{"id":119,"date":"2011-12-10T22:08:14","date_gmt":"2011-12-11T01:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.pelleys.com\/?p=119"},"modified":"2011-12-10T22:08:14","modified_gmt":"2011-12-11T01:38:14","slug":"linux-mint-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.pelleys.com\/?p=119","title":{"rendered":"Linux Mint 12"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>After running Linux Mint 11 for about four or five months, Mint 12 has come out following Mint’s usual release cycle of six months.\u00a0 As I posted previously, I moved from Ubuntu after they moved to Gnome’s Unity with Oneiric (11.10).\u00a0 Suffice to say, I seriously dislike Unity – even on my old Dell Mini 10V netbook.<\/p>\n

One of the guys at work mentioned that he was using Linux Mint 11 (Katya) and that since I like Ubuntu I should give Mint a try.\u00a0 I did and I like it.<\/p>\n

Since I get bored with sticking with one version I have to update when the new version comes out.\u00a0 Hence, my upgrade to Lisa.\u00a0 I am quite intrigued with Gnome 3.\u00a0 I sort-of miss being able to add and\/or configure the<\/p>\n

It was a little different from Ubuntu where you just do a “upgrade distribution” but that being said, doing a clean upgrade does have something to be said about it.\u00a0 I always perform a clean upgrade with Microsoft Windows between versions.\u00a0 Not that Linux is anything like Windows!\u00a0 \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

So far, I really like the interface.\u00a0 Gnome 3 (without Unity – I could go on about the love-in<\/em> that seems to have developed for Apple Mac OS X and the homage<\/em> some developers are having – but I digress…) is rather interesting.\u00a0 I sort-of miss not being able to customize the panels or add a new panel but not all that much.\u00a0 The install went well – it even found my Dell XPS 15 (L501X) wireless card without having to resort to a wired connection and then downloading the updates to get the WiFi to work.\u00a0 I always found that a pain in the butt.<\/p>\n

[Another aside: Why are we still getting the<\/p>\n

vesamenu.c32: Not a COM32R image<\/pre>\n
error when creating a bootable USB memory stick?\u00a0 I have to search on how to fix it just about every time…\u00a0 It really bugs me…]<\/p>\n
The only got-ya I have found so far is that the Totem Coherence UPNP is broken (see here<\/a>) and there does not seem to be very many Google posts about it.\u00a0 [Yet another aside: for some reason VLC Player broke a couple of versions ago (hence my move to Totem Coherence…) whereby it would find my Synology DLNA NAS (a REALLY nice box – so nice I want to buy a bigger one!) but I couldn’t actually get any media.]<\/p>\n
If you are interested in another Linux distribution, give Mint a try.\u00a0 Mint also has a LiveCD version as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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