Must say, I now stick with whatever version of VBox is available in the repositories. I was terribly pleased with myself some time ago when I worked out how to add a later version than what was on offer in the repos.

And it barely worked.

Meantime, my affection for Maya (Mint 13) is developing thin patches.

1. In Mint 9, resetting the date/time format (replacing the bizarre month/date with date/month, for instance) is simple - find the date and time settings and find what you want.

In Mint 13, in order to customise your " strftime" settings, you're directed to a website.

Which no longer works. Thus demonstrating the inherent fragility of any system which has even some components "in the cloud."

strftime, if you look it up, doesn't look that hard. Does it? Hah!

2. I've installed VirtualBox. In order to enable USB functionality, VBox needs to be added to the appropriate User Group.

In Mint 9, one simply finds Users and Groups, and works it out from there.

Mint 13 only seems to have Users. No buttons to press for Groups. Anywhere. I've been searching for a couple of hours now. It has to be there, probably right under my nose.

But why on earth mess about with things that worked satisfactorily in the first place, especially when the messing around ends up reducing the effectiveness of the system.

Grrr, mutter mutter, sulk...