mint

[Ryan Lee Stanyan]

Also with Gnome Shell you can extend the desktop environment using
Javascript as far as I heard.  There is a website for it, though it will
only work with Firefox.

https://extensions.gnome.org/

On Mon, 2012-01-02 at 13:51 -0500, Coleman Kane wrote:
> 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).
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> 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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