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On 22/10/12 19:33, bad apple wrote: >> > The VBox additions are in a right state at the moment, with flaky > support for everything from OpenGL to DirectX when it comes to graphical > acceleration of your guest systems - 2D support works fine as usual, but > this will cause problems for people like yourself who are trying to use > it to full-screen demo potential new distros. The 4.2 version has only > just added support for more recent Xorg versions which is causing me a > lot of pain in my various testing distros (bleeding edge versions of > Arch, Gentoo, Rawhide, etc), especially as the new "support" is > terrible. Lots of screen tearing, artifacts, etc, if it even works at > all (totally broken on Gentoo currently). > > You have multiple options: > > 1: in place upgrade your outdated Mint install so you can get recent > software. There's no excuse to be running Maverick anymore. This is the reason for checking out various distros via VBox. I realise that I need to move on from Maverick as soon as. By the way I never go via upgrades, I always completely install any new distro from scratch. > 2: install the Lucid version - I haven't tested it, but I'd be surprised > if it didn't work properly. You must apt-get purge your current version > first though. I am beginning to feel that I won't bother, I will just choose whichever distro to go for and install it. > 3: VMWare workstation 8/9 - I've never been a fan, but currently it's > pissing me off a lot less than VirtualBox which previously I've really > loved. > I have looked at VMware in the past and did not get on with it, probably because I am so used to VBox. <snip> </snip> > Alternatively, save yourself a bunch of effort and realise you're going > to have to upgrade your OS anyway: Agreed. as you seem to be a Debian-based > system user, let's face it, you're either going to end up using Mint, > Ubuntu or Debian, probably in that order of likelihood. I have never tried Debian. My usual distros are Mint KDE or Kubuntu. I have also used Mint Xfce and Xubuntu on laptops. Either way, > you're probably going to end up installing Cinnamon or Mate desktops > unless you like Unity/Gnome3. I have looked at Cinnamon, again via VBox, and did not like it. And I hate Gnome with a passion. So whichever distro I end up with will use KDE or possibly Xfce. I'd recommend just biting the bullet and > installing Debian Testing. I will do some research on Debian Testing but the work 'Testing' worries me. Ubuntu is a clusterfuck, Mint is a polished > turd (it's just crappy Ubuntu underneath the polish, and has issues > doing in-place upgrades) so just go to the source and grab Debian. > As I said, I don't do upgrades. > Whatever you do, get off your current system immediately, it hasn't > received upstream support/bug fixes since April and I know of multiple > exploits targeting outdated Ubuntu systems - there are a lot of them out > there as 10.10 was the last release pre-Unity so a lot of people are > still resisting upgrading. Which is very, very stupid. > So, even more urgent than I realised!! Thank you for taking the time to give me all this help and information. I really do appreciate it. Neil -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq