@dafyre said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@dafyre said:

Edit: I've always done my Ubuntu upgrades using dist-upgrade.

Ubuntu doesn't upgrade like that either, or didn't in the past. You still have to change the sources for dist-upgrade to move up to the next one. People on Ubuntu 14.04.3 still use dist-upgrade to upgrade their daily or weekly patches and it doesn't move them to current releases. It takes other changes, like the sed lines here, to make Ubuntu do that.

If that is the case, what is the difference between apt-get upgrade and apt-get dist-upgrade?

Edit: I just checked and the command I've been using is do-release-upgrade... not apt-get dist-upgrade...

Yes, Ubuntu has an extra command that includes the sed stuff specifically for Ubuntu. In Mint, the base is remaining the same Ubuntu now so that command can't be used. They'd have to make their own, which they need to.

dist-upgrade includes things like the kernel that upgrade does not. There is a really old thread about it around here somewhere where I had the same questions and @thanksajdotcom was explaining to me why I needed to switch me standard patching to dist-upgrade because important patches would be missed otherwise.

Have you used Cinnamon? It is seriously slick. I have never used any desktop on any environment that is a nice.

Maybe your package repo is out of date, I tried this just now on my Mint desktop and it worked fine... but the direct links that you show do not exist.

Try this then try the ppa add command again...

sudo apt-get update

We are already traveling with one as it is!

yeah I'm going more with JB on this one - I think if you asked the general public about Bit torrent, assuming they even know what it was, they would say it was for piracy more than anything else.

<inserts shameless plug for ownCloud here, lol>

Just an FYI... These instructions also still work on Mint 18 as well.

@brianlittlejohn said:

@scottalanmiller said:

Notice that there is a $500 coupon. So it is $1,100, not $1,600.

The $500 coupon cost $475

Exactly. It is $1624 to buy it, or $25 off a $500 coupon / credit.

@scottalanmiller said:

It's true, I'm a huge ARM fan.

I thought that about you...

Some KDE Plasma application shots...

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@Dashrender said:

what resolution is your laptop? The last time I run VBox on my 3200 x 1800 resulted in a pretty much useless situation with it.

1600x900

@Reid-Cooper said:

Maybe the more meaningful question is.... which games can't be run on it?

Minecraft. It isn't powerful enough to run Minecraft.

@johnhooks said:

You mean you don't have wobbly windows and all of the fading turned on?

Wibbly wobbly timey wimey?

@Dashrender You move from 7 to 8 for features, not for security. This is a fully patched and fully managed version of 7, so actually staying on it for security, not in spite of it.

Also, remember this is OpenJDK not Oracle JRE so fully open source, visible to the community, audited and no history of security problems.

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@Dashrender said:

Is linux better than it was, sure, is it as good for non techies as Windows, possible I suppose as I haven't installed Mint in ... ever.

I've tried testing this before and I've never seen any non-techie feel that Windows was better. Literally, never. I've only seen experienced Windows users that did not want to switch. Starting from scratch, Linux has always been found to be easier in the few "greenfield" tests that I've ever seen.