I've done 5 installs so far... Three on Triela and two on Mei-chan. First install on Triela was on the test partition to make sure VLC could be installed; the second was an install with BTRFS, which I found out halfway through the installation (after the reboot, before touching the manual configuration) that ext4 performs better than BTRFS; so the third installation was, obviously, with ext4. The first install on Mei-chan failed because a couple packages were broken (I was going to install XFCE and KDE along with GNOME), and so I tried again (without the XFCE and KDE) and it worked just fine.
I used the live disk to test VLC installation and 1080p playback on Mei-Ren (at the same time when I was testing on Triela), and didn't have any hiccups. And as usual, the hot keys don't work on the video window. Oh well.
I think I forgot to mention that after logging out of root after editing
fstab, fstab's reloaded on login instead of boot.
I also found a separate program for additional trackpad options that aren't in the settings.
Fstab is also a lot cleaner, as it only contains physical partitions/drives (the proc and stuff like that aren't there any more).
I think that's all that I can really think of... Besides Rhythmbox being a bit weird on Triela and crashing when trying to play certain songs. I may write more, but I can't be certain, as I'm pretty tired, physically.
Lie-chan was easy and mostly uneventful (only problem I had was a slight glitch with the fonts after logging back in after changing the theme, which worked itself out); Melty on the other hand.... While trying to boot into GNOME live, something happened and it stalled or got stuck in some sort of loop, so I was forced to do a blind install on Melty. Luckily, nothing happened.
Another thing I forgot to mention is that the menu for certain programs (Rhythmbox, as that's the only one I've really seen so far) is interesting. Each "section" of the menu has its own arrow, which releases the sub-menu once clicked upon.
Well, I think that's it. I won't update for the next 3 years or until the next good LTS is released. I'll still continue to test the later releases as they come out.
(edit)
Seems that it's Rhythmbox itself that crashes when trying to play certain songs, but it changes what songs it crashes on per computer. When I open Rhythmbox via terminal and play a known song to make it crash, it gives me an undecipherable error maybe having something to do with
cairo? If I was able to install the older version of Rhythmbox, I would, but since 13.1 ships with 3.0.1, there's not a whole lot I can do. Banshee works very similarly to Rhythmbox, but is very slow (probably because I have a lot of songs in my music library. It's slow enough, where I really can't use it.
Amarok works decently, but doesn't have a separate "now playing" list like Rhythmbox or Banshee. While it keeps the song it was playing, the next random song is random. Luckily, there's an option to shift the randomization, which I set to "Not Recently Played" to avoid hearing a song that I heard not too long ago (iTunes is horrible for it). Amarok does have a queue, but it's very lacking, only allowing you to move songs up and down and to delete the song from the queue or clear the queue. If they program it further to have it become the "now playing" section, I'd probably migrate to Amarok without a second thought. I'll use Amarok for the time being and keep an eye on Rhythmbox.
While this is annoying, it's no real reason to go back to 12.3. Not to mention, I really prefer 13.1, considering all the features I was looking forward to. It's just kinda sad I can't really do much but wait and play things by ear.
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