At the minute I'm currently using 17.3 LM Cinnamon . Do you think I need to upgrade. I'm running it on all my machines and I'll be perfectly honestly I simply CBA too go around every machine upgrading the OS. So I'm thinking do I need to upgrade at all. No way I'm distro hopping just too keep up too date with the absolute latest when LM is supported for a number of years after its release. But then again I'm not sure if I should upgrade to the likes of 18.2 stable even.
How many of you gyes are running an older version of LM and its working fine for you.
A question about LM Distros.
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A question about LM Distros.
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Re: A question about LM Distros.
You have until April 2019 to decide what to do as per the support schedule.
Re: A question about LM Distros.
I have 6 machines running LM17.3, I also have 2 running 18, 2 running 18.1, 5 running 18.2, and 1 running 18.3. All cinnamon. Mostly 64, with 4 32 bit. All are running fine.
Re: A question about LM Distros.
I'm still running 17.3 on all my computers, but whenever I do an install for a friend I install 18.x. I will upgrade before 17.x is out of support, but I'm in no rush.
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Re: A question about LM Distros.
I run every version of Mint with Cinnamon, which is still supported in a number of test systems, but none beats 17.3, which is and will stay as my production system. Newest can also mean newest bugs and regressions; why should one hunt for them?
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Re: A question about LM Distros.
I'm running 18.3 Sylvia on all of my machines, including the production machines. All are running very well.
As always with the .3 edition of a Mint series, almost all annoying usability bugs have been eliminated. Both in the Mint-only packages and in the underlying Ubuntu 16.04 LTS codebase.
Furthermore, there are important new innovations in 18.3. Of which the exciting Flatpak infrastructure is, in my opinion, the most important.
In short: you should definitely consider an upgrade. Why miss out on the beautiful new goodies?
As you're currently running a Mint from the 17 series, this can best be done by means of a clean installation of 18.3 ("dirty" upgrading is only commendable within a series).
As always with the .3 edition of a Mint series, almost all annoying usability bugs have been eliminated. Both in the Mint-only packages and in the underlying Ubuntu 16.04 LTS codebase.
Furthermore, there are important new innovations in 18.3. Of which the exciting Flatpak infrastructure is, in my opinion, the most important.
In short: you should definitely consider an upgrade. Why miss out on the beautiful new goodies?
As you're currently running a Mint from the 17 series, this can best be done by means of a clean installation of 18.3 ("dirty" upgrading is only commendable within a series).
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Re: A question about LM Distros.
The video card is the real deal breaker. For intel and nvidia, 18.X is great. For AMD, stickies will explain which generation best fits the hardware. I got 17.3 on my media center pc because of AMD, and 18.1 on desktop and netbook.
Re: A question about LM Distros.
I also discovered a massively improved Bluetooth functionality when I upgraded from 18.0 to 18.2. Not sure if this was also the case with 18.1.Citizen229 wrote:The video card is the real deal breaker.
Re: A question about LM Distros.
Mint 17.x is supported up to April 2019, so no, you don't "have to" upgrade if you don't want to.