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[Obi-Wan]

Is Mint / MATE any more stable than the Cinnamon version?  I was just 
about to replace Fedora on my laptop with Mint / MATE.

On 05/29/2014 12:17 PM, Justin Reiners wrote:
> Linux Mint Cinnamon is very unstable, I have locked it up/crashed Cinnamon
> many many times just by turning up the volume. I wish it was more stable,
> it is one of my favorite distros.
>
>
> On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 12:05 PM, Rob Townley <rob.townley at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> LinuxMint cinnamon stable? Recently while configuring a bunch of different
>> ethernet interfaces on a laptop i had to kill the networking service which
>> locked up the javascript based Cinnamon GUI.   Luckily, ctrl-alt-F2 still
>> worked because had to lock up the GUI numerous times.
>>
>> LinuxMint websites do not use any HTTPS even though StartSSL has free SSL
>> versions.
>>
>> Cannot recommend LinuxMint.
>> On May 28, 2014 5:20 PM, "Justin Reiners" <justin at hotlinesinc.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Debian isn't bad at all. Repos are quite dated. Most of the time more so
>>> than centos. But debian is a mighty stable distro. Centos for servers and
>>> use Ubuntu variants for desktop use for more bleeding edge. Just sick of
>>> unity. I miss 10.04... Still have an old server on that distro. Never
>>> rebooted other than kernel updates.
>>>
>>> Too many of the Debian/Ubuntu offshoots are too unstable for a daily
>>> driver. I guess it is all in what you use it for.
>>>
>>> Sadly Ubuntu/mint is pretty stable. More so mint than Ubuntu for daily PC
>>> usage IMHO.


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