Ubuntu vs Mint

It recognises a few more codecs from the get go, and is considerably less...brown, however by the time you've customized Ubuntu to look how you want with a natty 3d desktop and downloaded the DVDCSS thing there's nothing to choose IMO
 
Not really.

Mint is based on Ubuntu anyway. Just with some added "Features" pre-installed.

Features being codecs etc. Easily installable in Ubuntu.. or any other distro come to think of it.
 
Outcast said:
Not really.

Mint is based on Ubuntu anyway. Just with some added "Features" pre-installed.

Features being codecs etc. Easily installable in Ubuntu.. or any other distro come to think of it.
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Yet another distro. I'm all for choice, but sometimes you wonder why they bothered. :p
 
.deb sum-up on a scale of easy (hardest on top):

Debian - I'm anal about stability, and willing to sacrifice some security and functionality to do it.

Ubuntu - I like the security updates on time, but am happy to sacrifice security elsewhere and stability, for some nice up to date features.

Mint - I'm new to this, I'm not to good at finding the alternative softwares, and I can't ever get ./configure make make install to work for media codecs.
 
IMO use Ubuntu and install the restricted-extras package.. the media codecs may not be installed by default but they will auto-install when you need a codec that you dont have. Never has to "./configure make make install" or anything myself.

Mint was a lot more necessary back when these things were a hassle on Ubuntu.. not so now
 
Mint was my first decent attempt at Linux, i found it a lot more user friendly and gives a good start on how to use things and where to find them.
But it very resource heavy and abit sluggish on my laptop.
Installed Ubuntu and abit quicker, and found it easy to uss, however that is due to using basic things in Mint.
 
I used MINT a few releases back because of the media extras. But it didn't last long and I was just so used to windows I went back to XP/Vista. Now i'm back with Ubuntu and finding it much much better, especially with the freedom of choosing which packages you want, and an overall faster build I'm finding. Also more rewarding to use the terminal and gui based functions!
 
I use mint, I prefer it as I'm lazy, and really like how I can just install it and its got everything I need :D
And I recommend it to people to try for the first time because of this, and its the most windows looking distro imo.
 
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