Linux Mint 20 Beta should be out soon for testing

[buster]

So I finally tested Mint20Beta this morning. Did updates, and put the wallpaper on slide show. My goodness it's perfect! At least in virtual. It even has the files included so drag and drop works from host to guest. Quick easy install. Read the Mint forum and some had already switched over to the beta. A few had problems, but not too many. Seems quick.

One addition I don't think I'd seen before was a chart that said 'Pick your favourite colour' and I chose blue and the icons changed.

See included attachment which is almost default.

[buster]

And the menu is awesome.

[Jason]

Lovely. Did you change the size of the icons on the bottom or was that the default?

[buster]

" Did you change the size of the icons on the bottom or was that the default?"

Everything is default except for my choosing blue, and the wallpaper. Dragged music from Win10 and it worked. Didn't pick up info on whose band it was or the name of songs, but I can fix that.

Awfully good for a beta.

[Jason]

Awfully good for a beta.

Well, this forum is a beta and is working better than the original. ;-)

[ssfc72]

So Mike, did you get all the partitions restored with the software that was wiped out on your computer hard drive, when you were testing out the Mint 20 Beta?

I took the default installation, so I'm not sure where it put it. This is a mystery to me as well. Even if grub was set up badly, it was in such a way as to prevent MacOS from seeing that there was a Mac operating system there. And in two partitions, only one being the disk it was installed on.

[fox]

So Mike, did you get all the partitions restored with the software that was wiped out on your computer hard drive, when you were testing out the Mint 20 Beta?

I did, or at least I think I did. I had a version of MacOS X Catalina saved on an external SSD. I cloned it back to the two partitions (one internal, the other external) that were unreadable after the Mint 20 beta installation. They work well. What I don't know is whether anything important was lost from the original installation, but I doubt it because I rarely used the Mac partition. The other thing I lost is that the internal partition was an earlier MacOS version (High Sierra), and that is now gone. It might matter because there is software that worked on High Sierra that doesn't on Catalina. However, it wouldn't be a big deal because I have High Sierra on an older computer. Bottom line is I'm OK.

[ssfc72]

Very good.