Monthly News – April 2026

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Hi everyone,

Thank you for your support and your donations! Many thanks to everyone involved in helping Linux Mint.

HWE ISOs

Earlier this month we announced a longer development cycle and the decision not to release until Christmas 2026. To address compatibility issues with brand new hardware, we decided to start publishing updated ISO images called HWE (Hardware Enablement).

Linux Mint 22.3 was released in January with kernel 6.14. Today we’re publishing HWE ISO images for Linux Mint 22.3 with kernel 6.17. Going forward, we will publish HWE ISOs for the latest release whenever a newer kernel becomes available in the package base. Note that these ISOs are not new releases, but they are fully QA-tested and considered stable.

For more information or to download these ISOs: https://www.linuxmint.com/hwe.php

ALPHA Phase

We’re considering adding an ALPHA phase to the new release cycle. This would make it easier for people to get a preview of what is coming, and allow us to gather early feedback on some of the big changes we’re working on.

We have a new package base, a new screensaver, additional keyboard layout improvements, and a functional Wayland session. There’s a lot to test and more on the way.

Screensaver Bug Fix

Sometimes when you lock and suspend (this typically happens when you close the lid on a laptop), upon resume, you get to briefly see the session, until the lock screen appears. An update to cinnamon-settings-daemon (version 6.6.4) was pushed towards Linux Mint 22.3 and LMDE 7 to address this issue.

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Donations in March:

A total of $20,977 were raised thanks to the generous contributions of 692 donors:

$1000 (2nd donation), Marci S.
$636 (3rd donation), Natalya S.
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42 comments

  1. e quanto ao problema do amdgpu? vão resolver? a tela preta após passar da logo do linux mint, isso está aconecendo após eu ter q mudar a prioridade gráfica de radeon para vulkan dentro do grub, e esse problema começou a acontecer desde o kernel 6.17-14

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  2. Are there any plans in the works for Linux Mint to consider packaging another web browser/email client other than Firefox/Thunderbird? Firefox has had a good run but they are falling behind. Something along the lines of Brave/Geary that wouldn’t require the Linux Mint team to maintain?

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    1. I don’t usually comment, but I think it would be a bad choice to switch from Firefox.

      What’s wrong with it ?

      It is also the only actual browser that’s not chrome / chromium.

      Please keep Firefox.

    2. I second Mathieu P., there are plenty of web browsers in the repos from upstream at Debian/Ubuntu, and Firefox remains by far the best browser available and the only sane default in a wold facing the horror show of an increasingly monopolistic threat from Chrome and its army of clones. Surely someone upstream or at flathub would add and extra browser to the repos if there was a serious need, though there is no lack of options currently.

    3. I also don’t usually comment (this is my first time on here), but I second Mathieu’s statement. Please keep Firefox and Thunderbird, there’s nothing really wrong with them. I tried Brave on Zorin OS before (because it’s the default browser) and didn’t really like it. Just my opinion, though.

    4. Please keep Firefox/Thunderbird. At least if considering to change, add an choose at install time where the user can select one ore more browsers…

    6. Only worse from Firefox is palette of Chrome-based clones. (Chromium, regardless).
      Firefox comes with AI now, telementry before, Would not recommend using it.
      I wish Mint had more privacy focused Waterfox, as it has no PPA so not easy to install.
      Other alternatives worth mentioning are LibreWolf (has extrepo), Floorp (has PPA).
      Traditional browser outside of BigTech is PaleMoon, who can afford to miss some latest features.

    7. Brave shipped with Linux Mint? Oh why

      To add to Timur’s post, one can compile IceCat as well, or add it through Guix. Guix is available in the software manager.

    8. Thank you for keeping Firefox. It’s been improving (split view, tab preview etc) and its native pdf viewer is great. Now it allows manipulating pdf files, extracting and rearrangement of pages, highliting etc. And it renders text far better than most Linux viewers, oKular and xreader included.

    9. @ MZ
      “an increasingly monopolistic threat from Chrome and its army of clones”
      So, we should just make Firefox and its army of clones a monopoly instead then? A monopoly is bad regardless.
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      @ Stefan B.
      I agree with the last part, there should be an option to select which browser you want when you install it, since upstream Firefox (Non-ESR) collects almost as much data as Chrome. I also want a browser like Brave where there is an adblocker by default, and better search engine by default.
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      @ Dodo
      “Brave shipped with Linux Mint? Oh why”
      So that way you have a browser that has adblocking by default, no Mozilla spyware, and a better search engine by default, unlike Firefox and most of its forks. If Mint decided to go with a fork instead, Floorp, Zen, or Waterfox would be the preferred ones, sure they don’t have adblocking built-in, but they strip away the Mozilla spyware.

    10. Google as Microsoft take away managebility from users. Relevant here wrt ad-blocking: Chrome disabled uBO, Brave only has workaround. See ublockorigin.com. And Chrome is overwhelmingly used by avarage users, so evading monopoly and keeping choice means using Firefox-variant or 3rd browser.
      It is clear that Firefox is tad less worse than Chrome-ium now. but close, they removed “we do not sell your data”. Instead of praising virtues of Firefox, it is better to see which of it’s alternatives is even better to use. Waterfox is the same UI and features (except AI), just with some more privacy. I find it suitable for Mint users in general for all: look, philosophy. Waterfox has Ads Blocking enabled by default (IDK how effective it is, I use uBO anyway)
      (LibreWolf is even better with privacy but maybe would be a little bit too restrictive, until one figures out why some pages do not work well.)
      And a detail here why Firefox-based browsers are nice: we can install Multi-Account Containers extension and separate logins and cookies.

  3. Temas e ícones mais modernos (prontos para uso)
    O Linux Mint poderia incluir, por padrão, uma maior variedade de temas e ícones com design atual e moderno — como Kora, Numix Circle, entre outros — já instalados e prontos para uso, sem a necessidade de acessar sites ou realizar downloads adicionais. Isso tornaria o sistema mais atraente visualmente e facilitaria a personalização, especialmente para novos usuários.

    Melhoria visual no LibreOffice
    O LibreOffice precisa de ajustes nos ícones durante a transição entre os modos claro e escuro, garantindo melhor consistência visual e legibilidade.

    Implementação de OCR integrada
    A inclusão de OCR (Reconhecimento Óptico de Caracteres) como recurso nativo seria extremamente útil e essencial, seguindo exemplos já presentes na ferramenta de captura de tela do KDE Plasma e no Windows 11.

    Mudança na numeração das versões
    A numeração do Linux Mint poderia ser atualizada para refletir o ano vigente, tornando mais fácil para os usuários identificarem a atualidade da versão instalada e alinhando-se a práticas adotadas por outros sistemas.

    Impacto geral das melhorias
    São mudanças relativamente pequenas, mas que, na prática, elevariam significativamente a experiência do usuário em uma distribuição que já é excelente.

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  4. I recently tried Ubuntu 26.04 and noticed a few things that I hope won’t affect Mint (mainly that Pipewire is now in Snap format, the increased RAM requirements (6GB), the switch to Rust for some GNU coreutils, and the lack of an Xorg session). Despite the concerns expressed by the community regarding the new release cycle, I am fully confident that the wait for a new version of Linux Mint will be worth it.

    P.S. I hope you can continue to refine the graphical interface; you could add new icon themes (e.g., Tela, Colloid, Numix) and update the default wallpapers (the black and green ones).

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    1. When it comes to Ubuntu, it’s important to distinguish between the product (what Ubuntu ships and what Ubuntu users use) and the package base (which is what we’re based on). There are a lot of changes which affect Ubuntu and its users but not our package base.

      Mint 23 still runs on Xorg and uses the same amount of RAM as Mint 22.3. The ISO size is slightly larger than before, currently at 3.4GB. Pipewire is not a snap.

      Rust-coreutils does affect us. This is something we definitely see as part of the base so even though we would prefer for coreutils not to change, we’re hoping to align with Ubuntu on this. We’re concerned with regressions. New code almost always introduces regressions. That’s a lot of new code on very important components. I was shocked to see rust-coreutils updated from 0.7 to 0.8 just days before the stable release of Ubuntu 26.04. It actually broke something important on our side. We fixed it. I’m sure Ubuntu will update it whenever new regressions are found. We’ll see.

    2. I’m kind of disappointed to hear that about rust-coreutils. Isn’t it possible to grab coreutils from Debian?

      What that means for LMDE?

  5. I would like to know what is Mint Team’s opinion on announced AI coming to Ubuntu starting from 26.10.

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    1. Not much. Making the news is part of the business model. I just see buzzwords here. I’m not sure what it means for Ubuntu and it’ll probably means nothing for us.

  6. Thanks for the welcome update!
    Keep doing the good job and good decisions.
    Best regards to the whole team.

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  7. Clem, since you’re working on the screensaver, is there any chance we could have real screensavers back? I hated the decision by basically all projects to scrap old fashioned screensavers several years ago.

    I just want my flying toasters back.

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    1. You’re not the only one, but there are few of you 🙂 As a distribution we’re really focused on trying to do better for the common use cases, it’s not something we should focus on. I know there’s nostalgia. A few decades ago people hadn’t broken the Internet yet, security and privacy didn’t cost much if anything at all, toolkits were stable and developers bored. Back then it was all about niche features and customization. You could get wobbly windows, flying toasters on your lock screen or even in your login screen. Nowadays software needs to work, security and efficiency are key, hardware and infra changes means it needs to adapt constantly to new challenges. Not only there’s no room for niche features and customization but these aspects actually make it harder for software to adapt long-term.

    2. Daniel, I’m also one of the few who want the animated screensavers back. I do understand Mint’s reasoning, though. It’s just a frustrating fact of modern Linux life we have to deal with these days, I guess.

  8. Hi,
    About the HWE isos, am I to understand correctly that this only concerns the kernel that is used during the installation process and the usb live session and that having a system already up-to-date means that we are already using the hwe kernel?

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    1. Yes, if you have an up-to-date system, you already should have kernel 6.17.
      Some very recent hardware is only supported by kernel 6.17, so the old ISOs with kernel 6.14 would have problems on there. So now Linux Mint doesn’t only run on there after updating, it’s also installable.

    2. Yes.

      When it comes to kernels you can use LTS, or HWE. Both are maintained and receive security updates.

      The current LTS in Ubuntu 24.04/Mint 22.x is 6.8. This is what Mint 22 and 22.1 shipped with. If you update this you just get new versions of 6.8. This is the most stable option but it doesn’t support some of the new hardware out there.

      The current HWE in Ubuntu 24.04/Mint 22.x is 6.17. Mint 22.2 and 22.3 shipped with an HWE kernel but at the time it was 6.14. If you update this you’ll jump to the latest HWE which is 6.17 and have the same as what’s in these HWE ISOs.

      Note: If you’re on the LTS 6.8 kernel (from a Mint 22 or 22.1 installation) you can switch to HWE 6.17. You don’t have to since both are supported, it’s really up to you.

  9. I am excited for the input method changes. I wonder what they bring.
    I made a github issue 2 months ago with a recommendation to update the input method install script from fcitx to fcitx5 which fixes several bugs. I keep recommending linux to Japanese people and I wish Linux Mint becomes an even better recommendation for them in the future.

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  10. Clem, regarding age verification policies, what approach does Mint plan to take?

    P.S.: I hope you’re aware of the recent exploit (CVE-2026-31431) that affects all distros

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  11. Hi Clem

    Thanks for all the clarifications above.

    The automatic removal of old kernels seems to be broken in LM Cinnamon (and has been for a while now). I have seen various reports on GitHub, but must admit I just got confused! Is this because I am using the 6.17 HWE kernel and not the 6.8 LTS? Thanks

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    1. I don’t use automatic removal in LMDE – but it would be nice to have a absolutely reliable way of doing this.
      I just use synaptic to remove appropriate linux-headers + linux-image packages.
      Admittedly, this isn’t an onerous task – but new users would probably find it difficult.

    2. I use the NALA frontend, but it works the same with APT…
      sudo nala update && sudo nala autoremove && sudo nala autopurge

      sudo apt update && sudo apt autoremove && sudo apt autopurge

      Either one would remove all “orphans’, including all old kernels

  12. The development of Linux Mint is increasingly disappointing. Only cosmetic changes have been made in recent years, and now more time is needed for real improvements. The current LM22 software is truly outdated, and now we have to wait another nine months. I’ve already had to install several Flatpaks to fix the problem, and I don’t want to have to install more and more Flatpaks. Wayland still has drawbacks and is far from functional. Xorg would still be the better choice in my opinion. SimpleScreenRecorder and other programs, for example, don’t work with Wayland, and there are no good alternatives.

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    1. I don’t usually reply to messages, but I think I will this time.
      I thought it was inappropriate to judge the efforts and work of the Linux Mint developers. You’re entitled to your opinion, but I don’t agree with you going so far as to dismiss them.
      From my perspective as a user, the LM team offers a system that is far more stable, functional, efficient, and user-focused than most other distributions.
      Regarding Wayland, I have mixed feelings because, aside from the team’s efforts to update it, it’s not their responsibility that many applications simply don’t work on Wayland. For that reason, I hope XOrg remains an alternative for users who don’t want to lose functionality.
      I’m glad they’re dedicating more time to developing LM 23, and I’ll happily test the alpha versions when they’re available.
      So, Thanks to the whole team, and keep up the good work.

    2. Perhaps that’s true for you. In my experience, technically minded people often want the newest shiniest baubles, and of course, some have real needs for the newest tech, and that’s all fine.

      But yours is only one opinion. As far as I am concerned, Linux Mint (using the Mate DE) has been feature complete for years. I want an OS that almost never changes. In fact, I revert all those cosmetic changes such as revised menus, or dropping Synaptic for a dumbed-down software installer.

      For me, the action is in the programs that run on the OS, and I want the OS to fade into the background and just perform its basic function. Linux Mint has been doing that for me for years. So just remember that your overarching statement and disappointment with Mint development is personal to YOU, and is not universally held.

  13. I’m curious whether the kernel privilege escalation vulnerability reported in early May has been fixed in this ISO update.

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  14. When people call Linux Mint boring, I say “exactly”. Just what I want in an OS. Linux Mint works so reliably I can get my graphic design work, photo editing, and video editing done without thinking about the OS at all. That is a compliment to the Linux Mint team. It is why I donate to them annually.

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  15. Oh, one more thing I forgot to mention: I don’t need a new version all the time, but I’d appreciate it if a new ISO were released every now and then that includes all the updates.

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  16. Will the /usr/libexec/xscreensaver screensavers still be able to run inside the new Wayland screensaver daemon?

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  18. Clem,

    HWE ISO is not suitable for new Dell Pro 14 Premium PA14250 notebook, because of its very new CPU, where exist regression at kernel 6.17. … black screen + freeze after boot. Surprisingly, kernel 6.14 works very well, but clean installation from original LinuxMint 22.3 Cinnamom ISO install kernel 6.17, too.

    Probably the new LTS kernel 6.18 solve the problem. When will be available kernel 6.18 on LinuxMint 22.3???

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