[Solved] Recent Linux Adventures
Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2012 10:45 am
I bought a new pc - I5, Ivy Bridge and installed the 64-bit version of mint mate.
It froze the pc one or more times a day.
I gave up and tried mint debian. Installed easily and worked well until I updated it with the 1300 or so packages. The last thing I was asked about was where to install grub. I picked sda1 because it sounded nice. I guess that was a mistake because I could not reboot - could not find a partition or some such message.
So I tried to install the real debian but it did not install. Then I tried Suse, which installed nicely and looked and acted very professional. The only problem was, it did not have programs I have gotten used to like Motion, and it did not play .mp4 or .mkv files, and I could not find the repositories that had the drivers that would allow them to be played.
So I tried ubuntu 12.04 which installed nicely and did not freeze within 24 hours of use. But I could not abide that stupid panel along the left side of the screen and the fact that I could not even create a launcher on the desktop. Apparently there is some complex way of doing it, but I am pretty much a civilian and want things to just work.
So I went back to mint debian, re-installed it and had it tweaked to my liking in 10 minutes. I backed up an image of it just in case, and then started the 1300-package upgrade which is running as I type. This time, I'll try some other option when it asks me where to put grub (maybe you can suggest something), and since I have an image of the tweaked but pre-upgrade version of the os, I can jump back to where I was.
All in all, if I can get the update done properly, I will pray that mint debian does not freeze, and, I hope, be done with distro-shopping for a long while.
It froze the pc one or more times a day.
I gave up and tried mint debian. Installed easily and worked well until I updated it with the 1300 or so packages. The last thing I was asked about was where to install grub. I picked sda1 because it sounded nice. I guess that was a mistake because I could not reboot - could not find a partition or some such message.
So I tried to install the real debian but it did not install. Then I tried Suse, which installed nicely and looked and acted very professional. The only problem was, it did not have programs I have gotten used to like Motion, and it did not play .mp4 or .mkv files, and I could not find the repositories that had the drivers that would allow them to be played.
So I tried ubuntu 12.04 which installed nicely and did not freeze within 24 hours of use. But I could not abide that stupid panel along the left side of the screen and the fact that I could not even create a launcher on the desktop. Apparently there is some complex way of doing it, but I am pretty much a civilian and want things to just work.
So I went back to mint debian, re-installed it and had it tweaked to my liking in 10 minutes. I backed up an image of it just in case, and then started the 1300-package upgrade which is running as I type. This time, I'll try some other option when it asks me where to put grub (maybe you can suggest something), and since I have an image of the tweaked but pre-upgrade version of the os, I can jump back to where I was.
All in all, if I can get the update done properly, I will pray that mint debian does not freeze, and, I hope, be done with distro-shopping for a long while.