
You’ve as much empowerment with this as if you were using proprietary software, i.e. You can’t audit them, hold them, modify them or even point snap to a different store. The main developer of Linux Mint has already expressed his concerns about Snapd from Ubuntu Canonical ( read more):Īpplications in this store cannot be patched, or pinned. In addition, in version 20 the use of Snapd via APT is disabled by default due to (potential) security risks and acting as closed software. The biggest improvements are new color themes, a GUI tool to share files over the local network, improved support for the use of multiple monitors, improved support for laptops with a hybrid graphics card (Intel + Nvidia) and stopping the 32-bit releases. The latest LTS (Long Time Support) version of Linux Mint 20 codenamed ‘Ulyana’ has been released on 27 June 2020. Two months after the release of a new Ubuntu version, the new version of Linux Mint will be released.
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The embedded Software Manager (Store), which is full of popular and free apps, allows you to easily install applications on your Linux Mint laptop or desktop. Linux Mint has a very large English speaking community that likes to help beginning Linux Mint users. There is plenty of documentation and there are many user groups for Mint.

If you want to start with Linux Mint as a beginner you don’t have to rely on your own knowledge and skills. We notice among our customers that Linux Mint Cinnamon is the most popular choice. Besides the LMDE version which is based on Debian instead of Ubuntu, Linux Mint is released with 3 different desktop environments, namely Cinnamon, MATE and Xfce. Linux Mint is especially popular among old Windows users, because the desktop environment looks a lot like Microsoft Windows. Especially in the Netherlands and Belgium Mint is after Ubuntu the most chosen Linux distribution. Linux Mint is next to big names like Ubuntu and Debian one of the most popular Linux distributions.
