Comments on: Linux Mint makes Ubuntu suck less

By: REZ

REZ — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:35:56 +0000

I`am a complete linux n00b “i was an expert on windows tho (;” i have just started to experiment with linux looking at all the differnt distros etc, i`am just about to install mint i have tried opensuse had problems with my network connection, then had ubuntu installed everything ran fine, now i want to try mint, hopefully everything runs well and i will be more than happy to leave ms windows for good.
On another note i was thinking to myself when looking at and installing all the differnt flavors of linux what the h3ll was i paying microsucks hundred of pounds for when there are clean open source operating systems and software out on the internets from linux.
Thankyou to linux dev teams, help and support peeps, and free open source software developers.

By: Husse

Husse — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:11:07 +0000

I get mail when a comment is added here so I just checked in
Peter it’s sad that you leave a comment when you are blatantly ignorant
Mint has “all” codecs installed – steal them??? What utter nonsense – you can’t
Yes Mint lags behind Ubuntu in releases – that’s because we base Mint on Ubuntu (thank you Ubuntu)
As for lagging community support that’s your opinion

By: Peter

Peter — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:44:44 +0000

Linux mint dosen’t have all the coedc drivers you need, you will still have to pay for them, or steal them your choice.
To get the same drivers in Ubuntu just download the restricted drivers its in Synaptic.
Mint lags behind Ubuntu in updates, releases, and community support.
The only advantage is it looks nice and has java pre-installed also in your synaptic for download.

By: Cassie

Cassie — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 10:53:49 +0000

Jonathan – You can delete the standard Mint Menu, right-click on the panel, and select “Add to Panel.” From there, you have the choice of adding the standard GNOME menu or the GNOME custom bar.

At any rate, I totally agree with this review. I was using Windows XP, because Vista is a disaster, and Ubuntu was just… incomplete. I didn’t mind that it was ugly. I didn’t mind that it “wasn’t Windows.” But half the packages didn’t work, it had major compatibility issues, and it just generally felt a bit sloppily put together. I’m not totally computer illiterate, but I’m no guru either. If I have to, I can fix a lot of this stuff, but for a distro that claims to be “Linux for the common man,” I shouldn’t have to spend hours, days, even weeks fixing everything that doesn’t work when it should.

I gave it 4 months, and just couldn’t get it to work to any acceptable level of simplicity or logic. So I abandoned it, and grudgingly went back to XP.

And then I found Mint. I was sceptical after what a tremendous failure Ubuntu had turned out to be for me, but I tried it.

And it rocks. It rocked HARD.

Everything works as it should, it’s fast, complete, better-looking, and just all-around a huge step up from Ubuntu. I love it. I’m never using Windows again.

By: Walter

Walter — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 01:22:27 +0000

Question.. I have a Del Latitude D600, 250GB HDD, and 2GB Ram. everything else is standard.. which would be better for it? Linux Mint or Ubuntu? And where can I get the drivers? Mint recognizes that I have a wireless card, but it only attempts to instal the driver and it gives me an alert message of nothing but on OK button… Help? waramoore@yahoo.com if you have suguestions. please. any help would be amazing.. I got rid of all my Windows Bootdisks, and have Ubuntu, Knoppix, and Mint and trying to find a version of Mac OSX.

By: short stack

short stack — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 03:12:05 +0000

Good review mint is one of my favorite distros.Agreed Dick Gentry ubuntu installs get worse and worse or it seems that way to me.Hardy was my last full venture into ubuntu and let me tell you what a pain.there were so many problems I could not even use it for a month and a half till they had updates to correct the problems.Testing jaunty now just to see how things are going.worst video performance so far on my box well scratch that 8.10 gave me the black screen of death. stick with mint and save your time and brain cells.Funny thing with hardy I tested from a late alfa to beta to rc no trouble running it, update to the official release full of bugs. waste of my time if I was to keep it as my main os.I keep it on this box because it’s lts which means I’m curios to see if they ever fix it totally or even reasonably close to what ubuntu use to be

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 03:35:30 +0000

As a user of both Linux Mint and Ubuntu, I’d like to thank you for your review-I’m still pretty much a Linux “newb”, but I started off from nothing with Ubuntu and it took me a minute and a bit of Googling to get past restricted drivers, different universes, etc. Linux Mint was a different experience upon installation (I didn’t have a problem with the Root issue, for instance-I’m a newb but not that much of one)-it was a great time.

I use both it and Ubuntu 8.04 on a daily basis (Mint on a laptop, Ubuntu on my desktop) and now I’ve got both straightened out-but Mint was quite a bit easier.

Actually, my only “problem” with Mint (I put quotations around it because it’s not a problem at all, just an aesthetics issue) is that I would actually prefer to have the standard Gnome menus as opposed to the one bottom corner OpenSUSE/Windows XP style one…not that I can’t work with it, or see its advantages, I’d just rather have the Gnome style.

Oh, and on further aesthetics comments-I’ve actually themed the Linux Mint box much more than I’ve themed the Ubuntu box (Ubuntu had been kept to just installing the Dust theme and a revised-but-still-mostly-the-same version of the wallpaper, while I have about 14 different non-included themes, some of which I’ve pieced together myself, for the Mint) but that’s probably just a function of the laptop hanging out with me on the couch when I’m bored.

By: Husse

Husse — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 19:22:40 +0000

I just read this and feel I must comment on
“the weirdest start-up wizard popping up of the first post-install boot. ”
I agree – it is a bit weird
The reason is that there was more included when it was introduced, but that had to be pulled out because of some problems I’ve forgotten. And the intention is to use it for more things in the future so it’s a bit unfinished right now

By: Dirk Gently

Dirk Gently — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 09:37:26 +0000

Great review. LinuxMint has always been one of the just outside distros… yeeeah, I’d like to try but who ever uses it. Part of it’s obscurity is probably the legal rights to be able to bundle the proprietary software. I tried installing Ubuntu and couldn’t get the restricteddrivers to install. Ubuntu installs, for me, have become more plagued as time goes on.