Mint's major version upgrade process has been okay on the few systems I've gone through it, but a better tool certainly won't hurt. The previous one was basically a collection of rather clunky scripts. On my own systems I like to do a reinstall once every couple of years anyway. I think of it as a biennial* spring cleaning of sorts. I tweak my partition setup if needed, decide on whatever custom configuration I want to carry over etc. Honestly, it doesn't even take that much longer than an upgrade.

That said, I'll definitely give this tool a try.

Quoting: Purple Library GuyBut we'll see . . . past Mint upgrade-related tools have been a bit iffy. I'm certainly not going to stop keeping /home on a separate partition!

I'd say having a separate home partition is a good idea regardless of the distro.

EDIT: bi-annual? biennial? Whatever means once every two years. :D

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Quoting: TuxeeSpeedometer: 78.0 (deb) vs. 77.2 (snap)
JetStream2: 63.678 (deb) vs. 67.811 (snap)
MotionMark: 48.29 (deb) vs. 65.92 (snap)

This is completely off topic, but what's going on with your Firefox? I know my 5700 XT is slightly more powerful than your non-XT 5700, and your 5900X packs a good deal more oomph than my 3700X, but how are you getting a measly 65.92 in MotionMark when I get 876.18? That's like nowhere near comparable. JetStream2 gave me about double your result, and Speedometer way more than double (164). What's going on with Ubuntu if Mint's build of Firefox is this much faster?

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Quoting: F.Ultra

Quoting: Purple Library Guy

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Quoting: whizse

Quoting: frykBut what I never want to go back to, is having to read all that conversation on screen. Voice-Over please :-)

Hah! I'm very much the opposite. Zero patience for voice. I finish reading. I click to skip. :tongue:

What I never get is why they voice the replies that my character does, I mean I read the entire reply when choosing to click it so why did I just have to spend time hearing it as well?

Especially since they always get someone to do the voice that doesn't sound like me at all. Terrible research on their part! :grin:

Hard to tell since I don't know how you sound ;)

He's a Library Guy: he rarely speaks and when he does, he does it very quietly.

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: damarrinWhen I click on "The Wheel of Time" link FF warns me of a potential security threat listing a adtraction domain. Not cool.

Sounds like a plugin doing that? Get no issues here.

Adtraction is on the default filter lists of common adblockers like uBlock Origin.

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Quoting: KohlyKohlIt won't be the same unless I have to swap floppy disks

That's really not something I'm nostalgic for. Twelve floppies for a damn adventure game. I can still almost feel the frustration of finding out disk 10 of my copy of MI2 had multiple errors...

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Quoting: const

Quoting: tuubiIf Linux support is announced, this will be at the top of my wishlist immediately.

They should develop it directly in ScummVM!

Heh. That would be nice, but I doubt it. Unless Disney/Lucas gets a say, Gilbert is likely to bake his own engine, or rather base the engine on what he created for Thimbleweed Park. I'm basing this on the following excerpt from the Thimbleweed Park blog:

Quoting: Ron GilbertLots of great choices, but deep down (if I'm honest with myself), I'm a game engine snob. Whenever I use an engine, I keep wanting to modify it and hack into it to do what I need. I guess I've found over the years that it's a lot easier (and less stressful) for me if I just create my own.

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Quoting: starpolloBold move from the old snap advocate! He must have gotten real sick of the cool-aid I guess?

Or maybe he was just doing his job as a Canonical employee.

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If Linux support is announced, this will be at the top of my wishlist immediately.

Quoting: frykBut what I never want to go back to, is having to read all that conversation on screen. Voice-Over please :-)

All of the later Lucasarts adventures had voice acting, including Curse of Monkey Island (MI3). So do the third party HD remakes of 1 and 2. Would be odd if a new Monkey Island game didn't.

EDIT: Never mind. Should have watched the trailer first. Nice to see that Dominic Armato is back as the voice of Guybrush.

I wonder if our hero has done the Harry Potter thing and aged with his fans. Would be nice to see how he's coping with early middle age. :grin:

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The pixel art is lovely. Particularly in the battle scenes.

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: fnordianslipCould do with an English translation. I was surprised to learn that the in game character is actually wearing pants when he gets out of bed and actually needs to find his trousers.

"Pants" matches alright what I get to see here - stuff you can wear outside without being frowned upon:

https://www.google.com/search?q=pants&source=lnms&tbm=isch [External Link]

It's a British vs. American English thing.

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