Linux Mint, Part 7: Do not touch the Mint

I’m not sure if this is really Part 7, but it feels close enough.

The other night I thought1, “Wouldn’t it be fun to replace the Cinnamon desktop of Linux Mint with the GNOME desktop used by Ubuntu?” It worked, but was a little glitchy. I decided to uninstall it. Instead, I made Mint unbootable.

After some valiant attempts at repair, I ended up fixing the issue by completely re-installing Mint. I am very good at this now. And it actually went pretty fast. I did have a backup made, but it did not work, for reasons. Probably because I made it unbootable, too.

Anyway, lesson learned! If I want to play around with GNOME, I will do so in Ubuntu, which is still installed in another partition and which I have yet to make unbootable.

Here is a picture of a mint. Or a box of mints, which is close enough.

Photo by Erik Mclean
  1. Yes, this is a weird thing to think. ↩︎

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