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Re: Calling all Penguins!

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UK_Eliter wrote:
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I've had distribution upgrades go really well, and I've also had them go horribly wrong - so be careful ;).
Aha. On Mint, though, please?
Not tried Mint I don't think - I think I've only done it with Ubuntu. Going from 11.10 to 12.04 and then from 12.10 to 13.04 (which is the one that went horribly wrong ;)).
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UK_Eliter wrote:
CommRLock78 wrote:
I've had distribution upgrades go really well, and I've also had them go horribly wrong - so be careful ;).
Aha. On Mint, though, please?
Sorry about that UK_Eliter - I managed to miss your question here. In answer though, I haven't ever tried a distribution upgrade on Mint. You might set up a virtual machine and try doing it on the VM to see how it goes.
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Re: Calling all Penguins!

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Thanks, CommRLock78, for the reply and for the advice. However, I am hesitant about taking the advice. That's because it seems involved - at least for someone with little Linux knowledge - and I'm a bit exhausted by computers at the moment. I have to keep three setups going - Windows 8 on my desktop, and on the (dual-booted) laptop Windows XP and Mint, and it's all a bit much (given that: Windows XP is, in my experience, horribly buggy; Windows 8 is somewhat buggy; I don't know my around Linux; and Linux/Mint doesn't easily do what I want sometimes). Still, I do rather tweak all the Windows installations (for maximum performance under yesterday's hardware) and I do try to get Mint just the way I like it . . Also, I have to help my knows-little-about-computers girlfriend quite a lot.
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No worries - 'twas just a thought, anyway ;).
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