Useless and meaningless rant about my hate for Linux Mint...

[Michael Havens]

the only thing that comes with mx14 you've heard of is libre office. The
file manager and browser I've never heard of before. The windowmanager is
xfce.

:-)~MIKE~(-:


On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 11:34 AM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> try mX14.
> it is small (cd sized) and it is fast!
>
> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>
>
> On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 11:23 AM, sean <sean.a.ritzler at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Sounds like you should hate DVD drives instead.
>> On Jun 21, 2014 11:10 AM, <kitepilot at kitepilot.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I hate Unity too...
>>> And/or the M$-like bloated KDE.
>>> Because my long hated (and mostly reliable) Linux Mint went out of
>>> support, I decided to go with what I hate the least: Xubuntu.
>>> But I could not burn the DVD, so I installed it on VirtualBox,
>>> transferred the system to my real box, fixed up the MBR and booted my
>>> shinny new Xubuntu.
>>> No sound...
>>> Darn...
>>> After fiddling with it for a day I decided: screw it, I'll go Debian
>>> Xfce.
>>> So I got my trusty net-install CD and...
>>> It said that it needed 'proprietary firmware' from Realtek, but WAIT!
>>> It also said that I could install from the 'proprietary firmware DVD'!
>>> Which (of course) I could not burn either...
>>> So I installed it on VirtualBox, transferred the system to my real box,
>>> fixed up the MBR and booted my shinny new Debian!  :-)
>>> No sound...
>>> And not second monitor...
>>> Darn...   :(
>>> After fiddling with it for a day I decided: screw it, Mint worked
>>> before, I may as well give it a F$%#ING try (I *NEED* a box!)...
>>> Of course I could not burn the DVD!!!!
>>> So I installed it on VirtualBox, transferred the system to my real box,
>>> fixed up the MBR and booted my shinny new Mint 17 Xfce.
>>> And now everything works!
>>> But I am hard headed and now I am facing years (I installed LTS) of
>>> hating MINT!!!!
>>> Grrrrrrrrr...
>>> 3 wasted days later, and with a fully functional system that I hate, I
>>> am seriously considering to end it all and hang myself from a pumpkin
>>> tree...
>>> I warned you that it was a useless and meaningless rant!
>>> So there...
>>> ET
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