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"It is one of the 2 choices of DE's for Linux Mint which is one of the most popular Linux distros out right now." Thats not quite true, Mint was one of the mos
by RobAley 14y ago
"It is one of the 2 choices of DE's for Linux Mint which is one of the most popular Linux distros out right now."
Thats not quite true, Mint was one of the most (independently & newly) downloaded distros on several distro watch lists in recent months. If you consider most popular to mean largest install/use base, then it isn't.
- pavanky 14y ago> one of the most popular Linux distros out right now stop nitpicking please.
- Symmetry 14y agoNot really. It's the top in pageviews at Distrowatch, but there really isn't any reason to think its popular outside that community. I know that among the people I interact with, 20+ run Ubuntu, 3 run Debian, 1 runs Slackware, 1 runs Gentoo, 1 runs NetBSD, and none run Mint.
- RobAley 14y agoI wasn't nitpicking. I wasn't just saying mint wasn't THE most popular, I was actively saying that it wasn't even ONE of the most popular (by the definition I gave). And even if that still seems picky, packages make or break a distro, so being picky over what criteria you use to choose them isn't such a bad thing.