[Chester LUG] Linux Mint

[Stuart Burns]

You could always install it in Virtualbox and see how you like it, nothing
lost if you don't. Just delete it!

On 22 February 2013 16:23, Roger Gibson <rcgibson at talktalk.net> wrote:

>  And I was just going to give Mint a try.  I'll wait for an 'All Clear'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.  Roger.
>
> On 22/02/2013 15:54, Les Pritchard wrote:
>
>    Hi all,
>
>  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.
>
>  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.
>
>  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.
>
>  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.
>
>  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...
>
>  Les
>
>
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