Scanner no longer works with my AMD PC

[David Fletcher]

On Tue, 2016-08-23 at 18:35 +0100, David Fletcher wrote:
> On Sun, 2016-08-21 at 20:39 +0100, David Fletcher wrote:
> > Now that there is a desktop version of Ubuntu with MATE I might give
> > that a whirl when I have some spare time. Perhaps install it under
> > Virtualbox and give it full USB access for starters, see what happens.
> 
> Which I just tried to do, but when I boot the ISO file it goes through a
> couple of stages then collapses into a letterbox shaped screen filled
> with multicoloured random gibberish.
> 
> Is it worth my while, I wonder, to download the "normal" Ubuntu
> distribution and see if it can install the MATE desktop?

Which is exactly what I just did, and surprise, surprise, it produces a
letterbox screen full of random coloured gibberish just like the MATE
version did. That's not very good for what is supposed to be a
professional distribution, is it?

To check that it's not Virtualbox that's at fault, I just used it to
boot the Linux Mint 18 installer. It booted properly, produced a nice
desktop display with an "Install" icon, which I clicked, and it's now
installing what I expect to be a fully operational VM.

Looks to me like the Mint developers are most probably the people who
actually know what they're doing.