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• KingDingbat@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  As usual, my timing is impeccable. I just downloaded 22.1 last night lol

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  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Good job!

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  • BombOmOm@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Head on over to Update Manager > Edit and upgrade to 22.2!

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    • maximumbird@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Thank you for this

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• cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  oh god i'm nervous i just switched from windows to linux in march and this will be my first big update :o

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  • spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’ve been running Mint since 17.x and have only had one upgrade fail in all that time. You’re very unlikely to have a problem, but backup your system just in case!

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    • cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      ooh i have timeshift automatically set up anyway :)

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    • Linearity@infosec.pub ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      You got people like this guy and then you got me who had to reinstall mint 3 times because of upgrade and compatibility issues and then I eventually gave up on it 😭😭
      And that happened in the span of one month too.

      Eventually switched to Kubuntu and now I use Arch btw WITH BTRFS 🤤

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  • Sarothazrom@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’m in the same boat! Gonna update tomorrow when I’m not sleepy

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• BombOmOm@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  If you are currently running Mint 22.1, the upgrade will show up in the Software Manager > Edit menu.

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  • cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    i was going to amend my other comment.

    according to this in the release notes:

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    HWE kernel issues

    To provide support for newer AMD processors, Linux Mint 22.2 ships HWE Kernel 6.14.

    This kernel however has issues with:

    Virtualbox
    Old Intel GPUs which use the i915 driver
    Old NVIDIA cards which use the 470 driver (this driver is no longer supported by NVIDIA and thus doesn't support newer kernels)

    If you are affected by one of these issues, we recommend you install Linux Mint 22.1 instead, which ships with LTS kernel 6.8.

    You can then perform an upgrade towards 22.2 without switching towards the HWE kernel.

    i ran lspci -k | grep -EA3 'VGA|3D|Display' and i confirmed i was running i915 but i'm also currently on 22.1 with kernel 6.8; so does that mean i can upgrade normally and not worry about the kernel?

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    • danzabia@infosec.pub ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It also says I’m using i915 but I bought this laptop a year ago… so I suspect many Intel GPUs use that driver?

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    • BombOmOm@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      does that mean i can upgrade normally and not worry about the kernel?

      Yeah, just doing the upgrade via Update Manager > Edit menu leaves you on the 6.8 kernel. Confirmed with all three of my machines I upgraded.

      Two of them I have since put on kernel 6.14 via Update Manager > Kernels, after updating to Mint 22.2 and seeing it still on kernel 6.8.

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• LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I ran it it remotely logging in from RustDesk. Jellyfin (caddy), Copyparty, and my Pihole all run on that machine and it finished and all continued working after it restarted.

  Time estimate: 10 mins

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• londos@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Sorry for a noob question, but is there a recommended flavor (xfce/mate/cinnamon) for a 2010 era laptop, or is there no reason not to use cinnamon?

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  • BombOmOm@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Cinnamon uses slightly more resources than the other two. But, it’s lightweight enough I doubt you are going to have an issue, even with a computer of that era.

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    • cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      can't you switch from xfce to cinnamon and vice versa too?

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    • londos@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Thanks for the feedback! Its a surprisingly big hurdle, especially for someone indecisive that’s not going to try all three.

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  • Fecundpossum@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’d say RAM is going to be the largest performance bottle neck for a desktop environment on an older machine. 4gb of RAM? don’t bother with cinnamon, you’ll likely have a much better experience with Mate or XFCE. 8gb is about where I’d even bother to test out cinnamon.

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  • Lumisal@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You should probably take a look into puppy Linux, if low specs. Otherwise anything with xfce should run better on it.

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    • ouRKaoS@lemmy.today ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I ran Puppy off of a 4gb USB for almost 2 years when the hard drive crashed in my desktop years ago. As far as the “it just works” OS’s go, it was fantastic.

      Nothing is more permanent than a temporary solution that works well!

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  • Zen_Shinobi@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Hard to say without specs. I’d go with XFCE and then MATE right behind it. With a lower end PC, I doubt it could handle the fanciness of Cinnamon and still run software

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• panda_abyss@lemmy.ca ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  After using Fedora for a few days I do not care for the desktop environment and hot keys

  But holy fuck how have I been sleeping on toolboxes?

  The dev environment is great, I’m loving it. I even installed fedora 43 in a container to test out some rocm features and I didn’t even need to reboot.

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• Zen_Shinobi@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I updated last night and don’t see much of a change in my experience other than my toolbar icon look different. I streamed fo 2.5 hours on Arma Refroger no issues

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• BoloMKXXVIII@piefed.social ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It doesn't seem like that big of an update. Unless you need something listed in the release notes, you can stay where you are. I am running 21.3. It is good until 2026. My configuration is a bit complex and I hate spending the time to update.

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  • WeebLife@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It fixed dark mode not working properly in Firefox. 100% needed for me lol.

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    • Pxtl@lemmy.ca ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      That’s weird, I haven’t gotten the update yet but dark mode is working fine in FF for me. The place where it fails is ff-based webapps, which I use for YouTube music, Discord, and MS Teams.

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    • BoloMKXXVIII@piefed.social ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Glad it helped you.

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