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On 1/26/25 02:36 AM, RonB wrote:
> On 2025-01-25, Monsieur <Monsieur@notreal.invalid> wrote:
>> Since I didn't experience any problems in a live session of Mint 22.1, I
>> dediced to upgrade too. It turned out I was still on 21.1 (thought it
>> was 21.3), so I had to upgrade in several steps in order to arrive at
>> 22.1 Xia, allowing me to see how my usual programs and stuff would
>> behave in a non-live session.
>>
>> First thing that struck me was the "more modern slimmer version of the
>> Ubuntu font family", which – apart from being too thin for my liking –
>> completely messed up the newsreader in Seamonkey by no longer
>> differentiating between regular and bold for read and unread messages.
>> Tried a couple of settings but found no way to fix this. There's clearly
>> something wrong with those "thinner Ubuntu fonts", seeing as everything
>> worked fine before.
>>
>> I know going back to the old fonts is possible, but after fiddling with
>> the settings for too long I lost my appetite and decided to timeshift
>> back to 21.3.
>>
>> Of course that brought about some other issues, like Thunderbird that
>> suddenly refused to open because "a newer version had changed my
>> profiles". Okay, so I all I had to do was update Thunderbird. Nope,
>> couldn't do it because "Thunderbird is already the latest version".
>> !@?#!! At this point I got really frustrated...
>>
>> Spent the rest of afternoon fixing this and other stuff and finally
>> everything works fine again. I'm back on 21.3 now and I'm sticking with
>> it until its EOL date. I'm sure that by then a "more modern thicker
>> version of the Ubuntu font family" will be the new thing.
> 
> 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 wonder if the font issue could be adjusted in the 'font selection'.  I don't use a lot 
of Ubuntu fonts in mine, Verdana, Tahoma, DejaVu Sans.  Window font is the only Ubuntu.

-- 
Linux Mint 22.1, Cinnamon 6.4.6,  Kernel 6.8.0-51-generic
Thunderbird 128.6.0esr, Mozilla Firefox 134.0.2
Alan K.

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  Re: Upgrade rant RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2025-01-26 07:36 +0000
    Re: Upgrade rant "Alan K." <alan@invalid.com> - 2025-01-26 09:14 -0500
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