[tomboy-list] Installation and latest version questions

[Bill Logan]

On 06/14/2011 04:44 PM, Jared Jennings wrote:
> I am downloading Linux Mint now (I am curious); probably will be a few
> days before I finish it though

When I first became a Windows refugee some 10 or 12 years ago, I used 
the Red Hat distrubtion (if that's what it could be called compared to 
what we have today). And I had a "geek" son who maintained the system 
for me. He's since gone his way, but not before introducing me to 
Ubuntu. So for years I did the Ubuntu thing - until the latest release 
with the Unity desktop. I was a dyed in the wool Gnome fan. So I began 
poking around and tried all of the popular distros (according to 
distrowatch) on VirtualBox - liked Linux Mint the best. When they 
released Linux Mint 11 I installed it on my desktop, no problem. When I 
went to install it on my laptop (which is my work horse) I could not get 
it installed due to some initramfs (invalid argument; failed to mount 
filesystem.squashfs) error. I searched for a solution to that problem 
until my eyes crossed, and decided to try Fedora 15 and Gnome3. Like 
Ubuntu and Unity, Gnome3 is too unstable for me at this point. (I use 
very few applications on a regular basis - Tomboy being one of them; 
LibreOffice; Gnucash; Chromium; Thunderbird to name most of them. I am 
not interested in all of the social networking, gaming and cloud 
computing that seems to be the trend these days. I need an os which 
gives me continuity, so that I don't have to spend a lot of time 
learning what you guys who are so good with computers know.) The point 
being that I'm using Linux Mint 10 on my work horse and have been 
playing with lxde and xfce desktops (never cared much for KDE) until I 
can find a solution to the os/desktop whirlwind in which I've found 
myself these days.

Tomboy works under Linux Mint 10 using the Gnome2 desktop with no 
problem. All of this came about for me simply because I wanted to use 
the xfce desktop and noticed that there were icons but no visible list 
of notes with the icons in the system tray. I attempted a simple upgrade 
of Tomboy thinking that might solve the problem, and it's turned into this!

So though I am very much interested in your findings, I hope you are not 
spending a lot of time on this solely for my sake. While Tomboy is very 
important to me, getting the latest release and making it work under 
xfce is not - or maybe it is... geesh. I'm thinking of going to Fedora 
15 - but then I'm on their mailing list, and they are having all sorts 
of problems with that release even without Gnome3. So I don't know... I 
hope I'm not just wasting the time of good folks whose time might be 
better spent on bigger problems than I've got.

My apologies for getting a bit off topic, and for the length of this. I 
just felt it needed to be said.

-- 
Regards,
William (Bill) B. Logan, Sr.