* . *
  • About
  • Advertise
  • Privacy & Policy
  • Contact
Saturday, September 6, 2025
Earth-News
  • Home
  • Business
  • Entertainment
    Pendulum Announce Homecoming 2026 Australian Tour – yahoo.com

    Pendulum Announces Thrilling Homecoming Tour Across Australia in 2026

    ITV Studios Launches New Entertainment Label – Global Bulletin – IMDb

    ITV Studios Unveils Exciting New Entertainment Label

    TS Entertainment bringing Malibu Jack’s to former Owensboro mall – Lane Report

    TS Entertainment Launches Malibu Jack’s at Former Owensboro Mall Location

    Jenny Han Dropped a Major ‘The Summer I Turned Pretty’ Easter Egg Revealing [SPOILER] – yahoo.com

    Jenny Han Just Unveiled a Huge ‘The Summer I Turned Pretty’ Easter Egg That Changes Everything [SPOILER]

    Liam Payne’s Cousin Ross Harris Honors Late Singer With Emotional Song ‘Bones’ – yahoo.com

    Liam Payne’s Cousin Ross Harris Honors Late Singer with Emotional New Song ‘Bones

    Country music star apologizes after drunken show ends with cops taking him down: ‘I’m not OK’ – PennLive.com

    Country Music Star Apologizes After Drunken Show Ends in Police Intervention: ‘I’m Not OK

  • General
  • Health
  • News

    Cracking the Code: Why China’s Economic Challenges Aren’t Shaking Markets, Unlike America’s” – Bloomberg

    Trump’s Narrow Window to Spread the Truth About Harris

    Trump’s Narrow Window to Spread the Truth About Harris

    Israel-Gaza war live updates: Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh assassinated in Iran, group says

    Israel-Gaza war live updates: Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh assassinated in Iran, group says

    PAP Boss to Niger Delta Youths, Stay Away from the Protest

    PAP Boss to Niger Delta Youths, Stay Away from the Protest

    Court Restricts Protests In Lagos To Freedom, Peace Park

    Court Restricts Protests In Lagos To Freedom, Peace Park

    Fans React to Jazz Jennings’ Inspiring Weight Loss Journey

    Fans React to Jazz Jennings’ Inspiring Weight Loss Journey

    Trending Tags

    • Trump Inauguration
    • United Stated
    • White House
    • Market Stories
    • Election Results
  • Science
  • Sports
  • Technology
    Coherent Joins LLNL’s STARFIRE Diode Technology Working Group to Advance Inertial Fusion Energy – GlobeNewswire

    Coherent Partners with LLNL’s STARFIRE Team to Drive Breakthroughs in Inertial Fusion Energy

    Gene Associated With Deadly Heart Disease in Golden Retrievers Identified – Technology Networks

    Breakthrough Discovery Uncovers Gene Behind Deadly Heart Disease in Golden Retrievers

    Monkey Island LNG Picks ConocoPhillips’ Liquefaction Technology – Hart Energy

    Monkey Island LNG Selects ConocoPhillips’ Advanced Liquefaction Technology for Next-Gen Energy Solutions

    Credo Technology Group Holding Ltd. (CRDO) Surpasses Q1 Earnings and Revenue Estimates – Yahoo Finance

    Credo Technology Group Surpasses Q1 Earnings and Revenue Expectations

    The Economist is hiring a science and technology correspondent – The Economist

    Exciting Opportunity: Become Our Next Science and Technology Correspondent!

    Blockchain lender Figure Technology seeks to raise up to $526M in IPO (FIGR:Pending) – Seeking Alpha

    Blockchain Lender Figure Technology Sets Sights on $526M in Thrilling IPO Launch

    Trending Tags

    • Nintendo Switch
    • CES 2017
    • Playstation 4 Pro
    • Mark Zuckerberg
No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • Business
  • Entertainment
    Pendulum Announce Homecoming 2026 Australian Tour – yahoo.com

    Pendulum Announces Thrilling Homecoming Tour Across Australia in 2026

    ITV Studios Launches New Entertainment Label – Global Bulletin – IMDb

    ITV Studios Unveils Exciting New Entertainment Label

    TS Entertainment bringing Malibu Jack’s to former Owensboro mall – Lane Report

    TS Entertainment Launches Malibu Jack’s at Former Owensboro Mall Location

    Jenny Han Dropped a Major ‘The Summer I Turned Pretty’ Easter Egg Revealing [SPOILER] – yahoo.com

    Jenny Han Just Unveiled a Huge ‘The Summer I Turned Pretty’ Easter Egg That Changes Everything [SPOILER]

    Liam Payne’s Cousin Ross Harris Honors Late Singer With Emotional Song ‘Bones’ – yahoo.com

    Liam Payne’s Cousin Ross Harris Honors Late Singer with Emotional New Song ‘Bones

    Country music star apologizes after drunken show ends with cops taking him down: ‘I’m not OK’ – PennLive.com

    Country Music Star Apologizes After Drunken Show Ends in Police Intervention: ‘I’m Not OK

  • General
  • Health
  • News

    Cracking the Code: Why China’s Economic Challenges Aren’t Shaking Markets, Unlike America’s” – Bloomberg

    Trump’s Narrow Window to Spread the Truth About Harris

    Trump’s Narrow Window to Spread the Truth About Harris

    Israel-Gaza war live updates: Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh assassinated in Iran, group says

    Israel-Gaza war live updates: Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh assassinated in Iran, group says

    PAP Boss to Niger Delta Youths, Stay Away from the Protest

    PAP Boss to Niger Delta Youths, Stay Away from the Protest

    Court Restricts Protests In Lagos To Freedom, Peace Park

    Court Restricts Protests In Lagos To Freedom, Peace Park

    Fans React to Jazz Jennings’ Inspiring Weight Loss Journey

    Fans React to Jazz Jennings’ Inspiring Weight Loss Journey

    Trending Tags

    • Trump Inauguration
    • United Stated
    • White House
    • Market Stories
    • Election Results
  • Science
  • Sports
  • Technology
    Coherent Joins LLNL’s STARFIRE Diode Technology Working Group to Advance Inertial Fusion Energy – GlobeNewswire

    Coherent Partners with LLNL’s STARFIRE Team to Drive Breakthroughs in Inertial Fusion Energy

    Gene Associated With Deadly Heart Disease in Golden Retrievers Identified – Technology Networks

    Breakthrough Discovery Uncovers Gene Behind Deadly Heart Disease in Golden Retrievers

    Monkey Island LNG Picks ConocoPhillips’ Liquefaction Technology – Hart Energy

    Monkey Island LNG Selects ConocoPhillips’ Advanced Liquefaction Technology for Next-Gen Energy Solutions

    Credo Technology Group Holding Ltd. (CRDO) Surpasses Q1 Earnings and Revenue Estimates – Yahoo Finance

    Credo Technology Group Surpasses Q1 Earnings and Revenue Expectations

    The Economist is hiring a science and technology correspondent – The Economist

    Exciting Opportunity: Become Our Next Science and Technology Correspondent!

    Blockchain lender Figure Technology seeks to raise up to $526M in IPO (FIGR:Pending) – Seeking Alpha

    Blockchain Lender Figure Technology Sets Sights on $526M in Thrilling IPO Launch

    Trending Tags

    • Nintendo Switch
    • CES 2017
    • Playstation 4 Pro
    • Mark Zuckerberg
No Result
View All Result
Earth-News
No Result
View All Result
Home Technology

Mint 21.2 is desktop Linux without the faff

July 19, 2023
in Technology
Mint 21.2 is desktop Linux without the faff
Share on FacebookShare on Twitter

The latest update to Linux Mint is here, with expanded video file format support and a tweaked Cinnamon desktop. It’s as cool and refreshing as ever.

As usual 21.2 comes in three separate editions – Cinnamon, MATE and Xfce, which very approximately equate to being best suited to high, medium, and low-end PCs. Cinnamon is the best choice if you have a decently specified PC, especially if it has a HiDPI screen or a dedicated GPU – or, of course, both. MATE is a bit more traditional, and as there hasn’t been a new stable release in a couple of years, you get the same version as Mint 21 had when it came out. Xfce is the best of the trio for low-end hardware, needing no 3D support and using the least RAM.

We have already looked at what was coming in this release a few times, including the new version of Xfce as well as better multi-core performance in Cinnamon 5.8. We compared the three desktops side-by-side when it got to beta test last month – and just to reassure the more conventionally minded who don’t read the comments, the screenshots there were just to illustrate how the three desktops handle vertical taskbars. Don’t panic: all three default to the traditional, horizontal arrangement.

Mint 21.2 won't shock you with radical changes, but there are various small improvements – for instance, it's easier than ever to resize the main menu

Mint 21.2 won’t shock you with radical changes, but there are various small improvements – for instance, it’s easier than ever to resize the main menu

We gave this much coverage because Mint is an unusual sort of presence in the Linux world these days. Mint is a pure-play desktop distro, while the big three vendors – Red Hat, SUSE and Canonical – all mainly focus on the enterprise server market, where the big bucks are to be made. That means a constant churn of new technology, often piggy-backing on industry trends such as containers, immutable file systems, and IoT. (That’s “Internet of Things,” although as a wise man once nearly said, “the street finds its own names for things.”)

Mint goes the other way. It’s free, supported by donations, and essentially a more polished and user-centric variant of Ubuntu which has carved out its own niche by rejecting some of Ubuntu’s more jarring technological and UI changes. It doesn’t have a server version, although it maintains a separate edition based on Debian instead of Ubuntu, we suspect just in case Canonical ever makes such drastic changes as to stop Mint being viable. (Being based on Ubuntu, Mint is now also 64-bit only, but if you have a well-specified 32-bit machine, the Debian edition may help you.)

Linux has nearly half of the desktop OS Linux market

AlmaLinux project climbs down from being a one-to-one RHEL clone

Three signs that Wayland is becoming the favored way to get a GUI on Linux

SUSE announces its own RHEL-compatible distro… again

There are other distros which aim to wrap a friendlier face on Ubuntu, but Mint retains an edge. It’s based on a more current version of Ubuntu than even the latest Zorin OS, and Mint put effort into improving its upgrade procedure a few years ago. Zorin only just last month introduced its own version upgrade tool, which should help with its still forthcoming Ubuntu 22.04-based release.

Linux Lite is also an option, which avoids both Snap and Flatpak. The Teejeetech Zinc distro does too, but also offers much improved handling of both native .deb packages as well as AppImages.

Even so, we reckon Mint is almost certainly the most widely used. It sticks with the solid basis of the current Ubuntu LTS release, without even adopting Ubuntu’s HWE kernel and driver bundle. This means it’s about as widely compatible as Linux gets, and it’s substantially less work than setting up most other distros as it comes with most drivers and media codecs pre-loaded. This release adds support for HEIF and AVIF file formats, Adobe Illustrator files in the document viewer, improved touchpad gesture support, plus an improved Bluetooth stack and login screen. There are also new wallpapers and themes, plus a global dark mode.

The Nemo file manager has new, clearer folder icons but the kernel is an older one, albeit a supported, LTS version

The Nemo file manager has new, clearer folder icons but the kernel is an older one, albeit a supported, LTS version

Ubuntu originally became a success because it was simple, easy and free. Mint is all of those and additionally retains a traditional, Windows 95-style desktop. This won it a lot of users when Canonical went down more experimental routes, first with the macOS-like Unity desktop and later, following a very harsh assessment from Hacker News comments, it killed Unity and switched to GNOME 3.

It is long ago now and we suspect many have forgotten, but the desktop kerfuffle is all down to legal threats from Microsoft, which in 2007 claimed that Linux infringed 235 of its patents, although it was too busy to specify which ones. The move was probably mainly aimed at Red Hat, although the latter unflinchingly stared Redmond down and got away with it.

Inasmuch as the Linux industry had more or less consolidated on GNOME 2 at that point, Microsoft’s ploy was successful and profoundly disruptive, but it has certainly allowed Mint to thrive. ®

>>> Read full article>>>
Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source : The Register – https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/07/19/mint_212/

Tags: desktopLinuxtechnology
Previous Post

AI maybe on everyone’s lips, but it’s not what’s driving IT spending

Next Post

Opportunity NUCs for Asus to continue Intel’s mini PC line

Ecology issues $738K penalty against downtown Walla Walla Chevron owner – Union-Bulletin

Ecology issues $738K penalty against downtown Walla Walla Chevron owner – Union-Bulletin

September 6, 2025
What the science says about acetaminophen, pregnant mothers and autism – NBC News

What the science says about acetaminophen, pregnant mothers and autism – NBC News

September 6, 2025
RFK Jr accused of ‘reckless disregard for science and the truth’ in Senate hearing – The Guardian

RFK Jr. Faces Fierce Backlash for ‘Reckless Disregard for Science and Truth’ in Heated Senate Hearing

September 6, 2025
Start The Go-Go Years Today: Ignite Your Early Retirement Lifestyle – Forbes

Start The Go-Go Years Today: Ignite Your Early Retirement Lifestyle – Forbes

September 6, 2025
When Sports Teach More Than Skills – American Enterprise Institute

When Sports Teach More Than Skills – American Enterprise Institute

September 6, 2025
Abby Dow and England near record territory as Australia search for upset – The Guardian

Abby Dow and England Close in on Record as Australia Hunts for an Upset

September 6, 2025
America is getting the economy we voted for – Noah Smith | Substack

America Is Finally Experiencing the Economy We Created

September 6, 2025
Pendulum Announce Homecoming 2026 Australian Tour – yahoo.com

Pendulum Announces Thrilling Homecoming Tour Across Australia in 2026

September 6, 2025
HHS responds to report about autism and acetaminophen : Shots – Health News – NPR

HHS Addresses New Findings on Autism and Acetaminophen Use

September 6, 2025
September 2, 2025: Trump administration news – CNN

September 2, 2025: Trump administration news – CNN

September 6, 2025

Categories

Archives

September 2025
MTWTFSS
1234567
891011121314
15161718192021
22232425262728
2930 
« Aug    
Earth-News.info

The Earth News is an independent English-language daily published Website from all around the World News

Browse by Category

  • Business (20,132)
  • Ecology (810)
  • Economy (828)
  • Entertainment (21,705)
  • General (16,889)
  • Health (9,869)
  • Lifestyle (841)
  • News (22,149)
  • People (830)
  • Politics (835)
  • Science (16,039)
  • Sports (21,327)
  • Technology (15,808)
  • World (809)

Recent News

Ecology issues $738K penalty against downtown Walla Walla Chevron owner – Union-Bulletin

Ecology issues $738K penalty against downtown Walla Walla Chevron owner – Union-Bulletin

September 6, 2025
What the science says about acetaminophen, pregnant mothers and autism – NBC News

What the science says about acetaminophen, pregnant mothers and autism – NBC News

September 6, 2025
  • About
  • Advertise
  • Privacy & Policy
  • Contact

© 2023 earth-news.info

No Result
View All Result

© 2023 earth-news.info

No Result
View All Result

© 2023 earth-news.info

Go to mobile version