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Mint is based off of Ubuntu, but also has a version based off of Debian, as zx2c4 has pointed out. The biggest difference is that Mint uses the Cinnamon desktop
by l337n1nj4 13y ago
Mint is based off of Ubuntu, but also has a version based off of Debian, as zx2c4 has pointed out. The biggest difference is that Mint uses the Cinnamon desktop environment, as opposed to Unity, which was forked from Gnome 2. Also, they use Nemo, which was forked from Nautilus, which has more functionality and features as opposed to Nautilus.
- keithpeter 13y agoI thought MATE was the Gnome 2 fork, and Cinnamon was based on GTK3? Disclaimer: don't use either, I use CentOS on the serious work machine and Debian (non-free) on the playpad.
- prg318 13y agoYou are correct: MATE is the GNOME 2 fork that uses GTK2. Cinnamon is a modified version of GNOME3 that uses GTK3 and provides extensions to the GNOME3 desktop so that the default desktop looks and feels like a default GNOME2 desktop. Linux Mint uses Cinnamon.
- mayneack 13y agoLinux Mint also uses Mate. http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=2366 http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=2366 Cinnamon is listed first, but Mate is much more of an equal player here than something like xubuntu is compared to ubuntu.