a year or more old... 18.3. Wanted to check it running and run "uname", can't yet...

But I have 3 machines bootable to mint 18.3.  Seems like a keeper.

......a long term support release which will be supported until 2021 (they say.)

       which arose just sitting in the living room. Old age.

"host bus errors"(below)= I'm thinking "sata bus freaking out".

NO WORRIES (well actually, shopping time)

  i will fix or find new something. JUST FOR FUN,

/var/log/syslog  ( catch-all ) logfile below,

while dying on the 2nd sata port I am trying ( may as well try all four.....)

Dec 10 21:34:51 xx kernel: [100646.044071] ata2.00: failed command: WRITE DMA
Dec 10 21:34:51 xx kernel: [100646.044081] ata2.00: cmd ca/00:08:18:30:ac/00:00:00:00:00/e8 tag 0 dma 4096 out
Dec 10 21:34:51 xx  kernel: [100646.044081]          res 51/84:00:1f:30:ac/84:01:08:00:00/e8 Emask 0x30 (host bus error)
Dec 10 21:34:51 xx  kernel: [100646.044086] ata2.00: status: { DRDY ERR }
Dec 10 21:34:51 xx  kernel: [100646.044090] ata2.00: error: { ICRC ABRT }
Dec 10 21:34:51 xx kernel: [100646.044101] ata2: soft resetting link
Dec 10 21:34:52 xx kernel: [100646.206534] ata2.00: supports DRM functions and may not be fully accessible
Dec 10 21:34:52 xx kernel: [100646.209681] ata2.00: supports DRM functions and may not be fully accessible
Dec 10 21:34:52 xx kernel: [100646.210266] ata2.00: configured for UDMA/33
Dec 10 21:34:52 xx kernel: [100646.210280] ata2: EH complete

Linux Mint 18.3 features Cinnamon 3.6, a Linux kernel 4.10

and an Ubuntu 16.04 package base.