Kevin Alderman.
I know you run MintThere 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 mateThe 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


apparently it has been around a long time in various forms.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/677594

I used to work fine several years ago. Back about Ubuntu 11

Paul Lamar

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