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posted by janrinok on Tuesday November 26 2019, @06:04AM   Printer-friendly
from the over-to-the-community! dept.

I need to install a new Linux/Gnu OS soon. The present one, Linux Mint (Mate) Debian edition no longer fills my needs. I run 4 screens with 3 X sessions. Mate worked great for this, then an update broke it to one screen. I tried Cinnamon but it won't even start on multiple X sessions. XFCE works but with some serious drawbacks although that may be caused by my current system. Enlightenment actually worked well until it started crashing and I had to restore the settings file. When it finally crashed so nothing got it to run again I gave up on it.

I need a OS with multimedia support, the ability to install programs that may not be in the repositories ( Mythtv ), and multi X screen support. I am also looking for a file manager that has something like Gnome scripts. I have fair command line skills. I presently have Nvidia cards but I will go shopping if I have to. I might try Xinerama but I usually watch one screen while switching the other 2's desktops. Also not having a menu on all screens would be a pain.


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  • (Score: 2) by janrinok on Tuesday November 26 2019, @09:19AM

    by janrinok (52) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday November 26 2019, @09:19AM (#924851) Journal

    Well, one would hope that at some point during the process, the emergency signal gets passed downstream, halt on update xyz123, that was a regression, wait for next patch.

    I agree. However the user's configuration is untypical from most other users and there is a chance that not many will discover the problem, and if they do it might be a low priority if only a small number of users are affected. I don't think that MythTV is supported by Debian any longer, but I could easily be wrong. MythTV do give a link to explain how to install their software and it appears to have been updated in August of this year.

    Anything that the user can do to pin this bug down will be important in deciding whether there is sufficient information to even begin a bug squash.

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