[Chester LUG] Linux Mint (or rather dual booting with Linux)

Fri Feb 22 17:58:08 UTC 2013

I dual boot Windoze 7 with Ubuntu (updated through many versions)and 
have no problems with rwx access to Windoze partitions (same on my 
desktop, laptop and notebook).

Although I use a separate ntfs partition for my 'data' files, so as  to 
facilitate reloading/changing loaded OS, (MS software support 
recommended to me reloading Windoze every 12 months to remove 
'inevitable ongoing corruptions') I can access Windoze partitions 
directly with no problems.

Using Thunderbird, even IMAPed to gmail, both Ubuntu and Windoze 7 
happily work with the same profile sub-directory on my ntfs 'data' 
partition, ensuring these are up to date (and they run to about 10GB) 
whatever OS I am currently using, and can be used on or off line.  I 
also found SUSE triple booted in worked fine too.  The gmail IMAPing 
ensures I have transparent up to date total access to several years 
email history, address books etc on my NEXUS.

Roger.

On 22/02/13 16:35, J Aguado wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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
>     <mailto: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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