Would encourage anybody on Ubuntu to give Linux Mint a try. It’s displaced Lubuntu as my go to distribution due to it being very polished overall while still being about as lightweight and fast as Lubuntu or Xubuntu.
Release notes can be found here: <a href="https://www.linuxmint.com/rel_ulyana_cinnamon_whatsnew.php" rel="nofollow">https://www.linuxmint.com/rel_ulyana_cinnamon_whatsnew.php</a>
Before you upgrade to Mint 20 ----<p>If you are running mysql 5.7 in Mint 19, update your databases to be compatible with mysql 8.0 <i>before</i> you change to Mint 20.<p>That mainly means changing your engine to InnoDB instead of MyISAM, and the character set to utf8mb4 from latin1.<p>Oh, and I prefer MATE. But I just installed Cinnamon and then installed MATE using Synaptic. All working well.
Before you upgrade to Mint 20 ----<p>If you are running mysql 5.7 in Mint 19, update your databases to be compatible with mysql 8.0 <i>before</i> you change to Mint 20.<p>That mainly means changing your engine to InnoDB instead of MyISAM, and the character set to utf8mb4 from latin1.