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Any fellow Linux users on here?

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Doing a clean install is a habit that was forced on me back in the days when I used to use Windows. They always seemed to alternate between a good version and a piece of junk.
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LOL....you may still be right in principle. Particularly after I examined a web page provided by Linux Mint outlining certain issues which may or may not occur when updating to this later version. Especially regarding Nvidia drivers.

Linux Mint 22.1 Release Notes - Linux Mint

Luckily for me, I continue to run two separate SSDs with the same operating system to use the smaller drive as a "guinea pig" of sorts when making such changes. Though as I mentioned before, generally Mint updates within the same version tend not to be so problematic for me. At least in the past.

However at a point with version 21.3 and onward, problems between kernel updates and Nvidia drivers seemed to have really come out of the woodwork. Making me not only frustrated, but very wary of any changes at all.

Pssst: Just to run this update seems to mean not running it with blacklisting the Nouveau driver. And that it's possible this problem has already been addressed. Presently with this SSD, I haven't been running the script that blacklists that driver in etc/modprobe_d. And it hasn't frozen since using it. I suspect it was a badly needed kernel update that may have finally addressed this awful issue.

Though IMO, I give myself a 50-50 chance of real problems in updating it. At least I have one guinea pig drive to try. So it won't impact my 1TB drive I depend on with Mint 22.0.
 
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More fun with Linux Mint. With so many issues with Nvidia drivers, I somehow managed to corrupt something that evoked a message about needing to "clear orphaned inodes" after rebooting when the system locked up.

Figured it out by using my ISO flash drive to unmount my second partition (sda2) which involves this (and the Nvidia software) and then using the terminal, typed:

sudo e2fsck -f /dev/sda2

and rebooted. I'll think about upgrading to version 22.1 later.
 
If anyone is interested, Wine 10.0 is now out. Ready for download at least through Linux Mint.

After installing the update, when I accessed Photoshop it prompted me to reinstall the "wine mono installer", which went quite smoothly. Then I could access Photoshop and all seems well.

I did just access "winecfg" through the terminal to check up on stuff. Defaulting my Windows programs using the Windows XP setting did seem to prompt an error message in the terminal. So I changed the default setting to Windows 98 and no more error message in the terminal. No harm, no foul considering the Windows program I run is 27 years old.

Maybe this is just a glitch to be fixed. Hard to say...though I think it's always a calculated risk updating Wine in general. Though in most cases it has been a positive experience for me. Likely a bigger concern to me than the update to Mint version 22.1.

Wondering at some point if support for such old programs could come to an abrupt end. So those of you relying on the idea "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" may want to ignore such updates. It's your call. ;)
 
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