Peppermintiness

[muninnhuginn]

I keep on meaning to write this up, so, since it's too rainy for a foraging trip (plums!), I'll get it out the way.

I'd not updated Mint on my tiny Vye for a very long time (the version had fallen off the support list) and various things, mostly to do with updates and fixes, had started to go awry. So, I upgraded. Not to a more recent Mint, but to a more minimal install. Pretty much a compromise between a build it yourself and a fully-euipped install. I looked at several, found some I liked but which were 64-bit installs, and then settled on Peppermint.

Set up the USB, tried it from the USB, made a list of programs I'd installed myself post-Mint installation, backed up the tiny bit of data I needed from my hard disk. Installed Peppermint 6 and wiped Mint out.

I then reinstalled those programs I decided I needed--Vivaldi, LogJam, Scrivener, TeXstudio--and omitted some others (Opera), set up links to Dropbox, Box, GoogleDrive, tweaked my email arrangements and was good to go.

Everything good to go. Faster, cleaner, more like an ancient Windows machine than ever. With my start menu down the right-hand side of the screen just how I like it.

It took a week before I had to cave in and install bit of OfficeLibre to read a docx file.

Comments

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Well, I understood the first sentence ...

[muninnhuginn]

Well, the tl;dr is "installed a new computer operating system and it wasn't Windows 10" ;-)

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

I thought that was the general gist, but for all I know of either, it might almost have been "knitted a Klein bottle hat" http://www.kleinbottle.com/klein_bottle_hats.htm.

[muninnhuginn]

That's on my list too :-)