For me, this is easy because Mint comes with most of my go-to applications already installed. Now that you’ve booted up Linux Mint Cinnamon for the second time, and In a certain sense the first time as a full-blown system, it’s usually time to add all the applications big and small, that make your computing environment perfect. Bad kernels can be removed very easily if you have a decent system backup, and especially easily if you use Timeshift.Ģ. I was still smarting from a kernel regression a year earlier which had knocked out my Wi-Fi and Ethernet. Linux Mint Welcome ScreenĪs you can see, I chose to have a snapshot in hand, ready for any unpleasant incidents.
By choosing to create a snapshot of your system at the beginning, you are making sure that, any updates/upgrades in the future won’t create a headache for you. And it’s worthwhile to stop and consider how clever this is. Quickly we see that Mint separates itself from the pack because in Mint we’re first asked to set a backup to your system. So shortly after the first boot, most distros will then open their updater and display a long list of updates. The next step is to overwrite almost everything the installer just wrote on your drive and replace it with both the latest versions and with versions that most closely match your hardware configuration.
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Update Manager: Setting your own update policyĪs any veteran distro-hopper can tell you, the first boot of a new OS only puts you sort of near to almost having a finished OS. Since I stumbled onto Mint while distro-hopping, I thought it best to present a few of Mint’s “deep” features in the same order I first encountered them. In this article, I hope to further explain why Linux Mint has become my go-to operating system.
I have already told you about things I like in Linux Mint.
I have switched to Linux Mint Cinnamon, and at this point, it’s hard for me to imagine using any other OS.
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