r/linux • u/Two-Of-Nine • 17h ago

Distro News Linux Mint abandoning point releases, will switch to yearly release cycle with release of Mint 27 for December.

https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=5086
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u/MrNegativ1ty 17h ago

Is mint Wayland still unstable for day to day or is it good to use now

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u/C0rn3j 16h ago

It is still not released.

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u/Dramatic_Mastodon_93 11h ago

lmao that's crazy

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u/AmarildoJr 8h ago

Send patches. Otherwise it's not crazy for a team of a couple handful of devs to not have it ready yet.

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u/Dramatic_Mastodon_93 1h ago

I’m not the one recommending Mint to every single beginner out there. 

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u/LinuxMint1964 6h ago

Gnome and KDE don't have that problem.

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u/0riginal-Syn 5h ago

Big difference in Team from a few full-time devs and maybe 10-20 regular contributors vs dozens of full-time paid devs and hundreds of active contributors for each Gnome and KDE. Not to mention the sheer amount of funding Gnome and KDE get along with corporate backing. I don't even use Mint or Cinnamon, but I respect what they do. Especially as a core team member of a smaller distro.

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u/Emotional_Solid6538 5h ago

Bigger teams and Gnome have corporate funding

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u/novafunc 16h ago

It's no longer considered experimental in the next release, 27.

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u/Cagliari77 16h ago

When you say unstable, what was happening exactly? Drivers not working etc. after updates or something else?

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u/novafunc 16h ago

It's marked experimental in 22 and is just actually incomplete.

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u/Big-Report3344 11h ago

they just pushed a pretty big wayland update to the experimental session a few weeks ago but it's still missing some features