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My god, it's yet another piece of software called Mint. Stop the branding madness! Also frustrating is the fact that I couldn't spot the link from the official

My god, it's yet another piece of software called Mint. Stop the branding madness! Also frustrating is the fact that I couldn't spot the link from the official Linux Mint blog to the "please tell me what Linux Mint is" page. I ultimately resorted to Google. A conversion funnel tragedy.

DanBC 15y ago
Linux Mint was first released in 2006, so it's not hopping on some "name our software product Mint" bandwagon. > Also frustrating is the fact that I couldn't spot the link from the official Linux Mint blog to the [. . .] Yes, this is a common and frustrating mistake. There's a bunch of stuff that I haven't bothered investigating because I get sent to a blog but can't be bothered to web-search for the product when there's no link.
middus 15y ago
AFAIR, the first Linux Mint release is from 2006.
eCa 15y ago
> Also frustrating is the fact that I couldn't spot the link from the official Linux Mint blog to the "please tell me what Linux Mint is" page. Yes, it's incomprehensible why so many companies: a) don't use their normal headers for the blog, or at least b) put a prominent link back to the homepage (like the logo, for instance). However, when the blog is at http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=1884 http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=1884 it is not a gigantic leap of thought to go check what might be at http://www.linuxmint.com/ http://www.linuxmint.com/, from where it's one click to the about page.
- nakkiel 15y ago
  Company? You must have overlooked something.
- robotresearcher 15y ago
  > However, when the blog is at http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=1884 http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=1884 it is not a gigantic leap of thought to go check what might be at http://www.linuxmint.com/ http://www.linuxmint.com/, from where it's one click to the about page. I think the poster was commenting on the difficulty of getting to the main web site, not the possibility. Having visitors hand-edit URIs is not considered slick customer conversion.

DanBC 15y ago

Linux Mint was first released in 2006, so it's not hopping on some "name our software product Mint" bandwagon. > Also frustrating is the fact that I couldn't spot the link from the official Linux Mint blog to the [. . .] Yes, this is a common and frustrating mistake. There's a bunch of stuff that I haven't bothered investigating because I get sent to a blog but can't be bothered to web-search for the product when there's no link.

middus 15y ago

AFAIR, the first Linux Mint release is from 2006.

eCa 15y ago

> Also frustrating is the fact that I couldn't spot the link from the official Linux Mint blog to the "please tell me what Linux Mint is" page. Yes, it's incomprehensible why so many companies: a) don't use their normal headers for the blog, or at least b) put a prominent link back to the homepage (like the logo, for instance). However, when the blog is at http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=1884 http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=1884 it is not a gigantic leap of thought to go check what might be at http://www.linuxmint.com/ http://www.linuxmint.com/, from where it's one click to the about page.

nakkiel 15y ago
Company? You must have overlooked something.
robotresearcher 15y ago
> However, when the blog is at http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=1884 http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=1884 it is not a gigantic leap of thought to go check what might be at http://www.linuxmint.com/ http://www.linuxmint.com/, from where it's one click to the about page. I think the poster was commenting on the difficulty of getting to the main web site, not the possibility. Having visitors hand-edit URIs is not considered slick customer conversion.