Post AR4eykcoARU5E9SL68 by pmarg@social.linux.pizza
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 (DIR) Post #AR4evvJbxr99Vw82Nc by pmarg@social.linux.pizza
       2022-12-28T18:47:00Z
       
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       Linux Mint 21.1 Vera is a welcome change:The default look of Mint completely different. First, the green accent color is gone. It's now a very usual blue. Gone are the colored folders, now they're your basic manilla yellow color, with a stripe on top of them to use your favorite accent color. Even window controls have changed icons.That default look is also complimented by a new cursor theme called Bibata. Sounds received an update as well, and are now using Material design v2 sounds.(1/7)
       
 (DIR) Post #AR4ewVzLc9vFFnvsQq by pmarg@social.linux.pizza
       2022-12-28T18:47:06Z
       
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       The second big change in Mint 21.1 is its Flatpak support. The update manager now supports flatpak applications and runtimes. Mint's Software Manager also gets the usual dropdown menu to let you pick between the flatpak package or the regular deb package from the repos. Mint uses Flathub by the way, so you should get everything you need from there.It's really not perfect though, as searches will return multiple instances of the same application.(2/7)
       
 (DIR) Post #AR4ewsn4pwlzyPMu00 by pmarg@social.linux.pizza
       2022-12-28T18:47:11Z
       
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       Another change is the way Mint handles drivers. First, the tool that lets you see if there ARE drivers you could install and install them, well it now runs in user mode, so you don't need to enter your password just to open the application, and you can also now use USB drives to install drivers. For example if you plug in a live USB, Mint will be able to detect it, and offer to mount it so you can install drivers from that.(3/7)
       
 (DIR) Post #AR4exO98FzppDmvSBE by pmarg@social.linux.pizza
       2022-12-28T18:47:16Z
       
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       Cinnamon 5.6 comes with a new corner bar. it's a small  vertical applet, stuck to the far right of the panel. Hovering over it allows you to peek at the desktop by hiding all windows, complete with a blur effect if you want, but you can also click that corner bar with the left mouse button, or the middle mouse button, and configure what which click does, between either showing the desktop, showing the desklets, showing the workspace selector or showing the window selector.(4/7)
       
 (DIR) Post #AR4eyGTCHbyFhejEx6 by pmarg@social.linux.pizza
       2022-12-28T18:47:25Z
       
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       In the context menu when right clicking on the desktop, you can also now directly access the display settings, and the default desktop icons were cleaned up, with the removal of the home folder, Computer, Trash, and Network.Nemo, the file manager, also gets a few changes, like showing the dates in list view, improving the path bar, by letting you click on the current path to toggle the location URL bar, while navigating to a different folder will bring the path bar back.(5/7)
       
 (DIR) Post #AR4eykcoARU5E9SL68 by pmarg@social.linux.pizza
       2022-12-28T18:47:31Z
       
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       Smaller changes include a search entry in the shortcuts settings so you can look at all the various shortcuts you might want to change, preferred applications are now featured by categories, you can configure the duration for which notifications will stay visible, the themes list is now sorted between dark and light themes, and current and legacy themes, and you also get window placement mode back in the window manager.(6/7)
       
 (DIR) Post #AR4kZSqthzIkajN7S4 by ShibaBotJason@social.linux.pizza
       2022-12-28T19:50:09Z
       
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       @pmarg sounds great! I used to distro hop a lot but have been on Mint for 3 years now. I wasnt  going to upgrade right away but sounds like lots of fun new stuff. Maybe this weekend. 😁