It displays the support time for kernels in Linux Mint 19.2 and supports the queuing of kernel installations or removals so that it is no longer necessary to install or remove kernels one-by-one anymore. The update manager features several kernel-related improvements. Some new features, improvements and fixes apply to all supported desktop environments, others are environment specific. Highlights of the release are reduced RAM usage, and Update Manager and Software Manager improvements.Ĭheck out our guide on upgrading Linux Mint if you don't know how to upgrade from an earlier version of the Linux distribution. The release follows Linux Mint 19.1 and Linux Mint 19.0 which we reviewed here. 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Linux Mint 19.2 Cinnamon, MATE, and Xfce are provided. Born in the quest for a better and more polished alternative to Ubuntu, Linux Mint has become a distribution to reckon with.The new version is a long-term service release it will be supported until 2023 and is already available on the official website of the project. Mint has been steadily moving up the distro popularity charts, closing up on its progenitor. Several factors contribute to the success of Linux Mint: a predictable release schedule, attention to detail, unique and genuinely helpful tools and utilities, and support for proprietary codecs.Īnother big contributor to the latest surge in Linux Mint's popularity is the new in-house Cinnamon desktop environment and the decision to include the Mate (pronounced maté) desktop as an alternative. Forming the Mint distro around Cinnamon and Mate, rather than settling for the classic KDE and Gnome desktop options, was a risky move, but it looks like it's paid off. ![]() Linux Mint has established a reputation as a versatile and user-friendly distro, and these additional desktop options distance Mint even further from Ubuntu. The story of Cinnamon and Mate starts with the story of Gnome – the great GNU desktop used in Linux systems around the world. The major update from Gnome 2 to Gnome 3 brought in many fundamental changes to the Gnome desktop. Some of the changes were based on the desire to make an interface that adapted more readily to mobile devices, but the Gnome developers also took some bold steps to reinvent the conventional desktop metaphor in favor of a new vision that they thought would ultimately be more intuitive and convenient. (Linus has since tempered his opinion of Gnome 3, but he had very strong feelings on the matter back in 2011.) Many Linux users reacted strongly to this change, including Linux creator Linus Torvalds, who stated "The developers have apparently decided that it's 'too complicated' to actually do real work on your desktop and have decided to make it really annoying to do." Torvalds and many others declared that they were going to keep using Gnome 2 and were not interested in upgrading to the newer version. Linux Mint developers were also skeptical about the new Gnome 3 desktop, but they also appreciated the benefits of the Gnome Shell and other innovations. The Mint team started working on a set of extensions that would adapt the Gnome 3 shell to fit their own goals. The Mint Gnome Shell Extensions (MGSE) eventually took on enough momentum that the Mint project eventually just forked the Gnome 3 Shell and launched the Cinnamon project. With all the controversy swirling around Gnome 3, the Mint team wanted an alternative for users who simply weren't interested in the Gnome 3 innovations. The Mate desktop was a community Free Software project that had already begun as a fork of Gnome 2. Mint developers adopted Mate as an alternative desktop, adapting it for the Mint environment and adding new features to make it ready for production environments. Mint is thus developed around two capable desktops: Cinnamon (based on Gnome 3) and Mate (based around Gnome 2). ![]() The Gnome project eventually discontinued its work on Gnome 2, which means that Mate is now the lead branch carrying on the Gnome 2 code base.
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