[Chester LUG] Linux Mint

[J Aguado]

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.
At the moment only Fedora18 was able to recognise the (windows) partitions
on my SSD drive and not complain about it.
I did not find many issues with it, albeit having read all the reviews.
Unfortunately, the fact that installing NVIDIA drivers on Fedora is a MAJOR
pain is making me try Mint.

Ubuntu's installer was not able recognise the partitions on my disk, so I
do not have high hopes and see myself tweaking Fedora.
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  ;)

J.


2013/2/22 Stuart Burns <stuart.james.burns at gmail.com>

> 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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