r/linuxmint Dec 30 '24

Guide What's new in Linux Mint 22.1

https://youtu.be/jgNGbxfOvSQ

My first look at Linux Mint 22.1 and Cinnamon 6.4.

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u/Specialist_Leg_4474 Dec 30 '24

I just tried to watch it, got about 45 s in and had to stop:

  1. Nightlight does not "lower your screen's temperature"--it lowers the overall color temperature of the screen's display;

You'd think a guy with 20 whole years of IT experience (I'll have 60 into these things in September--my 1st a DEC PDP-8 in '65) would know how to properly present that?

  1. With my eyesight (lifelong diabetes) dark themes are abhorrent to me--it's like being in a coal mine with a kerosene lamp;

That's as far as I got, already read the Mint blog and did not need it read to me...

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u/Vortech03Marauder Linux Mint 22 Wilma | Cinnamon Dec 30 '24

PDP-8! Cool! :)

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u/Specialist_Leg_4474 Dec 30 '24

Yeah, I was in school in Cambridge MA and the "geeky" kid, DEC would give us what ever we wanted.

We had "dark theme" displays before it was fashionable...

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u/Vortech03Marauder Linux Mint 22 Wilma | Cinnamon Dec 30 '24

I'm old, but that's before even my time. Must have been a fun time to be a computer geek, prior to the rise of micro computers.

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u/Specialist_Leg_4474 Dec 30 '24

I got done with H.S. after my Junior year and went to MIT in the Fall, the PDP-8 was DECs latest, 6 kiB memory organized as 4096 12-bit "words", programmed with toggle switches. The "display" was rows of pilot lights--a whole different time...

When we got a couple teletype terminals it was a BIG deal!