Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 28, 2025 at 8:10 PM Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com>
> wrote:
> [...]
> > I don't know which of the above mentioned desktop environments has
> > the "closest resemblance to Windows 10 or 11". The common "wisdom"
> > of the Internet (or at least the YouTube subset) is that Mint
> > Cinnamon is what is recomended for people moving from MS-Windows to
> > Linux. I don't think that there is a version of Mint directly
> > derived from Debian 13 Trixie.
>
> Linux Mint is derived from Ubuntu. Running `apt update` from Mint :
>
> $ sudo apt-get update
> Ign http://packages.linuxmint.com virginia InRelease
> Hit http://mirror.cs.jmu.edu/pub/ubuntu jammy InRelease
> Hit http://packages.linuxmint.com virginia Release
> Get: 1 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-security InRelease
> [129 kB] Get: 2 http://mirror.cs.jmu.edu/pub/ubuntu jammy-updates
> InRelease [128 kB] Get: 3 http://mirror.cs.jmu.edu/pub/ubuntu
> jammy-backports InRelease [127 kB]
> Get: 4 http://mirror.cs.jmu.edu/pub/ubuntu jammy-updates/main amd64
> DEP-11 Metadata [112 kB]
> ...
>
> And:
>
> $ lsb_release -a
> Distributor ID: Linuxmint
> Description: Linux Mint 21.3
> Release: 21.3
> Codename: virginia
My mint box gives the same result from lsb_release but the repositories
it shows are all noble rather than jammy.
Oh, you're right. It looks like Mint has released version 22, which is code named Wilma.
Major upgrades is one of the soft spots for Mint. It does a poor job of informing people of the major upgrade. I've been managing a family member's machine remotely over SSH for years. Mint never informed me a distro upgrade was available. And it never told me when I checked using their software upgrade tool.
Jeff