Subj : Switching to MINT
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : Nightfox
Date : Wed Oct 31 2018 16:55:32

  Re: Switching to MINT
  By: poindexter FORTRAN to All on Wed Oct 31 2018 03:38 pm

 PF> On a lark, I threw MINT 19 on it, and I'm impressed. Google Drive support,
 PF> better eye candy, a search tool in the start menu, and it's not taking
 PF> much more memory than LXDE.

 PF> The backup tool looks pretty cool, I'm going tosee about setting up a
 PF> backup to my web host.

 PF> Apparently 19.1 is coming out my Christmas, we'll see what's changed. By
 PF> then, I'll have an ultrabay SATA drive, which'll make backing up and
 PF> restoring faster.

I like Linux Mint overall.  I'm running Linux Mint on my secondary PC, which
runs a couple servers and runs my BBS in a Win7 VM.  Currently it has 18.3 (I
believe) on it.  I haven't upgraded to 19 as I've heard the upgrade process to
19.x doesn't seem to work very well.  I may re-install a fresh copy of Mint on
that machine eventually, since I upgraded to a larger hard drive a while ago
and the only way I could make use of all the space was to add another
partition, due to it using a MBR partition table.  From what I've heard,
updating to a GPT partition table would be better for a larger drive, and it
sounds like the drive would need to be reformatted for that.

Nightfox

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