Comment on Linux Mint 22.2 “Zara” Is Now Available for Download

cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’ve been running Mint since 17.x and have only had one upgrade fail in all that time. You’re very unlikely to have a problem, but backup your system just in case!

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  • cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    ooh i have timeshift automatically set up anyway :)

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  • Linearity@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You got people like this guy and then you got me who had to reinstall mint 3 times because of upgrade and compatibility issues and then I eventually gave up on it 😭😭
    And that happened in the span of one month too.

    Eventually switched to Kubuntu and now I use Arch btw WITH BTRFS 🤤

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    • DasFaultier@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Hooray for BTRFS!

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  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Or use something like TimeShift and set it to automatically create backups.

    Before I switched to the boringly stable Bazzite, TimeShift was a godsend. I was able to learn so much about Linux just by not having to worry about fucking up my install because whenever I did, it was trivial to rollback.

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• StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I adore the Linux community because it’s collectively so nice. If you cock it up, someone here will help you fix it.

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  • cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    so far it's been so good! i think the only issue i've had with linux is that it will randomly freeze everything (usually if I try to load a tab in librewolf/chrome that's a chonky boi or if i'm in zoom) on my laptop and i have to hard reset and i can't figure out how to search for it because i really don't know what causes it :(

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    • humanoidchaos@lemmy.cif.su ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It could be you’re running out of RAM.

      You could try typing free or free -h in a terminal to see how much RAM you’re using. If you see swap as 0, then it means you don’t have it set up or enabled.

      I don’t want to waste time explaining swap space if that’s not your issue, but if it is then you can probably figure it out with some searching or come back for help once you’ve confirmed that RAM is the problem.

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      • cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        oh thanks that does make sense since it happened on my laptop but not on my desktop; i only have 12gb of ram on the laptop and the swap was only 2gb so i upped it to 8gb but we'll see if that does anything if it happens again!

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    • StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’d post to the Linux community on Lemmy or the Linux Mint support forum and someone(s) will guide you. There’s even a guide to help you gather information and ask effective questions. I’m a Linux newb so I’m not very helpful on the technical end, but let me know if I can assist.

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• theherk@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Worth mentioning you are a okay not to update.

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• Sarothazrom@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’m in the same boat! Gonna update tomorrow when I’m not sleepy

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