Many thanks for your continued support and for your donations!

A few additional visual changes were implemented in preparation for Linux Mint 21.2.

Tooltips

We had been planning on redesigning our tooltips for a while. The main reason was that they lacked consistency and looked slightly different depending on where they came from (GTK2, GTK3, Cinnamon). They also featured a grey border which didn’t look clean around their yellow background.

Looking around us at other operating systems, Linux themes and what was done on the Web, we found that almost nobody used the traditional yellow color anymore. We tried a few things and eventually settled on what we think looks the best for us. Rather than using yellow, black or grey tooltips we decided to make them use the accent color.

We fixed the consistency issues across the various GTK versions and Cinnamon. We also took inspiration from Adwaita and made our tooltips bigger, rounder and with larger margins.

In Cinnamon we also added a bit of space between the applets and their tooltips so they wouldn’t be stuck to the panel.

Notifications

Cinnamon notifications will also be using the accent color.

And whenever possible they will prefer symbolic icons.

Although these changes are quite small they continue to make the desktop look and feel cleaner and more modern.

In Linux Mint 21.1 efforts were made to make the accent colors more special, more vivid but less used. This continues this trend. Notifications and tooltips are transient elements which highlight an event or a feature. They should be beautiful and noticeable.

Secureboot

An update in Ubuntu’s shim-signed broke the compatibility of all Linux Mint (and past Ubuntu and derivative) ISOs with secureboot.

If because of this you are unable to install Linux Mint, for now we recommend to disable secureboot.

We are currently working on a fix for future ISOs and taking this opportunity to review the way we produce our images.

Upcoming Releases

We’re planning three releases for the Summer (or Winter if you’re in the South Hemisphere):

  • Linux Mint 21.2
  • An EDGE ISO release with kernel 5.19
  • LMDE 6, based on the upcoming Debian 12 (set for release in June)

In order for all releases to get the 21.2 changes, they should come out in that order, with up to a month separating the Mint 21.2 and the LMDE 6 releases.

No ETAs have been decided yet.

Warpinator

Work continues on hardening the security aspects of Warpinator.

The tool recently received support for landlock and bubblewrap. These technologies were used to guarantee folder isolation, basically making Warpinator technically unable to write outside of its dedicated download folder.

Sponsorships:

Linux Mint is proudly sponsored by:

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Donations in March:

A total of $10,780 were raised thanks to the generous contributions of 393 donors:

$250, Larry F.
$216 (3rd donation), Morten K. A.
$150 (2nd donation), Adam S.
$133, Michael N. aka “Django
$108 (8th donation), Mimi
$108 (4th donation), Nicolas H.
$108 (3rd donation), Mark H.
$108 (2nd donation), Christian G.
$108, Achim R.
$108, Jessica R.
$108, Stan
$100 (7th donation), Ricky G.
$100 (6th donation), Charles aka “Charley3”
$100 (4th donation), David T.
$100 (4th donation), Kevin L.
$100 (3rd donation), Carl T.
$100 (2nd donation), Curt B.
$100 (2nd donation), Jason B.
$100 (2nd donation), Joel H.
$100, Danny T.
$100, Jeffrey J.
$100, mattlongname
$100, Michael L.
$100, Trent I.
$98, Melvin C.
$86, Monika K.
$69 (2nd donation), Tomáš R.
$54 (18th donation), Naoise G.
$54 (16th donation), Bjarne K.
$54 (4th donation), Christian D aka “zorbeck”
$54 (4th donation), Rolandas R.
$54 (3rd donation), Christian N.
$54 (2nd donation), Marinus D.
$54 (2nd donation), Minty Kerman
$54 (2nd donation), Stephan A.
$54 (2nd donation), Wulf N.
$54, Albert-jozef P.
$54, Christopher B.
$54, Dominik P.
$54, Duncan T.
$54, Friedhelm K.
$54, Guillaume V.
$54, Irene L.
$54, Jonas F.
$54, Jonathan J.
$54, Jörn B.
$54, Lukas S.
$54, Markus B.
$54, Martin F.
$54, Patrick L.
$54, Paul MD
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$54, Tim O.
$54, Vytautas R.
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$50 (70th donation), Anthony C. aka “ciak”
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$50 (3rd donation), Peter S. aka “Pierre”
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$50, Davin S.
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$50, John R.
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$50, Rajesh S.
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$50, Ron T.
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$40 (5th donation), Juan V.
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$35 (9th donation), Jeff S.
$35 (7th donation), Ken W. aka “Tracknut”
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$30 (7th donation), Gene P.
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$27 (18th donation), Hubertus B. aka “hubi
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$27, Stylianos C.
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$21 (2nd donation), Matt H. aka “ermacaz”
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$20, Aaron H.
$20, Allen L.
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$20, Anon
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$20, William S.
$18 (2nd donation), Imre N.
$16 (67th donation), Andreas S.
$16 (50th donation), Michael R.
$16 (4th donation), Daniel H.
$15 (12th donation), Fred B.
$14 (80th donation), Johann J.
$12, Paul A J.
$11 (45th donation), Francois-R L.
$11 (35th donation), Daniel S.
$11 (35th donation), Thomas R.
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$11 (10th donation), Denys G.
$11 (9th donation), Ivan Stamenov
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$11 (6th donation), Mark W.
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$11 (2nd donation), Andre Toussaint aka “AndreT”
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$11 (2nd donation), Henry B.
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$11, Albert T.
$11, Andrea S.
$11, Antonio B.
$11, Csilla F.
$11, Dario B.
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$11, Davide T.
$11, Fran P.
$11, Giorgio M.
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$11, Juan Ramon B.
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$11, Marko S.
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$11, page aka “page
$11, Patrick B.
$11, Paul A.
$11, Pedro Miguel
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$11, Roger Julius Felix D.
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$11, Sergej S.
$11, Stefan J.
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$10 (84th donation), Thomas C.
$10 (78th donation), Frank K.
$10 (31st donation), Philip Woodward
$10 (19th donation), Solar Panels Saskatoon
$10 (16th donation), Aimee W.
$10 (11th donation), William M.
$10 (10th donation), Michael P.
$10 (7th donation), Jeffery G.
$10 (6th donation), Andrei Z.
$10 (6th donation), Thevirtua
$10 (6th donation), Vlad Gruetz (YouTube)
$10 (5th donation), Nathan G. aka “Interior Painters in Baytown TX
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$10 (4th donation), casca de copiat
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$10 (4th donation), Daniel Greg aka “006.5”
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$10 (2nd donation), Eugene C.
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$10, Andrew S.
$10, Anthony M.
$10, Ash
$10, Bryan M.
$10, casca de copiat
$10, Christopher H.
$10, David S.
$10, Douglas Y.
$10, Fred B.
$10, Gilberto L.
$10, Greg N.
$10, Hannes B.
$10, Jason K.
$10, John D.
$10, John R.
$10, Kenneth P.
$10, Martin M.
$10, Michael C.
$10, Nick Gausling, Business Consultant
$10, Pawan N.
$10, Rebecca W.
$10, Robert A.
$10, Tarek E.
$10, Wesley S.
$9, Cameron S.
$8 (2nd donation), Leonid B.
$154 from 41 smaller donations

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Many thanks to you all for your support and your generous donations.

The mutter rebase for Cinnamon 5.4 is now well on its way and is getting more and more stable.

Work started on the Linux Mint 21 base. The repositories are ready and so are the docker images. A first pre-ALPHA ISO was built to identify potential issues and we’re now patching software and looking for and fixing regressions. We usually work on new features first, and then work on the base and bugs near the end of the development cycle when we put it all together on the new base. But this time, we did the opposite. I wanted us to be confronted to some of the new libraries and upstream changes so we could have a clear view of any challenges ahead and plan accordingly when it comes to prioritizing or postponing work on some of the new features.

The new upgrade tool took some time to develop but it was worth the wait. Our major upgrades weren’t flexible enough and they were too complicated. This is a fantastic addition for us, I’m really happy we worked on this. The tool is passing a final test today and should be officially announced in LMDE tomorrow.

It was designed with both distributions in mind so we’ll also use it this Summer to provide a smooth upgrade towards Linux Mint 21 after its official release.

Sponsorships:

Linux Mint is proudly sponsored by:

Gold Sponsors:
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Silver Sponsors:
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Uwe Schneider GmbH

Donations in March:

A total of $8,536 were raised thanks to the generous contributions of 338 donors:

$200, Sophia G.
$129 (5th donation), Wolfgang S.
$108, Alberto S.
$100 (9th donation), TM
$100 (2nd donation), Shawn P.
$100 (2nd donation), Gerald P. aka “Gerry”
$100, Ya R.
$100, Erik F.
$100, RMR
$100, Prashant I.
$100, Abigail M.
$75 (11th donation), Tomasz E.
$75 (2nd donation), Paul P.
$72 (21st donation), Ted S.
$60 (3rd donation), Simple ASIC, LLC
$54 (14th donation), Naoise G.
$54 (9th donation), Bernard H.
$54 (6th donation), Mikko I.
$54 (6th donation), Roland H.
$54 (4th donation), Heinz K. aka “krakelka”
$54 (3rd donation), Ivan Y.
$54 (2nd donation), John A.
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$54 (2nd donation), Daniela L.
$54, Yvon H.
$54, Sebastian B.
$54, Florian B.
$54, Marko K.
$54, Husnu E.
$54, Hans L.
$54, Howard S.
$54, Dr. S. K.
$54, Leo Moore aka “Subbiemetrics”
$50 (59th donation), Anthony C. aka “ciak”
$50 (6th donation), Terrence P.
$50 (5th donation), Kenneth R.
$50 (4th donation), Al B.
$50 (3rd donation), Stephen M.
$50 (2nd donation), James J.
$50, William R.
$50, Francis C.
$50, Landon L.
$50, John M.
$50, Patrick S.
$50, Jimmy B.
$50, Thomas M.
$50, Robin V.
$50, Ramy M.
$43 (144th donation), Olli K.
$40 (5th donation), Bruce I.
$40, John E.
$36, Gabor D.
$35, John W.
$35, Mark T.
$32 (2nd donation), Mihai G.
$32, Jyrki A.
$30 (8th donation), jowind
$30 (4th donation), Peter G.
$30, Claudio J.
$27 (7th donation), Gert G.
$27 (3rd donation), Alexander J.
$27 (2nd donation), Mykola P. aka “MykolaP”
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$20 (6th donation), Nate P. aka “cog_nate”
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$20, Organic CBD Gummies
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$20, Bryan Y.
$20, John B.
$20, Quinn R.
$20, Alan A.
$20, Deon R.
$20, Leigh B.
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$20, Jonathan P.
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$14, Carlos M.
$13 (5th donation), Andrew P.
$11 (34th donation), Francois-R L.
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$10, Jeff R.
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$10, Alexander R.
$10, Elizabeth W.
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$6 (3rd donation), Juan R. aka “Zorencen R”
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$3, Goetz B.
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We’ve got a lot of news for you this month. Before we get into it, let me thank all those who send us their help and contribute to make our project grow. Many thanks to all of you for your donations. Thanks also to our partners and sponsors for being there for us.

Warpinator

With Warpinator you can quickly and easily transfer files from computer to computer across the local network. Warpinator was already available natively for Linux Mint 20, 20.1 and LMDE 4, and as a Flatpak for any other release and for other Linux distributions.

Today we’re delighted to announce that Warpinator is now also available for Android.

To install Warpinator on your Android device simply search for it in the play store, or use the link below:

This port is an independent project written with the Android SDK and led by a developer called “slowscript”. It is hosted on Github at https://github.com/slowscript/warpinator-android.

Aside from a few minor issues (the project is very young) the app already works very well. I was personally amazed to see Warpinator in the play store first, and then to see my phone and my computer see each others and be able to transfer files almost instantly.

I’m also really happy to see 3rd party developers build and improve on top of what we created. When we made Warpinator we solved a need we had within Linux Mint and made the software available for all Linux distributions, but although we wouldn’t spend the resources to make it work on other OSes (Android, iOS, Windows and Mac for instance) we wanted to use simple and open technologies to make it possible for this software to be developed by others. Today, seeing someone put the effort and come up with an Android build is a really cool feeling. I’m really happy to see this happen.

Within the Linux Mint development team Lars Mueller (known as Cobinja on github) has also been working on a mobile version of Warpinator. This is something he did on his own and it isn’t ready so we haven’t had the opportunity to try it yet. The interesting thing about this project is that it is based on the Flutter SDK so in addition to an Android app, it could also lead to making Warpinator available on iOS.

Shells.com

While we’re talking about mobile devices and exciting technology, wouldn’t it be great if you could run Linux Mint on your phone and tablet? or anywhere at all? Wouldn’t it be great if you could run Android apps on your computer? This is what Shells is working on and we’re excited today to start a partnership with them.

With Shells.com you can run Linux Mint:

  • in a Web browser on any web enabled device
  • in a desktop app in Windows, Mac or Linux
  • in a mobile app on an Android device
  • in a mobile app on iOS devices

Your desktop environment is in the cloud and immediately available to you from any device and from anywhere at all. Start using it at home on your computer. Open it up from work using a Web browser. Connect to it in the train with a tablet or even access it from that mobile phone in your pocket anytime you need and from anywhere.

To understand how it works imagine if your Virtualbox VMs were in the cloud. You create a “Shell”, select an OS such as “Linux Mint 20.1 Cinnamon” for instance and tell it to install. Once it’s ready you can boot it and access Linux Mint. You never really have to reboot or shutdown or even logout. You just access your environment when you need it.

Shells automatically performs snapshots. These are not Timeshift snapshots within the OS itself, but global snapshots which can be used to bring back the entire VM to an earlier state.

The pricing model is a monthly subscription per VM with an amount based on the resources allocated. As part of our partnership, Shells is offering 3 months for the price of 2 at https://www.shells.com/pricing?special=linux_mint. 10% of all subscriptions created from this link go towards Linux Mint.

Shells VMs can be hosted in the USA (Chicago, Dallas or Los Angeles), in the Netherlands or in Japan. They have a shared IP address and provide SSH/SFTP access by default. With an extra $1/month they also provide a public static IP address, so you can install any server application in them like you would in a local Linux Mint environment but benefit from the fact that it’s in the cloud.

We’ve been working in tight collaboration with Shells.com to get Linux Mint running and it’s a real pleasure to work with them. We’ve fixed many issues together already. I found them to be extremely able and available. I already worked with Alex Lee in the past and I’m really happy to work with him again.

Going forward Shells.com is planning to provide 3D acceleration to its VMs. This should benefit the Cinnamon desktop. They’re also working on Android. Although this isn’t ready yet, their developers already have an ALPHA with access to the Play store and support for SIP numbers (phone calls, SMS, etc..).

My experience with Shell is complex. I find the technology really amazing and extremely promising. It’s so versatile it really opens the door to a lot of new use cases. The idea that you don’t even need a laptop to carry your environment around, that it’s immediately available to you no matter where you are, no matter what kind of device you have in front of view, if any, that itself is really appealing but it can go from something that just sounds cool to something that is actually really handy depending on the person that is using it. To me here in my rural country side where I work from home and do not commute it just does sound cool but I don’t need it. If I think of my younger self who was traveling through Paris on a daily basis, working on side projects all the time and carrying devices and storage units just to do exactly that then it’s a completely different story. The quality of my network connection also comes greatly into play. Here although 20Mbps (2.5MB per second) is considered quite decent, it’s just not enough for this to be comfortable. It’s usable, I can launch Youtube or Hypnotix in it and watch fluid TV/videos, but moving windows is slow and there’s a noticeable delay which makes it more pleasant to use the local environment rather than the remote one. Again, if I was still living in Paris this would not be an issue. I can see how fluid and comfortable the experience is for people in the US, it’s just not the same here for me in Ireland.

If you are creative, if you travel or commute quite a bit and you enjoy a good connection to the Internet this can be a fantastic idea. If you’re not sure and you want to take it for a ride Shells lets you cancel and refunds your subscription within 7 days.

Hypnotix

Hypnotix shipped with a default provider called Free-IPTV. Tensions and personal conflicts arose between Free-IPTV and some of its Github forks, and with other IPTV projects which copied some of its content. This eventually resulted in Free-IPTV closing down its project.

Although this had nothing to do with Hypnotix it impacted users which used the default provider. As a result we changed the default provider from Free-IPTV to Free-TV. This provider is much smaller (it currently provides 114 channels as opposed to 2055 for Free-IPTV) but it’s also very clear on its mission. Similar to the previous provider it only provides free and publicly available TV channels and with an emphasis on quality over quantity.

Note: Hypnotix was also backported to the Linux Mint 20 repositories.

Cinnamon

Cinnamon 5 will provide management tools to check for and perform updates of Cinnamon spices. As a reminder, a Cinnamon “spice” is an add-on to the desktop environment which is not part of the core desktop. There are 4 types of spices:

  • applets (which run in panels)
  • desklets (which run on the desktop itself)
  • extensions (which modify how Cinnamon functions)
  • themes (which modify the way Cinnamon looks)

Until now to see updates and to apply them you had to go in the system settings or you had to use a 3rd party applet developed by Claudiux called “Spices Update“.

Cinnamon 5 will ship with a command line tool called cinnamon-spice-updater which can list available updates and/or apply them. To make it easy for distributions to integrate Cinnamon spice updates within their Update Manager a Python 3 module will also be provided.

Update Manager

The Mint Update Manager will support Cinnamon spice updates.

Although from a technical point of view they are radically different than APT updates, from a user point of view they will be presented in a very similar manner. You’ll be able to see the same kind of information for them, and to enjoy the same features as you did already, such as the ability to blacklist a particular spice or a version of a spice for instance.

You’ll also be able to automate spice updates. In automatic mode spices will be upgraded shortly after you log in, the DE will then get refreshed (this is barely visible, Cinnamon restarts itself seamlessly, you just see the mouse cursor get reset on the screen when this happens) and a notification will popup to show you what was upgraded.

The Update Manager will also handle the automation of Flatpak updates. This was previously located in “Startup Applications”.

Mint 18 EOL

It’s been 5 years already. Linux Mint 18, 18.1, 18.2 and 18.3 reached EOL (End of Life) this month and are no longer supported.

If you are running one of these releases your operating system will continue to work but you will no longer receive security updates from the repositories. We recommend you backup your data and perform a fresh installation of Linux Mint 20.1, which is supported until 2025.

Alternatively, you can upgrade to Linux Mint 19.3 which is supported until 2023:

The minor upgrades (18->18.3, 19->19.3) are quite simple, easy and fast. The upgrade from 18.3 to 19 on the other hand is a major upgrade. It is longer and more complicated. Take your time with this one and don’t hesitate to seek assistance within the community, in the chat room or on the forums.

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