Comments on: Linux Mint 18.1 “Serena” MATE released!

By: Allan

Allan — Thu, 05 Jan 2017 02:33:03 +0000

FYI: I multi-boot and GRUB menu still says Sarah.

By: Hans S

Hans S — Wed, 04 Jan 2017 18:55:29 +0000

In release Mate 17.x I had customised the icons of the mintUpdate in the systemtray. Why is this not possible anymore in Mate 18.x?

By: Fred

Fred — Mon, 02 Jan 2017 23:30:55 +0000

Just after Mate 18.1 was released I installed it with no problems, but suddenly, couldn’t open new versions of either Firefox or Thunderbird – just got crash notices from Mozilla. That was FF 50.1.0. I thought it was problem with Mate 18.1, but after having applied recent update packages on Mate 18, 17.3, 17.2, I got same problems with FF & TB crashing, not even opening, also. Yesterday, upon reinstalling Mate 18.1, I thought that maybe my problem could be the Adobe Flash Player plugin update in the batch of update files (which included FF 50.1.0), so I didn’t install AFP. Restarted, & now FF & TB start up with no problems. Replicated same results on other Mate versions I have installed for testing purposes, after I removed AFP plugin via Synaptic. Hope that helps someone else who has been having troubles with FF & TB. Other than that Mate 18.1 is working fine on my somewhat dated desktop computer. Thank you Clem & LM team!

By: B

Mon, 02 Jan 2017 14:50:06 +0000

Thanks a lot. Absolutely new to Linux and very basic knowledge of computers and software. Works like a charm on my (very) old notebook.

It was either throwing it away or try giving it a new life with this OS. It became the latter. Thanks again!

By: realsifocopypaste

realsifocopypaste — Fri, 30 Dec 2016 18:02:56 +0000

please give linux mint multimedia codex preinstalled like before 🙂 or atleast a multimedia player thaht can play any multimedia files like vlc or smplayer preinstalled thanks

By: Doug Olson

Doug Olson — Fri, 30 Dec 2016 14:18:56 +0000

PANEL ON THE SIDE FOR CINNAMON: OUTSTANDING!

I resisted Cinnamon for a time with MATE and then caved — as I disdained being forced to have my primary panel on the bottom. Now, with my penguin happily in the top left (yes, I change the Menu icon), I feel at home once again. So very happy! Many thanks to you, Mint and Cinnamon team!

By: Alex Barwick

Alex Barwick — Thu, 29 Dec 2016 16:08:38 +0000

With Cinnamon 18 it was a typical Linux start page with 18.1 the whole feel has changed how can I put it, it feels and looks professional the same feeling you get with the big boys like Apple and MS. When I have tried Linux distro’s in the past the feeling you got that it had been hatched up by amateurs, it the whole thing felt wrong and if you did not use or know command line you were excluded from using any Linux system. With the start of distro’s like Robolinux and several other new distro who were trying to make Linux more accessible to ordinary people who only knew Microsoft, they were not very pleasing or easy to use. When I had enough of Microsoft cash cow Windows 10 because I was not pleased with their data collection and some other things and decided to look at Linux again I downloaded Linux Mint Cinnamon 17.1. Well it was easy to use but a bit of a clod all I can say it was usable, when 17.2 came out it was better but not ideal. Now when Cinnamon 18 came out it was better than 17.2 but well still looked old fashioned but now with 18.1 it looks and feels a professional job, it is slick, looks good, feels good, great boot up time it is the whole thing, Linux distros have always looked amateur but this is the bees knees. Pros,quick boot up, all the aps you could want about 3000, well presented and slick looking, easy to use, long term support until 2023, no automatic updates you don’t have to download any or all updates if you do not want to it is entirely up to you. The ambiance of the distro is professional and slick, what more could you want

By: Brian36

Brian36 — Thu, 29 Dec 2016 12:31:34 +0000

Internet connection icon issue – Re #46.
I have LM18.1 MATE 64B and 32B on three of my machines, Acer M3920 desktop, Dell 1545 laptop and a Zoostorm 10/240 netbook which all have the intermittent WiFi icon issue in that coming up from ‘sleep’ I see RJ45 icon even though I am still using WiFi. I reset with ‘systemctl restart NetworkManager.service ‘. Is there a permanent fix?

By: Abhishek

Abhishek — Thu, 29 Dec 2016 02:50:09 +0000

after upgrading to mate my battery is not charging. Kindly help!

By: Bruce R

Bruce R — Tue, 27 Dec 2016 20:55:05 +0000

I suspect that it will be of complete disinterest, but I am pleased to report that BrucesWay installation of 64bit MintSerenaMate on 16GB USB3keys has enabled the supply of ready-to-go tutorial Mint to friends and family, avoiding the need for them to wrestle with installation!