Linux Mint is a refreshing aspect and warns you to update

The team behind Linux Mint has made several interesting ads about the popular Linux distribution and what is happening behind the scene. In addition to obtaining a preview of a new layer of paint, they also warn you that update Firefox.

A cinnamon redesign

The most striking announcement is that the Linux Mint Cinnamon edition is being redesigned. The menu will now be shown on the left side some covered folders in addition to their favorite applications, and with titles next to them instead of only icons. Your username and profile image will appear on those folders and applications. Your entire application library, divided into application categories, will appear on the right side of that. The session buttons (to log in and restart) have moved from a vertical battery to the left to a horizontal group in the lower right part of the menu.

You can compare under the new version to the left and the default appearance of the previous version of Linux Mint 22 to the right.

The complete list of types grouped by type was already the default value for cinnamon. That menu has been reduced to accommodate the list of folders and covered applications and its titles. The menu’s corners are also significantly more round, which would coincide better with the rounded corners in cinnamon applications.

Cinnamon is just a desktop environment that you can choose when you download an image of Mint Linux to install. The other options are Xfce and Mate, and I have not heard if those other editions are obtaining similar updates.

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Download launched statistics

Speaking of alternative editions of Mint, the development team also shared in its blog an breakdown of which desktop editions and what launches are downloaded from its website. MINT does not collect telemetry from the operating system itself, so, but it does track the frequency with which the various ISO files are downloaded. For desktop editions, of more than 98,000 downloads, the breakdown was as follows:

• Canela: 44.8%

• XFCE: 22.28%

• Companion: 16.95%

• LMDE 6: 9.4%

• Edge: 5.8%

I was personally surprised how popular LMDE editions are 9.4 percent. Knowing that Debian edition is intended as a backup distribution in case Ubuntu became unreliable as a basis, I assumed that practically no one felt the need to use it. Obviously, I was wrong, and even if I am not, there is something to say to archive these distributions as well.

Since these are just download counts, we do not know how much these ISO are being used or how. Even so, it is interesting to know which version of the distribution seems to receive the greatest attention. You can see the complete breakdown with some pleasant graphics in the publication of the blog linked below.

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Firefox in danger

Linux Mint team also issued a warning in its blog post on the version of Mozilla Firefox packed in its repositories. A root certificate basically, what tells other software pieces that this software is reliable and not malware, will expire for Firefox 128 and early on March 15. When that happens, Firefox will stop working properly.

Mint’s blog specifically names some expected problems, including broken accessories and lost access to the content protected by DRM. That would include content such as Spotify music, for example, if you use the Spotify web player. To avoid these problems, you must use the update administrator to update Firefox to the latest available version.

Linux Mint has long been a great name in the world of Linux distributions (distributions), perhaps better known as a reference distribution for people who feel comfortable with the motifs of Windows. In other words, if your life has spent using Windows, you should feel relatively at home using Linux Mint. Even so, we have writers here at How-to Geek who are familiar with Windows and use Linux, but they don’t want a distribution like MINT.

The changes announced with this blog post are still presented, presumably in the next release, Mint 22.2, but we do not know for sure. If you want to try Linux Mint yourself, you can get an ISO of the Linux Mint download page. Then take that ISO and follow our guide to install Linux to complete the process.

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