Linux Mint 22.3 is set to be the next long-term supported release and a Beta is now here you can test, with a surprising amount of new features. It will be supported until 2029.
Hopefully making issues easier to trace, they’ve upgraded and rebranded the System Reports tool into a new System Information app that gives you four new pages of system details. This includes now pages for System Information, System Reports, Crash Reports, USB, GPU, PCI and BIOS.
I’m definitely not brave enough to upgrade to a beta yet but I can’t wait until it’s released; hoping an upgrade from 22.2 goes smoothly!
Wayland?
Says new keyboard layouts in wayland. It’s likely still experimental.
I really like mint’s focus on providing good GUI’s, other distros would do well to copy them imo
The one UI thing I really miss from windows is the BIG file preview in the file manager. Text files, PDFs, images, spreadsheets, etc. It’s nice to have a big window where I can see the contents right there in file manager when I’m looking for a file. When it exists in Mint, for instance in some cases with images, the image is too small to be of use. If that would cost performance, HDD space, etc., then make it optional, and warn the user.
Not, mind you, that I feel I have any space to complain, Mint is great, and I’m happy to have it. I’m not ungrateful at all.
@DarrinBrunner @cm0002 You should look at the file manager’s About dialog off the menu, and see if there are contact details for the developers. You can send them a message asking for new features…
If there are no contact details there (unfortunately there are reasons we can’t have all the good things in this horrible world) then you will need to search for the project’s home page, and see if you can make contact through that.
Generally speaking, developers like this sort of feedback.
Link to the highlights:
did it update ubuntu base version?
edit: yes. this means support for deskflow (mouse sharing)
