Ready for a newbie-friendly Linux? Mint team officially releases v 22.3, 'Zena'

The timing is right if you're looking to try out Mint. New improved "Zena" is here – still based on Ubuntu Noble, but now with Cinnamon 6.6 and improved Wayland support, plus better internationalization, new System Information and System Administration tools, and clearer icons.

The latest Mint – 22.3 – was officially released on Tuesday. Downloads were available a few days before the announcement, but we thought it was better to wait until it was official. All three editions of Linux Mint – Cinnamon, MATE, and Xfce – have been updated. The project used to publish separate announcements, "What's new", and release notes documents for each edition; for Mint 21.2 we resorted to a table to include all 12 links. No more. Now, there's one unified New Features page and a single all-embracing set of Release Notes.

Linux Mint releases track long-term support (LTS) releases of Ubuntu, Mint's ...