After a week of upgrading to Linux Mint 21.2 Victoria, I must admit that while I notice some of the visual improvements, of the most part I'm glad that for the most part all has been the usual for my daily use.
Which, to be honest, is a great thing. Things just keep working great, nothing has broken and I can continue to use by laptop as I expect to be able to do on a daily basis. Which is something I want to be able to do as a user, I just want upgrades not to make my life harder.
Linux Mint is really an elegant OS that just works. Linux Mint has become a Linux distro that I can wholeheartedly recommend to new Linux users, and to experienced Linux users that want a distro that isn't that hands on and just works allowing them to focus on what they use they computer for.
In a way, Linux Mint slogan that from freedom came elegance is true. The whole user experience feels modern, and elegant. I can't talk for the MATE and Xfce versions of Linux Mint, since I use Cinnamon as my desktop environment of choice. Yet, Cinnamon is quite a great desktop environment for any computer with at least 4 GB of RAM.
I used to be an Ubuntu user, until they stop using the Unity user interface. Cinnamon was my second favorite desktop environment, but since Ubuntu moved to using GNOME 3, though is highly modified, it simple doesn't works as well for me as Cinnamon does. And since Cinnamon is a Linux Mint project, I decided to move to Linux Mint since it was always a Linux Mint that I worked for me.
Ubuntu will always be special for me, since it was the first Linux distro I used on a daily basis. Yet, Linux Mint has become the gold standard for what I expect from a Linux distro. The 21.2 Victoria point release make it easier to keep recommending it to users that can see a benefit from using a Linux distro that is easy to use and not that difficult to adapt to coming from Windows and for those user that prefer using Linux but expect their computer to work without much work from the user.
I admit that Linux Mint isn't perfect, but it is close to perfect as a Linux Mint can get.
