I love Mint 7

Skeptic · 2 Aug 2009 at 14:48

For those who don't want to spend 3 hours setting up every bit of hardware (Belkin wireless USB stick works out the box), then I think this is perfect.

I have Ubunti 9.04 on the Laptop, and while it's good, the speed of Mint is just incredible. Also, Wine-Doors for all your Windows needs! Dx9 installed and every game I've tried to install so-far has worked so smoothly; better than Windows.

(P.S I've tried most of the distros, and this is just utterly fantastic. )

brummie · 2 Aug 2009 at 15:51

Didnt even realise it was out. i'll get a live CD later to test

Atom · 2 Aug 2009 at 15:55

I just tried this this morning and it my first time away from windows. I am going to have to do a lot of reading!!!!! Not a clue how to install the drivers for my XFi.....

brummie · 2 Aug 2009 at 16:10

Downloadin now to have a look. Downloadin faster than i get from Ubuntu @ 2.3Mb/s. Good start

theheyes · 2 Aug 2009 at 17:25

I've been using it on my work laptop for a couple of months now, it has been quite good to be honest. The only thing that has bugged me consistently has been when elevating to root user (graphically) it will occasionally just bum out with a message saying "could not capture mouse" or something which requires a reboot to fix. Plus it didn't detect my card-reader, which was disappointing considering it detected the fingerprint reader.

Other than that it's been wicked.

BigglesPiP · 2 Aug 2009 at 17:44

I might give this a try on the EEE tonight, if the Bluetooth toggling works, and the WiFi toggling is stable, I might go for it.

craptakular · 2 Aug 2009 at 19:19

gonna give it a go! see how arma2 runs for a laugh!!! Yes, I know I'am a crazyyyy guy!

gbradders123 · 3 Aug 2009 at 02:37

think my laptop willhave this thrown on her, bored of straight ubuntu, was gonna go for kubuntu but let madness prevail

brendan · 5 Aug 2009 at 08:15

oh my god ubuntu with an extra repo and a green skin? This must be good.

lol - cant believe how popular a distro that bundles mp3 codecs and flash ontop of ubuntu can be this popular.

bledd · 5 Aug 2009 at 09:42

brendan said:
oh my god ubuntu with an extra repo and a green skin? This must be good.

lol - cant believe how popular a distro that bundles mp3 codecs and flash ontop of ubuntu can be this popular.

it just 'works', and looks good

The Deuce · 5 Aug 2009 at 15:01

bledd. said:
it just 'works', and looks good

zinc · 5 Aug 2009 at 15:11

Personally I've never liked mint, I tried it for a while and then went back to ubuntu. As brendan said it's simply ubuntu with a few extras added. Extras I don't want or need. With all the applications like mintupload, mintinstall, and mintupdate, ubuntu has these already. It just adds inconsistency and unnecessary applications. Will we see mintMovie, mintMail and mintTerminal next?

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Ubuntu suits me nicely.

If anyone is interested in the icons and login theme mint uses check out gnome-colors and arc-colors here: http://code.google.com/p/gnome-colors/

craptakular · 5 Aug 2009 at 22:07

zinc said:
Personally I've never liked mint, I tried it for a while and then went back to ubuntu. As brendan said it's simply ubuntu with a few extras added.

and ubuntu is just an unnecessary edition of Debian? I think it is

Skeptic · 5 Aug 2009 at 22:15

brendan said:
oh my god ubuntu with an extra repo and a green skin? This must be good.

lol - cant believe how popular a distro that bundles mp3 codecs and flash ontop of ubuntu can be this popular.

This is why people don't use linux.

Archangelus · 6 Aug 2009 at 21:29

Can I just install this over the top of my existing Ubuntu partition? It's dual booting with XP, so need to make sure I can boot into Something, at least

.walls · 6 Aug 2009 at 21:35

Oxy said:
and ubuntu is just an unnecessary edition of Debian? I think it is

Not really - the word "ubuntu" comes from African and has a roughly direct translation of "couldn't configure Debian"

EDIT: rather than a double post...

fus said:
This is why people don't use linux.

That's retarded. Windows doesn't come bundled with flash or mp3 support and people use that... (ok... not sure about mp3 support... but still!)

zinc · 6 Aug 2009 at 21:45

Oxy said:
and ubuntu is just an unnecessary edition of Debian? I think it is

Well yes it is debian but they both fulfill different roles, thus people can choose which they prefer. One thing I love about ubuntu is its 6 month release cycle, I think its spot on for desktop usage, while debians is longer (I think it's one year now but they are changing it to 2 years after squeeze). A longer cycle though is excellent for servers or if you want a rock solid desktop.

Debians more stable, ubuntu is more cutting edge.

Debian is for more experienced users, ubuntu is more noob friendly.

I've used both but I prefer ubuntu.

Archangelus · 6 Aug 2009 at 23:11

just installed Mint7 on my old acer laptop, but it's not detecting my onboard wifi card

Any clues how to get this working? Bit of a linux n00b.

zinc · 6 Aug 2009 at 23:58

Archangelus said:
just installed Mint7 on my old acer laptop, but it's not detecting my onboard wifi card Any clues how to get this working? Bit of a linux n00b.

Hi there, unfortunately some very old wireless chipsets do not work. I couldn't get wireless to work on a 6 year old laptop a while back, was using ubuntu 9.04, similar to mint. I believe it was a broadcom chipset.

Type in this into terminal

Code:

lspci

and see which wireless chipset it uses, then google about for the model or chipset. Ubuntu and mint solutions you find will both be fine as mint is based on ubuntu. Maybe also google for ndiswrapper, it may get it working for you.

Archangelus · 7 Aug 2009 at 07:18

It's a TI chipset, and I can't find anything that sayd it'll work

tried Ndiswrapper, but no joy, so it's a /fixmbr for me laptop. It's a shame, because I liked what I saw of it on the laptop, but without wireless, it makes it a bit pointless.

regarding my existing Ubuntu install on my desktop, can I just install Mint over the top of this, or do I need to get rid of the ubuntu partitions first?