Calling all Penguins!

[CommRLock78]

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 ).

[CommRLock78]

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.

[UK_Eliter]

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.

[CommRLock78]

No worries - 'twas just a thought, anyway .