A NEW LOOK! - Linux Mint 21.1 Impressions

Time to take a quick look at the new visual changes and other tweaks coming to Linux Mint 21.1 in the recently released beta. First impressions incoming...
#linuxmint #cinnamon #switchtolinux

0:00 How Mint succeeds
1:27 Outline
1:52 Display scaling
2:26 Updated Mint-Y theme
3:55 Updated Mint-Y icons and cursor
5:07 Driver & Update Manager
5:50 Software Manager visual changes
7:34 More modernising needed
9:02 What would you add/change?

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[keyboard_g]

The Mint team just replaced the entire compositor Muffin. This is the ground work for Wayland. They will embrace Wayland when Wayland will work without issue for all the users.

[netwalker-]

I have Mint 21 (Cinnamon) running flawlessly on 3 of 6 computers in my house. It's he most pleasant experience when you simply need to use a handy & reliable desktop OS without nonsense corporate arbitrarieties...

[vinnylivoti]

Nice overview. I'm old school and have been using Linux Mint for 12 + years. It is a solid and stable desktop to get things done for a daily driver. I have tried many distos, some I loved some hated but always back to LM for myself and friends and family who use Linux.

[sjambler]

Good review. The Mint Software Manager was already better than most others at distinguishing between .debs and Flatpak apps. This is an improvement. The only thing that would get me to switch (probably to Pop!_OS) would be if Wayland and Pipewire start to have clear advantages over Xorg and Alsa, and Mint doesn't make the switch.

[iqbaltaufiq]

my wish is, I hope they tweak cinnamon to make a sleek, feature rich action center like in gnome where I can control a lot of things like music player, dark mode, volume, screen brightness, wifi, and bluetooth in one place

[renealbrechtsen]

Cinnamon has always been one of my favorite desktops. Seeing them continue to modernize it is just great. :)

[afanhaqulfadillah]

For the look
1) Use the default app icon instead of custom icon (I hate that firefox icon)
2) Apply rounded corner on the bottom as well, or just don't do rounded corner
That would be perfect

[prettysheddy]

I wonder if the mint team will ever go to more enterprises. They already have a solid base with a good release schedule and are known for being stable. I think they should work on some enterprise features: AD integration, easy gui way to join realms or organizations etc. I think mint can be a great enterprise alternative.

[mjdxp]

As a mobile viewer, thank you for the 125% scaling, makes it so much easier on me.

[RACAPE]

I always liked Mint. I have some friends with old laptops and they asked me if I can “save” the laptop with another windows or alternative. I already installed Linux Mint on 2 laptops and my friends are more than happy. I used all the major Linux distros, but for a new Linux user and for stability, from my point of view, Mint is #1.

[motoryzen]

I agree with one click battery profile toggle deal would be a very welcome improvement to Mint specifically for laptops.

[yurtlew]

I think it is cool that they also have included more icon theme options: papirus, breeze, numix, and all the yaru colors.

[jimw]

I would LOVE to see an option such as what they do in MXlinux, where you can make a complete iso snapshot of your entire system and write it to a USB stick, either as a backup or to transfer or make portable, your pc setup. Its the BEST "app" that was EVER implemented in Linux.

[askhowiknow]

I’ve had strong differences with Mint’s design, including the icons, logo, color choices, and now a bizarre cursor.
Ugliness aside, I love it more than anything. Their emphasis on stability and security makes them the best: good is great.

[weab]

The updated icons look very nice. I've always felt there was a bit too much green everywhere. The mouse cursor clashes a bit, though.

[mdavid]

Linux Mints main strength....It works "out of the box" little if any tweaking required. It just works with minimum of "fuss"

[jackevansevo]

Have been on Linux Mint for the last 3 months, and have fond memories of the distro from many years ago. A bit sad to see the departure from the classic green colour scheme, this is what made the distribution 'feel' like Linux Mint to me (suppose I can always change it back). Also wondering when cinnamon/mint will end up with Wayland + Pipeware. I can see Pipewire is available in the latest Ubuntu mate.

[parker_chess]

I've been using Mint for about 10 months now. I like Mint because its clean and stays out of the way. Everything works I never have any issues.

[darthcabs]

I think the fun is to have various different distros around. If we try to bring a feature parity between them, then they lose their uniqueness. For me it's nice to look at Mint and see how different it is from Gnome and from KDE

[hamobu]

When I switched from Mint to Kubuntu I was amazed how similar Cinnamon was to KDE. Like some of the dialogs and settings were very similar.