On Fri, Aug 29, 2025 at 6:48 AM <[email protected]> wrote:
> Jeffrey Walton <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 28, 2025 at 8:10 PM Robert Heller <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > [...] > > > I don't know which of the above mentioned desktop environments has > > > the "closest resemblance to Windows 10 or 11". The common "wisdom" > > > of the Internet (or at least the YouTube subset) is that Mint > > > Cinnamon is what is recomended for people moving from MS-Windows to > > > Linux. I don't think that there is a version of Mint directly > > > derived from Debian 13 Trixie. > > > > Linux Mint is derived from Ubuntu. Running `apt update` from Mint : > > > > $ sudo apt-get update > > Ign http://packages.linuxmint.com virginia InRelease > > Hit http://mirror.cs.jmu.edu/pub/ubuntu jammy InRelease > > Hit http://packages.linuxmint.com virginia Release > > Get: 1 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-security InRelease > > [129 kB] Get: 2 http://mirror.cs.jmu.edu/pub/ubuntu jammy-updates > > InRelease [128 kB] Get: 3 http://mirror.cs.jmu.edu/pub/ubuntu > > jammy-backports InRelease [127 kB] > > Get: 4 http://mirror.cs.jmu.edu/pub/ubuntu jammy-updates/main amd64 > > DEP-11 Metadata [112 kB] > > ... > > > > And: > > > > $ lsb_release -a > > Distributor ID: Linuxmint > > Description: Linux Mint 21.3 > > Release: 21.3 > > Codename: virginia > > My mint box gives the same result from lsb_release but the repositories > it shows are all noble rather than jammy. > Oh, you're right. It looks like Mint has released version 22, which is code named Wilma. Major upgrades is one of the soft spots for Mint. It does a poor job of informing people of the major upgrade. I've been managing a family member's machine remotely over SSH for years. Mint never informed me a distro upgrade was available. And it never told me when I checked using their software upgrade tool. Jeff
