Linux Mint 22 "Wilma" is officially out now, as their next long-term supported release with updates until 2029 based on Ubuntu 24.04. With this release they've switched to Pipewire and you get kernel 6.8 for newer hardware support.
Pictured - Linux Mint 22 Cinnamon
I already previously covered the Beta and not much has changed apart from various bug fixes.
As a reminder here's some of what's new:
- Better language support.
- Thunderbird as a .deb package supported by Mint, instead of Ubuntu's Snap.
- Big improvements to the Software Manager:
- Improved multi-threading, a new preferences page and a banner slideshow.
- Verified Flatpaks show the maintainer name.
- Unverified Flatpaks disabled by default (and clearly marked if enabled).
- Various artwork improvements.
- HiDPI support improvements were made in the boot sequence, in Plymouth and Slick-Greeter.
- A new Matrix Web App for chat, replacing Hexchat.
Plus there's lots of updates to the Cinnamon 6.2 desktop too including:
- Wayland support: Clutter polkit agent.
- Spices: keybindings support.
- Better avatar support in polkit agent and user applet.
- Workspace switcher: middle click removes the workspace being hovered.
- Keybindings: ability to search by binding.
- Cornerbar applet: shift+click action added.
- Applets: improved precision in reporting VPN and battery states.
See more on the release notes and what's new.
Are you a Mint user? What do you think to this release? Let me know in the comments.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Quoting: pleasereadthemanualQuoting: Purple Library GuyBig deal. Those are mature apps where I don't care about the version. Not like they're using old Libreoffice or GIMP or something.Well, for me, the Celluloid downgrade is kind of a big deal! The patch to support multiple scripts inside of folders only landed a few months ago and hasn't hit stable yet. That means mpvacious won't work on the older version of Celluloid. And I still need to do the work for the Celluloid flatpak to make it work.
Edit: It has hit stable now: https://github.com/celluloid-player/celluloid/releases/tag/v0.27
Maybe I should hurry up and do the quick patches for the Celluloid Flatpak.
Create `/etc/apt/preferences.d/celluloid.pref` with this content:
Package: celluloid
Pin: release n=wilma
Pin-Priority: -10Now apt prefers the upstream Ubuntu versions for this package.
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Quoting: pleasereadthemanualFair enough. Different use cases are different--I just play videos with it, and it's been able to do that for a while.Quoting: Purple Library GuyBig deal. Those are mature apps where I don't care about the version. Not like they're using old Libreoffice or GIMP or something.Well, for me, the Celluloid downgrade is kind of a big deal!
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