[DISCUSSION] Linux Mint

I really like Elementary, its very user friendly and no bloat. Mint is full of stuff I don't want or need and I just don't like it, but they are both built on Ubuntu which is pretty solid and has plenty of help and support out there.

 

I'm using Mint because of the green color scheme, tastes are just different. Discussing the style of something is kinda senseless, I love metal music, someone else hates it. What to discuss there?

 

I must say i am pretty pleased with 17.3, better than all other 17.x releases

 

Me too, 17.3 runs pretty smoothly. No big differences compared to 17.2, but I like the new features like the preview windows inside the taskbar. I never used other menus, so I don't care about cinnamon 2.8x incompatibilities.

 

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I just upgraded from Linux Mint 17.2 'Rafaela' Cinnamon 64-bit to Linux Mint 17.3 'Rosa' Cinnamon 64-bit.
It took about 10-minutes to download and run the upgrade on my Dell Optiplex 790 desktop (i7 2600 - 16gb ram).

Two obvious changes. The default wallpaper now says "Linux Mint 17.3: and LibreOffice is now version 5.

The upgrade notice is in the Update Manager, but not in an obvious place. I found it by reading a comment and following the update instructions on the Linux Mint forums website.

Here is the comment that helped me to find the upgrade in the Update Manager and upgrade from 17.2 to 17.3:

QUESTION-"I see today on my RSS Feed than 17.3 was available, however my update manager does not show me the upgrade in the edit menu."

ANSWER-"Open the Update Manager, click on Refresh; this should give you an update (mint-upgrade-info). After applying the update you find the upgrade-option in the Edit menu of the Update Manager." It will be the 3rd selection down on the Edit menu.

 

Update Manager -> Refresh does nothing for me. All I get is Your system is up to date

EDIT: To fix this I changed Software Source and it updated fine.

17.3 installed

 

I read somewhere on the Linux Mint forums that some software sources haven't received the update yet. Must be working its way around slowly.

 

A quick question - Conky says "Linux Mint 17.3 Rosa - Linux 3.16.0-38-generic" Is that correct for this update, because I think 3.16.0-38 hasn't changed?

 

I don't know what the generic kernel is for 17.3, I was playing around with 17.2 and upgraded my kernel to 4.2.0-18 a few weeks ago and that carried through to 17.3. Used the Update Manager, View Linux Kernels to do that earlier kernel update.

 

3.19.0-32 is the default Mint 17.3 Kernel.

 

Tried kernel 4.3.1 but NVIDIA has no working driver for it yet, rolled back to 4.3.0 which work great too

 

I'm more of a casual user so haven't developed a preference for distribution but have always had better experience with Linux Mint. First time I tried Linux Mint was due to Ubuntu sound not working with audio process that was hung up and pegged out. That was a little while back. Yesterday, I went through downloading the latest of Ubuntu, Kubuntu but noticed only Linux Mint was able to play YouTube above 320p. Also, Cinnamon desktop manager is surprisingly light with the OS taking <400MB while Ubuntu was <800MB. There's one more I downloaded, SolydK, that's suppose to be pretty good but didn't get around to trying it.

 

Just updated the kernel to 3.19.0-32

Question: With the display windows thingy from the taskbar, mine displays the different windows fine, but I can't click any of them to swap between?

 

i guess i was lucky.. i upgraded too.. found the upgrade somewhere in upgrade manager, thought i would take the gamble. took 40mins, in all. no problems at all. it bloated a little about mirrors, and powermanagement, but everything works.. it it even seems to work a little faster, but i have no way to measure that..very nice that that they offer a simple download for the upgrade.

 

I haven't touched my other machine, but I'm sure it's waiting for Me. I'll upgrade when I get a chance. Others here seem to be having positive results.

 

that persuaded me too.. although i was happy with rebecca.

 

Well, I too gave in and upgraded...running on kernel 4.3 - Configurable menu is just about usable ( config has to be done manually - right-click will freeze Cinnamon) - all other applets seem to work fine tho'.

 

One new feature in 17.3 'Rosa' in the Update Manager is a speed test of software repositories to find the fastest ones near your location.

To take advantage of this feature click:

Update Manager, Edit, Software Sources,

Double-Click on the current listed URL's on "Mirrors, Main (rosa)" and "Base (trusty)" to run a speed test for multiple servers on each.

A speed test will be run on each one with the fastest Mirror sorted to the top, with its speed in Kb/s listed. It might take a minute or two for the speed test to complete. Click on the fastest one to select it as your default Main and Base software repository servers.

I found a couple of local repository servers that run at least twice as fast as the previous default ones.

 

Configurable menu ??? can you please post the steps so i can try this on my lappy ?