eek. natty's eol. and the last natty firefox update was sick. so, i was unwittingly motivated, time to jump to quantal. after the jump, quantal vlc was hosed. well shucks, i figured, perhaps quantal is too bleeding edge. so i tried maya. you know, since i'm installing *again*, might as well see what the mint buzz is all about. mint 13 xfce vlc worked great on the liveCD, and worked great after installing to disc. but after apt-get upgrade, maya vlc has the same frozen display that quantal vlc had. sound works great if you pass a stream on the vlc commandline, but the vlc display is frozen. other apps, eg firefox, are fine. heck. could this force my hand to try LMDE? is ubuntu losing whatever quality process it may have had previously? or is distrohopping just being silly, perhaps it's just vlc's problem, perhaps i shouldn't blame ubuntu. i guess i'm uninterested in testing at this stage, i just want stuff that works, and isn't eol. is that unfair? thoughts?