Linux Mint has released its next major release, 22 or ‘Wilma’, as a beta. I installed a local copy on my Linux Mint 21.3 as a QEMU/KVM virtual machine. It installed with absolutely no problems. What you’re viewing above is the vanilla install without any other changes, such as icons or fonts. The only addition was fastfetch. I find it somewhat ironic that after everyone acknowledges neofetch is truly dead after no updates in over three years, that neofetch is now included with Linux Mint’s base installation.

I’ve also read ad nauseam how you should not use a beta on a production machine. Bullshit. Linux Mint’s betas are better than a lot of distribution’s final release. Linux Mint’s final release is a highly polished, extremely solid distribution. If you want to run with Linux Mint 22 beta, then you won’t have a problem. I sure haven’t encountered any problems, and I sincerely doubt you will either.

My one and only wish is that Linux Mint would come out for the Raspberry Pi 5. I already run Ubuntu 24.04 on my Raspberry Pis, and since Linux Mint 22 is based on Ubuntu 24.04, I would think that spinning out a Raspberry Pi version of Linux Mint 22 would be somewhat straightforward. But I’m certainly no expert in these matters.