Linux Mint 20 – Software centerįor this part, Mint 20 developers found it suitable to provides two graphical package managers known as Software Manager and synaptic. You can do an installation with /home or /root partition being a btrfs file system and get all its cool features on your system. The Btrfs and the exFAT file systems are now supported out of the box.
The update manager received a number of improvements and update. Linux Mint 20- Update Manager and Kernel Improvements It embraces the new trends, but without looking too “flat” or minimalistic. This theme looks clean, modern and professional. Mint-Y comes in three variants, light, dark and a mix of the two. Mint-Y is a brand new theme based on the very popular Arc theme from horst3180 and Sam Hewitt‘s beautiful set of Moka icons. This is a successor to Mint-X which has been around since 2010. Linux Mint ships with a good looking theme called Mint-Y. Xplayer is the default media player for player for music and videos based on Totem.
Xreader is the default Document reader and PDF reader.Xviewer is the default image viewer – It is based on Eye of GNOME.Pix is the default application to organize your photos.Looking at the default applications on X-Apps, we can see that: To be backward-compatible (in order to work on as many distributions as possible).To provide the functionality users already enjoy.To work everywhere (to be generic, desktop-agnostic and distro-agnostic).To use traditional user interfaces (titlebars, menubars).To use modern toolkits and technologies (GTK3 for HiDPI support, gsettings etc.).In fact, new Linux users get attracted by the kind of work the developers have done since it honestly looks beautiful to look at. This sounds quite good since they are always serious about the aesthetic value of the Operating System. For this reason, the developers use the GNOME applications but they tweak their interfaces to befit the non-GNOME environment that Mint 20 runs on. This is after they noted that some of the GNOME applications they have worked with produce weird designs of the interface and thus will fail to work well with other desktop environments. What to note with attention is availability of X-Apps by Mint developers. Let’s now look at new things in Linux Mint 20. Any package that runs on Ubuntu 20.04 will definitely run on Linux Mint 20. Linux Mint 20 features Cinnamon 4.6, Linux kernel 5.4 and an all the package base for Ubuntu 20.04.
Personal Package Archive (PPA) repositories can be added and removed from the command line as well as through the project’s graphical repository manager. Users are urged to disable secure boot facility before going ahead with the installation. Apart from the updates and additions, since UEFI can longer be ignored, Mint 20 support it though it will not work with Secure Boot enabled.