[DISCUSSION] Linux Mint

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It seems that kernel 4.4 doesn't play well with my ATi video card. I decided to not bother. I'm pretty sure Linux Mint 18 Sarah will have it. 4 months of waiting...

 

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Wonderful. Didn't we just spend 4 months waiting out the jump from 17.2 to 17.3?

(I know, it's not exactly the same thing. But it makes us look like like the M$ Windows crowd: It just doesn't matter what is available today, got to have the 'next' build/release, knowing full well they "can't get no - satisfaction" from that either).

 

Type in terminal opened in that folder:

Code:

sudo dpkg -i *.deb

then

Code:

sudo update grub

then reboot

 

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Well...I'm not into "I must have the latest and the greatest". I was interested in 4.4 because of its improvements. 3.19 does its work pretty well. I'm not a gamer anymore, but just for the sake of it I wanted to see if 4.4 is better than 3.19.
I also heard that clem (linux mint main developer) will add Plasma 5 (Windows 8 "flat look") to Linux Mint 18 Sarah. If that's going to be the case, then I'll stay on 17.3...forever.
Or somebody will keep updating KDE 4.x by forking it, as they did with KDE 3.x which has been forked to TDE (Trinity Desktop Environment). At first glance, I was pissed at KDE 4.x the way it worked, but lucky me, I wasn't coming from KDE 3.x, so it wasn't a huge learning curve.

 

Kernel 4.4.1 successfully installed on Mint without problem, all run fine :

Download :

Code:

$ wget kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.4.1-wily/linux-headers-4.4.1-040401_4.4.1-040401.201601311534_all.deb
$ wget kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.4.1-wily/linux-headers-4.4.1-040401-generic_4.4.1-040401.201601311534_amd64.deb
$ wget kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.4.1-wily/linux-image-4.4.1-040401-generic_4.4.1-040401.201601311534_amd64.deb

Install

Code:

$ sudo dpkg -i linux-headers-4.4.1*.deb linux-image-4.4.1*.deb

Reboot

Code:

sudo reboot

Uninstall in case of problems

Code:

sudo apt-get remove 'linux-headers-4.4.1*' 'linux-image-4.4.1*'

windsman.

 

Just to throw it in, I've been reading Linux Mint 18 Sarah will have systemd and that quite a few folk ain't too happy about it.

One poster going as far as labeling it flat out malware! and many saying Linux Mint 17 will be the last version they'll be using.

I'm a noob to Linux, so what do I know? But there appears to be quite a few folk who seem to know their stuff saying really bad things about systemd ...

 

@ausernamenoonehas: 17.3 Rosa is based on 14.04 LTS, which is supported until 2019.
I'm fine with that. Windows 7 SP1 extended support will last until 2020, also. After that, I'll switch to another linux distro that will comply to my own standard, unless Linux Mint developers will keep this distro systemd-free and geoclue-free.

 

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I installed the 4.4.0 kernel on my Mint 17.3, which was running 3.1.9. One thing I notice is that neither VMWare Workstation nor Oracle's Virtualbox will install. I didn't record the exact error message, but it's along the lines of a generic "this program not designed for this platform". No damage, they just refuse to be installed. At least it's easy to select a kernel at boot or change the default. If anyone can get these programs to install, I'd love to hear how it was accomplished.

 

VMWare needs the GCC-5.21 compiler installed.

 

dkms is the issue, it becomes an issue when a new kernel is released without full support. Linux can become a dependency hell if you aren't careful with the kernels you use.

 

Did you use Mint Updater to install kernel 4.4?

 

I also had an error from 17.3 while trying to install 4.4.1. I also have AMD video so that may also be the issue. I am still using 3.19 with proprietary AMD drivers from the driver manager. Linux doesn't seem to like my video card with their open source drivers.