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I agree, kudos for fixing all the issues that 21 had. Mint 21 just felt unfinished, and had so many issues for me on my System 76 laptops. On both the Darter Pro, and Galago Pro (11th gen and 12th gen respectively) both had USB-C/Thunderbolt issues where the laptops would not even see the devices when they had an external drive plugged in. I had to go to Fedora Cinnamon to get it to work. Mint 21 just felt like it was badly rushed and half baked. I especially had a much better experience when I added the 6.0 Linux OEM kernel. On my older Lemur Pro (10th gen), and my HP Dev One, Mint 21 worked acceptably, but still never felt as "finished" as 20.3 or other versions.
The upgrade process was painless, and probably the best yet. They still have not added the 6.0 kernel, remaining on 5.15 which is stable, and works ok, but the 12th Generation processors NEED a better kernel, which is why I am so looking forward to the 6.1 kernel being released so that it can be installed as Linux-OEM-22.04c. I have had to keep the Galago Pro on Fedora just to get reasonable battery life and to have the processor work properly. I re-installed Mint on the Darter Pro about an hour ago, and miracle, the USB-C/Thunderbolt issue has been resolved! Praise Torvalds!
As things go, Mint 21 was just not a great experience. 21.1 on the other hand, for the few days I have had it on the laptops is the old Mint of days gone by. The icons, I am not sold on the yellow color, but at least I can still change it. One of the great points of Mint is they are not locked into the proprietary nonsense that is LibAidwaita where you cannot theme anything.
Again Kudos to the Mint Devs for fixing the issues that made 21 just so bad.
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