Linux Mint COMPREHENSIVE Introduction
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- Опубліковано 11 січ 2025
- With more people exploring Linux, I wanted to provide a comprehensive introduction to Linux Mint Cinnamon based on 22.1 which is set to be released soon.
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Linux Mint has sane defaults and listens to its community. I keep coming back to Mint and have settled on LMDE 6. Mint gets out of my way and "just works." Excellent distro for beginners and anyone else.
Hey Tom: Nice video, I just added it to my course shell for the Spring semester Linux class here at your favorite, (I hope) College, keep them coming.
Mint's great! Typing from it currently. Only had one hiccup (I think it was flatpaks) that they fixed next day. (Which actually helped me realize the use of appimages for when I want static installs that don't update.) Incredible.
Thanks for making this video. Linux mint seems the gold standard for beginners.
I agree, Mint is great for beginners. But it lets you go as deep into Linux as you want.
@@paulpentz4485 Yes it is great for beginners but also great for more experienced users. I was a Windows user from the days of MS-DOS 3 and Windows 3.0 on a 286 PC, and have dabbled with Mint since v17 but started using it exclusively in 2020. I have no inclination to Distro hop as Mint is just a comfortable fit for me. The same can be applied to LMDE as well. It is so relaxing not to have to deal with the shenanigans of Windows these days.
Been loving LMDE since your last video about it a few months ago. It's so good. It just works for everything I need it to.
I was looking up Mint guides yesterday. You really came through in the nick of time.
I have been using LM 22.1 Beta since it came out. This has been the most stable Beta I have used yet. I haven't had a single problem with it.
Hey listen, when installing do the following. Make a root partition ie / of at least 50gb. then make a /home partition from the rest ot the free space its analogous to having windows on C: and Users on D: drive. IF your root partition dies and you reinstall you will only need to format the root partition pick the assign /home again and repeat the same steps to setup your login exactly as you did the first time. when you log back into your system you desktop will be as you left it. If you have software that has yet to be reinstalled Like brave your settings for it are there but your obviously settings are useless until you have the program installed.
And when you install a new system your config files may be not compatible with that. No need in Mint for such tricks. Use Timeshift. If your system breaks, boot from Live media, start Timeshift from there, and restore the whole system from Timeshift backup folder / drive. You can even restore to an another drive if your original drive is faulty.
@joeschmoe7324 This would go over the heads of new users, which this video is for. Just keep it simple and install the defaults.
I've been really enjoying LMDE 6.
Unless you have good reasons to use a different distro, you usually can't go wrong choosing Mint... and that's been the case for a mighty long time.
can't go wrong with mint, it's been my starter linux experience since the middle of last year and i don't have the need to switch. the forums are the cherry on top with how tame they are and troubleshooting at worst has taken me around an hour.
Perfect timing for me. I just installed mint yesterday
Ive been on lmde6 for a while does this count? 😂
It is 11 Jan 25 and 22.1 has completed beta (latest Blog Post this evening UK time). We should see stable release this coming week. Yayh.
Thanks for the video. Not everybody has the paitence or time to find out what works and what dont.
A nice guide,I migrated to Linux Mint after Win 7 died and it is Linux but very familiar to someone coming over from the Microsoft world.
Excellent video. I'm recommending to my sisters and daughter.
Recently I have upgraded my linux mint, but not sure if it has updated amd graphics even since getting a new card. The main thing with graphics is the missing software,not to mention the games that dont run on Linux.
To bad this was on beta. Mint blog just announced 22.1 is being finalized with about 170 fixes addressed with a few more days till ISO's are on the mirrors.
First Things First :
1 Change the Wallpaper(download a pack)
2 Change the Folders Colour.
3 install Themes in Settings.
...only use Mint after this.
A 32 GB SSD, I never had such a low capacity SSD. In the last 4 or so years the '1 TB' and '2 TB' SSD's had the lowest $/GB, around 2016/2017 the 450-500 GB had the lowest $/GB.
Only reason I still need Windows is for TurboTax. I wish they would port it to Linux.
This is a great learning tool for a newbie like me. Looking to ease into Linux with a used laptop and then install Linux on my other machines. Funny thing, I went into a local independant computer store here the other day looking for a decent used laptop to start my Linux journey on. There was a guy sitting behind the counter about as young as me pushing 70, I asked him if he could install Linux on a laptop, he replied. "You mean a furnace?" I found out later it was the kid who owned the stores Grandfather just helping the kid out for the afternoon. This is why it's important to stay on top of tech stuff til the end.
Question for you, if you will answer. I want to install a 1tb MVME ssd on my computer as I have a 500gb drive now as the main drive. Is there a way to completely back up my small drive with Mint 22 and restore to my new drive, not just the data but the whole drive so that I do not have to completely redo the whole system?
Clone the older drive to the newer drive?
btrfs snapshot or nothing. Unlike traditional snapshots. There is no copying and restore. Its all about subvolumes. With btrfs, its all about booting into subvols like a cd changer. And because there is no copying involved. It is as fast as a reboot. Just select reboot and done.
Again, this would go over the heads of new users, which this video is for. Use Timeshift for system restore points and keep backups of your data.
@tonywise198 its actually more simpler than that. Its really simple.
@@mariojpalomares2514 I would agree with you, but for beginners, not so much!
Can anyone suggest a cheap laser printer that is good for ink costs? Even if its just black ink only.
Inkjet will always be cheaper. But for laser you can consider the ones that separate toner from drum. The drum replacement is expensive when it’s part of the toner cartridge.
Snapshot, do one in the begining, to have in case, then switch it off. It takes hella time n slows down machine.
I have a HP laptop with 6. gen processor, 1 TB SSD with Linux Mint, and a separate HDD for snapshots. Timeshift runs daily backups (with all user files) and not experiencing deceleration.
@@istvantorok4819 Timeshift only takes 5-10 minutes on my laptop (and it's backing up on a slow micro sd card).
I was using linux mint until i spilt gravy over my laptop, had to buy a Cello m1118 netbook, and install Linux Lite 7.2!!!
Lite is the worst! LOL Xfce Mint is so good, bb. Forget Manjaro, Xubuntu...
You ever tried puppy Linux? It's kind of as basic as you can get..Lubuntu is also pretty basic.
@@Catinthehackmatrix Puppy was my first, since my 2004 laptop couldnt bear anything heavier. It is still on that laptop, dualboot with XP :)
I would use LM if it brings KDE and BTRFS + Snapper support default. But still LM is great.