Has anyone installed this Mint 16 XFCE? Junk. During the install it asks the user if they

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5. Hey jtuck004

I haven't used Mint but it's basically Ubuntu in green. You may find more information in the ubuntu forum. As far as the defaults.list, there's usually a default choice listed/highlighted/ or you can just hit enter which would be fine. There are some people who are upgrading or installing for development reasons and they would not want the default choice for some technical reason and that's why it's there. No, it would be nicer if that was explained better or not made part of the basic upgrade but it's different depending on the flavor of Linux you use.

One question I would ask you, are you upgrading using apt-get, aptitude, CD or are you using a program manager like synaptic? You will get less obscure questions if you upgrade using the package manager in your old version than if you use the terminal.

Sorry for your trouble. There are so many ways to go about Linux that it can get confusing but then there are so many different ways people want their distro to work for them. Too many choices sometimes, but I prefer choices because once I get through the questionable issue it doesn't bother me again.

Cheers!