Mint7 vs MintW8: just reporting

[capricornus]

I just decided to give Mint8 another chance. Trying to avoid GRUBby annoyances, I tried to install it on a usb-disk. All went fine until it found out on which partition Mint7 was to be found, it wanted that partition unmounted, so I did, and then it screwed with files on that partition. And one second later, the installation froze. I retried for 4 times, and every time the same things happened. I decided to quit and W8.
I restarted without the usb-disk, tried to boot with Mint7, and whoops, nothing happened, necessary files where removed so it said. O funny !!! The best and most stable OS I ever enjoyed was gone.
imagine how I felt that afternoon ;-(
Mint8: an F for starters.

The next weekend - because I was really pi**off for a few days, I decided to first install Mint8 and thén Mint7 again, after having repartitioned the on board SATA-disk. Everything went well, and I could undo the GRUBby 1.97 RC2 or whatever the unfinished job is called.
First things first: Mint8: NVIDIA drivers (v. 185.18.36) were installed, and I tried to define dual wide screen setting in root: no, "failed to parse existing file /etc/X11/xorg.conf.
Next: Mint7: NVIDIA drivers (v.180.44) were installed, and in root, everything went fine, I was able to save the setting, and so it remains every time I boot.
Explanation?
Status: Mint7 - Mint8 : 1 - 0
Today, I tried again, in order to complete the exact same installation in both OS'es. The NVIDIA-thing happened again.

Next, I have a Powerline LAN, with a Synology NAS, and a older Brother-1430 connected to the NAS by usb.
Under Mint7, both work flawlessly and swift.
Under Mint8, I was unpleasantly surprised by the slow response in addressing both devices, and the time it took to print a test page. Unbelievable: a fast booter but a slow printer?
Status: Mint7 - Mint8: 2 - 0

Next, in Mint8, I used Synaptic to install classic stuff: Filezilla, VLC, streamtuner, streamripper. And without any known cause, Synaptic CRASHED. believe me, as a tester of everything DistroWatch offers, I have NEVER seen Synaptic crashing.
Status: Mint7 - Mint8: 3 - 0

I've had enough for one day, and I just report these things. Clem knows how to handle information. For another admin: this is NOT badmouthing

I will continue to enormously enjoy Mint7 as a perfect and stable work-horse, and Mint8, I will further test it, but it is - for the moment - no candidate to replace Mint7 on the other pc's in this house, and I will not, never and nowhere advocate Mint8 for now: it remains MintW8, Mint-Waite.

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Interesting...
I haven't run into any of your problems that seem to be core Ubuntu rather than Mint 8.
I've been running Karmic (since alpha2) with Mint Tools from Mint 7.
-H

[nukm]

@capricornus -

Great report. I feel much better now after the smoke I got when I hit the wrong key whilst installing ARCH at 3 AM this morning. I didn't really need that partition anyway!

The bi-annual release schedule is insane. And, one notes, Mint is "core Ubuntu". Lenny, by the way, just sits there and hums - doing its thing quite peaceably.

So, when the flak comes - remember I have thanked you for your report. I also note that Ubuntu latest has a somewhat schizoid success - some say "great" while others declare it "broken". No unanimity there.