What does LM 17.2 xfce offer over 17.1 + updates?

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What does LM 17.2 xfce offer over 17.1 + updates?

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Hi guys,

Without looking through the features list, what's the advantage to installing the upcoming LM 17.2 xfce rather than sticking with 17.1, plus all current software updates?

Will an up-to-date 17.1 installation feature all of the improvements that 17.2 contains?

Cheers,

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Re: What does LM 17.2 xfce offer over 17.1 + updates?

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It's my understanding that 17.2 includes several fixes that reduce the ram usage and of course a full update to the latest and best Cinnamon, and Mate Desktops. I'm not sure those improvements are realized when using the xfce desktop. So you may be just as well off staying with 17.1
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Re: What does LM 17.2 xfce offer over 17.1 + updates?

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mingle wrote:Will an up-to-date 17.1 installation feature all of the improvements that 17.2 contains?
It doesn't feature Xfce 4.12 :roll: .

Aside from that, and speaking more generally, no. If an "up-to-date" (if you mean, all stock updates via mint-Update) 17.1 contained everything that 17.2 does... then they would be the same.

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Re: What does LM 17.2 xfce offer over 17.1 + updates?

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Hello, mingle.

Mint 17.2 xfce will bring along xfce 4.12. Please, have a look here, New features in Linux Mint 17.2 Xfce, and decide whether upgrading to Mint 17.2. xfce will be what you wish to do. Note that currently, Mint 17.2 xfce is available as a release candidate only, so it is not the final release, yet.

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Re: What does LM 17.2 xfce offer over 17.1 + updates?

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karlchen wrote:... Note that currently, Mint 17.2 xfce is available as a release candidate only, so it is not the final release, yet...
Ditto. RCs are basically betas. Not exactly ideal for beginners. It may work just fine at first until you do an update. You need some CLI recovery skills.

Actually when 17.2 Xfce comes out I'll be dl'ing the iso and testing that.

Upgrading my 17 Cinnamon laptop to 17.1 had a major hit on the video performance. I reinstalled 17 Xfce (changing cinnamon to xfce was not a related issue, I just wanted xfce) and everything works peachy again. I dl'ed and tested a 17.1 Xfce live iso and tested that as well. Same video problems.

Apparently intel support for the i915 driver is getting a little flaky. But I can't find anything about it for that intel gpu. There are problems with a couple of other ones I did find though.

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Re: What does LM 17.2 xfce offer over 17.1 + updates?

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Thanks for the replies guys...

I've given the 17.2 xfce RC a whirl and it seemed fine (no huge differences from 17.1)
after that I went ahead and installed xfce 4.12 on my LM 17.1 install.

It went okay, although a few annoying glitches seemed to have been introduced as
a result. The updates to Thunar (1.6.10) were nice though...

I might wait until 17.2 is out, do a proper install, configure/tweak. To get a fresh
install set up to be just how I like it only takes an hour or so. Then I can check to
see if the 17.1+xfce 4.12 glitches are still there...

Cheers,

Mike.
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