Linux Mint 22 Upgrade

Today we upgrade a production Linux Mint 21.3 to 22 to see how the upgrade process goes.
#linuxmint #upgrades #linux

00:00 - Look at the system
02:30 - Upgrade Guide
05:35 - Upgrader Preferences
06:55 - Lets GO! (failed tests)
08:15 - Disable the PPAs
09:39 - Foreign Packages
10:37 - Simulated Install
12:25 - Upgrading Phase
13:13 - System Font Weirdness and Auto Resolution
14:04 - Post Upgrade Foreign Package Check
16:36 - Final Phase

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[dcwad]

Thank you. good instructions, no problems.

[OldieBugger]

What a coincidence! I just test upgraded a mint 21.3 to 22 on my testing laptop. And yes, it did take a LONG time. But there were no problems at all.

[ARFunIn]

Thank you always for the details. Switched to 21.3 a couple of months ago on two different systems [ 2012 MacBook Pro and newer Windows 11 'wantabe' Lenovo]. Worried that the upgrade would be more difficult with the NVIDIA GPU present, but it was painless. As an added benefit, my EFI partition details were also cleaned up through the upgrade process.

[laurentitolledo]

Great video!....was contemplating on new install and migration to LM22
might consider this route as my LM21.3 has lots of installed apps and dependencies

how about a video comparing in-place upgrade vs new install + migration( app installation and data transfer), with your current setup

[RichardW]

I never had a problem with previous Mint versions but with a fresh install of 22 my laptop sometimes becomes unresponsive after Suspend. I have to do a cold shutdown and turn the laptop back on. I have moved to LMDE to see if that works better.

[FredPilcher]

Upgraded my laptop and desktop - easy, no problems at all. 🙂

[geoman]

Upgraded from 21.3 to 22. No problems at all! (I also run quite a few GOG Win games under wine and everything worked flawlessly)

[CTSFanSam]

My update from 21.3 to 22 went smooth. The only wonky thing I saw was my KDenLive treats mono WAV files as left channel only. I searched for others having the problem. There are others, but didn't spot a fix. So, using ffmpeg, I converted the mono WAV files to mono FLAC files. The FLAC files worked. I don't remember re-installing KDenLive, like you did. Redshift vanished. Have not done anything about that yet. I use Mint 22 as my daily driver and am happy with it. The more I hear about W11, the happier I am about moving over to Linux (16 months ago). BTW, I have never had W11 boot up in my home.

[harveybc]

It makes me feel better to hear others, specially power users, say "I don't know why". Only been using Linux for about 6 months and much prefer it over Windoze. I often hear myself saying, I don't know why . . . This makes me feel less like a complete beginner.
(Only reason I still have Windoze on any of my computers is to connect to my guitar amp. The Boss sound studio is very flaky. Can't even use a USB hub.)

[jumpnjack]

I did it.. it taken a LONG TIME.. but Linux Mint says is take a long time in the setup screen

[JohnSebeny]

Im looking at switching to Linux as well. I was looking at System 76 Meerkat. Thoughts? Recommend something else?

[ExistentialDawn]

why it still is not in update manager??

[willi]

i never knew there was a tool to upgrade. i always assumed everybody installed it anew. if there is a separate home partition or a nas reinstalling should not be an issue

[siwiecministro]

Perhaps you should create a guide on how to get traditional scrollbars (with two steppers, without smooth scrolling, without delays and with pageUp/pageDown when clicking on it) on Mint (and other GTK environments)... :)
Right now only LxQt does things right.

[Jojo-CY]

Thanks for making these videos on Linux. You have helped me to move on from Windows.

As a new Linux Mint user....i have a question about applets. Are these safe to download and install and are these applets vetted by the Linux Mint team? In particular....I really like the customization options in the cinnamenu applet but i am now thinking of uninstalling it out of security fears. Does anyone know if applets are safe for customizing LM?

Keep up the great work, my friend!

[markdavid]

I just upgraded my Mint XFCE system(21.3 -22) ..everything works, but there is a little wonkyness with icon spacing on the bottom panel

[xboxbml]

Yeah I did the update tool the day after it came out I think.. I had a couple "orphaned apps" I think and I think it was a repository that was bad or something..other than that the LM22 upgrade went fine.. I triple boot my desktop machine with windows Ubuntu and LM.. I don't use the windows at all anymore really.. it's really just a storage spot anymore

[Tenajeh]

I will just wait half a year, when the .3 version is out. Tried the upgrade before and there were a lot of packages in the way that the upgrade application couldn't deal with. I tried to get rid of them by uninstalling everything that was not a flatpak, but to no success. It became too much of a hassle. So I will wait.

[supergoofy]

Blender does not work on Linux Mint 22 VMware VM, either with upgrade from 21.3 or by doing clean install. Also if you login with wayland, the VM is slow and may experience various bugs.

[kenmilne]

I upgraded to 22 a week ago but began to get glitches in the playing of music and YT videos etc right away. Tried to find a solution including reverting to Pulseaudio but to no avail. Today I gave up and reinstalled 21.3 which runs perfectly.
Got no idea what caused my issues.