 years, the team should completely focus on improving MATE and XFCE, rest of the time can be spent on other things.

  39. Hello!

    I can see the point of a longer development cycle; I support that idea.

    I too (i.e. in addition to another poster here) must disable my VPN before I can access the Mint forum. Or at least: in the past, I have had to do that often; or at least, often, I have been able to access the forum only after disabling the proxy that my VPN provides and recommends. The lack of a dark mode on that forum is another problem that I have with the forum.

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  40. Will the new screensaver apply to Xfce as well? It had an issue with the existing screensaver/light locker where all network activity is prevented within like a minute of it activating, making it difficult to download large files for example (I don’t believe Cinnamon had this issue)

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  41. Thanks for the hard work guys!
    I don’t mind the slower development cycle at all.
    A question about Patreon: I’m not given the choice of the monthly amount I’d give.
    Is there a way to give a monthly contribution with the amount of my choice please?

    Thanks again!

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  42. To save resources, can the official Linux Mint release based on Ubuntu be dropped?

    Can Linux Mint, based on Debian, be the default?

    For the longer development cycles, can the version of Linux Mint be the year of release?

    For example, if the next release of Linux Mint is in 2027, then it could be called “Linux Mint 27.”

    What do you think?

    Thank you

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  43. 22.3 I boot from memory stick by f8 boot. When it comes up the date time is always wrong AND changes time date when I go back on to Windows 11 boot. What can I do. Updated all no help.

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    2. Linux usually saves the UTC-time in the hardware clock. Windows saves the local time. You can change the behaviour on the Linux side. But you have to look in “the web” for the proper way for changing that in Linux Mint. (My knowledge dates back to dual booting with Windows98 in the 1990ies.)

  45. Not once in your entire “Monthly” news did you mention “Mate”, it is frightening to realise that it will be abandoned soon. Vastly superior to cinnamon – as I suggest most Mate users will atest – Of course I will reluctantly transition to cinnamon – at least in cinnamon, the “favourites” can have their “application comments turned of (I have found ways to turn these off in 90% of my programs) on my vastly superior MATE desktop. Regardless of my “dying” preferences, I want to thank you for your commitment to “Linux Mint”

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    1. Out of curiosity, I’d like to know what you prefer in Mate vs Cinnamon.
      I have tried Mate a few times but found it lacked many things from Cinnamon or even XFCE.
      Very few panel extensions for instance.
      Thanks in advance for your input.

    2. I’m also a long-time happy MATE user, and I sure hope MATE continues. If not, I’ll probably look for a different distro. I like the old style menu. The choices for Cinnamon, including menu changes, just seem bizarre to me. I also greatly prefer the Synaptic package manager, for that matter. It’s more granular – I always prefer software applications which are information crammed, rather than simplified. It’s a shame that every time there is a Mint update, at least for MATE, Synaptic is wiped out and I have to re-install it again.

      I really don’t want a lot of OS changes. I’d prefer the OS to be stable and solid, as MATE is, so I can focus more on learning new applications while the base stays the same. MATE has met all my needs since it came on the scene. I judged it far superior to Cinnamon when they first started, and have seen nothing that changes that opinion.

      Is MATE “going away”? I hope not.

      PS: Clem et al, no matter what happens going forward, thank you for everything you do to make this such a wonderful OS.

    4. I don’t think anyone said Mate is being abandoned. It’s not talked about because there is no development happening with it. If Mate dies, it will be because no one is working on it anymore. In that case, going to another distro won’t do you any good.

    5. @John, you can install Synaptic, it’s still there in the repos and working perfectly. It now seems to be automatically uninstalled every Mint version upgrade and you then need to reinstall it manually, but apart from this minor inconvenience it’s still there in the repos for us. Cheers.

    6. @John, if you want stable and solid, you may want to install Debian then.
      You can select the DE of your choice, including MATE during install.

    7. For God’s sake, MATE is a zombie of Gnome 2.x. It makes no sense to maintain two lightweight versions, especially when resources are scarce.

  46. The Linux world is full of opportunities: hundreds of distributions available to everyone, and countless projects designed to meet a wide variety of needs and use cases.
    The fact that there is such strong and active participation in donations for Linux Mint/LMDE shows that many people truly appreciate your work and the decisions you make.
    It would be wonderful if every Mint/LMDE user donated even just 1 EUR or a little more the total annual amount would make a real difference.
    1 EUR, the price of an espresso who wouldn’t want to offer you at least a coffee for your excellent work?
    I agree with a slower release cycle. For me as well, upgrades always felt a bit uncertain.
    As for the new menu, I have to say I really like it. It may not be perfect, but it is certainly more attractive and modern than the previous one.
    Thank you for everything.

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  47. Hello Clem,

    Thank you for this informations.

    – Longer Development Cycle

    As more and more users switch from Windows to Linux Mint, that you are gaining popularity and donations, a longer development cycle poses a problem because it does not guarantee compatibility with recent hardware.

    From my point of view, two solutions would be viable :

    a) Hire more developers/testers

    b) The identity of Linux Mint is Cinnamon > Abandon the Mate version, which offers nothing more than Cinnamon and whose user rate must be low (there are no statistics on this subject). Possibly offer its installation via the tasksel utility, but no longer maintain it in ISO form.

    c) If possible, keep XFCE for machines with low computing power, if you don’t have any issues with not having enough time to manage this release, create ISOs, or perform maintenance. Perhaps the XFCE team could provide you with additional human resources when creating your ISO’s ?

    d) Possibly encourage the creation of community ISOs (as proposed by Fedora, Ubuntu, etc.) with alternative desktop environments.

    Personally, I haven’t been developing for a long time, but if I can help you in any way, send me an email.

    Best regards.

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    1. I hope Clem ignores your suggestion to downgrade support for Mate. It has been my preferred DE for many years. Long may it continue.

    2. @RichT54

      As mentioned above, after installing Mint Cinnamon, you can add the Mate desktop by opening a terminal and running the « tasksel » command.

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      That option would be unacceptable for me. If that happened my response would sadly be “goodbye Mint” after many years.

    4. @RichT54

      If the Mint team is struggling to maintain its ISOs as described, it must make choices, which is legitimate. And inevitably, the choices that have the least impact on users as a whole will be the best ones.

    5. After thinking about it, I came up with another way to save human resources: Only offer ISOs for major versions of Linux Mint with the Mate and XFCE desktops (23, 24, 25, etc.) and therefore only offer ISOs in intermediate versions for the Cinnamon version (22.4, 23.1, 23.2, etc.).

      The final decision rests with Clem.

      However, I would like to point out that removing the intermediate versions of Cinnamon would ultimately result in a significant loss of Linux Mint users who need recent kernels during installation (and recent AMD and Intel firmware for processors), as well as a recent version of Mesa (and AMD-GPU firmware) to run their machines.

      Regards.

    6. @RichT54
      Can’t you see, how entitled your opinion is? It’s absolutely crazy, let me translate it to you…
      “The option to change DE to one, that I currently use (and it’s pretty much in development hell, if not dead) is unacceptable for me. I demand you to make an ISO with mentioned DE for me. If you won’t release ISO with this (dead) DE, then I will stop using this open source software, that it’s being released free of charge for me (and also for anybody else).”

    7. @Srandista

      Thank you for your comment. Just to be clear – I’m not demanding anything. I am happy to use Mint in its current form and have made a number of donations to help support the project. I fully understand that Clem and the Mint maintainers have to assess whether they can continue to support all the formats that they currently do and that it is for them to decide what they will provide in the future. Equally, it is for me to decide whether any future version of Mint still meets my needs and, if not, change to a different distribution.

  50. “For some reason most Linux desktop environments have come up with their own tools for user administration and account details. ”

    Does this include Xfce, Mate or both?

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  51. New features yearly would not be a problem, the only problem I can see with a slower releases cycle is that many do donations on releases, there could be an impact on that.

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  53. Great job. @Clem, I don’t know if you will see this — and it is out-of-band for this blog entry — but wasn’t sure how else to communicate it: Kudos to you for your response on this issue (https://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon/issues/13370). I, too, was taken aback by some of the responses and they seemed childish. You and the others have produced a great OS which serves many very well. It’s a big job and I want you to be able to continue what you describe in this entry. Thus, I am a (meager) supporter. Thank you for all you do.

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    1. I second IronRod’s comments. I reviewed the entire Git 13370 and once again, Clem demonstrates true leadership, in the face of something else. To all the Linux Mint developers and the entire community, WE have your backs, as you have OURS. Thank you, ALL, for the wonderful work you do, for all of us!

  54. Thanks for the great work! Is there any chance of adding VRR and HDR to Cinnamon? Personally, I think those two features are the only things missing in the DE.

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  55. You could use the same release schedule as LMDE: One release every 2 years, using a stable base, and keep adding new features via updates! Thus, no need for interim releases at all! You could use the numbering of the year, eg LM 26 this year. Also you could release refreshed ISO (like 26.1, 26.2, …) that would simply contain all updates up to that time, only for new installations of LM.

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    1. This way, the upgrade procedure would be simpler. Now, you have first to upgrade to .3 release and then upgrade to the next major version! A 2-step upgrade procedure. With LMDE it is simpler, because there are only major releases, and the upgrade is a one-step thing!

    2. The release schedule of LMDE is determined by the release schedule of Debian.
      Debian follow a schedule of “release when its ready, not before” – so no guaranteed date.

  56. I’m very happy with Mint Cinnamon, thanks team for your excellent work.
    I see no problem with a longer development/testing cycle.

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  57. Hi Clem,

    I am a very big fan of Linux Mint, starting all the way back from version 8 Helena (https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=1155).
    Unfortunately, for personal reasons, I am exclusively a GUI user, relying on Synaptic Package Manager instead of the Terminal.

    I would love to use LMDE, but I prefer the specific Xfce desktop environment polished by the Linux Mint team.
    I am writing to politely ask if the team would consider releasing an official LMDE Xfce ISO.

    I don’t want to use the Ubuntu-based Mint Xfce, and while I know I could try to replace Cinnamon with Xfce in LMDE myself, I am afraid of breaking the system and facing broken dependencies.

    An official, Mint-finished LMDE Xfce would be the perfect stable solution for users like me.

    Thank you for everything you do!

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  59. I’ve just make the jump to Linux Mint, coming from Windows. I’m still dual booting, just in case. So far everything is working pretty well, I like the overall vibe of the OS. The only problem I’ve had has been terminal not launching after a few days using Mint. I don’t know why and I couldn’t find the solution, I’ve tried all the suggestions given by ChatGPT but none worked. I end up installing a terminal called Xfce Terminal and problem solved.

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  60. I don’t see any problem with a longer development/testing cycle. I’m a user that is pretty happy with what’s available now – quite often, my reaction to new feature updates is “I didn’t even realize I needed that” – so one feature update a year would be fine with me. I’m very happy to be using an OS that just works all the time and leaves me feeling that I’m in charge of my PCs rather than the other way around.

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  61. Hello,

    Why not base the development cycle on LMDE, which works very well? For Mint Ubuntu, put one mirror on Mint and one on Ubuntu, and only release major version ISOs. That way, you would have time to develop your software and Cinnamon at your own pace, and release updates once they are ready, as you do for LMDE. Something must be escaping me because I don’t see the difficulty in doing so.

    Another question: can we put the comments in French because translation software isn’t always good?

    Translated with DeepL.com (free version)

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  63. Just an idea that crossed my mind…

    Since we’ve run out of alphabet letters to name Linux Mint, how about using the numerical base from 0 to 9 for the next releases?
    Numbers are just as important as the alphabet. The idea is to have each version named after a number written out in a different language.

    Below are a few examples.
    Additionally, with each launch, we could be introduced to a bit of the history and origin of the language that the number represents.

    0 – Sifer – Turkish
    1 – Wan – Mandarin Chinese
    2 – Dua – Albanian
    3 – Tria – Ancient greek
    4 – Catur – Sanskrit
    5 – Panke – Persian
    6 – Roku – Japanese
    7 – Siete – Castilian
    8 – Khemet – Egyptian
    9 – Nona – Latin

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  64. lmde7, update file-roller version? mint repo is 43.0 while debian repo is 44.5, might as well update it to latest which is 44.6

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  65. Estimado Clem:felicitaciones a ti y a todo el equipo de LM por el gran SO que uso desde la vercion 17 creo ser el mas longevo de todos los usuarios de LM (soy de la cuata edad) mi interes es ver TV en otros idiomas para no olvidarlos y uso Hipnotix para mi es un gran acierto de LM, abrazos de mi parte

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  66. Request the developers to please focus more on improving MATE and XFCE versions. Include basic features like night light and a quick setting menu like Win11 and Zorin OS to control all basic tools in a single place such as Bluetooth, Wifi, Nightlight, Brightness, sound etc. Currently, accessing these tools is really inconvenient and not at all user friendly.
    Hope to see these features in MATE and XFCE in the next version soon.

    Thanks for your work.

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  67. On lightweight DEs, how about support Budgie? It’s nice, the philosophy behind is similar to Cinnamon’s and it’s already Wayland ready unlike MATE and Xfce (which will use the alien Rust).

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  68. peut on faire les commentaires en francais?
    pour le cycle de developpement, pourquoi ne pas faire comme avec LMDE qui fonctionne tres bien

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  70. I appreciate your efforts keeping Linux Mint the go-to choice for former Windows users. Thank you!

    In light of how the various desktop environments are now imposing their own tools for user administration upon distros, perhaps it is time for Linux Mint to do one of 2 things: 1.) drop those desktop environments and stick to only offering Linux Mint’s own desktop environment, 2.) consider offering a traditional offline installer DVD for Linux Mint that has a choice of desktop environment, compositor (for LXDE/LXQt users), and init system at installation.

    Now, as for the state of California *demanding* Linux distros add spyware for “age verification,” I personally would love to see Linux Mint just tell California to “go to hell.” However, Linux Mint following the example of MidnightBSD and excluding the state of California is just as good. Why?

    I did not leave Windows 11 on account of their intrusive telemetry spyware, overbearing AI and Recall just to have Linux bend the knee to Nazi-style totalitarianism. Linux Mint is better than that. Lead Linux in the resistance and others will follow.
    #BlankIsBeautiful

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  71. I just recently read that Ubuntu plans to add mandatory age verification in compliance to California’s new law. Taking into consideration that I am not an American (nor I want to be), I deeply resent this Orwellian intrusion upon my personal privacy. Since when do I need America’s permission to use my computer in the privacy of my own home located outside of US jurisdiction?! I just want to listen to my mp3s and run Steam in peace! Will the Linux Mint development team comply with this nonsense or can non-American users count on Linux Mint telling California (and Ubuntu) to drop dead?

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  72. Personally i think the current cycle is good enough.
    In a time where most distros and the most popuular are going to rolling release, increasing even more the development cycle seems bad…
    Also, you said it yourself: Mint does small increments. Longer cycles will mean bigger changes or a slowing down of pace. Neither option is good…

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