Linux mint arm version

[frankdusenbury]

I really don't want Ubuntu... Since they killed flatpak.. I ordered a pine 64 phone I would like to run Linux mint on it and my raspberry pi..
Maybe I am beating a dead horse.. but it would be nice..
Frank

[rcalixte]

@frankdusenbury Have you considered installing Debian/Mobian with Cinnamon? This isn't a full one-to-one for Mint (including LMDE) but it seems like the best compromise?

[hsbasu]

Hi! You can always install Cinnamon DE on a arm based device. Binary installers are available for this. Even though Mint's Launchpad daily build PPA does not provide the binaries, you can use my stable PPA. It provides the binary installers for arm based devices.

But beware there are a few drawbacks. Cinnamon DE is not really mobile optimized. Unless you have a large screen if would be difficult to use it.

[anaximeno]

It would be nice if ARM was supported in the future so that Linux Mint could be used in M1 Macbooks or other ARM-based computers.

[duracell80]

+1 for an Armbian base.
https://www.armbian.com

Cinnamon Touch isn't needed for laptops and mini PC's, however designing themes for 4K monitors would help touchscreens (that is to say not phone screens). Gnome may be targeting phone screens and in the process simplifying their UI too much to compete with DhaliaOS. There are still a few hybrid tablet/desktop laptops.

https://dahliaos.io

What do we want? Taskbars, when do we want them? Forever! Docks, pah!!

[jcapik]

Hello guys,
so far, I have rebuilt all the packages required to successfully install the mint-meta-xfce package and the Mint additions somehow work ... of course the updates do not work as I only managed to setup a simple local repository, but at least the visual look is there ... The Firefox package from Mint is missing as it is based on a binary build from upstream and there's no binary package for arm yet, but it's always possible to install the firefox package from the ubuntu repos. There are also other minor issues like Mint Welcome showing 32-bit architecture as the detection is very probably being done like "if I'm not x86_64, then I'm i686".

I tested the installation on top of the Mantic and Jammy releases and all the dependencies were pulled by apt without problems.

I believe it would be very helpful, if the Mint team could setup an arch64 builder (running ubuntu server/mantic or armbian/jammy) and add the aarch64 repository as an experimental feature for testing purposes and of course with no guarantees ... without changing anything in the source packages and skipping packages which fail to build and of course there will be no installer needed for now. I could slowly start fixing the source packages and send patches to help with the porting. The Mint packages are very often architecture independent and work as they are.

I'm using PineA64+ with 2GB of RAM for building the packages and testing till my Pinebook Pro arrives. Virt manager also supports aarch64 and I have a second system running in emulation on x86_64, but it's unusably slow.

[jcapik]

Hello guys ... I've already mentioned that in the Mint forum. I'm searching for people willing to test a script for deploying Mint on aarch64 hardware. More info is in the following forum thread:
https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=399991
Thank you