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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).

-- 
“Evil is not able to create anything new, it can only distort and destroy 
what has been invented or made by the forces of good.”  —J.R.R. Tolkien

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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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