Linux Mint 17.3 is out

I am glad to see that Clem and company have recovered from the server failure and the linuxmint.com web site is back up. Just to be sure, I checked the hashes posted there with the files I downloaded previously from heanet.ie and they matched.

Now comes the hard part, waiting for the Update Manager to announce in-place upgrades are available. It would be so tempting to clean install now that I have the .iso files, but I'll try to control myself.

 

Rosa is a naughty girl...she's not into KDE, yet. I'm still dating Rafaela, but Rosa would like a "one night stand"...Tough decision.

 

It's allmost x-mas, time for some delicious cinnamon flavour.

 

Linux kooks need lots of humanizing help. Like, for example, they need to be taught that just because it says "mint" in the title, EVERYTHING doesn't have to be ugly, minty, yucky, disgusting green, nor does the introduction of "flavor" do anything at all for promoting the use of Linux to anyone. Green is ugly, and mint tastes like s**t, and no one eats their operating system. It's just like these retards that figure if food is good, and sex is good, then (the retard figures) "Let's smear peanut butter all over our genitalia and...."

It's disgusting, but the food-mixing retard does not know it. Simple minded. Durh. "mint" + "linux" = green operating system. Every time I boot this POS up, I'm tempted to smear peanut butter all over my junk, take a picture and then post it on Linux Mint Forums and let them wonder WTF I did it, and why.

The "LM" logo is ugly. Most of the icons and graphics of Linus is ugly, and crude. I don't understand why they're still using EGA graphics. Every time I boot this POS up, I feel like I'm about to play "Asteroids". The old-school version, in black and white.

Here's a hint for you Linux crack pots. Green for "good", "go" and "yes" and Red for "bad", "stop" and "no". Why the "Okay/Cancel" windows are always two-tone monochrome and made out of cardboard with lumpy crayon writing on them is beyond me. And what's with this retarded "Sudo" script stuff. Here's a clue, numb-nuts. If pasting "sudo ibangedyourmom" and then pasting "sudo butshedidntlikeit" and then "sudo pornisgood" is all one has to do in order to accomplish "the goal" (whatever the goal is, it doesn't matter), then having a little file/icon that says "Do Something" on it that automatically launches those "Terminal Commands" could easily be done. By you. And by "you", I mean you neurotic whack-jobs that seem to REALLY get off on making things 10 times more complicated than they need to be. My pet theory is that you are all sociallly inept and delibarately make Linux WAY more complicated than it needs to be, so that you can then hand out your (retarded and simple-minded) advice online and everyone thinks you are smart, and wonderful. I don't think you people are smart, or wonderful. Copy, paste, copy, paset, copy, paste, copy paste, big f**king deal. All that to accomplish something that would have went like this in Windows: Point (mouse) and double-click. Done. Monkey see, monkey do, linidiots. It's already been done before; all you have to do is copy windows and everything will be good.

And another thing. Stop calling them "flavors". That's retarded. And "Distro" is a stupid word too. In fact, ALL these stupid LInux-y words are stupid. "Linux" is even stupid. Seriously, Charlie Brown, Linus was a lame and boring character and adding an "x" to the end of his name and calling him an Operating System is not going to make Linus anything more than what he was, which was a boring and minor character in a boring childhood cartoon. But even beyond that. Why all these STUPID names? "WINE"? That's stupid too. Wine is this nasty liquid made out of rotten grapes. It's expensive, tastes terribly and if you drink too much of it you puke your intestines into the kitchen sink at 3:00 in the morning. I don't need to think about puking my nasty-tasting guts out just to run "Mavis Beacon Typewriting Program" on your stupid Charlie Brown spin-off operating system filled with goofy, oddbally, hard-to-remember names that have to do with food, but no basic color-coding to give a hint. Absolutely no concern for the normal Users; no wonder Monopoly is an international Microsoft, er- I mean the other way around; it's only because Linux coders and users are neurotic nut-jobs with no real connection to humanity.

 

Now tell us what you really think.

 

So...much...anger.
I dislike the grey, but I use KDE 4.x and it gives me the option to change that grey to another color.
Wine is a very tasty liquid even though is made from fermented grapes. And it's healthy, too. Moderation is the key, thus you don't have to drink a gallon of it. One or two glasses before meals is more than enough.

 

I also dislike Mint, I don't like the colour scheme, negotiating the menus is a pain in all its incarnations but it's still an excellent branch of Ubuntu, very popular and very stable. Its not for me but I can see why its so popular, long may it continue.

 

Every user likes a DE...there must be one out there that you like.

 

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?

 

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.