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I agree the Applets error out more than they work. I don't even download them anymore. As for the Mintmenu, I never could stand looking at it so I usually install alternatives. I'm fond of Whisker Menu for it's simplicity, or anything similar to it like Cardapio.
i never have any problems installing this. infact i am using it right now as i type this.its been very stable.i can run all my usual apps on it flawlessly without a hitch.
My issue is that I have multiple hard drives and it wants to load grub on Sda instead of Sdb out of the box... My Sda can't be written to so the installer freaks out and becomes unresponsive even while offering you alternative drives to write the bootloader on. Point was that it should default to writing grub on the disk you are installing to instead of a separate drive... no other Linux distro installer does this (that comes to mind) and I am of the opinion that it should either do as I mentioned or ask you. I just did an automatic install of Fedora 24 and there was no issue as it puts the bootloader on the disk you intend on installing the O.S. That's how it "should" be. Not Mint's fault... it is Ubuntu's rather odd configuration for their installer. Still... it doesn't make sense.
It makes sense to put it on the first disk for automated install though, since people choosing automated install will in many cases not have a clue what grub or boot menu are. So installing it on the first disk is the least risk of it not installing to the disk that is actually booted first.
What gfx card would work on linux that is better than my horrible non compatible R9 390? Plus, is Debian a good distro for learning the linux basics before moving to arch or gentoo?
what do you mean "non compatible r9"? AMD user here since hd4850. I am on asus R9 280 now and it works very well with HWE kernel and oibaf PPA. If you want to learn linux, install virtualbox and head over to linux from scratch. Gentoo is nice, but not so if you are not okay with 10-12 hour long world rebuild. Arch is ok, if you are ok with constant updates and manual config edits (you'll be doing it even more than on gentoo). LM is a very solid workhorse distro. Has most of binary apps and easiest to maintain at same time. You can always install a VM and don't trash your main system if you get stuck exploring. Or when you are fed up with exploring. :)
Well I'm sure there's some way to make it compatible but every time I run linux with my R9 390 hooked up linux just crashes no matter what distro, ubuntu, mint, fedora, arch, gentoo, openSUSE, so forth and so on, sorry, I should have specified, maybe not incompatible but not working when I try to hook it up, it has all the newest drivers etc. yet I jest cant seem to get it to work.
I am using Mint 17.3 as my primary OS on my SSD, but also running Mint 18 on a USB stick. I have a ASUS motherboard with onboard graphics. I think that works for me. What video card should I purchase ( under $ 150 ) ?
I hate how LM hijacks Firefox with its adjustments. And it still does not use pepperflash version of adobe. Other than that its fine, repo and key management tool in LM is much better than "software properties" in ubuntu.
I tried 18 but found that the sound didn't work. I tried reinstalling Pulse and Alsa to no avail. Also KDE connect didn't work. So I went back to 17.3 which works perfectly.
I still don't get your problem with the menu and how it gets bigger and bigger. I'd rather have everything visible right away than have to scroll through it. I'd prefer them not to change that.
How is this release in terms of stability compared to the 17 series? The entire 16.04 base for me has just been god-awful. I've tried 4 of them (minus the GNOME one since I still don't like that desktop), and all of them have had issues.
What problems? I've been using the GNOME version (with Cinnamon and i3 also installed, primarily use GNOME though) and that it's stable-ish. It gas a few bugs here and there, but it's been smooth for the most part, the only huge hiccup was where GDM suddenly stopped functioning, probably because of me messing with crap, it was pretty sudden though. It works now though.
Stability seems to be a factor depending on the graphics card / driver in use with the Cinnamon version. I had several desktop hard freezups running nvidia gtx 750 ti but that issue went away with the proprietary nvidia driver. That's why I recommend Mate over Cinnamon, it wouldn't have as much of an impact on Mate since it is not a 3d accelerated desktop environment. Other than that... Mint doesn't use "Apport" which is Canonicals ironically buggy bug report tool that seems to give crash error popups for no reason. So the crash popups experienced in *buntu 16.04 is not a factor on Mint :D
