I'm sure your complaints are valid. In support of LinuxMint, I've been running 13 as my main machine for over six months with very little complain about. The only issue I've found problematic was a window management issue in Inkscape - which totally could be a Inkscape issue.
Cheers, Al Sent via mobile device On Dec 27, 2012, at 3:20 PM, Mark Wallace <[email protected]> wrote: > I installed Linux Mint 14 Mate edition and it lasted about a week. It's gone > because of the following problems. > > Their server capacity is inadequate and it was hard to update. Ubuntu has 500 > mirrors world wide, Mint only has a couple of dozen. > > There are less packages available on their mirrors than on Ubuntu's. > > The install frequently doesn't boot up properly. That can be fixed by > toggling the system restore, but remember this is the waitress test and that > is a fatal error (The waitress test is, if I gave a CD to the waitress at the > Palace Diner, could she get it up and running on her system in an evening > without help. It also has to be one distro, one desktop and one operating > system because she doesn't want to spend a lot of time maintaining her pc and > she doesn't compile.) > > I wound up doing an install of Xubuntu, then adding Mate and taking Xubuntu > out. That required cutting and pasting command code which also flunks the > waitress test. I think that at some point, Ubuntu will invent "Mubuntu" a > long term support distro with Mate or maybe "Cubuntu" with Cinnamon, but in > the meantime we should give her Lubuntu. > > That's in case it is an older system. Lubuntu the only one that will still > support a 386 processor). Then, if she finds LXDE a little basic or rough > cut, tell her to try adding KDE or Xubuntu through the package manager. If > she puts KDE in, she should immediately disable the desktop effects and > Nepomuk. She can experiment with them later when she is sure that she is > fully installed and configured. > > KDE also has a package called nofat kde or something like that which changes > some settings to better work with legacy processors. > > Unless you are SURE that she has a 64 bit system or a state of the art > system. But most people who are playing with Linux for the first time try > it on an older system, and most of the Ubuntu CD's will only tell her that > the CD doesn't support her processor and self abort. > > Linux Mint 14, Mate edition has a lot of potential, but the Mint people are > struggling to service it properly. > > Mark > > -- > Mark Wallace > PO Box 11144 > Newburgh, NY 12552-1114 > Telephone: (845) 541-7396 > > _______________________________________________ > Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org > http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug > > Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) Vassar College > Jan 9 - High Performance Computing at a Small Scale > Feb 6 - Raspberry Pi > Mar 6 - 10th Anniversary Meeting - Linux where you least expect it _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) Vassar College Jan 9 - High Performance Computing at a Small Scale Feb 6 - Raspberry Pi Mar 6 - 10th Anniversary Meeting - Linux where you least expect it
