Are you staring at the Linux Mint download page wondering which edition to choose? Do terms like Cinnamon, Xfce, and MATE feel confusing? Here are the honest pros and cons of each desktop environment ...

As before, you can use three different desktop looks with Mint 20. These are my own favorite Cinnamon, which was inspired by GNOME 2.x; MATE, a fork of the GNOME 2; and the ultra-lightweight Xfce.

At the end of May, it was reported that Linux Mint 20.2 would see a beta release in mid-June. We’ve reached mid-June and it looks as though the team is running last-minute tests on the beta ISOs ...