Linux Mint 22 review and demo, including full installation and setup tutorial for those transitioning from Windows.
Linux Mint 22 can be freely download via
The Etcher application I used to create a Linux Mint 22 USB drive is also free to download here:
And you can find my video Windows and Linux dual boot options here: (it covers more than the dual drive setup mentioned in the title).
And you may also find useful my βLinux Survival Guideβ series — the first part of which is here:
And my video βLinux Mint: Tips & Tricksβ is here:
Oh, and a full list of ExplainingComputers Linux videos β including reviews of many distros — is available here:
BOOTING FROM A USB DRIVE
Exactly how you boot from the Linux Mint USB drive does Iβm afraid depend on your particular computer. Often a boot menu can be accessed by pressing a particular key when you power-on, which may well be F12, F11 or F10. And if you can bring up such a menu when booting, you can simply select the USB drive.
Alternatively, you can enter the BIOS/UEFI, again by pressing an appropriate key on power-up, which is commonly F2, Del or Esc. Once in the BIOS you can then hopefully find a setting that will change the boot order to have USB first, so that your computer will always first try to boot from an inserted USB drive. However, to work, this may also require you to disable a feature called βSecure Bootβ, which you may then have turn on again if you want Windows to boot on your PC (it depends on the version). However, once in the BIOS, there is often an βExitβ or similar menu (usually on the end on the right) that offers a βboot overrideβ facility. And this allows you to select to boot from a USB drive just once without having to make any BIOS changes. So here you would select your inserted USB drive, and your computer would then happily boot from it.
Sadly, UEFI/BIOS settings and USB boot configurations are just not standardized, so I cannot give you a definitive set of instructions! But I do provide more guidance in my video on βPC BIOS Settingsβ:
More videos on computing and related topics can be found at:
Chapters:
00:54 Getting Linux Mint
03:10 Installation
06:11 NVIDIA GPU driver
07:16 Whatβs New?
11:11 Applications
14:43 Updates & Snapshots (Timeshift)
18:06 Fixing the Font! (Ubuntu Classic)
20:29: Xfce & MATE Editions
22:43 Wrap
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For current Linux Mint users, instructions for how to upgrade were released a few hours ago (so sadly could not be included in this video). They are here: https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4732 Linux Mint 22 does now seem very stable. But waiting a little to upgrade remains wise . . . π
My daily O.S for 1.5 year on a 2009 iMac, no regrets
I have tried Linux several times, but it takes over my pc and windows wonβt start. Does mint keep the option to use windows on boot up? Thanks
Excellent update to new system. Thank you
Nice video, can you make one doing the upgrade from 21 version
Funny, I detest Ubuntu, and really like Mint. Ubuntu was (is?) predatory. Mint is friendly.
Don't use linux as a daily driver without a specific usecase, why bother yourself extra amounts of problemsolving (because you will have to at one point) if it can run out of the box with windows.
I've been using WIndows since 3.1; although I did, for a short time, have 3.0 and – Windows 1.0.. Yes, Windows 1.0. At work, almost no choice but using Windows, but at home, using a mix as I transition to Mint. Comments are interesting on the number of folks using Mint – especially those using it on significantly older hardware.
will you do an update on your M-Disc video`? and see if the data is still available and if optical storage is still worth it in 2024
Mint needs a global menu in Cinnamon that works with all styles of apps from QT to GTK, wxWidgets, FLTK…
An excellent video as always. Would you say Linux MInt 22 is enough to replace Windows 11 as a daily driver for general usage ? I would also like your opinion of Linux Lite 7 please. Keep up the, as ever, great work. Cheers.
Hi Christopher, liked your video. I use Linux mint 21 for daily use. I don't know if it can be done but can you upgrade form Linux mint 21 to 22? If so where to watch out for. Can make a video about this :-)!
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I am a Linux Mint user, and have been for about 12 years or so. Before and adjacent to that, I've used mostly Debian (including RaspiOS), Ubuntu, and SuSe, whilst starting out on slackware floppies in about '94. (Yep, I'm a 30-year Linux veteran who hasn't run Windows since quitting working for "the man" in 2000.)
Lately, I've been using MacOS Sonoma on a Mac Pro (2013) I just acquired for ~$250 (including upgrading to 64 GB RAM and an 8-core E5-2667), which is really a quite lovely machine. However, I'm just getting tired of the whole MacOS scaling issue, which doesn't allow me to run graphical VMs at native resolutions on a 4k or 5k display because MacOS won't adjust text scaling separately from the raster scale, so the text is just too damned small (I sit about 8' away from my 55" 4k monitor).
To make a long story a bit shorter, I'm going to try out Linux Mint 22 on my Mac Pro (2013), and hopefully run MacOS (Sedona?) in a VM under that. Wish me luck.
Twister UI is a nice addon for XFCE to make the desktop environment more robust, while continuing to keep it light weight.
Can you install private browsing and hide your IP address
Is it still ugly? I'm staying with Zorin Core but might switch to Deepin when v23 is released. I've been watching Lunduke videos and the Linux community in the West is nuts. I think I trust the Chinese more.
Another fantastic video.
Gosh I love this channel.
Dear Chris, this is a excellent video about the latest Linux Mint version.
Presently I use a Mac mini with an upgraded SSD and PCI NVME drive.
I use Linux Mint through Parallels and it's performance is just amazing.
Thank you Chris for all your hard work Explaining Computers to the whole world.π
I've been on Ubuntu but have been thinking about mint again.
While everyone is raving how good linux mint is, lemme tell you a story I had 2 days ago: 31st July 2024
I decided to install linux mint xfce and cinnamon on my laptop each with its own 25GB partitions on my secondary SSD and ended up preferring Xfce because it felt snappier.
I had set them up, followed everything the welcome guide suggested; time shift, software manager, learned a few commands such as sudo get install VLC, APTITUDE search Steam etc and installed Steam and installed around 2 games and 1 software: Aseprite. Aseprite worked well but one of the 2 games didn't: Pixel Heroes of Byte and Magic. Which is ok, I expected that.
Come the day where everything went wrong, 31st July
I logged in xfce only for it to flash black,and then send me to the lock screen again. I did so around 5 times. I was confused.
I looked it op on my phone and found out in the linux mint forums that apparently, a service didnt start up therefore I cant log in wtf???
I followed the solution which was:
In the lock screen, open the CLI Terminal with Ctrl Alt F2 and log in, and then do ls -lA
Find the result which ends with .Xauthority to see if your account is listed in there
And then input the command: chown username:username .Xauthority
Go back to the lock screen and login using Ctrl Alt F7
I did that and it worked. Unfortunately it wasnt a permanent solution as when I did a reboot, I was experiencing the log in loop again. I did the suggested permanent solution only to end up with a permanent log in loop not even the workaround couldn't help.
Linux only fixes Windows Issues, but you have linux issues to worry about.
Never in my Windows life since XP have I experienced such an issue that led me with such a complicated workaround.
threw manjaro aon my wife older first gen rysen laptop. sucker picked up our network printer and added it and it's drivers automatically. it was a huge pain on windows to get it working properly on windows 10, but linux just did it for me as soon as i connected to our wifi.
Did Fred Flintstone create this new version?π ππ
Man went all flossy carter at the end of the video
bottom line, if you are running 21.x already, hold fire for a good few months before upgrade!
Wayland support is supposed to be better in 22.x – but your mileage will vary with a Nvidia GPU.
I'm going nowhere near Wayland it till it's stable and nowhere near Mint 22.x for at least 6 months, if not longer.
For most, absolutely no reason to upgrade at all.
For newcomers to Mint, 21.x is probably the better option right now, but I guess Mint will be wanting to push the new shiny.
Updated my Linux Mint after watching this video. Very good upgrade. Thanks for the information.
Can autodesk products be installed on linux ?
Linux Mint just managed to corrupt a simple file copy from a NTFS drive to another. This is after it froze the system twice. I eventually had to resort to copying a few hundred files at a time & then it finally completed. Then afterwards corrupted the drive again. I'll stick with actual Windows.
– ex game programmer
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Iβve just upgrade mint 22 on my various machines and it went very smoothly. Iβve tried most distrosβ but I always gravitate back to Mint because the Cinnamon desktop is so easy to use. Loved this intro, learned a few new things from it.
Mx is #1 on distrowatch so i tried it. It doesnt suck. So why does mint get all the love?
Windows 10 enterprise ltsc user currently. Windows 11 the most common Spyware currently available. Linux mint fence sitter.