During the install, I ran into several questions asking if I wanted to keep my configs or use the maintainers. This was expected as it was plainly explained in the instructions as an issue I'd face. When presented with these questions I asked my self a few questions:
[*]Have I ever heard of this file or program before? If No, use the maintainers config.
[*]If I have heard of it, did I change it? If I did and it would be easy to change back, I'd go with the maintainers. If it were something that may be difficult to remember what I did, I kept my original. CUPS config and SAMBA were two files I left of my own.
Once installed there were a couple of issues that I ran across on the working system.
Compiz: Would not save settings. I fixed this my completely removing all things compiz related (config files and such), removing compiz itself with Synaptic and the "complete removal" option. Once I reinstalled using synaptic, all was well. I was even able to reload my previously saved configurations.
Wine: Wine wouldn't work. It kept giving me errors about not being able to load CUPS printers. This was fixed by moving the .wine directory to .wine.old, and completely removing and reinstalling wine. Once this was done, I re-setup wine using the config utility and even got a few programs to run after copying them back from the backup "C"\program files\" directory. Not all apps have been tested, but IE6, notepad and DVDShrink were the ones I tested and they worked fine.
Back buttons on my mouse: This killed me! I have grown spoiled by those little buttons on the side of the mouse. I won't go back to having to reach all the way up to the back button in Firefox! I found that the fix for this was to change the "6 7" in my xorg.conf to "8 9". Now, the whole line reads:
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Option "ButtonMapping" "1 2 3 8 9"
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Option "ButtonMapping" "1 2 3 6 7"
Webcam: My webcam does not work any more with zoneminder. I get errors when I try to use it. The light comes on when I run it, but it doesn't do anything. Cheese is working today where it wasn't yesterday. I have not tested Skype as that's what I use the webcam for (Grandma loves seeing her grandaughter!). Windows works better for that anyway as I bought the cheapest webcams on the market.
CLI resolution: Ubuntu 7.10 had a problem with setting up the console to anything other than the ugly, DOS looking resolution. vga=791 simply would not work in Gutsy or Mint4. This is now fixed, and the CLI is my friend again!
BUSYBOX! I would rather have the system just lock up rather than go into BusyBox. In Mint4, about 2 of every 3 reboots would end up in BusyBox. I never found a fix for this. So far, I've only had to reboot Mint5 three or four times, but I've only seen BusyBox once. I don't know if I've just been lucky and the problem still exists or if it's gotten better, and I just got unlucky that one time. Hopefully, it's the latter as it kills me to not be able to reboot my box remotely without having someone there to type "reboot" at the BusyBox prompt. It pisses the wife off to do computer stuff for me.
Since I didn't do a clean install, I don't know if there's stuff I'm missing. Artwork and stuff is no big deal as I usually change that anyway after about an hour. If there is anything that wouldn't have been installed from the upgrade, let me know and I'll see what I can do to get it running.
Well, that's what I've seen so far. If anyone else has these issues, I hope this helps. If I have any more problems, I'll let you guys know.