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I thought I would give Linux Mint 12 a go on an old PC I had lying around. Whenever it starts up there is no taskbar or start button. There are also no minimise/maximise/close buttons on any of the windows. I had a quick google but none of the suggested fixes (mainly doing things with windows-decorator) worked. Any ideas?

Thanks

I would think the linux mint forum / irc channel would be more useful place to ask. looks like you are missing a window manager. are you booted into mate desktop or gnome3 ? i dont run linux mint anymore at home, but xubuntu now.

Looks like it was a dodgy graphics driver - I reinstalled it with a PCI-E graphics card instead of the onboard graphics & it runs fine now.

Any good dwl99? Was thinking of putting mint on an old laptop. Had ubuntu on it dual boot a while back which worked well but needed the space back.
Is xubuntu better then BuZz?

Matter of opinion really. I moved to xfce rather than going the gnome3 route - and at that time there wasn't the gnome2 fork mate etc. but since I'm using xfce it does the job for me.

Ah ok, not very up on all the linux distros. Will download both and give them a trial run.

yugo wrote:Any good dwl99? Was thinking of putting mint on an old laptop. Had ubuntu on it dual boot a while back which worked well but needed the space back.
Is xubuntu better then BuZz?

Linux Mint had a prettier interface but was quite slow & prone to freezing on the ancient PC I installed it on. Xubuntu is running faster & smoother. I prefer Mint on my main PC & have no problems with it. So I think you've done the right thing by trying them both.