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Linux Mint 19 ‘Tara' officially released - here's what's new June 29, 2018 https://www.neowin.net/news/linux-mint-19-tara-officially-released---heres-whats-new
I think the most important improvement is that after the integration of Timeshift there are no longer selective updates in the Update Manager - which was heavily critisized in the past. Quote: Or as Neowin put it:
I installed Cinnamon on another machine and my impression is that they are. Not that the loading times were an issue that I noticed. I mostly notice it from opening software manager which I found slow to open in 18.3 for some reason. It took about 4 seconds to open for me, but now opens in under 2. Thats is, with the graphic compiz-like effects you can enable in Cinnamon I might add.
Is there an easy way to upgrade or am I better off with a clean install? I only installed 18.3 a little over a month ago.
Without offence to the people here, you'll get more Mint-specific responses over at https://forums.linuxmint.com
Linux Mint 19 update manager shows 98 available updates. Are all those updates necessary to install or do you have to pick and choose by going through the list?
This part bothers me: "It relies on Timeshift to guarantee the stability of your system and suggests to apply all available updates." I use 18.3 and there's a kernel update level 4 and I've been too scared to do that one. I dual/triple boot with windows and don't want it to break. Am I misreading their intentions?
Downloaded and ready for first ever "serious" experience with a fully installed Linux Mint not pen drive distro use. This may very well be my turning point to make Windows 8.1 my final windows-Thanks Windows 10 for driving more interest over to Linux and farther away from your spy machines.
My local rural computer store owner is been on me for years trying to convince for better convenience-less complication. With Windows 10 completely souring that O/S with way too much chaos and leeching of user's bandwidth to soak up what they want to use for whatever purpose-enough is enough and the straw that breaks the camel's back. Oh I will retain Windows 8-8.1 since those are refined to perfection and snappy, and i'm also already somewhat familiar with Linux Mint since it's bailed out Windows on numerous occasions where the common file corruption would affect booting to GUI. Plug in Mint and Windows is easily accessible for overwrite file fixes without waiting an eternity for it to do it's own mediocre at best auto-repair etc
I've been on Xubuntu (same Debian/Ubuntu base) for 3 years and always installed all updates with no issues.
Updates/upgrades can have issues on any OS. Have had issues on both Windows and Linux. Latest issue on Mint 19 for me was installing level 4 (Impact on sensitive parts of the system) updates. Lost sound on laptop. There were 6 updates (2 security and 4 software) Don't know yet which update(s) caused sound issue. Maybe Kernel?
Is this the linux that a windows user would most likely get used to fast? Why do they claim Anti-Virus and Anti-Spyware software are not needed?
I would consider this the best Linux for a Windows user to try out. It's pretty solid and easy to use (for Linux) and is popular enough to have good support. Anti-virus would not be needed. Probably the best way to think about it is that almost all viruses are written for Windows. That fact makes them incompatible with Linux. Anti-spyware? Probably depends somewhat on the browser choice. In any case, security issues are minimal on Linux. If the market share grew large enough that would likely change. Things like ransomware? Who wants to waste the time to develop it for an alternative OS that is free? Those are the last users that you would get money out of.
