Kevin Alderman.

  I know you run Mint


  There is a severe bug in the desktop switcher.

  If more that about 8 or 10 desktops are selected strange things
  start to happen to the gui.

    Some of the USB ports stop working on a Lenova G580 and other
  computers.
  windows can not be closed.. It does not help to reboot.
  That is really bad news as it is over writing the OS on the hard drive.

  Make sure you have good backs up on external hard drives.

  Only reinstalling fixes it.
    It has effected several releases of Ubuntu.
  It shows up on several different computers.
  I downloaded 64 bit Mint with Mate 1/30/2013

  As I recall it is on a later version as well. Try it with a lot of
  aps on the panel
  I have been using Linux for 15 years. I like to use a lot of desktops.

  I am running Mint with mate


  The bug bit me again. This time I set it up with 18 desktops and it
  worked fine until I rebooted. Then it did all the bad things.

  I notice it disables only one or two USB ports. If one USB port does
  not work try another. I back up to a 2 TB external USB hard drive.

  Mark, I did not like Cent OS. I put Mint back  on.

  Paul Lamar

  Paul, I use Mint on a desktop, and Fedora 18 / Suse on my main
  laptop. I normally use as many as 6 desktops, and have not had any
  problems. I will try adding a few more and see what happens.
  As far as a backup, I always use multiple physical hard drives if
  possible, and separate partitions if I dont have different different
  HDDs to use. My Home folders are in the separate partition/ HDD and
  all of the downloaded software even RPMs are on this separate
  partition/ HDD. I can change OSs and not lose data, but I may have
  to reinstall some programs since the programs install files to the
  opt, bin, etc folders.

  My preference is the way I set up my server- it runs CentosOS 6.3,
  and have dual 2 TB raid drives for data. The main OS resides on a
  single 500 GB drive, but all of the data is stored on the separate
  drives. I can reinstall my OS and never touch my data. I think I
  said before when you were testing CentOS, I like CentOS as a server
  OS, but the same things that make it a rock solid server OS make it
  a less than useable desktop OS.

  You should know that my laptop is an Asus I7 2.97 Ghz, with 8 GB ram
  and 2 TB of HDD. Even though it is 2 years old, it is still better
  than most available off the shelf.

  I will investigate the desktop issue and let you know-

  Kevin Alderman

  Six are no problem. If you increase it.
  Be prepared to wipe out the hard disk and reinstall.

  Back up everything.

  Paul Lamar


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