Linux Mint
A friendly desktop on top of Ubuntu LTS with the Cinnamon desktop, a favourite of people coming from Windows. See how developers rate it month by month on DTDb.
- Category
- Linux distribution
- Developer
- Linux Mint team
- Created by
- Clément Lefebvre
- First release
- 2006
- License
- GPL and other free licenses
- Open source
- Yes
- Pricing
- Free
- Website
- https://linuxmint.com
- Family
- Debian
- Based on
- Ubuntu LTS
- Package manager
- APT, Flatpak
- Package format
- deb
- Release model
- Fixed releases
- Release cadence
- A point release about every 6 months
- Support lifetime
- As long as its Ubuntu LTS base
- Init system
- systemd
- Default desktop
- Cinnamon
- Immutable
- No
- Made for
- Desktop
- Backed by
- A community
- Beginner friendliness
- 5 of 5
- Architectures
- x86_64