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Posted by A

- Today at 04:30:54

Quote from: Don Rice on Yesterday at 18:00:35Who are these Mint 22.2 users who run the Nvidia 470 driver?

I had Mint 22.1 and when the 550 driver came out I upgraded. Now I have upgraded Mint to 22.2. It shows 550 as recommended but also available are 570 and 575.

470 is legacy driver for old nvidia cards. So if you have a modern card yes, if you have an old nvidia card you are on 470 because nvidia stopped including support on newer drivers for older cards.

Quote from: Hotz on Yesterday at 18:55:42Maybe they should only make 1 edition instead of 3 (it's actually 4), and solve the problem there (e.g. not including the buggy package into the kernel) instead of spreading the bug into all editions, and then later having to fix the whole bunch of them. I don't understand that - as if maintaining 1 edition isn't enough work already.

But it's not only that, it's also that newcomers will be confused by 4 different Linux Mint editions. They're not only confronted with making a choice within the distribution jungle, but also make a choice within a subset of the selected distribution. Crazy.

The amount of editions don't matter, the 3 editions are same OS, just different Desktop Environments. Their main one is Cinnamon, but MATE exists for old computers and Xfce exists for minimalists and power users.

As for LMDE, it is a backup in case. Ubuntu doesn't have a good reputation as far as decision go, so LMDE is kept as a backup in case the Ubuntu based Mint has to be discontinued due to some Ubuntu decision that is hard to reverse. For example, if Ubuntu moves all packages to snap and discontinues debs.

Other than LMDE, Cinnamon is the only one that requires any extra work since Linux Mint is the developer of Cinnamon Desktop Environment. The others, they just pull the default packages and most changes are automated by the build system. Ubuntu itself already has Mate and Xfce versions so they are guaranteed to work.

Nothing to be confused about, the default is Linux Mint Cinnamon. Unless your computer is 10+ years old there is no reason to worry about the other editions.

There is nothing Mint can do to solve these buggy packages, legacy Nvidia driver is closed source. And the ones who handle the kernel would be ubuntu which is downstream.

Posted by Hotz

- Yesterday at 18:55:42

QuoteSince the MATE, Xfce, and Cinnamon Linux Mint 22.2 "Zara" editions come with the HWE kernel 6.14, all ended up facing the same issues. The list of problems includes a bug ... with older Nvidia GPUs ... but other nuisances have been discovered as well.

Maybe they should only make 1 edition instead of 3 (it's actually 4), and solve the problem there (e.g. not including the buggy package into the kernel) instead of spreading the bug into all editions, and then later having to fix the whole bunch of them. I don't understand that - as if maintaining 1 edition isn't enough work already.

But it's not only that, it's also that newcomers will be confused by 4 different Linux Mint editions. They're not only confronted with making a choice within the distribution jungle, but also make a choice within a subset of the selected distribution. Crazy.

Posted by Don Rice

- Yesterday at 18:00:35

Who are these Mint 22.2 users who run the Nvidia 470 driver?

I had Mint 22.1 and when the 550 driver came out I upgraded. Now I have upgraded Mint to 22.2. It shows 550 as recommended but also available are 570 and 575.

Posted by Tyler Stromberg

- Yesterday at 15:26:36

The dark mode also doesn't change chrome tabs the way that it did before anymore, it's as if the system isn't telling chrome that it's in dark mode

Posted by Don Cosner

- September 09, 2025, 11:28:30

The system monitor in 22.2 is buggy too. The files tab displays right every other time you open the app. Doing so also causes a zombie process to appear.

Posted by Redaktion

- September 08, 2025, 18:37:24

Since the MATE, Xfce, and Cinnamon Linux Mint 22.2 "Zara" editions come with the HWE kernel 6.14, all ended up facing the same issues. The list of problems includes a bug that affects systems with older Nvidia GPUs that use the 470 driver, but other nuisances have been discovered as well.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Linux-Mint-22-2-launches-with-a-few-old-bugs.1108587.0.html