Basically the title question. I do not use Mint, which is why I'm asking here.

Someone I know (trying to migrate from Windows) tried Pop_OS! and had a horrible experience with it (very buggy and broken for him), so he would like to try Mint. I see that it just released a new version, but it uses Wayland, which as far as I know isn't as tested as X11 (therefore, more buggy).

What would be easier to use/less likely to break, and all around a better experience? 22 or 21.3? I know 22 released *five* days ago, so I'm worried about moving him from one buggy/bad experience to another.

He has an AMD gpu, if that's relevant.

Edit: Thanks everyone! He installed Mint 22 and it's working wonderfully so far.

Hi! I have been using Linux Mint for a long time. I like its survivability. However, I have encountered various problems with graphics and touchpad. Now I am planning to buy myself a new PC for work (web development). Maybe someone here can recommend a laptop model that will not have problems with compatibility with Linux? Or warn about a bad case?

Hi, i'm a Web development learner. Currently using win7 on this old laptop. I want to switch from windows to linux. so what Linux mint version will be best for my laptop? laptop:- Dell Inspiron N4110, config:- core i3 2350M cpu, RAM:- 6gb, System type:- 64bit, internal ssd:- 238gb.

I have been using Linux Mint for a couple of months as the main OS on my Desktop. The machine has a very capable hardware with 32 Gbs, 1 TB Nvme Storage, AMD Ryzen 5 7600X & RTX 4060. The OS is not stable, I'm getting frequent FS crashes, at least once a week where I have to boot into Recovery Mode and manually run fsck. Firefox crashes every few hours, and frequent tabs crash. I keep several Firefox windows open, a couple of Visual Studio Code windows, and Stremio. These are my most used apps.

How can I get my OS to stability? and ideas?

Update:

I have also realized the OS upgrade from 21.3 to 22 was not completely successful, despite the upgrade tool stating so. Boot Options shows LM 22, but running lsb_release -a shows 21.3. The mintupgrade tool shows 'Foreign packages need to be downgraded' - these are all upgraded to Wilma.

Hi guys

I am planing to buy a Thinkpad, T480 or T440p or maybe X220, well I am not still planning on upgrading anything (I am probably gonna use Linux mint at beginning), but I thought this laptops are almost 10 years old (and I know that they are some of the best ThinkPads that were ever made) but if I want to use them for couple more years with good conditions and screen qualities, I have to finally upgrade something (mostly eGPU) and I want to know how was your experience with this laptop and if you regret it or think that now there are better options to buy, and you could help select the perfect Thinkpad (or laptop) in 2024 (almost 2025😅)

I've been running Linux Mint for many years on desktops and Thinkpads, and have found hardware support to be excellent. But I've heard enough reports of unsupported hardware on consumer grade laptops to be wary. I'd like to report a recent experience with two dirt-cheap laptops I bought on a whim: A Lenovo Ideapad 1 (Athlon Gold 7220U, 4GB ram, 128GB ssd) for $149 direct from Lenovo on a Black Friday special and an Asus E410K (Intel Pentium N6000, 4GB, 64GB eMMC) for $119 just tonight at the local Best Buy. Unlike some others, the Asus has a slot for an SSD, which I populated with a WD SN550 500GB ssd that I had on hand. Neither of these machines provides a particularly good experience with Windows 11, which they shipped with. I installed Linux Mint 22 on both of them, full fat Cinnamon desktop, and they seem to be working great. WiFi, sound, brightness and speaker controls, etc. Not particularly snappy loading heavyweight web pages, but overall quite responsive. I didn't try alternative desktops, but I imagine the MATE or Xfce spins might fare even better. Anyhow, I was pleasantly surprised.

A little background about me. I am currently a Web developer and Thinkpad Enthusiast I casually visit the Thinkpad subreddit and I have a few thinkpads in my arsenal (Thinkpad T480, Thinkpad P53, and Thinkpad T14 Gen 1 AMD).

So I decided to install Linux Mint 22.1 on my Thinkpad T480 which is my current backup device and used it for 5 days as a work device. Here are some of the results:

• Really, really stable and pretty much usable in a working environment.

• Some of the bugs in Linux Mint 21.3 is not appearing anymore in Linux Mint 22.1, at least I did not noticed it anymore

• My thunderbolt port with 2 external monitors work like in Linux Mint 21.3

• Anything else, it's still the same stable Linux MInt (which is good) even though there are a few minor design changes (I don't mind)

• Audio switching issues doesn't seem to appear as much in Linux Mint 22.1 (or do not notice it much anymore)

• The bug on the ntfs drives does not seem to appear anymore (for my drives at least)

• Minor quality of life change is that in CBlack (there is now a gap between the pinned icons on Panel, this really helps not misclicking.