<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>I will been testing Mint tonight actually as I am in the process of finding the right distro to Dual boot my Window$8 desktop.<br>At the moment only Fedora18 was able to recognise the (windows) partitions on my SSD drive and not complain about it.<br>
I did not find many issues with it, albeit having read all the reviews.<br>Unfortunately, the fact that installing NVIDIA drivers on Fedora is a MAJOR pain is making me try Mint.<br><br></div>Ubuntu's installer was not able recognise the partitions on my disk, so I do not have high hopes and see myself tweaking Fedora.<br>
</div>If it works and recognises my hardware I'll let you know if I find other issues, but I know that there is a huge community behind Mint ever since Ubuntu started to move to Unity, so I have high hopes ;)<br><br>
</div>J.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2013/2/22 Stuart Burns <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stuart.james.burns@gmail.com" target="_blank">stuart.james.burns@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
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<div class="h5"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 22 February 2013 16:23, Roger Gibson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rcgibson@talktalk.net" target="_blank">rcgibson@talktalk.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<tt>And I was just going to give Mint a try. I'll wait for an 'All
Clear'</tt><tt> before I go down that path. Have to say that now
I've got used to it, the latest Ubuntu desk top 'straight out of
the box' seems as good as any, but then I don't push it hard.</tt><tt>
Roger. </tt><br><div><div>
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<div>On 22/02/2013 15:54, Les Pritchard
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<div>Hi all,<br>
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Last night I decided to give Mint a go on one of my
primary desktop systems. I've used the Debian edition
and previous Gnome versions in the past, but with all
the the Gnome changes I have found myself using KDE
more.<br>
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So I grabbed the KDE version of the latest Mint and
installed it with no problems. All worked really well
and I was pleased with hardware support etc. The problem
came when I tried to run an update. Apt-get returned a
whole load of 404s when trying to update, saying the
servers could not be found.<br>
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A quick look into the sources file showed me that the
repos they had for the Ubuntu servers all referenced the
code name for the Mint distro and not the matched Ubuntu
edition! (All these code names are just annoying in my
opinion). So a quick change of the name to the correct
Ubuntu code name and all the updates worked perfectly.<br>
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A quick Google suggests that others have seen this problem
too. I find it very hard to believe that a distro could be
rolled with such a simple error. Also being such a trivial
error, that it hasn't been quickly fixed amazed me. The
experience didn't fill me with confidence about the distro
at all.<br>
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Has anyone else found any other issues with it? Should I be
going back to Ubuntu after all this time?! Or over to
something like Fedora / Mageia / Fuduntu...<br>
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Les<br>
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