810 Responses to “Linux Mint 18 “Sarah” Cinnamon – BETA Release”
Canuck says:
June 9th, 2016 at 9:12 pm
In this screenshot :
Aren’t Mint-Y-Dark and Mint-Y-Darker texts the wrong way around? (i.e. has the text accidentally been swapped as surely the darker will have the dark button?)
Edit by Clem: No they’re right. But I agree with you.. I’m not really a fan of these names either
Falconet says:
June 9th, 2016 at 9:19 pm
Doesn’t work on my AMD A8-6500 PC. Probably something incompatible because other 16.04 distros also don’t boot (namely Budgie Remix). Only way I could install LM18 was using compatibility mode, but, after install, I could only go to LM18 using recovery mode which sucks. Tried various kernels – 4.0 worked.
Currently running 17.3 with the latest 4.4 Kernel (installed from update manager)
Anyway, It booted fine on an intel notebook and on an AMD laptop. – So the issue is something with my hardware but if you could still check, I would thank you
AMD A8-6500 3.5GHZ
4 GB DDR3 RAM (3.1 available)
Seagate 7200rpm 250GB
MSI-FM2-A55M-E33 BIOS 11.4
mintsteven says:
June 9th, 2016 at 9:20 pm
Direct download or Torrent? Recommendation to download. Thanks!
simon says:
June 9th, 2016 at 9:28 pm
@Canuck — I’ve always been a bit confused about that too, but I think the penny’s finally dropped for me just now: it’s not “light” → “dark” → “darker” (which seems to be the order they’re always listed in), but rather “light” → “darker” → “dark”. Then it seems to make a bit more sense. I think.
peter e says:
June 9th, 2016 at 9:28 pm
Direct Download ONLY… considering the Torrent is pointing to linuxmint-17.3-cinnamon-64bit-beta.iso
sad
Canuck says:
June 9th, 2016 at 9:31 pm
@simon I think the descriptions are just mixed up then? Last 3 should be Mint-Y, Mint-Y Darker, Mint-Y Dark.
Carlos Felipe says:
June 9th, 2016 at 9:49 pm
The artwork is confused, a little mess from different projects (at least three different icon packages).. too homemade..
honestly I didn’t like, but, yes, I can change.
tlac says:
June 9th, 2016 at 9:51 pm
cinnamon bug:
if I change the size of the desktop fonts, the icons will disappear on desktop, probably the nemo will die
Glynn says:
June 9th, 2016 at 9:54 pm
Hi Congratulations on the Beta release of Linux Mint 18!
I run Linux Mint 17.3 Cinamon as my daily OS so have been looking forward to see what’s new in LM 18. I just had a quick look at Cinamon and Mate by installing them as VMs under Virtualbox.
One initial plus point for LM is that I had previously tried to install Ubuntu Mate on Virtualbox and for me it just crashes, whereas LM 18 Mate & Cinamon already load up first time and this is just Beta!
LM 18 Cinamon looks great especially with the dark Y theme, I’m going to investigate the dark theme further because I can imagine this is less fatiguing on the eyes than looking at lots of bright white all day!
Here are a couple of points I noted:
When I first loaded the OS, at the welcome screen the username doesn’t show up so well against some of the background images, at first I was confused about what to do next until I noticed my username hidden in the photo!
With Dark Y theme there is very little contrast between windows and default wallpaper (but of course wallpaper can be easily changed by user).
I downloaded Kdenlive from the software centre, it opens OK but wouldn’t let me change the colour theme (unable to access KDE file), but this could be VM related.
I understand there will be an upgrade path from 17.3. Please let us know if there are any negatives to doing this rather than a clean install.
Overall my impression is very positive and I look forward to the stable release.
Thanks again
Glynn
Marcos Javier says:
June 9th, 2016 at 9:56 pm
It’s always better to download torrent, so no servers are saturated.
Fabien Z says:
June 9th, 2016 at 9:58 pm
Linux Mint 18 seems to be one of the best distro ever ! I really love it but unfortunately I had to install it using recovery mode et I can’t boot without using the recovery mode. If I try the standard boot the screen freezes just after the Grub and before the Mint logo… The screen stays black and I can’t do anything. I think it’s an hardware issue because it also happens with the last Ubuntu 16.04. I have an Intel Core i5 with 4 Go RAM DDR3, a 500Go HDD and an Intel Corporation Haswell-ULT Integrated Graphics Controller. Thanks
P.S: I really love the new theme. It is very modern and design. Linux Mint is on the right way keeg on going !
Thanks for this wonderful work !!
Fabien Z
BCR says:
June 9th, 2016 at 10:00 pm
Touch screen clicks are not working in the icon and compact view section of Nemo, everywhere else seems fine.
Falconet says:
June 9th, 2016 at 10:02 pm
@Fabien Z
I have a similar issue! I also couldn’t boot or install without using recovery mode! I installed the 4.0 Kernel and it worked well.
Currently I have installed 17.3 with the 4.4 latest kernel.
My computer is AMD based and other 16.04 distros (namely Budgie Remix) also don’t boot well.
Glad I am not the only one…
BCR says:
June 9th, 2016 at 10:03 pm
Context menu “Open with>other application…” displays duplicate applications.
Fred Barclay says:
June 9th, 2016 at 10:23 pm
@Canuck Not quite. The same thing confused me when I started using Arc theme.
Arc-Darker (or Mint-Y-Darker) is darker than Arc-light, but lighter than Arc-Dark. Hence the mix of light and dark.
Philippe says:
June 9th, 2016 at 10:33 pm
Mint 18 Cinnamon 64 bits Beta s’installe sans le moindre problème sur ma station de travail, tout semble ok.
Il y a juste un truc bizarre, quand je vais dans le gestionnaire de pilotes, il me propose un microcode frimware pour Intel CPU (voir ci-dessous), je n’ai jamais vu cela dans les versions précédentes !?
Liens vers capture d’écran :
Sur mon laptop le boot se fait sans problèmes, je n’ai pas testé l’installation dessus vu que je n’ai pas de disque dur pour faire des tests sur ce portable.
Petite question au passage, quand on installe une version Beta de Mint 18, elle va passer automatiquement à la version stable “Gold” via les mises-à-jour ?
Merci pour ce super travail !!
Je me réjouis de voir un jour une LMDE X avec noyau 4.x ou supérieur et un gestionnaire de pilotes intégré
Bonne soirée/nuit à toi Clem.
Ümit Şahin says:
June 9th, 2016 at 10:37 pm
Hello I Must be physically disabled screen keyboard I had to use Windows to Linux Mint Cinnamon Please show the on-screen keyboard word suggestions for the development effort. Thank you, good work …
kkschmidt says:
June 9th, 2016 at 10:47 pm
Looks good. Works okay. Obviously still a beta, but definitely still the king of distros as far as I’m concerned.
I am having one issue, and that’s when I switch from noveau to nvideas drivers (gotta play my minecraft) all the cinnamon panels become unclickable, but can still be controlled via hotkeys. A quick web-search reveals that similar problems have existed since the beginning of time. I’ll see if it’s still around once things stabilize. The update and bluetooth icons in the new themes seem just a little bit too small. I know I can probably adjust that myself, but just some perspective from an end user.
Thanks for the hard work LM team!
cesar says:
June 9th, 2016 at 11:00 pm
hi, i download via torrent the cinnamon beta, but when verify the signature, like say the page for that, the iso signature dont match with sha256sum…
sha256sum -b linuxmint-17.3-cinnamon-64bit-beta.iso
9e15ee23a735833326dc1cfd936a406b68d58e70ffe376d6eaf399709cb4bf0f *linuxmint-17.3-cinnamon-64bit-beta.iso
cesar says:
June 9th, 2016 at 11:02 pm
never main i donwload the wrong iso!!
Edit by Clem: Sorry Cesar, it was our mistake. The link to the torrent in the announcement was wrong. It’s fixed now. Sorry about the inconvenience.
JosephM says:
June 9th, 2016 at 11:06 pm
For those of you commenting on the names of the new themes, I don’t know that they are set in stone. Mint-Y was sort of our working name when we started and we never came up with anything better. I’m not sure we would do a name change but suggestions would be welcome.
Federico Damián says:
June 9th, 2016 at 11:06 pm
What about a LMDE Betsy respin? Latest version is from Q1 of 2015
Robert says:
June 9th, 2016 at 11:14 pm
Do I have to remove Windows 7 to install Linux Mint??
Edit by Clem: No. The installer can set up a dual boot for you.
Menak Vishap says:
June 9th, 2016 at 11:29 pm
Congratulations and thank you for great job!
With great worriment thinking about what Mint 18 KDE could look like. Kubuntu 16.04 looks quite disappointing with its 3-month outdated Plasma 5.5.5, which is still in primordial state with severely ablated functionality… May be, there is a sence to make Mint 18 KDE based on user branch of Neon project established by J. Riddell, not on retarding Kubuntu. And may be it will be better not to be in hurry and wait until Plasma 5.7 will be released (it is scheduled to July 5), because the crucial KDE feature, the personal events in calendar, will be finally implemented there. Let Mint 18 KDE will be released in August-September, but let it will be with normal Plasma, but not with horrible stump 5.5.5.
NJ says:
June 9th, 2016 at 11:47 pm
I tried out the live image on a Dell D830 laptop. Here are my observations.
Generally, it runs well and looks good. Great!
Here, though, are some oddities and infelicities.
1. Touchpad
1.1 ‘Reverse scrolling direction’ was ON on my touchpad. Is this by design?
1.2 Using the touchpad scroll function – and, I imagine scrolling the mouse-wheel – still changes fields, rather than moving between them or scrolling the window – in at least some of Mint’s settings windows. This is not good.
2. Theme and appearance things
2.1 A single click to fully switch on the new (‘Mint-y’) theme would be good. At present so-doing requires some eight clicks (once one is in the Themes window).
2.2 There is weird text-colour changing behaviour when refreshing the applet cache – try it.
2.3 The Mint-Y ‘Desktop’ theme seems to have a rather ugly – blocky – font for the Window List names on the taskbar – though turning up hinting helped.
2.4 With all theme settings set to Mint-Y, the pop-up (‘OSD’?) icons for volume and brightness are hard to read, for the line colour means the line (indicating level) is hard to make out. This definitely needs fixing.
3. On Mint’s update functions
3.1 Update Manager: initially I tried to click on the icons at the top of the window – then I realised these were greyed out until I selected an update policy. However, with the window’s look being grey-on-grey, this wasn’t obvious. Also, why not just entirely hide that unclickable stuff until it *is* clickable?
3.2 Kernel manager introductory text: ‘By default your computer will boot with the most recent kernel installed’ – this is multiply ambiguous, between: (1) if you install ‘the most recent kernel’, then your computer will boot (as against not boot at all); (2) the boot will be with the kernel most recently added by the user; (3) the boot will be with the kernel that is newest to the Linux upstream ecosystem.
3.3. When I used the Driver Manager, there was a slightly cryptic window that said an ‘unknown’ device was not working; there was then text saying ‘intel-microcode (open-source) and a selectable checkbox next to it. Now, I know what this means, but some people wouldn’t. Also: upon trying to install said microcode, a progress bar appeared, seemed to complete, and then I was left with a window . . that was exactly the same as before, except that the ‘apply changes’, and indeed ‘revert’ buttons, were not greyed out!
Finally, a question: is the new text edited, ‘Xed’, compatible with gedit plugins? It *looks* as though it is . .
Thanks for reading.
Jim says:
June 10th, 2016 at 12:03 am
Installed the 18 beta n my wifes laptop. Its still running mint 15 64bit n another partition, this is the first version since then that has installed since 15.
But the panel cant be clicked on, icons on the desktop can be clicked and opened. Not the menu or any other icon in the panel but the updater. Lucky I have been using linux since 06 so I navigated around to firefox through nemo.
Hardware
Laptop is a Compaq CQ60 athalon x2 with 2 gigs of ram.
Install – fresh install into new partition from USB stick. Install media was checked before installing with no errors.
I have tried the touchpad and an external mouse, same problem.
Google search turned up a few old issues that were similar, going to try a few after this post.
Edit by Clem: That’s really weird Jim. I’m not aware of such issues. Please try to troubleshoot (does it happen in other desktop environments for instance?).
Brausepaul says:
June 10th, 2016 at 12:18 am
Hey Clem and Team,
just installed it on two machines.
Thank you for your hard work and releasing such a stable BETA. Great performance, pretty looking!!!
General:
– Black Theme: Grey font not readable e.g. additional driver window
– Black Themed Bar: Icons not vertically centered.
Request:
– Logon Screen: Is it possible to not select the last user? looks more “Wow” than the grey login prompt.
– Optimus Graphic: Is it possible to avoid passwort authentication for graphic switching?
Dell M4800:
– A cracking sound from speaker at cinnamon startup, maybe from powering up the sound card?
– Optimus Graphic: When right clicking on nvidia icon, the menu pops up in the top right
Microsoft Surface 4 Pro:
Critical for me:
– Type Cover and Touchpad not working properly. Works from time to time. If I unplug the cover, both doesen’t work any more.
– Wlan not working -> tries to connect but with no success. Asking for Passprase again and again. USB Wlan Dongle works
Less critical:
– Touchscreen/pen not working
If you need further information, contact me via E-Mail.
Edit by Clem: Regarding the requests.. yes for the login screen (it’s in the configuration options for the login window, you can get there from Menu -> Login Window). No for the optimus switch requiring a password, that’s outside our control (we will fix the GTK regression making the context menu appear at the top of the screen though)
Reddakota says:
June 10th, 2016 at 12:32 am
Running the 64-bit version LM 18 in Virtual Box is running flawlessly on top of Linux Mint 17.3.
The new look is beautiful. I really appreciate the dark theme. However, Mint-Y needs a tiny window border or drop shadow. It can be very difficult to distinguish where one window ends and another begins.
Thank you for your hard work!
Rafael says:
June 10th, 2016 at 12:44 am
Can’t expect for the final version.
When can we expect to be released the final version of Linux Mint 18 “Sarah” ? PLEASE TELL ME THIS.
Jacob Gelling says:
June 10th, 2016 at 12:48 am
Been using the beta for about a hour now and it’s pretty awesome.
One problem noticed so far; I can disable mobile broadband using the switch in network preferences but it does have any effect. Next time I open up network preferences it is enabled again. I guess this could be a upstream problem though.
imnotrich says:
June 10th, 2016 at 12:50 am
I’m eager to try 18, but was any progress made on Cinnamon/Nemo going very slow, Cinnamon crashing or even freezing the entire system bug when copying files across the usb bus or internally from one internal drive to another? It’s an issue I’ve had with 17.1,2,3. File transfers of even a few gigs can take hours to complete and are not always successful, regardless if it’s two sata devices talking or a usb flash drive to sata, usb hard drive to sata, or sata to usb drive of some type. Wasn’t an issue when I had Debian 7 on this machine, and Puppy 4.3.1 running live handles transfers just fine so I doubt it’s hardware but I don’t have another machine to experiment with. Anybody?
imnotrich says:
June 10th, 2016 at 12:54 am
almost forgot, what does “preparing to empty trash can” or “preparing to copy files” mean? It hangs for 5-20 minutes then starts. If you try to drag and drop another file or folder copy from other directories simultaneously, that copy will stall as well until long after the first one is complete.
aldelaro5 says:
June 10th, 2016 at 12:57 am
Hi!
First of all, I cannot wait for the release, I have never been so hyped on an OS release, mostly because finally new repositories (being outdated gave me some problems) and also I LOVE the mint-y dark theme (just being dark is already a huge benefit as someone who tends to be sensitive to lights).
Second, I found 2 little inconsistencies with the theme, this one where the text underneath optional components isn’t properly contrasting with the background color:
And also this one which I don’t know if it has to do with VLC or the theme, but the about dialog has a similar readability problem:
Thanks, I will try to test as much as I can on this beta release
Edit by Clem: Thanks, we’ll fix the first issue
mitros123 says:
June 10th, 2016 at 1:15 am
Thank you for this great release Clem and team.
About AMD drivers, when they become ready, are you going to backport them into Mint 18? For example, Ubuntu does not recommend upgrading to 16.04 yet if we need all the functionality of the AMD driver, but they expect to have it ready before 16.04.1, so practically the will backport it. What about Mint?
Edit by Clem: First, there’s nothing anybody can do, other than AMD when it comes to making fglrx work with the new Xorg. It’s proprietary, so that’s that. Also, they indicated they didn’t want to support these drivers any longer and suggested people use open source drivers instead. So it’s unlikely we’ll see fglrx in any future release. That said, if this driver was made compatible and if the package made its way to Ubuntu, it would automatically be available to Mint users, since we’re using the same package base.
Jazzoid says:
June 10th, 2016 at 1:20 am
There seems to be a problem with constant Internet connection? I noticed that everytime I walk away from my computer where I have Mint Cinnamon 18 for about ten minutes, I cannot get any website to load when I come back to it. Even though the network icon says that my Internet connection is on, I still have to disconnect and re-connect so I can collect Mail or surf the net.
Edit by Clem: Check dmesg, please troubleshoot the cause of the issue.
Jeff H says:
June 10th, 2016 at 1:29 am
I am currently using 17.3 as my daily OS, and have upgraded it using the upgrade path through the update manager since 17.0 or 17.1. Everything works as normal. However if I do a fresh install of 17.2, 17.3 and now 18, when I try to shut down the computer via the GUI it hangs. In 17.2 and 17.3 it displays a couple of orange dots on a black background and just stays there. In 18 it displays “[ 568.080495] reboot: power down” (without the quotes) on a black background with a blinking cursor below. The only way I can get the computer to shut down is to hold in the power button. This is a 32 bit desktop machine.
Edit by Clem: That’s interesting, it seems to indicate the issue could be related to the presence or absence of a particular package. We suspected modemmanager in the past, maybe try to remove that package in Mint 18?
crivelphagor says:
June 10th, 2016 at 1:41 am
Hi, Clem. I want to report two cosmetic bugs I found:
The first one is the white numbers on top of the bar when refreshing the applet online list:
The second is the sensitivity bar filling in the mouse settings (it’s inverted). This doesn’t happen with the touchpad sensitivity bar:
DarrenG says:
June 10th, 2016 at 1:46 am
As I suspected, the ASRock skylake gpe6F bug is also present in Linux Mint 18 beta Cinnamon.
Briefly the /var/log/syslog and var/log/kern.log are flooded with hundreds of gpe6F errors per second until the root partition runs out of space.
Its a known issue with ASRock skylake boards. The workaround is to add
- الكود:
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echo “disable” > /sys/firmware/acpi/interrupts/gpe6F
to rc.local.
Krissy says:
June 10th, 2016 at 1:50 am
Still really not impressed with the flat colour UI.
I could’ve sworn you dilliberately said Linux Mint would not be jumping on that bandwagon…
Well, Flat GTK theme aside, I see some changes to Cinnamon that I am liking a lot.
Edit by Clem: I don’t feel like we let anyone down, quite the opposite. We’ve got Mint-X intact and fully supported for those who don’t like flat, and we’ve got an obviously very popular Mint-Y for those who do. We tried to please everybody and for once we might just have managed doing that.
jamezracer says:
June 10th, 2016 at 1:56 am
Congrats on the Beta release, it feels very polished and smooth so far. One bug I’ve found is that when I try to connect to a network with PEAP authentication the network manager applet just gets stuck instead of prompting me to enter my credentials. In the past I worked around this by using the Unity network applet instead but this really should be fixed in Cinnamon as enterprise users need to be able to connect to their company network.
Edit by Clem: We’ll have a look. In the meantime please use the Network Settings, or Network Connections tool.
marlenejo says:
June 10th, 2016 at 1:59 am
I’m giving it a shot and will report. Is it really here that we put our comments and not in the forum ?
Edit by Clem: Yes. We reduce the communication bandwidth specifically during release. That’s done on purpose.
some-guy says:
June 10th, 2016 at 2:02 am
i waited for 18 but mint still doesn’t run on my laptop i5 skylake cpu just boots to a black screen
Byron M says:
June 10th, 2016 at 2:03 am
Downloading beta now and looking forward to the test run…and finally an install of the stable version. My utmost and sincere thanks to everybody who has worked to produce this release…you guys are the very best!
Claude says:
June 10th, 2016 at 2:11 am
Just a few minor bugs so far.
The new Mint-Y theme and icons can’t update correctly. They don’t show in the Update Manager. In Synaptic, they are marked as “can update” but the only option is to delete. Going to the Terminal “sudo apt upgrade” erases part of the Mint-Y theme or icons. You have to go back to Synaptic to install the new version.
I have to restart Cinnamon from time to time after closing the lid. Icons and text are not visible in the panel and menu.
Update Manager doesn’t tell after an update if you have to restart.
Other than, so far, great release ! Pretty happy. Running smooth on my MacBook Air 2012. I enabled Intel P-State and set the governor to powersave. I set Powertop to start automaticaly at boot as a service with all tunables on Good. And I installed mbpfan, a fan control daemon for MacBook, replacing the old macfanctld.
Edit by Clem: Can you show the output of “apt policy mint-y-theme” and “apt dist-upgrade”?
Claude says:
June 10th, 2016 at 2:23 am
On a side note :
Waiting for Firefox 47…
Edit by Clem: There will always be a little delay between the upstream release and the time it gets in the repositories. We’re expecting FF 47 in 17.x and 18 tomorrow though.
Jim says:
June 10th, 2016 at 2:24 am
A little more information with the panel being unresponsive. Since it was a new install reinstalled and deleted the partition. I updated and rebooted, all was working. Then I installed the nvidia-304-updates driver, after rebooting the panel was unresponsive. I changed the 340 nvidia drivers and after rebooting the panel was working again. This laptop has had issues in the past with the 340 driver, I just hope it continues t work until the 304 is working right.
JAG says:
June 10th, 2016 at 2:24 am
Running this in virtualbox, I’m getting a black screen at every second boot. It’s not a kernel issue on the OS. Because I upgraded the kernel to 4.7 and still no joy. Perhaps the virtualbox client packages. Still testing. Going to remove them and reinstall from Oracle.
Craig Kitchen says:
June 10th, 2016 at 2:31 am
I have a HP pavilion dv6000 with 3 gigs of ram. It works fine with Mint 17.3 after I loaded the driver for nvidia 304. When I loaded the latest kernal with mint 18 beta it started seizing up. I loaded the latest kernal by using the fix broken packages on the recover boot up. I just wanted everything to be the latest. I went back to 17.3 and it works again.
Edit by Clem: We need more info Craig. Please describe what doesn’t work and try to troubleshoot to find the cause of the issue.
JAG says:
June 10th, 2016 at 2:34 am
“Running this in virtualbox, I’m getting a black screen at every second boot. It’s not a kernel issue on the OS. Because I upgraded the kernel to 4.7 and still no joy. Perhaps the virtualbox client packages. Still testing. Going to remove them and reinstall from Oracle.”
Follow-up. virtualbox-guest-x11 seems to have issues. Removed and reinstalled from Oracle and it cleared up the problem. Maybe it’s not doing dkms modules correctly, and a kernel update(which was posted for 18) hosed it. But it doesn’t seem to be working properly as it stands with all the updates in place.
Jazzoid says:
June 10th, 2016 at 2:43 am
Ok, second try. I installed Cinnamon 18 version on top of the previous 17.3. Now I cannot have a continuous Internet connection. Everytime I leave my laptop unattended for about 10 minutes, I have to disconnect and re-connect. even if the Ntwork Icon says that my connection is up.
JAG says:
June 10th, 2016 at 2:45 am
And it looks like another kernel update was just released. 4.4.0-24.43. Lemme try this again proper.
JAG says:
June 10th, 2016 at 2:55 am
Yep, the kernel update wipes out the virtualbox module. Have to recompile the module after the update. Maybe an upstream ubuntu issue on the virtualbox-guest package end.
Stephan M. says:
June 10th, 2016 at 3:31 am
Considering that Ubuntu now supports zfs, in how far will zfs be supported in Mint 18?
In 17.3, where zfs on Linux generally works well, integration with nemo is lacking. I would love to see that improved
Hubert Banas says:
June 10th, 2016 at 3:42 am
Bug report
Microphone level meter has color reverse. Shows red when low level and green when picking at high level. This is with build in microphone on Lenovo Carbon X1 4th generation 2016.
Tested on Cinnamon 64bit.
Gelin Luo says:
June 10th, 2016 at 3:55 am
Edit by Clem: How much memory did you give the VM?
Magic Len says:
June 10th, 2016 at 3:57 am
I can not use Linux Mint 18 beta live USB to boot.
There were two errors I encountered.
1. unsupported splx structure
My wifi module is Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 7265
2. soft lookup cpu3 stuck for 22s
My laptop is PE60 6QE
My cpu is i7-6700HQ
My vga card is Nvidia GTX 960M 2G
However, I can use Linux Mint 17.3 Live USB on this device.
LiraNuna says:
June 10th, 2016 at 4:05 am
In order to boot on my ASUS UX501VW, I need to set
modprobe.blacklist=nouveau i915.preliminary_hw_support=1
In grub.
In order to get the screen brightness keys to work, I need to add
acpi_osi= acpi_backlight=native
I hope this helps someone!
Greg E says:
June 10th, 2016 at 4:08 am
This for a Beta release is amazing! Loaded it upon 3 minis and 1 desktop with no problems noted. Super fast, good hardware detection and the new themes are much a surprise, love the darker themes. I feel this distro is a winner already. Coo dos to the developers Nice job. Oh ya almost forgot about the mint x apps they are very well done. Will run these test machines and file any bugs noted, if there is any. By the way for your information 3 minis are Intel gpu,s and the desktop is a Nvidia gpu.
LiraNuna says:
June 10th, 2016 at 4:26 am
What happened to the slick Bluetooth applet from Mint 17.3? The one in the 18 beta doesn’t feel as integrated at all
Edit by Clem: cinnamon-bluetooth is dead, it only worked with gnome-bluetooth 3.10. It was discontinued and replaced with blueberry, which is a cross-DE effort. Blueberry could be given a cinnamon applet I suppose.
Annette says:
June 10th, 2016 at 5:00 am
Wow! I am very excited for the upcoming release! Can’t wait to come home from openSUSE. It’s a good distribution, but Linux Mint is my favourite.
Hugo Masse says:
June 10th, 2016 at 5:02 am
Congratulations on keeping the best distro alive and kicking arse!
I don’t know if it was mentioned before but it’s the details that make the difference. With every new release there always was someone who complained about the “boring default wallpaper”. Well, here I see that even THAT detail was paid attention to. My hat goes off to you, Linux Mint Team!
Greg says:
June 10th, 2016 at 5:29 am
Loaded cinnamon on 3 mini,s, and one desktop. No problems very stable for my hardware so far.
The mini,s are Intel GPU,s and the desktop is Nvidia GPU. All drivers detected without a hitch.
Fast and responsive to mouse clicks.
The new themes, especially the darker theme is a blessing to my eyes.(nearly blind from white/light themes. LOL
Very good performance without taking a big memory hit.
Just loving it so far.
New x-apps look good to me, simple functionality.
Will continue to test the limits of this sweet distro and report any bugs, if there is any!
Great job all you developers for rock solid beta so far.
Better then the Redmond offering any-day.
Greg says:
June 10th, 2016 at 5:32 am
Sorry for the double post, thought my first one failed to post. I’m brain dead tonight! LOL
Gelin Luo says:
June 10th, 2016 at 5:47 am
ttjimera says:
June 10th, 2016 at 6:09 am
Thanks for the wonderful work. Looking forward to official release of 18. One question though: With thermald, does that mean that we need not install TLP anymore?
Edit by Clem: I guess it depends what results you get with thermald. Afaik, you can install both and they shouldn’t conflict with one another (this is based on what I read though, I didn’t test this myself).
uniquepito says:
June 10th, 2016 at 6:12 am
Dell Inspiron 7559 (with i7 cpu):
– First boot from USB doesn’t load the system. After adding parameter omodeset to grub it started and I could install. Same step I had to do after reboot for the first run. After install binary nvidia drivers nomodeset is not needed.
– Switching nvidia to intel gpu from NVIDIA X Server Settings (PRIME profiles) does not work and causes system to freeze on logout then the system won’t start after reboot (freezes before gui). To restore system working after prime switch fail I had to boot with nomodeset and purge nvidia driver and install back binary driver.
– This bothers me most:
Once the fans are started to spin on heavy system load they are spinning forever, even when the system is cooled down (I’d say +33C for CPU/GPU is cool enough) and idle. On windows fans are usually switching off when the system is cooled. I’ve found that if I suspend and resume laptop immediately, fans are remained off until next system load. This might be kernel/driver problem since I’ve tried many distros/kernels (up to 4.6.1) with the same behavior. A friend of mine he has same laptop, but with i5 cpu and he claims his fans are switching off on *ubuntu 16.04. This is not definitely HW problem of my laptop, since as I’ve mentioned, on Windows fan control works fine.
Cracking sound from speakers before X start even when headphones are plugged in.
When I log in using external keyboard and turn on Numlock on login screen, sometimes the Numlock light turns off itself on Cinnamon (I’ve noticed that on terminal when I ran sudo command and wanted to enter my password with num keys)
vvvsix says:
June 10th, 2016 at 6:19 am
how exciting to see this beta releasing this morning!
Bleuzen says:
June 10th, 2016 at 6:22 am
Until 2018, future versions of Linux Mint will use the same package base “as Linux Mint 18, making it trivial for people to upgrade.”
So, i have to use 16.04 (more than 2 years old packages) in Mint 19?
Magic Len says:
June 10th, 2016 at 7:05 am
It’s me again.
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I can not use Linux Mint 18 beta live USB to boot.
There were two errors I encountered.
1. unsupported splx structure
My wifi module is Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 7265
2. soft lookup cpu3 stuck for 22s
My laptop is PE60 6QE
My cpu is i7-6700HQ
My vga card is Nvidia GTX 960M 2G
However, I can use Linux Mint 17.3 Live USB on this device.
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Now, I can use mint 18 to boot by closing the acpi function(acpi=off)
Antony Savvidi says:
June 10th, 2016 at 7:39 am
1. Moving something around 160 png images (to the same drive) took more than a minute and system was being sluggish while waiting
2. (Also Ubuntu 16.04 matter) it would not boot! I had to change BIOS to start from drive P0, (Other options are Ubuntu/Windows). Option Ubuntu used to work, but now this option just drops me to a grub prompt
3. GetDeb repository is missing, I had to manually add it. Did you forgot to add it or was it left out on purpose?
(More tests to follow)
Edit by Clem: It was removed on purpose.
Levente Krisztián Büte says:
June 10th, 2016 at 7:50 am
Everything is great, except one thing, which apparently is still not patched on any Ubuntu based OSes. Some Wacom tablets, specifically CTL-471 and CTL-671 (I have the first one, Wacom One S) make the whole system freeze, you can’t even go into CLI mode to reboot.
Apparently, the point releases of the LTS kernel 4.4.x were patched, however Ubuntu – and because of this, Mint too – uses 4.4.0, which has this bug still around. I’m on Manjaro now, but earlier I tried Xenial Mainline kernel and, guess what, the bug dissapeared (the most recent one is at 4.4.12).
I’m not sure if you would change at this phase the rules, but I recommend sticking with mainline kernel, but with the Ubuntu toolkit, as usual. This would make Mint more safe and highly patched. Hope this helps, some other people suffer from this issue, too, as you can see on the linked report.
Lucien says:
June 10th, 2016 at 8:20 am
Installed the beta on a separate partition, allongside LM 17.3. Works wel on my Acer Aspire E17 laptop (core I3 with Haswell integrated graphics), but the suspend feature is not working. Screen turns of, but system stays running and only a hard reboot is possible. It seems to be a kernel 4.4.0 bug. I’ve tryed 4.4.0-21/22/24
Morten Piil says:
June 10th, 2016 at 8:27 am
18.0 looks super, thanks!
I have two small problems with the install on my Lenonvo Yoga 900 laptop with i5 skylake processor:
I run in HiDPI mode and the Software Manager starts in a very small window (room for 2×2.5 icons) The Software Manager should probably check to see if its running in HiDPI mode and adjust its window.
This next problem is probably an upstream problem.
The trackpad is unresponsive after a suspend. When the machine starts after a suspend there is shortly a small graphic of a trackpad shown in the middle of the bootom of the screen. The touchscreen then works but the trackpad does not work anymore. Any mice attached continue to work.
I should mention that this machine was totally unable to use under 17.3 – neither the trackpad or the touchscreen worked.
Thanks for all your great work, I’m looking forward to using Mint 18 with glee for the next two years!
Drew says:
June 10th, 2016 at 9:14 am
@imnotrich I transfer many GB daily between drives and my NAS. No troubles here. My NAS is 4 years but even transferring files to it is extremely fast. If they are USB3 drives could be weird bug. Only thing I can think of is chipset driver issue.
Brausepaul says:
June 10th, 2016 at 9:19 am
Using my Dell M4800 Laptop with Quadro K2100M graphics card:
When using the Laptop with external Monitor, it isn’t possible to maximize windows on laptop panel. They will always maximize on the HDMI monitor instead. Same behaviour I had on my 17.3 Setup
Jung-Kyu Park says:
June 10th, 2016 at 9:41 am
1) About mintlocale
It is critical for us, I hope it to be reloaded at least former verision of mintlocale in Sarah until we have redesigned mintlocale, it is too difficult to set for the new users of Linux Mint in Korea.
2) fcitx is set to default IM in Sarah but missed dependency packages of it, please check it.
3) Translation files for Korean was not updated to latest version
cinnamon.mo and nemo.mo should be updated to latest version, please check it
Edit by Clem: Bugs were fixed in mintlocale, but you’re not being explicit here.. I’ve no idea which ones you’re talking about… Same for fcitx, please be more accurate when describing issues. Regarding translations they will be updated prior to the stable release.
Canuck says:
June 10th, 2016 at 9:53 am
@JosephM
“For those of you commenting on the names of the new themes, I don’t know that they are set in stone. Mint-Y was sort of our working name when we started and we never came up with anything better. I’m not sure we would do a name change but suggestions would be welcome.”
How about something simply :
LightMint, DarkMint, NightMint
JianminLi says:
June 10th, 2016 at 10:11 am
The most important thing I concerned is that whether it can be smoothly upgraded from 17.3 to 18.0?If it will not, I think I will stay in Linux Mint 17.3….
Dominik Šelmeci says:
June 10th, 2016 at 10:15 am
Installed Linux Mint 18 Beta x64 UEFI on Asus ROG G751-JK (intel i7, 16GB RAM, nvidia geforce GTX970M). I first needed to install nvidia driver. Then all works perfectly, even bluethoot
.
Except Fn+F5, Fn+F6 still dont work. Installed xbacklight and assign it to hotkeys ctrl+F5, ctr+F6 solves the problem but i want Fn+F5
.
At start there is 20 seconds delay, i had to change the line in /etc/default/grub:
from GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=”quiet splash”
to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=”quiet splash usbhid.quirks=0x0b05:0x17fd:0x0004″
then it solves the problem
Fumblefan says:
June 10th, 2016 at 10:34 am
Steam won’t start:
Running Steam on linuxmint 18 64-bit
STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
[2016-06-10 11:30:34] Startup – updater built Apr 29 2016 22:18:33
SteamUpdateUI: An X Error occurred
X Error of failed request: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation)
Gelin Luo says:
June 10th, 2016 at 10:46 am
Another thing spotted: I suspended 17.3 on my Toshiba P50A with a virtualbox running Sarah. After recovered the host system, Sarah in the virtualbox halt with the screen kept the states before I suspended hosting system
Robin says:
June 10th, 2016 at 11:28 am
Great release! I really like the design of the new Mint-Y theme although I miss the option to change the colors to “teal” or “aqua” so far. Also, there`s no option anymore to individually colorize the folder icons in Nemo.
I experienced a bug: After doing an update via mintUpdate (level 5) I am now not able to change the language to German (Germany). I choose German as language and region in the “Language” program and apply the setting system-wide, but after a restart Linux Mint is still English.
Edit by Clem: This is fixed now in an update to mintlocale.
Jung-Kyu Park says:
June 10th, 2016 at 11:58 am
About Banshee]
Banshee doesn’t open folder.
please, see this video
Edit by Clem: Fixed now.
OpenSourceFeeder says:
June 10th, 2016 at 12:01 pm
Linux Mint 18 Cinnamon Beta screenshots are shared here.
Regards.
Jung-Kyu Park says:
June 10th, 2016 at 12:12 pm
1) About mintlocale
It is critical for new linux mint users of Korea , Since it is not easy for them to set input method correctly, and I think it should be reloaded until we have redesigned minlocale in mint 18.1.
2) Need up to date translation file *.mo
at first, I thought these two cinnamon.mo and nemo.mo are needed ,but, now I think it should be updated all of mo files to the latest version.
3) Missing fcitx dependency packages
Sarah has fcitx-hangul as default IM which I don’t know it was intended, but it is loaded now anyway , and this “fcitx” have no packages for config tool , please check it. ex) fcitx-configtool , fcitx-config-gtk3
Edit by Clem: fcitx-config-gtk2 was added to the list of required fcitx packages in mintlocale (https://github.com/linuxmint/mintlocale/commit/30e6b31b29cdbacf2ac8873c7c5f0f799a1383c0). It’s part of mintlocale 1.3.6 now. I hope that’s what you meant… it’s not really clear to me. By the way, fcitx isn’t default.. I’m not sure what you mean by that. Xim is the default IM and fcitx isn’t installed by default.
Pako says:
June 10th, 2016 at 12:16 pm
Hi LM team,
Now downloading the beta iso, but wanted to know if LM 18 is supporting vulkan api? Thanks
Kurt says:
June 10th, 2016 at 12:18 pm
Acer Aspire 5024-WLMi
AMD Turion ML-34 CPU (1.8GHz,1MB cache)
AMD X200 Mobility Chipset
2GB DDR-400 RAM
256MB X700 Graphics
250GB WD HDD
(hey, it was top of the line in 2005)
No major problems, just a couple of minor glitches, mainly graphical:
1. At one point the file browser icon in the quick launch and the sound & video icon in the menu were invisible. They reappeared after a reboot.
2. At times there has been a black ‘shadow’ in the top right hand corner of the file browser and on the menu launch button as if the gray background is missing.
3. I had a Cinnamon crash when rearranging items in the menu editor, it recovered OK though.
4. It takes over 10 seconds for the “Input Method” in system preferences to display correctly.
5. I was a bit surprised when installing VirtualBox from the featured category that it didn’t show up in the menu, perhaps everything on the featured list should be meta-packages for one-click installations.
6. Following on, one meta-package that comes to mind is PlayOnLinux to include Wine, Wine-Mono & Wine-Gecko.
Sofia Smith says:
June 10th, 2016 at 12:21 pm
Based on 2G USB, installed full system on 8G USB. All is fine, except one minor bug on first start up: ERROR ABOUT MDM. Leave with ttf and re-starting without problem. (on screens install, set “no login”).
All is technical very OK, Clem, congrats! (IMHO, dessign is homemade).
Max Minenko says:
June 10th, 2016 at 12:32 pm
Wow, I cannot remove any package! Like if I want to purge mintwelcome, I just can’t do it… Even if I set it to manually installed. That sucks.
Is it so called “Linux freedom”?
Edit by Clem: apt remove mintwelcome.
Carlos says:
June 10th, 2016 at 12:47 pm
Hey, do not speak English so I use google translator
I found a small bug in Cinnamon, both 64 and 32 bits
In the options of the screensaver, selecting different screensavers and move the window, sometimes the preview of the selected screensaver, stuck on the screen and you need to kill the screensaver process to remove, attached 2 screenshots.
PS: I use VirtualBox for testing
Edit by Clem: That looks like an upstream GL renderer issue in Virtualbox to me. It’s not the only thing which isn’t rendered properly in Virtualbox.
ixxxo says:
June 10th, 2016 at 12:51 pm
Anybody had issue with Steam installation in LM 18 Cinnamon? I admit I re-used /home partition during fresh installation, but removed and deleted .steam and .local/share/Steam folders several times without success. Apparently problem I had is described and solved here:
It works for me now. Had no issues on 17.3 Cinnamon strangely.
mokurai82 says:
June 10th, 2016 at 1:06 pm
I’m using an amd graphics card (R9 Fury) and a 144hz Acer XG270HU monitor. My question is: How can I change my monitors refresh rate from 60hz to 144hz when using the new open source amd drivers?
Cosmo. says:
June 10th, 2016 at 1:24 pm
Tested: 64 bit in virtual box. Compared with LM 17.3 in the same environment.
First impressions:
Mint splash screen does not appear, only 3 dots. (Works in 17.3)
The time for first log in is far too long. It takes about 23 to 24 seconds, until the black screen gets replaced by the wallpaper and the system gets usable. If I log out and back in the needed time is about 5 to 6 seconds, more or less the same as with 17.3
I am used to set in the window settings to add all of the available additional icons into the title bar (menu and so on). These additional icons do not appear with a Mint-Y theme, so this renders useless for me.
Disabling the favorites and quit options in the menu leaves the empty bar, as long as Cinnamon does not get restarted. Re-enabling them works without the need to restart. (BTW: It would be nice if this option would be splitted. I like the favorites, but the quit icons are rather meaningless for me, as they appear also in the user applet and the user applet offers also the switch user option. So the quit icons are a waste of space.)
With the Y icon theme the icon for the terminal in the panel launcher applet is nearly unrecognizable (at least for my old eyes).
Ron Brickle says:
June 10th, 2016 at 1:31 pm
Working ok no hicups yet good job folks
Sam says:
June 10th, 2016 at 1:54 pm
@Max Mineko:
I’m a Linux Mint user and non-beginner. I use Linux Mint for all my work especially programming and development stuff. I had never experienced any fault with mint and even with this beta version, everything works fine. Now, if you think you want everything to work properly under the hood give away a little of your so-called “Linux Freedom”! otherwise, you can stick to stupid KISS philosophy and run nonsense Arch or Gentoo. Surely you will have lots of “Linux Freedom” there if thing works which I’ve a doubt about it.
@ Mint team:
Thank you! everything rocks! especially the mint-y stuff. I love Mint cinnamon 18. Mate is also wonderfully light and classic. Again thank you for your hard work.
Bart says:
June 10th, 2016 at 1:54 pm
Hey there,
Just started, using a live session from a USB.
Some things I found so far
Great job. I like the new y-theme…but to make it even more consistent please use icon (like in menu start) with square corners instead of round. Quit and logout icon don’t fit the flat loch icon in menu start.
Using the black theme gives too less contrast on many icons in libre office.
In software center, search bar: you can barely read your typing when using the dark theme
Why does the Mint-y theme doesn’t have a light taskbar, like the light mint-x themes.
Will Mint-Y be available in all teh Mint-X colors ?
Is it possible to start GIMP in singel window mode by default?
Why not switch to clementine as the default music player ?
And I used mint 17.3 quite a lot from USB stick, but it performed far much better then Mint 18 Beta does now…(I’m using a Lenovo X250 with i5-5300u and 8 GB of memory)
But overall: I can’t wait upgrading 17.3 to 18 !
Bart says:
June 10th, 2016 at 2:04 pm
…and if you want my opinion: Use mint-y as a default for version 18. For those new to mint they’ll find a modern O.S. (after switching even from win 8 or 10), for those who can’t get used to the new theme, they can always switch back. Why wait. Untill most people switch to mint-y? If you don’t do it for them, many will never switch. As an IT employee in a big company (4500+) I see how many people stick to the default windows theme and office colors…and when you show them there are ather options, they quite often respond “this is much better..”
Rodster says:
June 10th, 2016 at 2:11 pm
I love, love, love the “Flat Look”.
Bill says:
June 10th, 2016 at 2:13 pm
I did a new install of the Beta from DVD and also downloaded from various software I previously had installed in 17.3 and so far the only thing not working is Deja Dup 34-2-0unbuntu1, the scheduled once a week back up to my network server reports ‘Failed to mount Windows share: Invalid argument? I have checked that everything is set up in Deja Dup correctly and the right password is entered. I can mount the server and connect to the user folder manually through the network button in Nemo.
Óvári says:
June 10th, 2016 at 2:25 pm
It is possible to set keyboard shortcuts to switch between keyboard layouts when multiple keyboard layout are installed.
Is it worthwhile to set a default keyboard shortcut to switch between keyboard layouts, eg. Win+SpaceBar and Win+Shift+SpaceBar?
Thank you for Linux Mint.
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