Mint 15 and Password (Resolved)

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Hehe … I’m pulling your leg :slight_smile:

Why not give Mint a shot.

If you really want to replace Mint With Peppermint … the installer should do that for you … it should offer to “Replace Mint”

That said, I’d be more tempted to just use gparted from a LiveUSB to delete all the Linux partitions … then install Peppermint to the free space.

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Something else to be aware of … if installing Peppermint “Alongside” another OS … start the installer from the Live session desktop icon.
(not from the boot screen “Install Peppermint” option … see the first item in the release notes for why)

http://peppermintos.com/release-notes-2/

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Cheers Mark.

I really like PP. It has helped me use Linux on virtually dead machines for ages.

I will look at putting PP4 on in the future.

Putting Mint on was not just laziness it was what you West country folk call " A Pear Cider" moment. :wink:

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Be sure to read the edit above :wink:

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There are lots of reasons why people choose the distro they decided to use.
Do not let Mark persuade you otherwise, he has got a wested interest in Peppermint. :wink:
Give Mint a shot. You can change the login screen appearance along with behavior to suit your liking.
Go to Menu > Administration > “Login Window” to open this window “Login Window Preferences”.
Play around with the settings.

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OK Guys.

Thanks to Both for your input.

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What’s this “vested interest” you talk of ? … I get nothing out of people using (or not) Peppermint. :o

I’m not in the business of trying to talk people into Peppermint for any other reason than I think it’s a great distro.

Hence why I said:-

Hehe .. I'm pulling your leg :)

Why not give Mint a shot.

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Mark, just pulling your leg :wink:
I know you would not recommend Peppermint if you did not believe in it.
On the other hand, now that you are one of the developers…

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Heh … can I add “voluntary” dev :wink:

If Peppermint goes off track, that could change … but at least this way I get a chance to try make sure that doesn’t happen, along with the fuzzy feeling of having contributed a little :slight_smile:

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That said, I suppose “off track” is relative :o

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Heh .. can I add "voluntary" dev ;)

Is there any other? I thought they were all voluntary ???

That said, I suppose "off track" is relative :o

You mean, you could be responsible for taking it off track :-\

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I suppose in some peoples eyes that’s already happened … some are happier with PM3 … I guess any changes the team make will be loved by some hated by others, but you can’t stand still either … tiz a weird line to find yourself stood on, that’s for sure.

Luckily the vast majority seem to like the new version … so far, reviews have all been very positive :slight_smile:

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To be honest my first impressions of Peppermint 4 are not that positive I’ve had a few problems particularly with networking, connecting printers etc but it’s early days and I can accept my problems could be me or my hardware or a combination of both,

but I was using my old laptop last night (still running Peppermint 3 ) and it reminded me how trouble free P3 has been for me compared with it’s successor

Peppermint 3 is a hard act to follow

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UPDATE

Mint 15 has been a complete waste of time for me. Logins require several clicks of the icon before password and the damn thing will NOT shut down. I waited 20 minutes looking at the flipin Mint icon before deciding to wipe all partitions with GParted and install Peppermint 4.

Now (crossed fingers) working fine.

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See what I mean :o

@Emegra

You do realise I still have your tablet :wink:

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Sorry Mint did not work out for you. Would have been nice as a counter balance against the Peppermint invasion on here. :cry:

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Had to do the same password recovery in PP4!

But at least it shuts down. :slight_smile:

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You do realise I still have your tablet ;)

Peppermint 4 is amazing everything just works out of the box it’s a huge improvement on Peppermint 3 and I can see no point in anyone using any other distro, and all the developers (especially PCNetSpec) should be given a knighthood

now can I have my tablet back please :stuck_out_tongue:

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Hahahahaha :slight_smile: