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(on Wikipedia)
https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=mint
https://linuxmint.com/ ^[ 1 ] was https://www.linuxmint.de/

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• 2021-02-16 - linuxmint-20.1-xfce-64bit on my Dell Inspiron 11 3180 via ventoy-1.0.35 LiveUSB with persistence.

2021-02-16 - linuxmint-20.1-xfce-64bit ∞

• The graphics are corrupted into blocks.

  • It does not look like this.
  • The screen is briefly corrected when I control-alt-f2 to get to a console. Then when I alt-f7 it looks okay, but only for a moment.
  • Booting into compatibility mode works.

• The user is mint and no password is prompted-for.

While compatibility mode fixed the graphics, the touchpad does not work. Lubuntu's solution did not help. Fail.

2013-12-06 - linuxmint-16-cinnamon-dvd-32bit ∞

• distrowatch said it supports Btrfs, but I didn't see that on the livecd. Sigh.

• exhibited the same fucking installer resize-partition bug as lubuntu.

  • It turns out this was a dumbass issue with DVI. There is a simple config change to fix this, but I just switched back to HDMI for better quality video.

2013-12-06 - linuxmint-16-cinnamon-dvd-64bit ∞

How to install Linux Mint via USB

# oflag is to avoid caching
filename=linuxmint-16-cinnamon-dvd-64bit.iso
\sudo  \dd  if=./$filename  of=/dev/mmcblk1  oflag=direct  bs=32MB

• Write directly to the stick, not a partition
• There will be remaining space, gparted/etc can be used to create another partition with it!
• This was not possible for me with cfdisk
• UNetbootin would be used if you want to have persistent data
• I had to use nomodeset to boot
• Ugly textmode font, but better than Lubuntu

• Not using the full screen space

  • I think this was a DVI issue. I never tested switching to HDMI.
• Shitty resolution
• Tried the liveusb driver selection which showed proprietary drivers as an option and it did go hires when i logeed out
• The login screen is insane.. has a timer to autologin that when interacted-with

• Doesn't give an option to just log in now, but resets it to a 30-second timer which never counts down. now nothing is interactive and i cannot log in

~2011-07-27 - Linux Mint Debian Edition ∞

(Xfce version)

Part of my 2011-08-12 Linux testing nightmare

Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE)

• The installation mucked up my ability to boot back into Unity Linux.

• The package management is horrific.

Why this and not the regular Linux Mint? I don't want something based on Ubuntu.

• there's no .md5 to check the iso download with.

• I was able to check my 'DVD', even though I had everything running from a USB stick. I'm not sure if that check actually worked or not, because I left my computer and returned to see the live desktop.
• really nice clean window manager
• Has a listing for my Dell SK8135 keyboard
• I can choose to not install the bootloader! (GRUB)
• Unfortunately when I did install their bootloader, it fucked over my ability to boot back into my working Unity Linux install. It's a good thing I learned how to back up my boot record.

• I didn't know how to get 32bit/Wine working.

  • (Later exploration did help me out a lot.)
• The firewall isn't enabled by default. Duh.
• 600 MBs of updates? Wow.

• I had a permissions issue on ~ from Unity Linux's change to use a user id of 500 instead of the previous and more common 1000. Bleh. I figured out how to fix that though:

username=user
userid=1000
groupname=user
groupid=1000

\usermod  -u $userid  $username
\groupmod -g $groupid $groupname

• scrolling shouldn't switch to the window
• the taskbar doesn't have any options, I want to show boxes around every task.
• ugh, my local firefox is 32bit, and I installed a 64bit system. boo.
• remembers open programs and re-opens them. eww
• doesn't turn numlock on by default

• No eSATA support!? I can't use my scsiadd tools to detect my device. Perhaps if it was on when I booted into Mint.

https://wiki.winehq.org/Recommended_Packages#head-a17f30175497e3c24b87cf7cee667664c0e7536f

https://archive.today/wAhiR

Following the Debian Testing instructions.

\su
\apt-get install \
  ia32-libs \
  libc6-dev-i386 \
  lib32z1-dev \
  ` # This has the /usr/lib32/libpng.so, which seems to be required when installing TTF fonts ` \
  ia32-libs-dev \
  ` # `

# Optional dependencies, which I haven't installed:
# libxcursor-dev libfontconfig1-dev libldap2-dev libxslt-dev libgl1-mesa-dev libglu1-xorg-dev libgnutls-dev libxi-dev lib32ncurses5-dev libxrandr-dev libxxf86vm-dev 

# This is required as of 2008/05/20 to prevent Wine warning that HAL cannot be found. See https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=473586 
\cd /usr/lib32
\ln -s libdbus-1.so.3 libdbus-1.so  
\cd -

At first I was trying to install via Synaptic, but apparently Wine is here:

linuxmint.com/software/?sec=item&id=170&release=2
linuxmint.com/software/files/4x/wine.mint

The software manager pops up a confirmation, then it just sits and spins.. it's there, but isn't accessible with alt-tab and doesn't appear in the taskbar. Wth.

.. rebooted and retried. the dialog eventually goes away, but nothing got installed.

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I think these notes go with LMDE:

• Limited space on my root partition, and so I figured I could upgrade slowly and delete the downloaded packages as I go. I could uninstall useless stuff:
• GIMP
• Printer stuff

• old Firefox, Thunderbird

  • Ancient Firefox version. This release desperately needs a refresh to avoid all the downloading to update all the software.
• replace the window manager?
• locales / zoneinfo?
• man pages?
• themes
• sources, e.g. kernel headers
• 'Localizing Firefox and Thunderbird' takes fucking forever!
• thin/ugly raw console font
• update manager has no facility to be selective about updates. It's unreasonable to have to check/un-check everything individually with no fucking 'uncheck all'. Seriously, this makes the distribution worthless.

• Software manager is shit. I have to re-authenticate for every action!

Seeing as the package management is shit, I moved on..

2009-04-17 - XFCE-6 - in VirtualBox 2.2.0 r45846 ∞

• The LiveCD boots up fine.

• The installation took forever.

Installing VirtualBox guest additions on Linux Mint

1. (Open a terminal)
2. sudo su root
3. (enter your user password)
4. cd /media/cdrom0

5. ./autorun.sh

• Really impressed with the VirtualBox auto-resizing. Wow.
• All the fonts seem really small.

• Can't alt-click-x to do things like -left=drag or -right=resize

All in all, not bad. The font thing pisses me off, maybe it's fixable.

On to the next distribution!

2009-04-17 - XFCE-6 ∞

• The auto-bootup should mention pressing escape or enter to get the menu.
• Very nice boot commandline editor.. I was expecting this kind of editing a long time ago.  Good for advanced users, but bad for newbies who ought to have the semi-menu options for acpi and such.
• The animated bar on startup is a new thing to me.  Nice.
• I can't press escape to get a text bootup?  Boo.  Oh, it just took a long while.
• I got a bunch of buffer IO error on device sr0 and other such messages.  I assumed the media was bad.
• I checked the downloaded md5 vs the ISO and vs the burned CD.  Everything downloaded and burned just fine.

Last updated 2021-02-16 at 10:02:10