Dennis McClellan[1]
>> My problem with [Unity][2] is the frozen gray screen. It doesn't matter what
>> program or website I'm on, I get the gray frozen screen, not always, but
>> often.
Have you tried booting the troublesome device from Ubuntu on live media (e.g.,
LiveUSB)? That would help determine whether your device is having problems with
a stock Ubuntu or with something else on your specific configuration. FWIW, I
don't buy anything computational anymore unless either (1) it has a
no-questions-asked money-back guarantee (and I see reason to believe the vendor
follows through), or (2) I've been able to {boot the box, test core functions}
from my current distro of choice, which is currently Linux Mint Debian Edition
(LMDE2)[3].
Keith Smith[4]
> Note that Mint is a derivative of Ubuntu
Umm ... that depends ...
1. ... on what you mean by "Mint." Mint the project (i.e., linuxmint.com)
provides multiple editions[5], of which the two main ones are have different
package bases, which are helpfully referred to as Debian-based (i.e., LMDE) and
Ubuntu-based (aka "classic Mint"). Of course, the package base of Ubuntu is
also Debian, but Canonical's PPA system[6] is a major addition.
2. ... on what you mean by "derivative." Clement Lefebvre (pause to bow in his
general direction) and team are quite opinionated and more than willing to
remove/substitute even major bits of Ubuntu, notably Unity[2].
HTH, Tom Roche <[email protected]>
[1]: http://lists.phxlinux.org/lurker/message/20160618.171406.d7b0efb6.en.html
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unity_(user_interface)
[3]: https://www.linuxmint.com/download_lmde.php
[4]: http://lists.phxlinux.org/lurker/message/20160618.220622.5f8344d0.en.html
[5]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Mint#Editions
[6]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_Package_Archive
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