![]() ![]() AdvertisementĮnlarge / The new Mint 17.1 login screen, complete with slideshow controls. Suffice it to say that if you need an aesthetic desktop refresh, Mint 17.1 has you covered. The choices are vast, since Mint 17.1 contains not only wallpapers that are new with this release but all the options that came with every previous Mint release. If you start the Mint installation process and walk away, you'll likely come back to an image slideshow that's slowly flipping through all the various wallpapers that Mint 17.1 offers. Right away, you'll notice the login screen is among these new and improved elements. While accessing some of these new tools varies slightly by desktop, the results are the same in both. While most of what's new in Mint 17.1 will be seen in the updated desktops, there are some common components to both Cinnamon and MATE. Instead of spending all their time and effort making sure whatever Ubuntu has changed works with Mint, they can focus on what makes the ecosystem great-namely, its two primary desktops, MATE and Cinnamon. By relying on a consistent LTS release, Mint developers can more or less ignore the base system. ![]() However, Mint 17.1 is in fact a very good sign for fans of the distro's own tools, like its homegrown Cinnamon desktop. After all, Mint is missing out on whatever new stuff is in Ubuntu 14.10 (in this case it's not much, but 15.04 will have plenty of changes). And at first glance, it might seem like a bad thing. These days, Mint will not be changing its Ubuntu base again until the next LTS release-Ubuntu 16.04-arrives in 2016. But if you paid attention to the curious approach of Linux Mint 17.0, you'll know that was the plan all along. Further Reading Mint 17 is the perfect place for Linux-ers to wait out Ubuntu uncertaintyThis marks the first time Linux Mint has not used the newest version of Ubuntu for a release.
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