I've been using Mint for about 5 years now (IIRC) and love it.
Never had so much as a hiccup and can't see myself changing to another platform.
I'm currently on LM 17 "Qiana" (Long Term Support Release).
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I've been using Mint for about 5 years now (IIRC) and love it.
Never had so much as a hiccup and can't see myself changing to another platform.
I'm currently on LM 17 "Qiana" (Long Term Support Release).
I started with Fedora 5 whenever it was that was current. Some years ago. Steadily moved on through various releases of Ubuntu on to Mint. Now happily using mint 17. I've got a laptop with windows 7 installed for certain applications, but Linux is my main wheel.
I haven't found any of the brands you & Jimmy are talking about, but I got these at the Wal-Mart, in the wedding accessory section,,, and they are pretty darn good,,:shrug:
PartySweets Pastel Butter Mints
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Was using bodhi linux, based on ubuntu I think for about 4 years until computer took a dump. Looking for a replacement comp but will never go back to windoze. Haven't looked at mint but will now.
You have a wicked sense of humour Sir :roflmaoQuote:
Originally Posted by Hirlau
Grazor,Quote:
Originally Posted by Grazor
I'm not particularly "Linux or computer literate" but this works for me.
Tried Linux red hat in the late 90s and it was too geeky for me, but the speed and problems with various windoze OS drove me crazy. Installed Bodhi and not 1 problem in 4 years.Quote:
Originally Posted by bongo
Hirlau, you should install Ubuntu Linux, it has a built in AC diagnostic app....:rofl2:
Thanks ,,,, headed to Home Depot tomorrow to get it,,, gonna write it down so I get the right model,,,
I've been using CrunchBang Linux on my media server for the past 3 / 4 years and have never had a single issue.
CrunchBang was a small distribution which used to be based on Ubuntu but moved over to Debian around 3 years or so ago. Unfortunately though, the maintainer is no longer supporting the distribution and some of the users have converted a lot of repos and although still based on Debian, have renamed it now to BunsenLabs. The CrunchBang forums though are still active.
I still need to find the time to convert my installation over to BunsenLabs.
It's the easiest Linux distro to live with I've found. No need to go looking for apps, extensions or codecs: they're all there. And should you happen to want an app that wasn't loaded out of the box it's easy enough to round up, you almost never need to download installation packages and you will probably never need to install anything off the command line. If you don't know what all of those things mean then you'll be fine without them; just treat Mint like a foolproof Windows and it's hard to go wrong. Said the man writing his reply from a Mac Pro tower:o
been a user for years now!!! Running the mint 17 long term release.
If you Google Linux Mint 17 and burn a DVD of the image you can try it on the live DVD. You'll have a prompt to install it but it won't install unless you click it. So just run it and see what you think.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hirlau
I wouldn't install it on my one and only computer if I was not familiar with non windows distributions. Years ago it was more 'geeky' than it is now. You had to have a knowledge of the command line.
In recent years the GUI (graphic user interface) is so advanced the in most cases the command line is unnecessary. However, should you get stuck and need it, there are many forums that will instruct you in what to put into the terminal to use the command line.
There are some applications that are windows priority, and it is either more difficult, or maybe impossible, to run those on anything else, but most things are available on Linux.
Set up an old HP dual core for two of my grandchildren running the latest Linux Mint 17.3 release. Very impressive, would be an easy transition for anyone wanting to try Linux. Cheers bongo.
Was so impressed I got myself one too, put a new crucial 120 gb SSD in it. For anyone using the old platter HDD, would recommend as an easy upgrade, but they are a bit pricey. Super fast boot time, and silent. Installed Linux Mint Mate 17.3 and then Compiz on top. Dual booting with my old Bodhi system on the same SSD flawlessly, but so impressed with Mint don't think I will be using it much.
What's it like running as a media server with programmes such as SABNZB, Sickbeard etc?
Need to change my Crunchbang OS as it is no longer supported and was thinking of going Ubuntu Server LTS.
If it works in Ubuntu, should work in mint. Mint looks sharper and more intuitive than Ubuntu, tried both. All my music is from the terminal with moc, everything else is on the smart TV these days.Quote:
Originally Posted by Thug
Let's see... started with Mandrake, then Mandriva.... something broke in Mandrake so I switched to PClinuxOS which is a very nice rolling distro. I stayed with PClos until the beginning of this year when I took Ubuntu-Mate for a spin. I've been running Ubuntu-Mate since. I still like the rolling distro approach, but I also like a Debian based distro and so I've stuck with Ubuntu-Mate.
I've tried Mint many times, but I always went back to PClos... I just cannot stand that Mint Green Theme, and I'm too lazy to tweak it. Ubuntu-Mate seems to fit the bill right now, and there's news of painless upgrades on the horizon, so I may stick with it. The Mate desktop is amazing... light and good looking, not to mention easy to tweak!
Linux is linux... find a distro that you like and all will be good.
Regards
Christian
I just checked out Mate and it looks real good....Could be a game changer for me :tuQuote:
Originally Posted by kaptain_zero
My geek son-in-law installed Peppermint on my old laptop, I really like it.
I had to look up Ubuntu-Mate.... I didn't know it existed. I have used Mint and their Mate version a few times.Quote:
Originally Posted by kaptain_zero
Ubuntu-Mate became an official "flavour" after 15.04, though it was made available for the LTS version which is soon to be replaced if I recall correctly.
I don't know why I don't like Mint, it's all Linux, but I suppose it's just the Green theme that puts me off. I absolutely love Mate in Ubuntu, but my previous favorite distro, PClinuxOS, which I used with the KDE desktop, also had weird Mate styling, and I just couldn't be bothered to *fix* it. The styling supplied by Ubuntu-Mate is right up my alley (I still tweak it, but only lightly) and Martin Wimpress has gone out of his way to make this tinkering easy, not to mention all his hard work on the software manager and was the first official flavour to outright dump the original Ubuntu software app, which was quite dreadful.
Speaking of default styling, I could never use Ubuntu in it's earlier form with it's orangy brown theme.... It just drove me up the wall for some reason and so I never bothered with it until Mate came along. I booted up the liveCD and fell in love with it.
Regards
Christian
