and there are NO improvement in mint 13 over mint 12 (h
ttp://
www.linuxmint.com/rel_maya_whatsnew.php<
http://www.linuxmint.com/rel_maya_whatsnew.php>).
Everything new is too make it prettier (it seems).
On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 8:03 AM, Michael Havens <
bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:
> I PUT mint 13 on my computer yesterday and it immediately paniced after
> entering my password. So I went back to mint 12. After upgrading the kernel
> there are no issues with mint 12. And if I didn't need to run it off of
> battery I wouldn't need to upgrade the kernel.
>
> On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 8:01 AM, Michael Havens <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I out mint 13 on my computer yesterday and it immediately paniced after
>> entering my password. So I went back to mint 12. After upgrading the kernel
>> there are no issues with mint 12. And if I didn't need to run it off of
>> battery I wouldn't need to put the newer kernel in.
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 7:55 AM, Wayne Davis <waydavis.phx.lists@gmail.com
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> Loaded Mint 13 Maya on a drive last night. Looks A LOT like Zorin.
>>> Going to play with mint & Zorin for a bit. They both look promising for a
>>> winbabes.
>>>
>>> although Ylmf looked promising, my friend's machine, who this is all
>>> about, is nearly new hardware (1 yr)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 07/05/2012 01:35 PM, Michael Butash wrote:
>>>
>>>> From a new user perspective, mint (or others) may be better
>>>> out-of-install, but a lack of features like install methods for
>>>> raid/lvm/crypto functions just tell me its immature or a sub-grade
>>>> knock-off. I'm not an enterprise, just security aware and conscious of
>>>> mtbf on drives to want/expect enterprise features (it *is* linux still),
>>>> and more people should too (especially when mint uses ubuntu as a base
>>>> already).
>>>>
>>>> I'd rather just use ubuntu as the distro without unity on it as a base
>>>> and get general industry support, especially for video driver blob support
>>>> as it and fedora/cent are the standard vendors are willing to support.
>>>>
>>>> I'd like to see what kind of experience mint users have with
>>>> dist-upgrades as well. Something tells me if canonical isn't catching the
>>>> big things that break the os, Mint isn't going to either.
>>>>
>>>> As for windoze-y linuxes, this odd distro is still going... Remembered
>>>> this from years ago that looked waaay too much like windoze if that's what
>>>> you're looking for:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.ylmf.org/en/index.**html <http://www.ylmf.org/en/index.html>
>>>>
>>>> It *is* based on 10.04 LTS, so at least you get some software support,
>>>> and hopefully not just odd tcp socket connections back to chinese ip
>>>> addresses.
>>>>
>>>> -mb
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 07/05/2012 07:39 AM, Kenn wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I've been having pretty good results with Linux Mint Maya v13 using the
>>>>> MATE desktop for the last week or so now. I don't run the newest
>>>>> fastest
>>>>> hardware. I was a big Ubuntu fan for the longest time, but I just
>>>>> cannot
>>>>> warm up to the Unity desktop on a desktop PC, although it's OK on my
>>>>> netbook with a small screen. Gnome3 desktop wasn't working out for me
>>>>> either. The last straw was updating Ubuntu to 12.04 and it hosed up two
>>>>> machines. Sure, a fresh install likely would have worked, but I was due
>>>>> for a new desktop. Just my two cents.
>>>>>
>>>>> distrowatch.org is good reference for selecting a distro best for you.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> -Ken
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --- On *Thu, 7/5/12, Wayne Davis /<waydavis.phx.lists@gmail.com**>/*
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm looking for a distro that works well for people weaned off
>>>>> Winblows. So far, school's out for this one, but i'm giving it a
>>>>> chance for a while for it to grow on me so to speak.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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