Linux Mint 27, codenamed Adrien and expected before Christmas, is being built on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. Its default Cinnamon desktop has received a major update, with Wayland support now considered stable while the traditional X11 session remains available. Mint’s most notable planned change is restoring system hibernation, a feature disabled by default in Ubuntu for years because of technical complications. Other desktop improvements include better VPN and Wi-Fi controls, audio and touchpad handling, gesture and HiDPI support, faster startup, improved settings search, and more capable credential storage. Mint is also adding a preview pane to the Nemo file manager, a resource monitor called Superlight, a basic archive manager named Unfold, and a customizable terminal called Velocitty. Its community website has also been rebuilt to use GitHub logins rather than relying on PHP.
The update comes as Linux desktop projects continue adapting to Wayland without immediately abandoning X11. LXQt 2.5, released around the same time as Cinnamon’s update, is based on Qt 6.10 and removes its final dependency on an LXDE component. Its panel gains improvements to sizing, icons, and auto-hide, while much of the work focuses on its QTerminal emulator. A compatibility problem arose because KDE’s libkscreen and Plasma 6.8 are dropping X11 support, disrupting LXQt’s monitor-settings applet; developers plan to address it in a later release. LXQt typically releases twice yearly, making version 2.5 a likely fit for Lubuntu 27.04 and other distributions.
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