Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Gordon Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.mint Subject: Re: Upgrade rant Date: 26 Jan 2025 20:04:53 GMT Lines: 32 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net XTGhB+Fb6f5GPU2JWMQS5wTlmSUSwUSOes5AapLNt45YL8nc8V Cancel-Lock: sha1:Kw8eSnTqK6wftkhJ/y2zjOrlfpM= sha256:o0FrmLIwnjQcp5Y9HY2+BP18tJoL1LbMgAVWwi0KvN8= User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Linux) Xref: csiph.com alt.os.linux.mint:43954 On 2025-01-26, Alan K. wrote: > On 1/26/25 09:16 AM, Monsieur wrote: >> RonB wrote: >> >>> I'm not particularly thrilled with 22.1 either. It seems like it's taken a >>> few steps back. (At least the Live USB version.) No Synaptic by default >>> (already mentioned) and Software Sources no longer allow you to unclick the >>> CD repository (which gets in the way when updating) — you have to do it >>> manually. Also the right-click desktop menu half the time only shows some of >>> the Menu. I think I had noticed the font change as well, but I hadn't really >>> that (at least not on my Desktop computer — on the laptop it might be a >>> different story). There's a couple other things (like repository not >>> allowing the update because Security concerns can't be met, but I think that >>> probably an issue with syncing servers. I can't remember everything now. >>> This is the USB Version (without updates) so it's probably not a fair test. >>> >>> 22.0 seems pretty solid. I think I'll stick with it (and 21.3) for now (or >>> maybe until EOL). >>> >> >> I've timeshifted back to 21.3 now, but unfortunately it has "inherited" some of the >> annoyances of 22.1, like a missing "paste" option in the right-click menu when copying a >> file, and Thunderbird that's still not fully functional (no more notifications when a mail >> arrives). Timeshift really does not restore everything to its previous state it seems. >> >> >> > Isn't timeshift just system files, not home files? > This is the case for the default option in Mint, but there is an option to include the home directory. Still the data files should be backed up elsewhere.