[Wolves] how to keep linux mint 13 alive a bit longer?

[Mark Croft Redditch Linux Mint]

so much easy to have computers as a hobby and something fun to do to
waste away hours


On 18 February 2016 at 22:37, Mark Croft Redditch Linux Mint
<mark.croft.lug at gmail.com> wrote:
> yeah would like to move the person over to linux mint 17.2 but i am
> not allowed , does not understand and i have not got the energy to
> explain why it is better , just leaving them to have loads of probs
> with it such as firefox crashing and corrupting the profile and
> bookmarks etc
> it hard cos i have to spend an age trying to recover a corrupted
> firefox profile but when i said it would have been easy too back
> everything up and start from stratch they did not believe me  , so
> what do i do. i am not getting paid for this laptop and i can't accept
> money anyway got the jobcentre goes nuts about it and it breaks there
> computer system cos it can't cope with one off payment for work and it
> not getting any better when univerisal credit comes in and i think
> that will be scrapped soon anyway cos it such a can of worms that
> welfare reform the whole world against me using my computer skills
>
>
>
> On 18 February 2016 at 22:23, Kevanf1 <kevanf1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I think Mint 13 has been out of support for a long time now.  I am
>> personally running Mint 17.3 and I love it.
>>
>>
>> On 18 February 2016 at 18:21, Mark Croft Redditch Linux Mint
>> <mark.croft.lug at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> hi
>>>
>>> how do  i keep a laptop with linux mint 13 keep going? i am having
>>> issues with firefox corrupting its profiles every so often?(i have
>>> made backup of the profile directory/folder and make firefox account
>>> which seems to back up bookmarks n passwords etc)
>>>
>>> I can't find out if firefox is still supported on linux mint 13 , is
>>> that the problem really should be upgrading the machine to linux mint
>>> 17.2?
>>>
>>> Having problems with google chrome soon as well cos it came up with
>>> unsupported OS as well.
>>>
>>> so looks like i will have to find another web browser maybe?
>>>
>>> any ideas? most helpful.
>>>
>>>
>>> mark
>>>
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