securitybreach Posted July 29, 2014 Share Posted July 29, 2014 Not a problem, anytime 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LilBambi Posted July 29, 2014 Share Posted July 29, 2014 I wondered if there was an issue of an updated nVidia driver that was too new for the version of Ubuntu you were using... Great idea to install the new Ubuntu. Smart woman! You knew better than to do it all on one partition! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SueD Posted July 29, 2014 Author Share Posted July 29, 2014 Bruno taught us well. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LilBambi Posted July 30, 2014 Share Posted July 30, 2014 Bruno taught us well. Yes, he sure did! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cluttermagnet Posted July 30, 2014 Share Posted July 30, 2014 WB Sue! I had an update from Ubuntu break one of my computers at most a few months back. I think it was an update to 12.04. Anyway, I had been using Linux Mint a lot so I just redid it with LM. Problems solved. Prior to that Canonical had been very good, never a problem after any updates for several years. I also was taught to make a separate /home partition and have never regretted it. Besides, that forced me to learn more about partitioning back then. Only rarely do I let an install overwrite /home- only if something has become badly broken... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SueD Posted July 30, 2014 Author Share Posted July 30, 2014 Hi Clutter, and thanks! I decided to stick with Ubuntu since my husband is familiar and comfortable with it. 14.04 lts installed without a hitch. Something happened with 12.04 (probably that same upgrade you're talking about) but I managed to find the solution and fix it then. But it's always good to come back "home" when things get really tough. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cluttermagnet Posted July 30, 2014 Share Posted July 30, 2014 Yep, I owe a lot to Ubuntu, and I used it for some years and pretty much learned what little I know about Linux on it. I tend to run older hardware, so the ever- increasing 'feature creep' in Ubuntu was a problem for me. So I end up most familiar with Debian distros and that makes Linux Mint a good fit for me- Joe average user, under the hood a little but not a major geek. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capt.Crow Posted July 30, 2014 Share Posted July 30, 2014 12.04 uummmmm! Downloaded the iso . checksums matched . tried to install . All **** let loose . So dumped it and reformatted the partition and installed slack 14. instead .That just slid in like greased lightning . Ubuntu sure don't like my stuff.. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SueD Posted August 4, 2014 Author Share Posted August 4, 2014 Capt. Crow, up until 4 years ago, none of the Debian based distros didn't like my stuff either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capt.Crow Posted August 6, 2014 Share Posted August 6, 2014 Squeese was the first deb dis that was cool enough to actually install and believe it or not run . Still going strong . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebrke Posted August 8, 2014 Share Posted August 8, 2014 i'd mentioned in another thread that all my towers (all over 10 years old) finally went the way of all computers. I'm still nursing an 11-year-old tower that still chugs along on openSuSE with xfce. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SueD Posted August 9, 2014 Author Share Posted August 9, 2014 Hi Temmu! I got rid of almost all my old computers. I feel the need for speed these days. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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