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johnprogrammer · 01-13-2022, 07:04 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by AllanP

Laptop is three years old with 16GB RAM and still fairly quick and responsive. It was running Mint 20.2 with no problems. Mint's software manager gives me the option of removing Mate desktop, but then what do I have? I'm thinking install another desktop then re-install Mate desktop as I think something not quite right with the current one installed.

It is not a good idea to mix different Desktop Environments.

It is better to clean install Mint with MATE desktop environment.

You can download it here:

https://linuxmint.com/edition.php?id=293

If you clean install it on your laptop, and you get the issue, better try Ubuntu MATE, on which Mint MATE is based:

https://ubuntu-mate.org

Personally I prefer Ubuntu and its desktop environments, than Mint in terms of reliability, but that is a big discussion.

AllanP · 01-13-2022, 12:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by johnprogrammer

It is not a good idea to mix different Desktop Environments.

It is better to clean install Mint with MATE desktop environment.

You can download it here:

https://linuxmint.com/edition.php?id=293

If you clean install it on your laptop, and you get the issue, better try Ubuntu MATE, on which Mint MATE is based:

https://ubuntu-mate.org

Personally I prefer Ubuntu and its desktop environments, than Mint in terms of reliability, but that is a big discussion.

Actually I dual boot Mint & Ubuntu. I also installed Mint Mate clean.

mrmazda · 01-15-2022, 12:31 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rokytnji

Quote:

What do you have against systemd...?

defaults to /usr/bin.

As opposed to what?

Quote:

Ignores /usr/local/bin text files.

What?

Code:

> echo $PATH
/home/me/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/home/me/bin
> inxi -S
System:
  Host: 00srv Kernel: 5.3.18-59.37-default x86_64 bits: 64
    Desktop: KDE 3.5.10 Distro: openSUSE Leap 15.3

I have hundreds of systemd distro installations. I haven't installed any non-systemd distro in probably more than 5 years. None I have ignore the scripts I put in /usr/local/bin/.

AllanP · 01-15-2022, 01:07 PM

I say solved, but don't know how. I did a sudo update & upgrade and wm now is supported.

rokytnji · 01-15-2022, 01:17 PM

Open Suse and Debian are different distros. What open Suse does is not the way Debian operates.
What I experienced was in a Debian based distro without systemd and I unpinned that limitation.

Then dist-upgraded and broke my install. /usr/local/bin were ignored in my use case.
All my text files in /usr/local/bin were ignored.

I can only comment in my use case.

I don't run Open-Suse. This is not a Open Suse type thread either. I don't respond to rpm threads because I don't run them.

Bye.

mrmazda · 01-15-2022, 03:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rokytnji

Open Suse and Debian are different distros. What open Suse does is not the way Debian operates.

You're partially correct. There is no Open Suse (that I'm aware of), but openSUSE is quite different from the Debians:

Code:

> inxi -Sy
System:
  Host: asa88 Kernel: 5.10.0-9-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 Console: tty 4
    Distro: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)
> echo $PATH
/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games
>

> inxi -Sy
System:
  Host: asa88 Kernel: 5.4.0-91-generic x86_64 bits: 64 Console: tty 4
    Distro: Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS (Focal Fossa)
> echo $PATH
/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/snap/bin
>

> inxi -Sy
System:
  Host: asa88 Kernel: 5.8.0-44-generic x86_64 bits: 64 Console: tty 4
    Distro: Linux Mint 20 Ulyana
> echo $PATH
/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/snap/bin
>

> inxi -Sy
System:
  Host: asa88 Kernel: 5.3.18-lp152.106-default x86_64 bits: 64 Console: tty 4
    Distro: openSUSE Leap 15.2
> echo $PATH
/home/username/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin
>