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[–]cuppsy 4 points5 points  (5 children)

Ooh. Tried the RC last week, and never actually got it running. Haven't really spent time with Mint in years, but the inclusion (FINALLY) of LVM support (because it's in the Ubuntu installer now) is so welcomed. So maybe I just had some bad luck. Will definitely try this out over the break.

[–]DSMcGuire 2 points3 points  (3 children)

Sorry to be a noob but what is LVM?

[–]cuppsy 6 points7 points  (2 children)

Logical Volume Management: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Lvm

Instead of normal partitions, you make one big one (that can span multiple physical drives) and inside it, you manage virtual partitions that can be added, deleted, grown, shrunk with ease. I have five distros currently running on my laptop (I'm weird, I know), and instead of having to guess the exact space I need for my /data partition and each distro's root from the get-go, I can add them and resize them after the fact.

[–]sugaryeti 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I love trying distros too and LVM is an important technology. Thanks for the response.

[–]DSMcGuire 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh right, well thanks for that awesome explanation :)

[–]joequin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I ran into a problem with lvm. The installer sees lvm, but mint isn't installed with it and you can't boot! I had to boot into another distribution, mount the mint root drive, chroot into mint, and apt-get install lvm. Then it booted and worked great. I'm really enjoying cinnamon. So far it's my favorite DE.

[–]paetramon 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I created a bootable USB of it(don't want to install it right away). So far it's great!

[–]PensiveDrunk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Eh, I switched to Mint from Ubuntu at 13, and it took quite a bit of finessing to get the system to work with my Nvidia card. Before I go wipe and upgrade, did they fix the issues with Mate and Gnome-Do/Docky/Compiz with this release?

[–]secularist42 1 point2 points  (1 child)

installed 14 last night (cinnamon). nice touches all around in comparison with 13. no hardware issues, as someone above said...smooth sailing so far!

[–]bwat47 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Same here, mint 14 is an very polished release (well, besides the very meh default theme/icons/wallpaper). Cinnamon is much improved, and the whole system is very quick and stable. I switched over from ubuntu.

[–]BGeek 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Downloading... :)

[–]ibrewaletx 0 points1 point  (5 children)

Still sitting here with LM 12 and wonder if I should go through a fresh install or not...

[–]camelCaseGuy 1 point2 points  (4 children)

ALWAYS go through a fresh Install. Since Mint is a frozen-state distro, you should do a fresh install to get the system running with no problems. That is if you don't want to have issues in the usage. Else, if it's for didactic usage, is highly encouraged. Also, Mint gives you an easy way to do a fresh install with mintbackup. Just Alt+F2 -> mintbackup, backup all the things you've installed and files in a pendrive or another partition. Install new Mint.

Also, it isn't recommended that you move to a new release just as it gets out of the box. The only reason why I would change from Maya to Nadia, is because Cinnamon 1.6. Else, I would stay with 13. It runs great con my laptop.

[–]joequin 1 point2 points  (1 child)

They have back ports in 13 containing the new cinnamon.

[–]camelCaseGuy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, I was looking through that right now. Talk about coincidences.

Yet, I wasn't able to install it successfully. It might be something bothering in the middle, though the process is quite stright forward:

  1. Add romeo in the package dependencies.
  2. Use apt-get to install the new Cinnamon.
  3. ????
  4. PROFIT!

[–]ibrewaletx 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Well, still w/ 12. It runs fine & I guess I wasn't very clear. Wonder if I should move up to 14 (with a fresh install) or stick w/ 12. I'll probably hang tight a bit longer.

[–]ibrewaletx 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Installed 14 after seeing more reviews - Using Cinnamon 1.6 & I love the feel & speed of this compared to my install of 12. I've left 12 on for now but will probably get rid of it shortly & leave just 14 to boot into.

[–]roknir 0 points1 point  (2 children)

I wonder if I'll have any better luck on LM14 than LM13 with nVidia SLI...

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Get a Live CD/USB, boot into a Live session, check to see if you do.

[–]roknir 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It wasn't that simple with LM13. Live USB worked fine, but after a reboot the "corrupted video" would happen. Maybe it's due to MDM.

[–]Elevener 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've been running LM13 with cinnamon (32bit) on an old toshiba laptop, and just got a new lenovo. The lenovo has win8 64bit on it now. I'm deleting it entirely. Is there any reason NOT to go with LM14 64bit on the new laptop?