Linux Mint 22.2 launches with a few old bugs

[Redaktion]

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

[Don Cosner]

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.

[Tyler Stromberg]

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

[Don Rice]

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.

[Hotz]

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 ... 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.