Mint 21.2 is desktop Linux without the faff

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Nifty new features mostly go to Cinnamon users, though

last month – and just to reassure the more conventionally minded who don't read the comments, the screenshots there were just to illustrate how the three desktops handle vertical taskbars. Don't panic: all three default to the traditional, horizontal arrangement.

Mint 21.2 won't shock you with radical changes, but there are various small improvements – for instance, it's easier than ever to resize the main menu We gave this much coverage because Mint is an unusual sort of presence in the Linux world these days. Mint is a pure-play desktop distro, while the big three vendors – Red Hat, SUSE and Canonical – all mainly focus on the enterprise server market, where the big bucks are to be made. That means a constant churn of new technology, often piggy-backing on industry trends such as containers, immutable file systems, and IoT.

Mint goes the other way. It's free, supported by donations, and essentially a more polished and user-centric variant of Ubuntu which has carved out its own niche by rejecting some of Ubuntu's more jarring technological and UI changes. It doesn't have a server version, although it maintains a, we suspect just in case Canonical ever makes such drastic changes as to stop Mint being viable.

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