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Linux Mint 20 “Ulyana” released

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28 pointsShinkirou15 comments

Would encourage anybody on Ubuntu to give Linux Mint a try. It’s displaced Lubuntu as my go to distribution due to it being very polished overall while still being about as lightweight and fast as Lubuntu or Xubuntu.

Have you tried Pop!_OS? I’m currently running it on my Thinkpad X1 Extreme gen 2 and it’s been delightful.

Edit: misspelled gen

Edit2: smooth Firefox scrolling provided by MOZ_USE_XINPUT2=1 ... turn off smooth scrolling in Firefox settings

Off topicbut... My work laptop is a ThinkPad P1 gen 2 and nvidia graphics is a nightmare. Battery life is abysmal with it enabled, and you can't use an external monitor with it disabled. My last system upgrade just completely broke, and it hangs on startup unless I boot to recovery mode to blacklist the Nvidia module. I seriously hate this laptop. My (personal) 2015 MacBook still runs Linux like a champ.

Sorry, but would like to advice the other way. I started out on ubuntu, but tried mint the last year. Now I’m going back to ubuntu with some gnome extensions, here’s why. Desktop linux in general has many quirks and bugs, and mint, being less mainstream, even more so. I’ve experienced many subtle errors with drag & drop, multiscreen support, windows remaining in the taskbar after being closed, etc. In my experience ubuntu has less of these, and with ‘dash to panel’ and ‘arc menu’ installed you’ve basicly got 90% of the mint experience anyway.

No disrespect to any of the hardworking mint people intended, their work clearly fills a need.

On a contrary, been using LM19 cinnamon for a year and I found it rock solid.

Not my experience with Mint Xfce, which I've used, along with Xubuntu, since V.12. Mint's focus on stability for the user has long been a primary consideration. EG the 'Timeshift' backup utility has been very helpful.

While I haven't used it, the Cinnamon desktop has been very attractive to Linux newcomers - recently a rapidly-growing group.

I've been using Mint for many years, and I've never really experienced any of those (at least not more than Ubuntu or even Windows).

Same. Linux Mint has been the last step for me to completely being able to forget about my OS and just get to work. My family also runs it, and I don't get support calls ever anymore.

Release notes can be found here: https://www.linuxmint.com/rel_ulyana_cinnamon_whatsnew.php

Before you upgrade to Mint 20 ----

If you are running mysql 5.7 in Mint 19, update your databases to be compatible with mysql 8.0 before you change to Mint 20.

That mainly means changing your engine to InnoDB instead of MyISAM, and the character set to utf8mb4 from latin1.

Oh, and I prefer MATE. But I just installed Cinnamon and then installed MATE using Synaptic. All working well.

Before you upgrade to Mint 20 ----

If you are running mysql 5.7 in Mint 19, update your databases to be compatible with mysql 8.0 before you change to Mint 20.

That mainly means changing your engine to InnoDB instead of MyISAM, and the character set to utf8mb4 from latin1.

Congratulations Clement and team, massively solid release.

Main reason I'm going to use this: it's ubuntu without snap. And snap is the devil.

The main reason for me is that Ubuntu somehow breaks at every major upgrade, while Mint doesn't. That and Cinnamon, of course.

Fractional scaling is huge!

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