On Friday, August 29th, 2025 at 10:23 PM, Jeffrey Walton <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 Lol I think Mint maintains radio silence. Mr. Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming Targeted Individuals Singapore
