@FrostyPhoenix said in Making a Bootable USB Stick on Linux Mint 17.3:

Been using Mint for the last few days, and I actually LOVE it!

I used Ubuntu for a while, but man Linux Mint is just easier and more streamlined...

it's really great. I've been on it for nearly a year and what a difference it makes.

Confirmed that this is working on Linux Mint 18.

That's my guess, that a package is missing.

@scottalanmiller said:

@johnhooks said:

I think the Ubuntu store ruined it for me. It used to take forever to load so I always just did cli, maybe I need to try the Fedora store and see how it works.

On Mint you just click on the DEB, there is no store involved.

Ah ok. Ya Ubuntu used to load the full store (not sure if it still does) to install something. So I just started doing gdebi or dpkg -i or dnf install ./package for everything I downloaded.

I have my menu key on my keyboard mapped to the drop down terminal Gnome 3 extension because I don't use that key anyway. So opening the terminal and running it is pretty quick.

I'll have to see how Fedora handles that.

@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.