My screen has frozen four times in less than a couple of hours. Make
that five; it crashed while I was writing this.
I re-read the release notes for Mint 12 and the blog comments. The Mint
team seems to have anticipated these problems and euphemistically
labeled "stability" issues.
"
Gnome 3, Gnome Shell and MGSE are brand new technologies. They will mature with
time and gain in functionality and stability.
If Gnome starts to act slow, or if it crashes on you, be aware that you
can restart it without closing your windows or logging out.
Simply do the following to restart Gnome Shell:
Press "Alt F2"
Type "r"
Press "Enter"
"
I agree with some other comments that this level of instability is
unexpected for something that is supposed to be a stable release.
Pressing Alt-F2, and then "r", and then Enter, recovers the system
without a full reboot, and the keystrokes work even when the dialog box
never is visible during the system freeze. You just have to type and
trust. Those keystrokes alone are making the OS minimally usable;
otherwise this would be basically a brick.
Mint needs to provide a stable variant of 12. I am running off-the-DVD
Gnome 3 Mint 12 with basically all the default settings. Maybe the Mint
team can tell users how to strip down Mint 12 until it removes whatever
parts of the OS are causing instability? MATE was identified as one
source, but I did not install it. What else can be uninstalled?
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