On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 20:23:31 -0800 C W <[email protected]> dijo: >I have been using the KDE version of Mint 9 since it came out over a >year ago, & I haven't had any of these problems with it. Maybe the >GNOME version of Mint 9 has more bugs? > >Also, I'm very careful when I burn optical disks to burn that at a slow >speed (4x), & always have the burning software check for burn errors.
I suspect my DVD drive is the cause of the problems. It's old and has a lot of miles on it. These things don't last forever. I have a new one on order from Amazon, even though the current one seems to be working fine now. It's worth the $35 I spent for the new burner. I don't like hardware that I can't trust. >I love KDE Mint 9 & look forward to using the next long term support >KDE Mint (which will probably be Mint 12). My recent dist-upgrade from Fedora 14 to 16 was a disaster, compounded by my inability to copy a line of code faithfully. Had it not been for Keith's sleuthing abilities at the Clinic I was seriously looking at having to do a reinstall. Had it come to that I would have abandoned Fedora, and my leading candidate for a replacement would have been Mint. I have Lucid on my desktop computer because all it does is stream radio, play videos, and serve as a fallback to get on the net in case I mess up my laptop. Yet it continually annoys me with software updates. I never get even two months without having to reboot, and usually I have to log out and back in again once a month or so. Note that logging out and back in again is as much pain as rebooting, because I have to stop everything, close all apps, and after logging back in again I have to re-launch them, re-load the documents I was working on, etc. Fedora on my laptop is even worse, although no worse than I remember Ubuntu from back when I ran the latest Ubuntu on it. In fact, I did the Fedora 14 to 16 dist-upgrade a couple weeks ago and there have since been two new kernels, the latest today. I wouldn't mind having to install a new kernel if it is really needed because of a security issue, but can it really be necessary to upgrade a kernel that often? So how often do you have to log out and back in again if you have an LTS version of Mint? Or do you just turn off the software update notifier and ignore updates? _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
