Linux Mint 22.1 codenamed 'Xia' is here, offering updated Cinnamon desktop, power management settings, and core OS improvements across its three editions. The flagship Cinnamon edition boasts experimental Wayland support in Cinnamon 6.4.6, while other editions receive core updates and maintain their respective desktop versions.
It's a bit later than we were expecting, but the latest Mint is here and should start to be offered as an upgrade soon.officially arrived at the end of last week, shortly after ISO images started to appear on mirror sites.
Add-on tools like the Update Manager – here on MATE – look and work identically under all the desktops – click to enlarge If you're running under VirtualBox, ignore the driver manager and install the FOSS guest additions – click to enlarge For faster downloads, let it choose a local mirror. Click on the default entry, then wait for speed testing to complete – click to enlarge
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