I out mint 13 on my computer yesterday and it immediately paniced after entering my password. So I went back to mint 12. After upgrading the kernel there are no issues with mint 12. And if I didn't need to run it off of battery I wouldn't need to put the newer kernel in. On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 7:55 AM, Wayne Davis wrote: > Loaded Mint 13 Maya on a drive last night. Looks A LOT like Zorin. Going > to play with mint & Zorin for a bit. They both look promising for a > winbabes. > > although Ylmf looked promising, my friend's machine, who this is all > about, is nearly new hardware (1 yr) > > > > > > > > On 07/05/2012 01:35 PM, Michael Butash wrote: > >> From a new user perspective, mint (or others) may be better >> out-of-install, but a lack of features like install methods for >> raid/lvm/crypto functions just tell me its immature or a sub-grade >> knock-off. I'm not an enterprise, just security aware and conscious of >> mtbf on drives to want/expect enterprise features (it *is* linux still), >> and more people should too (especially when mint uses ubuntu as a base >> already). >> >> I'd rather just use ubuntu as the distro without unity on it as a base >> and get general industry support, especially for video driver blob support >> as it and fedora/cent are the standard vendors are willing to support. >> >> I'd like to see what kind of experience mint users have with >> dist-upgrades as well. Something tells me if canonical isn't catching the >> big things that break the os, Mint isn't going to either. >> >> As for windoze-y linuxes, this odd distro is still going... Remembered >> this from years ago that looked waaay too much like windoze if that's what >> you're looking for: >> >> http://www.ylmf.org/en/index.**html >> >> It *is* based on 10.04 LTS, so at least you get some software support, >> and hopefully not just odd tcp socket connections back to chinese ip >> addresses. >> >> -mb >> >> >> On 07/05/2012 07:39 AM, Kenn wrote: >> >>> I've been having pretty good results with Linux Mint Maya v13 using the >>> MATE desktop for the last week or so now. I don't run the newest fastest >>> hardware. I was a big Ubuntu fan for the longest time, but I just cannot >>> warm up to the Unity desktop on a desktop PC, although it's OK on my >>> netbook with a small screen. Gnome3 desktop wasn't working out for me >>> either. The last straw was updating Ubuntu to 12.04 and it hosed up two >>> machines. Sure, a fresh install likely would have worked, but I was due >>> for a new desktop. Just my two cents. >>> >>> distrowatch.org is good reference for selecting a distro best for you. >>> >>> >>> -Ken >>> >>> >>> >>> --- On *Thu, 7/5/12, Wayne Davis //* >>> wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> I'm looking for a distro that works well for people weaned off >>> Winblows. So far, school's out for this one, but i'm giving it a >>> chance for a while for it to grow on me so to speak. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------**--------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.**phoenix.az.us >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.**us/mailman/listinfo/plug-**discuss >>> >> ------------------------------**--------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.**phoenix.az.us >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.**us/mailman/listinfo/plug-**discuss >> >> >> > > ------------------------------**--------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.**phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.**us/mailman/listinfo/plug-**discuss > -- :-)~MIKE~(-: