If I managed to install a network printer in fedora, you only had to manage to install a usb printer en mint...
If you want to talk about linux woes.... try Gnome3, instead of cinnamon (mint, usually comes with cinnamon, that's why I'm guessing this is what you're using).
Gnome3 (3.6) was working quite well, for me... after installing some 20 extensions to get it to behave properly, but, for some reason, the notifications (those things that pop-up when someone writes a chat message) were coming up some 20 minutes after the event.... baffled, I simply went on to other window managers.
xfce - too minimal for me.
fluxbox - minimal as well
windowMaker - very oldSkool
And, finally, yes, I landed on cinnamon. It's clearly built on top of gnome, but it works!
Now, for some reason that's beyond me, I can't get RealVNC desktop :1 to start with a windows manager... unless it's GNOME, the default! When I configure the ~/.vnc/xstartup file with some other, like cinnamon, it says there's some other already running, but once I log in, all I see the X mouse cursor and the wiggly lines, so typical of X11, there's no way to run a program there, so it's useless.
If I start a vnc desktop with the default settings (chmod -x ~/.vnc/xstartup) it works, but sometimes fails with an error complaining about the extensions. I then change the xstartup (chmod +x ./vnc/xstartup) and force vncserver to start on :0 or :3, and it works perfectly. I now have a vnc session with gnome and another with fluxbox.
Oh the woe....
If you want to talk about linux woes.... try Gnome3, instead of cinnamon (mint, usually comes with cinnamon, that's why I'm guessing this is what you're using).
Gnome3 (3.6) was working quite well, for me... after installing some 20 extensions to get it to behave properly, but, for some reason, the notifications (those things that pop-up when someone writes a chat message) were coming up some 20 minutes after the event.... baffled, I simply went on to other window managers.
xfce - too minimal for me.
fluxbox - minimal as well
windowMaker - very oldSkool
And, finally, yes, I landed on cinnamon. It's clearly built on top of gnome, but it works!
Now, for some reason that's beyond me, I can't get RealVNC desktop :1 to start with a windows manager... unless it's GNOME, the default! When I configure the ~/.vnc/xstartup file with some other, like cinnamon, it says there's some other already running, but once I log in, all I see the X mouse cursor and the wiggly lines, so typical of X11, there's no way to run a program there, so it's useless.
If I start a vnc desktop with the default settings (chmod -x ~/.vnc/xstartup) it works, but sometimes fails with an error complaining about the extensions. I then change the xstartup (chmod +x ./vnc/xstartup) and force vncserver to start on :0 or :3, and it works perfectly. I now have a vnc session with gnome and another with fluxbox.
Oh the woe....
