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Please vote in the poll, so that we can see how the adoption of Mint 18 is progressing!
I myself have voted "Mint 18". I love this fine new Mint! It's full of useful innovations and improvements. In my experience, Mint 18 is quite stable and reliable.
Of course there are still a few rough edges.... But on the vast majority of hardware combinations those aren't grave (no showstopper bugs) and they're being smoothed out with proper speed by the developers.
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As I could not select 2 options, here in words:
+ Mint 17.2 xfce 32-bit
+ Mint 17.1 Cinnamon & xfce 32-bit
+ Mint 13 Cinnamon 64-bit
+ Mint 13 xfce 32-bit
Mint 13 has been my "workhorse" for the past 4 years. I won't let it go any earlier than I have to. For the past few months I simply did not really have the time and did not really feel like fiddling around with a new OS release. So at the moment, it is old releases on old hardware here and no fixed plan of changing this any time soon.
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No! I am not using Mint 18 - but I'm screaming to do it!!
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I need Mint KDE 18 for the Plasma 5 APIs but the KDE edition has not been released in stable yet.
I can't test the Beta because I am down to one working laptop and am extremely busy - though it seems to be settling down a bit.
I have to wait until the long drawn out and slightly risky restoration of my olde atom netbook before I can hope to try out Mint 18 - and then there will have to be a careful shakedown of both the laptop and Mint 18 to ensure both will stand up under pressure.
I think there's room for a few more polls... or maybe a more detailed one. For example; "Are people using Mate or Cinnamon or XFCE?" and "Did they upgrade or do a fresh install
It might be useful, as I've been using Mate since the Beta of 18... both 64 and 32 bit, but I've seen quite a few problems with Cinnamon 18 (that I didn't have with 17.3). Aslo, I did a fresh install - it seems those upgrading have had more problems.
I'm multi-booting Mint 18 Xfce, 17.3 KDE and Mint 18 KDE Beta alongside Windows 10. I have an allocated free space for the upcoming 18 KDE official release.
I've been spending a lot of time with the KDE Beta and so far I've been able to run my apps normally. That's all that matters. There are glitches here and there, but they're tolerable. In the end I only need one and will probably retire my friend Mint 17.3 KDE eventually to keep up with the times.
I'm still using 17.3 Cinnamon as my daily driver, but I selected 18 because I have installed it on computers for 3 or 4 friends, plus I have it running in VirtualBox.
“If the government were coming for your TVs and cars, then you'd be upset. But, as it is, they're only coming for your sons.” - Daniel Berrigan
I'm running 17.3 Xfce on 2 machines and I don't plan on upgrading until EOL. There aren't any hardware support issues that 18 would solve and 18 still uses Xfce 4.12 AFAIK.
Actually hardware support issues or my release going EOL are about the only reason I'll upgrade the release nowadays unless there's a nice DE update too.
For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong - H. L. Mencken
I am running LM18 but am considering rolling back to 17.3.
With LM18 I have issues with my wifi I never had under 17.* and for the life of me I cannot get Photoshop CS2 to install under wine when that same operation went smooth as silk on 17.*.
Running LM17.3 Cinnamon 64bit on a Dell Inspiron 1525. It's been running very stable since it was installed.
Attempted an LM18 64bit Cinnamon live session;
1) Driver Manager was complaining about a Intel microcode update.
2) System Log file appeared to be logging an excess amount errors.
3) Fan on laptop was not operating.
Attempted an LM18 64bit Xfce live session; (About the same results.)
1) Driver Manager was complaining about a Intel microcode update.
2) Didn't appear to be a System Log. Not sure what was going on.
3) Fan on laptop was not operating.
I'll stay with 17.3 until 18.1 of either Cinnamon or Xfce is released and try again.
I agree with Clem, "If it's not broke, don't fix it."
InkKnife wrote:I am running LM18 but am considering rolling back to 17.3.
With LM18 I have issues with my wifi I never had under 17.* and for the life of me I cannot get Photoshop CS2 to install under wine when that same operation went smooth as silk on 17.*.
I'm running CS2 without any problems on MInt Mate 18, but I cheated a bit I use Playonlinux to install it on Mint 17... I then use the Playonlinux Vault to save the virtual drive. So for Mint 18, I just install Playonlinux and restore the CS2 virtual drive using the Vault again. I did the same for Ubuntu 16.04 Mate... and other Distros that I play around with.
InkKnife wrote:I am running LM18 but am considering rolling back to 17.3.
With LM18 I have issues with my wifi I never had under 17.* and for the life of me I cannot get Photoshop CS2 to install under wine when that same operation went smooth as silk on 17.*.
I'm running CS2 without any problems on MInt Mate 18, but I cheated a bit I use Playonlinux to install it on Mint 17... I then use the Playonlinux Vault to save the virtual drive. So for Mint 18, I just install Playonlinux and restore the CS2 virtual drive using the Vault again. I did the same for Ubuntu 16.04 Mate... and other Distros that I play around with.
Do you use the version of Playonlinux from the repo or use a PPA?
Being only 10 months using Linux (Mint Cinnamon 17.2), I intend to keep and learn about the one I've got for awhile before 'branching out per se'.
17.2 works well with my Dell Inspiron2350, HDMI to TV works, even the touch screen works -to a point. The only issue I've had is the frequent dropping of the wifi which I noticed 17.3 and 18 have too. Instead of bothering with the wifi issue, I just ran a 25ft Ethernet cable directly from the router to the computer -lucky for me I live on 1 level.
Oddly though, now the computer is connected via Ethernet, the HP printer is still connected wirelessly and it just works and never stops- yet connection via wifi only caused such misery -go figure.
After extensive testing I am using LM 18 full time. LM 17.3 is still installed just in case.
Yes, there were a few issues to be solved and that is almost complete. All that remains are for maintainers of programs that worked well in LM 17.3 to make the necessary adjustments so that they will function equally as well in LM 18. All I have to do is to exercise a little patience.
Linux Mint 18 is definitely my preferred Linux operating system.
@ xdicey - If you are experiencing wi-fi problems, create a post and ask for help. A 25 feet wired connection is not a solution.
I'm on KDE Mint 18 beta (64 bit) with my Asus 1015E netbook.
The only hiccup is when I plug in/un plug a device (like a mouse, external drive) when the session has been suspended and not yet fully restored.
It seems that the notifier message gets confused. It might come back after a while, but since I have an SSD, it much quicker to cycle the power.
-Hinto
Hi pjotr--I have 18 Mate on an 'experimental' machine for testing. The main incompatibility for me is that Synergy package in Mint 18 is not retro compatible with 17.x Synergy packages. So I am keeping my network at 17.3 for now--but I may upgrade all the systems to 18 in the future.
Everything in life was difficult before it became easy.
I use Playonlinux to install it on Mint 17... I then use the Playonlinux Vault to save the virtual drive. So for Mint 18, I just install Playonlinux and restore the CS2 virtual drive using the Vault again. I did the same for Ubuntu 16.04 Mate... and other Distros that I play around with.
