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I switched to Fedora myself, but haven't tried Linux Mint yet. Does Mint offer anything that other run-of-the-mill distros don't?
by chuinard 15y ago
I switched to Fedora myself, but haven't tried Linux Mint yet. Does Mint offer anything that other run-of-the-mill distros don't?
- lagartoflojo 15y agoI also use Fedora. Mint is an Ubuntu derivative, so basically any tutorial about Ubuntu will also work for Mint, which I think is a big plus.
- bru 15y agoThere is LMDE too: Linux Mint Debian Edition, which is based on Debian testing (so it's a rolling release).
- sixtofour 15y agoOne way to distinguish between distros is package management. Debian, Ubuntu, Mint and other Debian derivates use apt/deb. Fedora and other RH derivatives use rpm. Other distros use whatever they use. If you don't care one way about package management, then you might care about which versions of packages are supported by default. For example, this is Lubuntu's (essentially Ubuntu's). http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=lubuntu http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=lubuntu You can check other distros' package versions there too, as well as package management, file systems, etc. Of course nothing says you can't install whatever version of whatever package on whatever distro that you want, but it's nice to know from where you'll be starting.