Mint works correctly only with mintupdate. If you do "sudo apt update && sudo apt -y dist-upgrade" then it breaks Mint desktop menu. To fix it, you can install

Mint works correctly only with mintupdate. If you do "sudo apt update && sudo apt -y dist-upgrade" then it breaks Mint desktop menu. To fix it, you can install all updates with mintupdate, and then "sudo apt -y install mint-menu --reinstall"