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Linux Mint 21 “Vanessa” Cinnamon released!

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Wonderful news!

How soon will we be able to upgrade from 20.3? I'm itching to try out the new Mint Upgrade app. lol
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Read the blog.
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Cosmo. wrote: Sun Jul 31, 2022 8:39 am Read the blog.
Thanks.
Upgrade instructions for Linux Mint 20.3 will be provided shortly.
At least that sounds like it will be later today. :D
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Macdhai wrote: At least that sounds like it will be later today.
"We’re also focused on opening the upgrade path from Linux Mint 20.3 to Linux Mint 21. We’ll make announcements when this is ready."
https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4370
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Can I help it if it's a day off and there's the possibility of a new toy to play with? I feel like Cartman waiting for the Nintendo Wii to come out. lol

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C'mon! C'mon!! :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Macdhai wrote:Can I help it if it's a day off and there's the possibility of a new toy to play with?
What's stopping you today? Just install it alongside your current deployment, and play to your heart's content.
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JoeFootball wrote: Sun Jul 31, 2022 10:04 am
Macdhai wrote:Can I help it if it's a day off and there's the possibility of a new toy to play with?
What's stopping you today? Just install it alongside your current deployment, and play to your heart's content.
I've already been looking at it in Boxes, but I'm wanting to see the new Mint Upgrade tool in action.
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Yippee! Let the joyous news be spread! The OFFICIAL Mint 21 (Cinnamon) flavor is HERE - and ready for download!

Thanks, Linux Team, all your efforts. We appreciate y'all!
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Macdhai wrote: Sun Jul 31, 2022 8:36 am Wonderful news!

How soon will we be able to upgrade from 20.3? I'm itching to try out the new Mint Upgrade app. lol
I never do Upgrades, only full on fresh installs, my data is in /home and I use Aptik to transfer over my apps and preferences
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It is working great here. Great release so far.
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The breaking changes in Cinnamon are a bummer for the applets, e.g. Weather doesn't work. That's pretty bad because the ecosystem is now full of broken addons with no real indication on what works. Looks like Mint 21 is a release to be skipped. Hopefully, things will improve until Mint 21.1. Otherwise, it could become a case of "terminally broken".
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JoeFootball wrote: Sun Jul 31, 2022 10:04 am
Macdhai wrote:Can I help it if it's a day off and there's the possibility of a new toy to play with?
What's stopping you today? Just install it alongside your current deployment, and play to your heart's content.
I haven't been able to get to a screen, no matter what I do.

I can boot the live filesystem on my laptop. I have a "pile 'o wonder" and have been thinking of hooking up an SSD to a USB port on the laptop and installing LM21 to that drive then replacing the SSD in my Desktop with the drive that I just installed mint 21 on. or,maybe using dd to copy the drive.
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Anybody knows what happened with this configuration section, looks like only highlighted setting is available in new version?

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I found toggling between modes (with control by default) extremely useful and be missing it if it's no longer available in new version...
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Do I understand correctly, in order to upgrade from 20.3 -> 21 I just have to wait for the update app to give me that option? Not going to do a fresh install, since I have a load of stuff configured and installed, just a noob here asking a silly question.
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Yes, wait for the announcement about the upgrade procedure.
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ozfir wrote: Mon Aug 01, 2022 5:20 am Do I understand correctly, in order to upgrade from 20.3 -> 21 I just have to wait for the update app to give me that option? Not going to do a fresh install, since I have a load of stuff configured and installed, just a noob here asking a silly question.
like you, I have spent a lot of time installing apps and other configurations on LM20.3 Cinnamon

I just now using VirtualBox, installed LM21 Cinnamon and it went smooth as glass.

after I get caught up with Life around here, I will use Aptik to install my current Apps on LM21 and see how it works.

What you have to realize is, that some of your current Apps will not be compatible with LM21's repository, but if already there, they will be kept installed.

Patience, the Upgrade to LM21 will be along soon.

read the Blog, Clem explains that IF you have stayed with the Original Beta version of LM20 that daily updates will keep what you have and it will eventually turn into LM 21
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apawelec wrote: Mon Aug 01, 2022 5:18 am Anybody knows what happened with this configuration section, looks like only highlighted setting is available in new version?
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I found toggling between modes (with control by default) extremely useful and be missing it if it's no longer available in new version...
Snapping has been silently removed, one of the regressions in LM 21 Cinnamon. Sadly not one word about that in the changelog.
(Besides that: Having now a separate settings window for the remaining 2 options appears as a bad joke. They could had been easily be placed into the window settings, but in that case everybody would have noticed the regression at once. :( )
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Cosmo. wrote: Mon Aug 01, 2022 5:32 am Snapping has been silently removed, one of the regressions in LM 21 Cinnamon. Sadly not one word about that in the changelog.
(Besides that: Having now a separate settings window for the remaining 2 options appears as a bad joke. They could had been easily be placed into the window settings, but in that case everybody would have noticed the regression at once. :( )
what do you mean by 'snapping' ?
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AZgl1800 wrote: Mon Aug 01, 2022 5:30 am
ozfir wrote: Mon Aug 01, 2022 5:20 am Do I understand correctly, in order to upgrade from 20.3 -> 21 I just have to wait for the update app to give me that option? Not going to do a fresh install, since I have a load of stuff configured and installed, just a noob here asking a silly question.
like you, I have spent a lot of time installing apps and other configurations on LM20.3 Cinnamon
What I have done in the past is keep a copy of my home folder on an external drive. Then I have tried out a bunch of different distros, and when I find something I like, I just install the software I need and copy the files to my home folder manually. .bashrc is something I have tweaked a lot, so that is just one file, but not sure of copying say .mozilla will retain all my Firefox extensions, passwords and tweaks just like that? OK it cost's nothing to try. No I have a spare computer for experimenting, I could install Vanessa on it and probably will, but no my hands are shaking and I just can't get sleep because I am waiting for Vanessa to come to my "production" machine! I shall wait.
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