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/0riginal-Syn 16h ago

Honestly, it makes sense for them. The base is Ubuntu already, and this gives them time to focus on their Xapps and Cinnamon, which beyond the Flatpak vs Snap are their main difference makers. The point releases of the base Ubuntu LTS will be the main thing to keep up with, but that can be done without point releases themselves. They tend to lag behind Ubuntu anyway on major LTS version releases anyway. This won't change that much, beyond some perception.

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u/KnowZeroX 15h ago

Point releases were effectively Cinnamon and xapps updates and recently kernel updates but now they moved that out.

As for the ubuntu point releases, its just packaged updates you get anyways when you run software manager

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u/0riginal-Syn 14h ago

Yep, that is why I do not see this as a big change for the end users of Mint. If you come from a rolling or faster updating distro, it would be a big change, but for a distro like Mint, not so much.

I do not say this as a bad thing as it all depends on what the user base wants. For what Mint is and the target user, it works perfectly.