Linux Mint 22.1 is coming soon with a Beta release now available for testing, which includes the brand new Cinnamon 6.4 desktop release.
Cinnamon 6.4 has some pretty great sounding new features along with a new default theme. On top of that, they say it has "much improved Wayland compatibility". Finally, it looks like 2025 will be year of Wayland on the Linux desktop for sure.
Some fun additions this release include:
- Modernization of APT dependencies. Aptkit replaces aptdaemon, while Captain unifies the features of GDebi and apturl into a single, easy-to-use utility.
- Power Modes management.
- A fully integrated Night Light feature supported on Wayland and Xorg.
- A new default theme.
- Notifications can now appear above fullscreen windows (new setting).
- Nemo now has an option to disable auto-expanding of treeview columns during drag and drop.
- GWL (Global Window List) now includes an option to always show windows from other monitors.
- The Software Manager has been optimized for better speed, ensuring faster application browsing and installations.
- Wallpapers have been moved to themed sets, making them "easier to explore and more organized".
Linux Mint 22.1 will be a long-term support release with updates and security fixes until 2029. It features Linux kernel 6.8 and an Ubuntu 24.04 package base. New Mint releases until 2026 will continue using the same package base for simple upgrades.
See more in the announcement.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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legluondunet 11 hours ago
Debian and Debian-like distributions are not, to my experience, the best Linux distribution for gaming, their packages are not enough often updated and lack libraries dependencies. Arch and Aur are the way to follow for Linux gamers, SteamOS is ARCH based.
For the DE I suggest a light one to keep your resources for gaming, like XFCE.
Last edited by legluondunet on 16 December 2024 at 9:51 am UTC
For the DE I suggest a light one to keep your resources for gaming, like XFCE.
Last edited by legluondunet on 16 December 2024 at 9:51 am UTC
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Really a big fan of mint.
However, in preparation for my yearly round of open source donations I have been taking my usual cursory glance at the financials of the projects that I will fund.
I am extremely surprised at their lack of clarity on who or what organisation is managing their donations and on their spending. Basically, I have a better grasp on how gamingonlinux finances are managed than those of the linux mint team, whatever that is (a company? A non-profit? A club? A bunch of people?).
Not what I expected from such a big and long established project.
Last edited by emphy on 16 December 2024 at 3:50 pm UTC
However, in preparation for my yearly round of open source donations I have been taking my usual cursory glance at the financials of the projects that I will fund.
I am extremely surprised at their lack of clarity on who or what organisation is managing their donations and on their spending. Basically, I have a better grasp on how gamingonlinux finances are managed than those of the linux mint team, whatever that is (a company? A non-profit? A club? A bunch of people?).
Not what I expected from such a big and long established project.
Last edited by emphy on 16 December 2024 at 3:50 pm UTC
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Caldathras 3 hours ago
Quoting: legluondunetDebian and Debian-like distributions are not, to my experience, the best Linux distribution for gaming, their packages are not enough often updated and lack libraries dependencies. Arch and Aur are the way to follow for Linux gamers, SteamOS is ARCH based.My experience has been the opposite of yours. I find Arch-based distributions to be unstable, difficult to configure and the AUR to be potentially risky. Being up-to-date is not all it is cracked up to be, especially in regards to stability and inter-compatibility. I prefer the stability and broader market support I get from Ubuntu-based distros myself. Pop!_OS being an excellent compromise as a semi-rolling distribution.
For the DE I suggest a light one to keep your resources for gaming, like XFCE.
I do agree about XFCE, however.
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Quoting: legluondunetDebian and Debian-like distributions are not, to my experience, the best Linux distribution for gaming, their packages are not enough often updated and lack libraries dependencies. Arch and Aur are the way to follow for Linux gamers, SteamOS is ARCH based.Depends on your gaming. For heavy gaming with graphics-heavy AAA-type stuff, I expect you're right. I play mostly indie games that don't require either really heavy resource use or twitch reflexes (so I don't worry about frame rates). For light games like that, none of this stuff matters much, so just "whatever makes the nicest desktop" is also fine for the gaming.
For the DE I suggest a light one to keep your resources for gaming, like XFCE.
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Quoting: Purple Library GuyThings that can actually make a difference, like the latest graphics drivers and kernels, are easily available for Mint, Ubuntu and pretty much any other mainstream distro. So Mint is perfectly fine even for heavy AAA-type stuff.Quoting: legluondunetDebian and Debian-like distributions are not, to my experience, the best Linux distribution for gaming, their packages are not enough often updated and lack libraries dependencies. Arch and Aur are the way to follow for Linux gamers, SteamOS is ARCH based.Depends on your gaming. For heavy gaming with graphics-heavy AAA-type stuff, I expect you're right. I play mostly indie games that don't require either really heavy resource use or twitch reflexes (so I don't worry about frame rates). For light games like that, none of this stuff matters much, so just "whatever makes the nicest desktop" is also fine for the gaming.
For the DE I suggest a light one to keep your resources for gaming, like XFCE.
The "library dependencies" bit is a non-sequitur. No commercial game depends on bleeding edge libraries.
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