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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.

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Upgrade rant Monsieur <Monsieur@notreal.invalid> - 2025-01-25 20:01 +0100
  Re: Upgrade rant "Alan K." <alan@invalid.com> - 2025-01-25 14:43 -0500
  Re: Upgrade rant azigni <azigni@yahoo.com> - 2025-01-26 03:01 +0000
  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
      Re: Upgrade rant Monsieur <Monsieur@notreal.invalid> - 2025-01-26 15:19 +0100
    Re: Upgrade rant Monsieur <Monsieur@notreal.invalid> - 2025-01-26 15:16 +0100
      Re: Upgrade rant "Alan K." <alan@invalid.com> - 2025-01-26 09:36 -0500
        Re: Upgrade rant Monsieur <Monsieur@notreal.invalid> - 2025-01-26 15:54 +0100
          Re: Upgrade rant Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2025-01-27 14:27 +0000
            Re: Upgrade rant Monsieur <Monsieur@notreal.invalid> - 2025-01-27 18:12 +0100
              Re: Upgrade rant Jeff Layman <Jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2025-01-27 18:18 +0000
                Re: Upgrade rant Monsieur <Monsieur@notreal.invalid> - 2025-01-27 19:59 +0100
                Re: Upgrade rant "Alan K." <alan@invalid.com> - 2025-01-27 14:45 -0500
                Re: Upgrade rant "Alan K." <alan@invalid.com> - 2025-01-27 17:03 -0500
                Re: Upgrade rant Monsieur <Monsieur@notreal.invalid> - 2025-01-28 06:58 +0100
                Re: Upgrade rant "Alan K." <alan@invalid.com> - 2025-01-28 08:28 -0500
        Re: Upgrade rant Gordon <Gordon@leaf.net.nz> - 2025-01-26 20:04 +0000
  Re: Upgrade rant Gerald H <geenspam@yahoo.co.uk> - 2025-01-26 20:24 +0000
  Re: Upgrade rant azigni <azigni@yahoo.com> - 2025-01-27 21:02 +0000

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