Full Step-by-Step Guide: Linux Mint 21.3 to 22

Today I will step through the upgrade path for Linux Mint 21.3 to 22.

Timestamps
00:00 Intro
00:17 Overview
00:30 Fastly Repo
01:55 Upgrade process
12:30 Outro

#linuxmint #linuxmint22 #thelinuxitguy

[stephendavidrathburn]

I find it almost laughable that the Mint crew works so hard to make Mint user friendly (and it is) but then scare so many possible newbies away with an installation that takes so much teminal use. They really need to work on that. Upgrading From 21.2 to 21.3 was sooo easy. I wouldn't call this progress by any means.😢

[gerrycrisostomo]

Thanks a lot! I will do the upgrade during the weekend when I'm not too busy. You've been a great help. More power to you and keep up the great work.

[proud_atheist]

Tried this update method...Found it slowed down my system...So ended up doing a fresh install. Works great now!!!

[Rai_Te]

The Upgrade itself works fine, however it totally breaks the wine installation ... and this can not even be
cured with a reinstall of wine ... so i will go back to 21.3 and do a full install later.

[tonywise]

Good video, but I'll wait for v 22.1, as I usually do.

[jyngreen]

I made the upgrade and I'm loving it so far! Many bugs that I encountered were solved and hardware integration has improved a lot for me. Just one issue I face is that the system randomly freezes and need to force power-off in order to restart the system. I'm trying to troubleshoot it but it's hard to reproduce the error as it happens randomly and for no apparent reason.

[ultraprimez]

I did it just few days ago and it removed lots of my customisation i did for the system and they were removed while installing this and i had to install everything it opted out back in the system. Thank God i tried it in my oracle vm virtual box clone of v21.3. I would install fresh and start again and do try installing everything from scratch to customise my desktop experience again.
The only bad experience was the time it takes and the downgrade it did on upgrade.

[commonsense]

I have a Linux Mint 21.3 XFCE install that looks and feels so much like a Mac, I occasionally get confused which computer I'm using. Thankfully, I did the smart thing and created an image of my install to a USB drive then attempted to upgrade that. The upgrade took a couple of hours (as they warned) just to find out it was completely unusable after that. My customizations were overwritten, and stuff just stopped working. Clicking icons got me nothing and some command line gave me errors. For now, I'll stick with my 21.3 install until the bugs are exterminated.

I also have a LMDE6 XFCE4 install that works just fine also customized to look and feel like a Mac. With Canonical (Ubuntu) making bad decisions these days, I'm very happy Linux Mint has a pure Debian spin-off.

[paulrobinson]

Great video thanks but as with any upgrade i will wait till any bugs are fixed

[kenward]

My upgrade failed even though the upgrade program reported a sucessfull completion. When I rebooted I just got a black screen. As best I can tell the problem was related to the use of PPA's and the kisak drivers. After an unsucessfull timeshift restore I just gave up and did a fresh install.

[Jimmy-buzb]

Just subscribed. Thanks for useful content.
If you know: please advise if 'Persistence' works on LM 22 on a USB flash drive?
Maybe 4 months back, discovered that LM21.x DIDN'T keep previous files via 'Persistent'. So, went back to maybe LM 20 x...and Persistence works.
Any idea about LM 22, re: USB/Persistent?

[erdinckaya]

If linux mint came with KDE or GNOME by default (cinnamon is an alternative) most people probably wouldn't use another distribution. Most people who use different versions of fedora and debian, except for arch users, would be using linux mint KDE or GNOME. You know, nobody wants to install it afterwards.

[diuran]

Im waiting for my amd pc to come to me, to run Linux mint. For now I'm staying with manjaro connamon edition plus some intel drivers/apps from manjaro shop to have 4k/60 av1 accelerating on youtube that's works on Manjaro but nothing works on linux mint and others distros hmm weird, tried soo many solutions and still no smooth 4k/60 av1 youtube on my Intel UHD.

[paulwarner]

Thanx for the video. When I try to do the update I get in red "Error code 100" When I run apt update it seems to imply that the version of Opera browser I have installed is the issue. Will investigate.

[rsd]

Not many changes for the average senior user.

[szymonmordehaifinkelstein-]

Unfortunately, on my DELL Latitude 7280 laptop, Intel 520 graphics, YouTube cuts out slightly despite the codecs being installed, and on every Linux Mint, but on Zorin OS and Ubuntu it works, I don't know why.