Check out my Toolbox to quickly Add/Remove programs, configure power settings, and system updates with the click of a button. github.com/TheLinuxITGuy/Toolbox
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.😢
I tend to agree with that assessment; Linux will never be an operating system for the masses until someone figures out a way to keep terminal out of the equation completely. Most people can handle only a point and click OS. Neither Windows nor MacOS requires anyone to use command line.
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.
@TheLinuxITGuy I think I solved it! It might have something to do with the Nvidia 535 driver. I have an i7 13th Gen, Nvidia RTX 3050, and 16GB RAM. I switched to 525, and so far, it hasn't frozen a single time.
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.
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?
Many thanks for replying! IF you have time: would you please consider making a video about USB Persistence + PLOP + LMDE, w. 32-bit PCs? Some be-au-ti-ful 32-bit ASUS PCs I use are getting REALLY slow on Win 10. Plus, Win 10 support will stop in about a year. I'm HOPING: USB+PERSISTENCE+LDME 32-bit Linux. Easy to trash these 2 or 3 older PCs; however would LOVE to keep 'em around for [off Net] Win 10 programs ..& (hopefully) LMDE+Persistent+Plop. + Great job on the vids (& voice work, BTW): nice to see/hear a dude do it RIGHT. Thanx Much
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.
@@TheLinuxITGuy I don't have GitHub, but I'll look into that. I've downloaded a few things from there, but that's the extent of my GitHub experience. I'm just a Newbie, so there's a lot I have yet to figure out.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Unfortunately, on my DELL Latitude 7280 laptop, Intel 520 graphics, RUclips 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.
@@szymonmordehaifinkelstein-3697 What do you get with any other browser? I remember there being a slowness issue with Firefox and RUclips a few months back.
@@TheLinuxITGuy Honestly, I haven't tried other browsers because I think Firefox is the best, currently I'm using Zorin os 17.1 and everything is fine.
Check out my Toolbox to quickly Add/Remove programs, configure power settings, and system updates with the click of a button. github.com/TheLinuxITGuy/Toolbox
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.😢
Hopefully this video helps with that.
I tend to agree with that assessment; Linux will never be an operating system for the masses until someone figures out a way to keep terminal out of the equation completely. Most people can handle only a point and click OS. Neither Windows nor MacOS requires anyone to use command line.
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.
Glad to help!
Tried this update method...Found it slowed down my system...So ended up doing a fresh install. Works great now!!!
Great to hear!
Depends on how and where your files are stored. I do a complete backup of my personal files, then do the fresh install and bring back the files.
Very helpful walk through! Thanks!
You’re very welcome sir. Glad it helped.
Good video, but I'll wait for v 22.1, as I usually do.
Thanks
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.
I haven't experienced that. What hardware are you using? I'm running AMD Ryzen 5600x CPU, AMD 6600 GPU
@TheLinuxITGuy I think I solved it! It might have something to do with the Nvidia 535 driver. I have an i7 13th Gen, Nvidia RTX 3050, and 16GB RAM. I switched to 525, and so far, it hasn't frozen a single time.
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.
Thanks for sharing.
Great video thanks but as with any upgrade i will wait till any bugs are fixed
Understandable. Thanks for watching.
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?
I just tested this, and my test file did NOT persist through a reboot. Thanks for subscribing.
Many thanks for replying!
IF you have time: would you please consider making a video about USB Persistence + PLOP + LMDE, w. 32-bit PCs?
Some be-au-ti-ful 32-bit ASUS PCs I use are getting REALLY slow on Win 10. Plus, Win 10 support will stop in about a year. I'm HOPING: USB+PERSISTENCE+LDME 32-bit Linux.
Easy to trash these 2 or 3 older PCs; however would LOVE to keep 'em around for [off Net] Win 10 programs ..& (hopefully) LMDE+Persistent+Plop.
+ Great job on the vids (& voice work, BTW): nice to see/hear a dude do it RIGHT. Thanx Much
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.
Nice! Do you have a GitHub with your custom image? Would love to check it out.
@@TheLinuxITGuy I don't have GitHub, but I'll look into that. I've downloaded a few things from there, but that's the extent of my GitHub experience. I'm just a Newbie, so there's a lot I have yet to figure out.
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.
Thanks for sharing your experience. I’m sorry the upgrade didn’t work, but I’m glad you were able to get a fresh install in.
Similar issue here. Many users are having issues with display drivers when updating from 21.3 to 22.
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.
I sped up most of this video. I would say it took ~30mins in real time. Thanks for sharing your experience.
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.
True
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.
Nice, let me know how your new AMD turns out.
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.
Check Synaptic Package Manager -> Additional Repos. I’ve had Brave act up before. Removing it there cleared it for me.
@@TheLinuxITGuy Thanx. I found the problem in Software Sources > Authentication Keys and removed the Opera ones. Upgrade went fine after that.
@@paulwarner5395 Glad you got it working. Thanks for sharing here. Hopefully it helps someone else as well.
@@TheLinuxITGuy Took few hours thought 🙂
@@TheLinuxITGuy It completely screwed up my multi boot on grub. Mint 22, Ubuntu 24 and Win 11. Oh well back to the drawing board.
Not many changes for the average senior user.
Mainly the Ubuntu base under the hood.
Unfortunately, on my DELL Latitude 7280 laptop, Intel 520 graphics, RUclips 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.
What browser are you using?
@@TheLinuxITGuy Firefox
@@szymonmordehaifinkelstein-3697 What do you get with any other browser? I remember there being a slowness issue with Firefox and RUclips a few months back.
@@TheLinuxITGuy Honestly, I haven't tried other browsers because I think Firefox is the best, currently I'm using Zorin os 17.1 and everything is fine.