Just installed linux mint!

Cool cool, let me know if it works; I'm looking at getting an EeeBox as a media server sometime next year and would love to have Buntu on it!
 
Atrox Moris said:
And if you can't work out how to install codecs from a restricted repository on Ubuntu, maybe Linux isn't for you.
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Linux isn't about being an experts OS, it's about the freedom to make what you want of it, and If you want to make a distro that people can use; good on you.

I use debian BTW.
 
Atrox Moris, you seem to have it in for Mint

For new users, Mint is more working out of the box than Ubuntu

Notice the thread title isn't.. "mint is the best linux, omg the rest suck"



things i want to do in linux..

play music/videos
check email
check out porn

so for these, mint is perfect since it does them all out of the box :D
 
Oxy said:
Whats the point of Arch/Gentoo beefy distro's. They take hours upon hours to install for no speed increase
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Their vastly superior flexibility fills a niche. Something built on base + Fluxbox flies circles around Ubuntu. It's like night and day. You can be at the desktop, being productive, before Ubuntu has even loaded the first bar. :p

Obviously, there won't be much of speed increase if you keep adding stuff until they are as bloated as Ubuntu.

Still, I do wish the "base" installs of Arch / Debian were much leaner.
 
eXor said:
Still, I do wish the "base" installs of Arch / Debian were much leaner.
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The "base" install of debian comes with almost nothing, it's the default application sets that come with KDE and Gnome which are bloated.

My 1st job is "apt-get install kde", my second job is removing all the apps I don't use.
 
AJUK said:
Perhaps they should use that as their motto.

"Linux Mint - the pornlovers choice!" :D
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heh :)

was just elaborating


my needs from linux are a free, stable, working out of the box no hassle OS, i don't care to learn it
 
I think what Mint offers is a system that most things work straight away. It means you can use Linux at the same time of learning the extra bits. It saves having to dual boot all the time.
 
dont use it myself but i admire what Mint does. Enthusiasts will always want something leaner, but the average joe just wants something that "just works".

Mint-like distributions are the future of linux on the desktop and I welcome it.
 
eXor said:
Yeah, 241 MB is not bad for Debian core. I thought it was 497M because I did a du -h and forgot about /proc :o

Still, a pruner's work is never done. I spotted vi and vim in there!
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The vim which comes with debian is awful. I'm not sure why, it's just hard to use.

Doing apt-get install vim cures this. Back to the easy to use vim with nice key mappings.
 
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