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I recommend mint. I think its a good idea to try out alternatives.
by general_failure 13y ago
I recommend mint.
I think its a good idea to try out alternatives.
- josteink 13y agoBut if the idea is to get away from Canonical's decisions, moving to a distro based directly on Ubuntu seems a bit backwards. Check the repos. Mint is Ubuntu + some extras.
- devx 13y agoThey also have a Debian version now: http://www.linuxmint.com/download_lmde.php http://www.linuxmint.com/download_lmde.php
- chilldream 13y agoDebian Edition aside, the things people complain about are generally things that Mint removes; in fact, looking at the three bullet points from the original article: * Unity - Completely ignored in Mint, in favor of MATE (Gnome 2 fork) and Cinnamon (Gnome 3 fork, I believe?) * Amazon Search - removed * Mark Shuttleworth - Only upstream where no one has to care about him
- shavenwarthog2 13y ago+1 Mint. I used Ubuntu, not Debian, because things "just worked." Ubuntu over time seemed to get slower and more intrusive, so I tried out Mint. It is fast, not over complex, and things like media and devices Just Work. I'm a fan of the Cinnamon interface, although in practice I use a minimal tiling window manager like i3 or wmii. I'm a big fan of the Debian way of doing things. Next time I have an excuse I'll try LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition.) http://www.linuxmint.com/ http://www.linuxmint.com/