476 – New Year of the Linux Desktop

About this episode

The episode discusses news about Linux Mint, including a retraction regarding beta upgrades and features of the upcoming Cinnamon menu.

First up in the news: A retraction Review of our predictions for last year, and what we predict for 2026 Then our much anticipated Wanderings Link To Full Show Notes Retraction from episode 475: The first is from the mint monthly blog where we said there would be a way to upgrade to the beta of 22.3 directly from 22.2. This was a misunderstanding of the information, and is in fact not true. There is, as has been the case in the past no way to upgrade in place from any version of Mint to any beta. That has just never been a thing. The confusion stems from the line stating there will be an announcement when the links are available. If you want to run the beta, you will have to install it (Nuke and Pave) The other thing is when Bill mentioned the new Cinnamon menu was currently available to use with 22.2. Bill was confused by an update he saw come down for an alternative menu, “CinnVIIStarkMenu” which is a very feature rich, traditional menu much like the Arc menu in Gnome, The Brisk Menu in Budgie, and the Whisker Menu in XFCE. The new menu will be available in the up-coming 22.3 release of Linux Mint Cinnamon. Check This Out: Topgrade topgrade is an intelligent, cross-platform…

Topics covered

• Linux Desktop
• Linux Mint
• Software Updates
• Cinnamon Menu
• Predictions

Keywords

• Linux Mint
• Cinnamon
• Topgrade
• software updates
• beta release

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Linux Mint

Products: Cinnamon, CinnVIIStarkMenu, Topgrade

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