Well, obviously, lol. Glad you found a good landing point in any event. But yeah... stuff like that is why my wife keeps her distance from Linux these days. I think I traumatized her with early-2010s distros back in the day...
I had the same thought. I think she'd like the latest version, but Mint 12 was where she had a catastrophic data loss that turned her off of Linux. She's happy where she is for now and I know how to pick my battles...
I won't touch it with a ten foot pole. No thank-you.
I tried upgrading to 24.01 from 22.04 and I have NEVER had a worse experience.
AND I have been on Ubuntu for almost 10 years.
It choked on Thunderbird. The thumbnails disappeared and none of the "solutions " worked.
They screwed with the UI fonts and everything was pale and unreadable. I tried changing the fonts and things got worse.
There were other problems.
I gave up and loaded a fresh 22.04 and am much happier.
If I could get update to quit bugging me, things would be perfect.
Jeez man, that’s rough… I wonder what happened?
If I knew that, I’d still be on it. :)
Well, obviously, lol. Glad you found a good landing point in any event. But yeah... stuff like that is why my wife keeps her distance from Linux these days. I think I traumatized her with early-2010s distros back in the day...
She should try Mint :)
I had the same thought. I think she'd like the latest version, but Mint 12 was where she had a catastrophic data loss that turned her off of Linux. She's happy where she is for now and I know how to pick my battles...