![]() ![]() While Ubuntu's Unity and GNOME's 3.x series opt for sometimes radical changes, Cinnamon and MATE have taken a slower, more progressive path. And once installed, both the Cinnamon and MATE desktops will be familiar to anyone switching from Windows. Mint installation is now simpler than upgrading to Windows 10 (though there is one additional headache with 18.0). In some ways, that means Mint has become what Ubuntu once was-a stable, new-user-friendly gateway to Linux. Mint 18.x should make for a familiar but stable Linux environment. So if you're looking for an Ubuntu-like system but don't want to be Canonical's lab rat for the transition to Mir and Unity 8, Mint is for you. Many of those initiatives will impact components that affect downstream users like Mint. That should be especially good news for the 18.x series since Ubuntu plans to make some major changes in the next two years: moving to a new display server (Mir) and updating its own Unity desktop to Unity 8 are chief among the priorities. Stability allows Mint to focus on its own projects rather than spending development time creating patches for every Ubuntu update. If the Mint 17.x release series is anything to judge by, that's a good thing. Mint won't necessarily get as out of date as Ubuntu LTS releases tend to by the end of their two-year cycle, but this setup does mean nothing major is going to change for quite a while. Rather than tracking alongside Ubuntu, Mint 18 and all subsequent releases will stick with Ubuntu 16.04. Upgrading to the latest long-term support (LTS) release of Ubuntu means, as with the Mint 17.x series, the Mint 18.x release cycle is now locked to its base for two years. Further Reading Ubuntu 16.04 proves even an LTS release can live at Linux’s bleeding edge
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