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Hi everyone,

Before we start with the news, I’d like to thank you for your donations and for your support!

We received donations from more than a thousand people in December! I know I talked about this before, but I’ll do it again because this number of donors in a single month is unprecedented. I like to imagine that many people gathered together at the same time just to support our project. It’s humbling and incredibly motivating. I feel really proud of this community and delighted to see how happy you are with our work. Thank you so much to all of you!

Mint 22.3

Linux Mint 22.3 was a very good release. It came out later than we anticipated, but it was very well received. The beta phase was longer than usual, but it allowed us to gather feedback, address many issues, and review some of the choices made during that time, in particular around the newly introduced Cinnamon menu and keyboard layout/IM (Input Method) configuration.

Keyboard Layouts and IM

Work continues on improving input methods. It came to our attention that some users like to use layouts which do not match their physical keyboard when using IM. I spoke with someone who writes in both French and Japanese. I do this myself on an ANSI keyboard using French/US and Mozc. He has different keyboards on different machines, some ISO/French, some Japanese, and he doesn’t care about the physical layout. He just wants the logical layout to be French when writing French and Japanese when using Mozc.

This isn’t something we anticipated, but we want to support it going forward. We’re working on making it possible to set a specific keyboard layout when configuring an input method.

Forums

I’d like to apologize to our forum users for how slow and unreliable the forums were last month. The volume of traffic we receive is extremely high, and it’s mostly coming from AIs, bots, scripts, and web crawlers. It got to the point where our server couldn’t cope and people weren’t able to use the forums.

In addition to the Sucuri WAF, it took us a while to come up with an efficient way to filter bad traffic. If you’re getting 403 errors from the forums right now, please make sure your browser is up to date.

We upgraded the server to give it 10× the CPU capacity and twice the bandwidth.

Users and Account Details

For some reason most Linux desktop environments have come up with their own tools for user administration and account details. It’s a pity because this is typically an area which belongs to distributions and which cannot be and certainly isn’t properly handled by desktops. As a result these tools lack support for a lot of new use cases and they’re not well maintained.

In the next release, the Administration Tool (mintsysadm) will handle user administration and account details in editions where the desktop tools can be hidden.

 User management in mintsysadm focuses on the most common tasks. Once a user is set up, that user can set up a password and finalize the account without admin intervention. Home directory encryption, which until now was only supported during the OS installation, is fully supported during the creation of new user accounts.

Webcams are fully supported when taking selfies (i.e. you can see yourself before taking the snap, and decide whether to mirror the webcam or not).

Avatars come with full HiDPI support and look crisp on modern hardware.

Cinnamon Screensaver and Wayland

The Cinnamon screensaver only works in X11. It’s a standalone application which runs in its own process and uses the GTK toolkit. X11 is responsible for making sure it sits on top of Cinnamon’s window manager and hides the windows when the screen is locked.

One of the goals for the next Linux Mint release is to implement a new screensaver which will:

  • Replace the existing one
  • Work in both Wayland and X11
  • Be natively rendered by Cinnamon’s window manager (compositor)

The benefits are significant:

  • Smoother transition/animation during screen lock
  • Better integrated look and feel (We’ll be using the same toolkit as the one made for the panel, menus, applets)
  • Full Wayland support (This is the last missing piece of the puzzle for Cinnamon to fully support Wayland)

This is one of the big things we’re working on right now. I’m not showing you pictures yet until this is ready 🙂

Wayland support so far has been “experimental”. Once all the pieces are in place, we can support it and start testing it as a potential solution. We know there are pros and cons to X11 and Wayland, and we want to support both. Supporting Wayland doesn’t mean we’ll start using it by default, but it makes it a possibility. As always, we’ll end up using what works best for most users.

Longer Development Cycle

If we look back at the last ten years and the projects we invested resources in, we see two things. Well, I see two things anyway, I hope you’ll agree 🙂

I think one of our strengths is that we’re doing things incrementally and changing things slowly. We are introducing change and sometimes it annoys some of our users, but we’re doing it in a way that doesn’t radically affect who we are or the user experience we provide.

Another important strength of ours, as I see it, is that we value our independence and we are able to react and develop our own solutions when we’re not happy with the alternative. We made some bold moves in the past, sticking to LTS, rejecting Snap, developing alternatives to a new GNOME that didn’t feel like GNOME, and I’m really glad we did. These decisions weren’t easy to make and some of them cost a huge amount of time and resources to implement. But looking back, I think they were key. I think we’re first and foremost an operating system: a product, a user experience. We’re also a “distribution”, but we’re not just a distribution.

Whether we “distribute” (for instance with KDE) or we actively develop solutions (for instance with XApp and Cinnamon), we spend a lot of time in release management. Releasing often is important because it means we get a lot of feedback and bug reports when we introduce changes. We follow the same process over and over again. It’s a process that works very well and it produces these incremental improvements release after release. But it takes a lot of time, and it caps our ambition when it comes to development. With a release every six months plus LMDE, we spend more time testing, fixing, and releasing than developing.

We’re thinking about changing that and adopting a longer development cycle. As it happens, our next release will be based on a new LTS and we just ran out of codenames 🙂

Stay tuned, we’ll have more information on this. Obviously the codenames strategy doesn’t matter much, but we are very interested in adopting a longer development cycle.

Sponsorships:

Linux Mint is proudly sponsored by:

Gold Sponsors:
Linux VPS Hosting
IPv6.rs
Silver Sponsors:
Datadog
Sucuri
ThinkPenguin: For Everything Freedom		 Bronze Sponsors:
AYKsolutions Server & Cloud Hosting
Agile.Coach
BGASoft Inc
C0MPLÉX1 SEO
Chargeblast
nesevo GmbH & Co. KG
Tinken Inc
VANT

Donations in December:

A total of $47,312 were raised thanks to the generous contributions of 1,393 donors:

$1000 (8th donation), Gerald L.
$382 (2nd donation), Walter G.
$380 (5th donation), Secret Adventures Kauai
$371 (6th donation), Soldev sàrl
$360 (2nd donation), IURII M. K.
$318 (16th donation), Jiří B.
$318 (5th donation), Pieter S.
$300 (29th donation), John Mc aka “Land Research Project“
$300, Anonymous
$265, Dr. M. K.
$250 (4th donation), William P.
$218 (6th donation), Michael M.
$212 (8th donation), Marcus H.
$212 (6th donation), Wolfgang S.
$212 (2nd donation), Lutz K.
$212 (2nd donation), Marco Q.
$212, Christian B.
$200 (19th donation), Tomasz E.
$200 (2nd donation), Gail N.
$200, Bob Lee
$200, dana C.
$200, Nathan E.
$200, P. K.
$200, Thomas J. P.
$159, Linux-Café Stuttgart Kaltental
$150 (5th donation), Lee R.
$150, Janette J.
$127 (2nd donation), Andre V.
$127, Andreas L.
$127, Christoph S.
$125 (7th donation), Alex O.
$125, Ian C.
$120 (2nd donation), Evan R.
$120, M.S.
$116 (2nd donation), Thomas M.
$106 (16th donation), Torsten P.
$106 (11th donation), Karl H.
$106 (7th donation), Marek Stapff
$106 (3rd donation), Jukka H.
$106 (3rd donation), TURBOKAN_TR
$106 (2nd donation), Dirk H.
$106 (2nd donation), Laurens R.
$106 (2nd donation), Malte F.
$106 (2nd donation), Michael M.
$106, Alenka S.
$106, Andrea B.
$106, Andreas F. M.
$106, David G.
$106, DR. B. R.
$106, Jens D.
$106, Jesper R. aka “Kaptajn”
$106, Jörg B.
$106, Lars K.
$106, Lars K.
$106, Manuel H.
$106, Oliver K.
$106, Patrick B.
$106, Roland L.
$106, Stefan P.
$106, Thomas J.
$106, tim H.
$106, tobiasblaser.ch GmbH
$106, VITTORINO D.
$106, Yvonne T.
$106, ZDENĚK ČERVENKA aka “neo75”
$100 (15th donation), Mountain Computers, Inc aka “MTNCOMP aka GGPCTU“
$100 (15th donation), James F.
$100 (12th donation), Michael S.
$100 (11th donation), Richard H.
$100 (5th donation), Jan A.
$100 (5th donation), JimQ
$100 (5th donation), Matt S.
$100 (5th donation), Michel R.
$100 (4th donation), Larry M.
$100 (3rd donation), Andreas K.
$100 (3rd donation), James M.
$100 (3rd donation), John M.
$100 (3rd donation), Kirby S.
$100 (3rd donation), Robert S.
$100 (2nd donation), Snap Programming and Development LLC
$100 (2nd donation), Janice H.
$100 (2nd donation), Patrick A.
$100 (2nd donation), Peter W.
$100 (2nd donation), Steve
$100 (2nd donation), Tim H.
$100, Adam M.
$100, Brandon T.
$100, Bruno H.
$100, Charles C.
$100, David C.
$100, Gary E.
$100, Jim W.
$100, John D.
$100, John L.
$100, Kevin J.
$100, Kyle C.
$100, Mario D.
$100, NILS K.
$100, Ted F.
$100, thomas K.
$100, William B.
$84 (3rd donation), Jean-françois G.
$84, Claudia D.
$75, Hayden J.
$75, Thomas C.
$75, Vincent N. M.
$74 (7th donation), Jean-baptiste P.
$74, Theoharis T.
$73 (2nd donation), Tim D.
$71, Peter C.S. Scholtens
$63 (4th donation), Edoardo R.
$63 (3rd donation), Katharina G.
$63, Christian S.
$63, Lukas Z.
$63, Tony J.
$60 (7th donation), David K.
$60, Michael J. L.
$58 (2nd donation), Wolfgang Vee aka “elch01”
$57 (4th donation), VVV
$53 (27th donation), Hans J.
$53 (24th donation), Bjarne K.
$53 (24th donation), Naoise G. aka “Gaff”
$53 (19th donation), Paul S. E. aka “Paul”
$53 (17th donation), Christian G. aka “Chrissy”
$53 (14th donation), Jyrki A.
$53 (12th donation), More Linux
$53 (11th donation), Martin R.
$53 (10th donation), Jürgen F.
$53 (9th donation), Jose L. D.
$53 (8th donation), Armin F.
$53 (7th donation), Christian T.
$53 (7th donation), erwn16 aka “erwn”
$53 (7th donation), Luis R.
$53 (7th donation), Marco van den Berg
$53 (6th donation), akaIDIOT
$53 (6th donation), Anton M.
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$53 (3rd donation), Sebastian Münch
$53 (2nd donation), Andreas B.
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$53 (2nd donation), Eckart H.
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$53 (2nd donation), Seb aka “mr.pip”
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$53, BOGDAN C. C.
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$53, Christian K.
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$53, Frank
$53, Frank H.
$53, Frank S.
$53, Gerald K.
$53, Giancarlo G.
$53, Gilles
$53, Gisela T.
$53, Isolde M. B.
$53, Ivo H.
$53, Jan G.
$53, jan V.
$53, Javier G. V.
$53, Jens W.
$53, Jim R.
$53, Joachim S.
$53, Joao M. aka “DeLinuxCo”
$53, Johannes G.
$53, Johannes W.
$53, Jon B.
$53, Julian H.
$53, Jürgen W.
$53, Klaus S.
$53, Knut G.
$53, Krings D.
$53, Lars P.
$53, LAURA N.
$53, Leendert-Jan F.
$53, Marco O.
$53, Marianne R.
$53, Markus N.
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$53, Matjaz C. aka “TitoJBroz”
$53, MIchael B.
$53, Michael S.
$53, Michele M.
$53, Mike L.
$53, Milan M.
$53, Musie B.
$53, Oliver P.
$53, one2seven GmbH
$53, OSL Learning & Media Ltd
$53, Peter Z.
$53, Ralf F.
$53, Ralph G.
$53, razes G.
$53, Rickard S.
$53, Robert S.
$53, Roland G
$53, Roland K.
$53, RONALD O.
$53, Ronald S.
$53, Sebastian K.
$53, Simon P.
$53, Sooom.de / Thomas Schäfer
$53, Stefan H.
$53, Stefan K.
$53, Stefan Z.
$53, Sven D.
$53, Sven N.
$53, Thierry V.
$53, thomas K.
$53, Thomas P.
$53, Tilen B.
$53, tomas M.
$53, Tomi G.
$53, Uwe G.
$53, Ville O.
$53, W.H.MOLLOY
$53, Waldemar S.
$53, William M.
$53, Wolf K.
$53, Wolfgang S.
$53, Yannick B.
$51 (23rd donation), Adam K.
$50 (15th donation), Mothy
$50 (12th donation), Anthony C. aka “Ciak”
$50 (11th donation), Christophe Caillé aka “KKY”
$50 (11th donation), Stuart B.
$50 (10th donation), William G.
$50 (9th donation), Stacey F.
$50 (8th donation), Brian S.
$50 (8th donation), GELvdH
$50 (6th donation), Chris C.
$50 (6th donation), Harrison W.
$50 (6th donation), Kurt T.
$50 (6th donation), Stephen C.
$50 (5th donation), Don aka “Don“
$50 (5th donation), Doug S.
$50 (5th donation), Guillermo A.
$50 (4th donation), Brian B.
$50 (4th donation), Chad B.
$50 (4th donation), David Diaz
$50 (4th donation), Evan S.
$50 (4th donation), Ivan D.
$50 (4th donation), John D.
$50 (4th donation), Julie A G.
$50 (4th donation), Khalid T. aka “k9750”
$50 (4th donation), Peter C.
$50 (4th donation), Robert L.
$50 (3rd donation), Alan G.
$50 (3rd donation), Alejandro R.
$50 (3rd donation), Dan B.
$50 (3rd donation), David B.
$50 (3rd donation), Dominic M.
$50 (3rd donation), Eddie B.
$50 (3rd donation), Josh G.
$50 (3rd donation), Mark M.
$50 (3rd donation), Michael M.
$50 (3rd donation), P D.
$50 (3rd donation), Peter L.
$50 (3rd donation), Sharon S.
$50 (2nd donation), Allan C.
$50 (2nd donation), Bruce L.
$50 (2nd donation), Christopher D.
$50 (2nd donation), Eugene W.
$50 (2nd donation), John B.
$50 (2nd donation), Michael H.
$50 (2nd donation), Rusty D.
$50 (2nd donation), Shawn S.
$50 (2nd donation), Stefan D.
$50, Adriaan V.
$50, anonymouns
$50, Anonymous
$50, Brad S.
$50, Charles L.
$50, Curtis M.
$50, Dana H.
$50, David L. B.
$50, David N.
$50, Denny F.
$50, Diego S.
$50, Doug S.
$50, Douglas B.
$50, Evan S.
$50, Felix C.
$50, Garry G.
$50, George W.
$50, James W.
$50, Jason E.
$50, john B.
$50, Joshua H.
$50, Josiah H.
$50, Kai H.
$50, Kathleen K.
$50, Keir J.
$50, Kurt K.
$50, Loren D.
$50, Mark M.
$50, Michael C.
$50, Michael L.
$50, Michael S.
$50, Mitchell W.
$50, Nathan
$50, Nickolas B.
$50, Phillips H.
$50, Piotr S.
$50, Praneeth
$50, Randy L. aka “R.D.”
$50, Ricardo P.
$50, Riley W.
$50, Robert B.
$50, Robert G.
$50, Robert S.
$50, Ron F.
$50, Rose P.
$50, Shaun J. V. N.
$50, Shawn H.
$50, Stanley V.
$50, THOMAS R.
$50, wayne G.
$49 (9th donation), GASHIGULLIN D.
$48 (6th donation), Ingo S.
$47, Ronny K.
$45 (7th donation), Lloyd H.
$44, WALLY J.
$42 (12th donation), Pavel B.
$42 (9th donation), Frank W.
$42 (7th donation), Mathias P.
$42 (5th donation), Björn H.
$42 (2nd donation), Jörg W.
$42 (2nd donation), Steffen G.
$42 (2nd donation), Walter W.
$42, Alexander B.
$42, Alexander L. aka “Lexolas”
$42, Antonio B.
$42, Elia V.
$42, Hannelore O.
$42, Hannes B.
$42, Joerg F.
$42, Julia S.
$42, Martin K.
$42, Uwe K.
$41, Alfredo Cattaneo
$40 (3rd donation), Cecil H.
$40 (3rd donation), Charles W.
$40, Jude M. M.
$40, Ryan S.
$38 (2nd donation), Tommi AV aka “Tombie75”
$37 (2nd donation), Karl A.
$37 (2nd donation), Thomas K.
$37 (2nd donation), Walter G.
$37, Lukas W.
$37, Thomas K.
$36 (2nd donation), tommy W.
$36 (2nd donation), 何源
$36, Sheldon B.
$35 (8th donation), Ricardo M.
$35 (8th donation), Thomas H.
$35 (5th donation), Steven H.
$35 (4th donation), Keith P.
$35 (3rd donation), Carol B.
$35 (3rd donation), Rodney M.
$35, Amarjit B.
$35, David J. C.
$35, Dennis B. O.
$35, JAIME P. B.
$35, Müller S.
$35, Steven L.
$32 (4th donation), Harry F.
$31 (15th donation), Bill Metzenthen
$31 (12th donation), Alexander M.
$31 (11th donation), Peter aka “miesepeter”
$31 (9th donation), Daniel K.
$31 (8th donation), Alessio B.
$31 (8th donation), Wolfgang S.
$31 (6th donation), Gerard B. aka “Djé”
$31 (5th donation), Amir Perviz
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$31, DAVID M.
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$31, Frank A.
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$31, Lars S.
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$31, Paweł G.
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$31, Wolfgang H.
$30 (9th donation), Bob Tregilus
$30 (4th donation), Bart L.
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$30 (2nd donation), Judy S.
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$30, Jan W.
$30, Markus S.
$30, Russell S.
$29, Joel M.
$28, Peter H.
$27, Gordon S.
$26 (16th donation), Roger aka “GNU/Linux werkgroep“
$26 (11th donation), Jürgen B.
$26 (10th donation), Juergen S.
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$25 (58th donation), Linux Mint Sverige
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$22 (13th donation), Malte J.
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$21 (75th donation), Michael R.
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$21 (31st donation), Doriano G. M.
$21 (28th donation), Benjamin W. aka “UncleBens”
$21 (19th donation), Janne S.
$21 (13th donation), Rob B.
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$21 (12th donation), Anne-christine U.
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$21 (10th donation), Jaime aka “¡Fuera los gringos de Venezuela! Trump, keep out of Venezuela!”
$21 (9th donation), Gerhard A.
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The team is proud to announce the release of Linux Mint 22.3 “Zena”.

Linux Mint 22.3 is a long term support release which will be supported until 2029. It comes with updated software and brings refinements and many new features to make your desktop even more comfortable to use.

New features:

This new version of Linux Mint contains many improvements.

For an overview of the new features please visit:

“What’s new in Linux Mint 22.3“.

Important info:

The release notes provide important information about known issues, as well as explanations, workarounds and solutions.

To read the release notes, please visit:

“Release Notes for Linux Mint 22.3”

System requirements:

  • 2GB RAM (4GB recommended for a comfortable usage).
  • 20GB of disk space (100GB recommended).
  • 1024×768 resolution (on lower resolutions, press ALT to drag windows with the mouse if they don’t fit in the screen).

Upgrade instructions:

Download links:

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Integrity and authenticity checks:

Once you have downloaded an image, please verify its integrity and authenticity.

Anyone can produce fake ISO images, it is your responsibility to check you are downloading the official ones.

Enjoy!

We look forward to receiving your feedback. Thank you for using Linux Mint and have a lot of fun with this new release!

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It is now possible to upgrade Linux Mint 22, 22.1 and 22.2 to version 22.3.

If you’ve been waiting for this we’d like to thank you for your patience.

1. Create a system snapshot

You can use Timeshift to make a system snapshot before the upgrade.

If anything goes wrong, you can easily restore your operating system to its previous state.

Launch Timeshift from the application menu, follow the instructions on the screen to configure it and create a system snapshot.

2. Prepare for the upgrade

If you installed Cinnamon spices (applets, desklets, extensions, themes), upgrade them from the System Settings.

3. Upgrade the operating system

Upgrading to Linux Mint 22.3 is fast and easy.

In the Update Manager, click on the Refresh button to check for any new version of mintupdate or mint-upgrade-info. If there are updates for these packages, apply them.

Launch the System Upgrade by clicking on “Edit->Upgrade to Linux Mint 22.3 Zena”.

Follow the instructions on the screen.

If asked whether to keep or replace configuration files, choose to replace them.

4. Reboot the computer

Once the upgrade is finished, reboot your computer.

Commonly asked questions

  • If the upgrade is not available to you, check that you have the latest version of mint-upgrade-info (1.3.0 or higher) and restart the Update Manager by launching it again from the applications menu.
  • If the latest version of mint-upgrade-info is not yet available in your mirror, switch to the default repositories.
  • This happens rarely, but if you ever got locked and were unable to log back in, switch to console with CTRL+ALT+F2, log in, and type “killall cinnamon-screensaver” (or “killall mate-screensaver” in MATE). Use CTRL+ALT+F7 to get back to your session.
  • Cinnamon Edition: The main menu was redesigned. To avoid using a mix of old and new settings we recommend you reset your menu settings after the upgrade. Upgrade, reboot, log back in then right-click your Cinnamon menu, “Configure…”, press the burger menu (top-right) and choose “Reset to defaults”.