{"id":3751,"date":"2019-06-02T15:27:10","date_gmt":"2019-06-02T14:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/?p=3751"},"modified":"2019-06-03T09:38:48","modified_gmt":"2019-06-03T08:38:48","slug":"monthly-news-may-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/?p=3751","title":{"rendered":"Monthly News – May 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last month I mentioned the amazing amount of support we received from you, the many emails you sent us to tell us you enjoyed our work and how great it felt. We need to move on from this and not feel overly confident over it, but as you may know there is a month between what happens and the moment we can report on the donations we received, and, well… we received many  \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

In fact, we have never received that many donations in the past, or from that many people within the same month. 868 people donated a total of $24,149. This is huge, it’s even bigger than what we see after a release. So before we put this behind us, thank you, many thanks to you all for supporting us. We love what we do, you love what we do, and we love the fact that you love it too. I don’t really know what to say other than thank you.<\/p>\n

Wine 4
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One of the ongoing issues associated with the new 18.04 package base in Linux Mint 19.x was the fact that Wine was tedious to install and that it didn’t work well out of the box.<\/p>\n

We looked into it and identified the following problems:<\/p>\n