How to upgrade to Mint 21

[kc1di]

Clem has released the upgrade instructions for those wishing to upgrade their version of Mint to version 21.

How to upgrade to Linux Mint 21 – The Linux Mint Blog

If your running Version 20.3 go Here.

How to upgrade to Linux Mint 21 — Linux Mint User Guide documentation

linuxmint-user-guide.readthedocs.io

If an older version of Mint go here:

https://linuxmint-user-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/upgrade.html.

My personal preference is to do a complete fresh install of a new major version. But to each their own.

 

[Condobloke]

I am interested to hear from anyone who has updated to LM21....either via the Update Manager, or via a Fresh Install.

 

[wizardfromoz]

Moving this to Mint subforum, Dave

Wiz

 

[wizardfromoz]

You could start a Thread in Mint subforum, Brian, now what would you call it?

Interested to hear from anyone who has updated to LM21....either via the Update Manager, or via a Fresh Install?

 

[Condobloke]

roger that.

 

[kc1di]

I am interested to hear from anyone who has updated to LM21....either via the Update Manager, or via a Fresh Install.

Did a fresh install when it became Beta and have been updating ever since. All here has been working fine Stable and just works.
I Highly recommend this version. I've been using it on a Lenovo Thinkpad t450 without problems. I don't do gaming just ordinary stuff like word processing some audio and video stuff. surfing and such.

 

[kc1di]

Moving this to Mint subforum, Dave

Wiz

Thanks Wiz

 

[Condobloke]

Avoid the following kernel update...it returns an error once installed.......wait for the 'fix'...it will come along shortly

 

[darry1966]

A review from Explaining Computers:

 

[kc1di]

Avoid the following kernel update...it returns an error once installed.......wait for the 'fix'...it will come along shortly

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Just upgraded to the 5.15.0-46 kernel , No problems here everything works so not sure what the error was but my machine likes it.

 

[Condobloke]

The error was cleaned up around 3 hours after its initial release

 

[kc1di]

The error was cleaned up around 3 hours after its initial release

The error was cleaned up around 3 hours after its initial release

Good to hear

 

[N9JC]

I am interested to hear from anyone who has updated to LM21....either via the Update Manager, or via a Fresh Install.

I updated using the update manager on a Lenovo T430. After update, the update manager would never change from "checking updates". Gnucash would not allow any preferences to be modified. Example; adding horizontal lines. I use Libreoffice Calc heavily and scrolling was very erratic. I restored to 20.3 without issues.

 

[Condobloke]

@N9JC, my commiserations. It is indeed a right royal pain when things don't go as planned.

My eventual course of action, after encountering all sorts of dramas, was to do a clean/fresh install.

I have a pet hate. It relates to setting up everything again after a fresh install....browser, vpn, etc etc all the hundreds of small changes/preferences/tweaks add infinitum

However, it was either go through all the setting up again or restore to 20.3 which ran perfectly. I had a full clone of 20.3 saved to an external hard drive which was restorable. I created that via the Disks app, and the external was formatted to ext4.

I accepted the challenge to do a fresh install, and am so glad I did.

Running LM21....pure joy.

I even adjusted my 'mindset' re doing set ups....I rather enjoyed the process this time ! The 'hard work' became a pleasure because the result was worthwhile.

 

[bob466]

I always do a clean install...I only ever did an upgrade once...Mint Cinnamon 18.2 to 18.3 and things wouldn't work...so never again.