For a very long time now, I have kept a partition on my computer with
the express purpose of trying new distros. It's about 15 GB, which is
plenty for a root partition--since I have my /home in a separate
partition.
Because so many on this list are so high on Mint, I loaded the latest
version to give it a try--it had been several years since I had looked
at it. (And by the way, I suggested Mint to a friend with little
experience on Linux and none recently---and he loves it.
Frankly, so far at least I don't see that it is anything all that
different or outstanding (although of course it's very good, as I
fully expected). I encountered a few glitches with the Mint iteration
of the "software center"--so I installed the Ubuntu one
instead--although truth be told I rarely use it as I still prefer
either Synaptic when I'm browsing for applications by description or
apt-fast from the command line.
The issue some folks have that they seem to find that installing
codecs is difficult is easy enough to solve anyway--I commonly just
install Ubuntu Tweak as part of my installation routine of any *buntu
install, and get everything the way I need it in just a few minutes
with no big deal involved.
(Apt-fast, by the way, is a fantastic script that uses Axel to put
apt-get on steroids. Highly recommended!)
Now, here's the problem: every time I install Gnome, on startup it
fails to set up metacity. I'm aware it is something in the home
directory, but so far I have not found what it is. Now, it's not a big
deal to use guake to run it in the "--replace" mode from the command
line, but I would very much like to get rid of this glitch.
Since I'm not all that experienced in gnome, I thought perhaps one of
you folks had run into this and fixed it and might share with me how
you did it.
Thanks!
David
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