So I just bought a Samsung Series 7 chronos laptop today, and I put Linux Mint on it immediately. I was following the recommendations here:
http://openideals.org/2012/04/15/tuning ... -7-laptop/ which say to install a proprietary video driver and to install samsung-tools and samsung-laptop from a personal repository using the following code:
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$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:voria/ppa
$ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
$ sudo apt-get install samsung-tools
$ sudo apt-get install samsung-laptop
$ sudo reboot
The first time I did that, it messed up a bunch of stuff from doing apt-get upgrade. Based on the googling i did, I needed to re-install the OS so that's what i did. The second time i was more careful. First I did apt-get update, then I added the repo, then I did update again. I skipped the upgrade and then installed the two programs and rebooted. When it came back, my nice UI was gone and replaced with a traditional ubuntu one. How can I get the nice one back? The problem is mostly the start menu. Screenshot is here:
http://i.imgur.com/qMs0W.png
I want to know how to fix the menu, but also why update and upgrade is causing so many problems. I plan to use this as my main OS but if I cant do apt-get update without causing an issue, then maybe i need to move back to ubuntu. Can you guys help me fix the problem and explain what I need to do in the future for this not to happen?