mint

[Coleman Kane]

A friend of mine at work (GE) uses Mint for his primary desktop environment and swears by it. I think GNOME 3 is the desktop environment (rather than Unity).

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On Jan 2, 2012, at 1:42 PM, Bruce Labitt <bruce.labitt at myfairpoint.net> wrote:

> I'm tempted to try out mint.  There are quite a few options.  From what I gather, Mint is based on Ubuntu.  So the latest Mint 12 is based on Oneiric.  I have Oneiric now and really think it is a steaming bucket as far as productivity.  It really is not made for doing work, it       seems to be more oriented towards eye-candy.  It seems to take a lot more mouse movement and difficult navigation to get anything done.
> 
> Anyone have experience with the Mint family?  How is the desktop handled?
> 
> Should I take the plunge to LMDE?  I've never run debian before.
> 
> I'm not looking for which distro is the best ever, unless folks want to have fun.  Just looking for something that is closer to       what 10.04 LTS was.  I run and maintain that at work for my two servers.  Anything that is a bit more modern than 10.04 that 1) runs on older hardware (video especially) and can support vlc and myth?
> 
> Maybe I'm just looking to hold on to gnome.  It worked well enough.  It didn't have too much stupid stuff and was relatively easy to maintain.
> 
> Any insights?
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