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After having a paddy a few weeks ago with windows looked ernestly again at Linux as my main OS and have been through the distros.
The worse one I cam across was Sabayon…horrible distro with the keypad being a swine to sort out.
Ubuntu 9 has set the standard in my opinion and I preferred the Desktop to the UMR version. Also tried the Super OS version but it still had the little something missing.
Yesterday I tried OpenSuse 11 and did not like it so tried the Linux Mint 7RC just for the hell of it and WOW. It works out of the box, its snappy, works well, does it all and the girls in the house go …Oooooooooooh…instead of YUK its brown….
Could this be the start of something bigger with Ubuntu helping distros like Mint to become a polished article. Have tried Windows 7 and still think its Vista thats been cleaned up a bit but at last it looks like I can pull windows off the PC’s here and get everyone on Linux(time will tell)
So have a go at this, I am impressed so far.
Kevo
Thank you, Kevo, that’s a really useful analysis 🙂
Another flavour of Ubuntu that you may want to try is Xbuntu – which is also quite snappy and is blue not brown !lol
You can get a very similar setup with Ubuntu by installing ubuntu-restricted-extras and changing the theme. Though Mint does have some other nice additions like the updater, main menu and some of the configuration applications.
Mint is nice and I used it for a bit a while back, though there were a few disturbing things about it like the lack of transparency as far as security and patching is concerned, then there was the time the site was hacked and started spreading a trojan…
With that said I still like Mint and it’s a good distribution for people who are new to Linux, as it’s setup out of the box quite similar to Windows and comes with most of the codecs you need. Unlike many other distributions.
It’s good to know that it works well on the NC10.
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Thank you, Kevo, that’s a really useful analysis 🙂Another flavour of Ubuntu that you may want to try is Xbuntu – which is also quite snappy and is blue not brown !lol
[/quote1241885093]Tried it. I may gather my info and post it actually as it may help someone along the way. Not been popular here as the Sammy had a different look everytime the girlies went on it…he he he.
Have always enjoyed linux and used PCLinuxOS (eee version) on my EeePC 2G (where this all started!) and found that this version of Mint covers all my needs (which of course may differ from others).
Who knows, maybe Bill Gates may be worried about his financial future with the improving linux distros, just like my hair will grow back and my daughter will tidy her bedroom tomorrow ;-). But it is good to have a viable choice and its fun in my opinion finding out what works.
Kevo
I am so glad Linux Mint 7 is nearly ready for prime time! It’s my favorite Linux and I do love the way it looks. The brown of Ubuntu doesn’t bother me, though 🙂
Mint is a very nice distro, have it dual booting on main pc, tempted to try it on my sammy. Gave the new moblin V2 a go this week and just couldn’t get the hang of the dam thing, also a big issue the only way to shut it down is with the console commands??. Fedora is also very good and is usally my distro of choice.
OK after trying moblin v2 I installed Mint.
Very nice but I’m having trouble with the wifi, it won’t connect.divvykev, did you have any issues?
How exactly is it failing?
Are you able to detect any wireless networks?EDIT: Oh wait a sec, which version of Mint did you download?
If you have Mint 6 Felicia then WiFi probably will need some work to sort out and a few other things may be broken. Mint 7 RC1 is a lot better (though I haven’t tested it with the original WiFi card) and should work without any issues.
I have RC 7 installed.
WiFi is sorted, I just rebooted and it connected right away.I have to admit to being very very impressed with Mint, for a experience windows user it’s very easy to get the hang of, I’m sure I will find something that will make me wish I was running windows, but nothing yet.
One small thing I have noticed, the screen brightness whilst on battery doesn’t seem to go too high, not a deal breaker as I’m showing 6 hours of battery life at 99% charge.
I’m yet to try my Vodafone 3G dongle but notice the option in the network area.
Anything I should know before I try 3G?
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I have RC 7 installed.
WiFi is sorted, I just rebooted and it connected right away.I have to admit to being very very impressed with Mint, for a experience windows user it’s very easy to get the hang of, I’m sure I will find something that will make me wish I was running windows, but nothing yet.[/quote1243035251]
Glad it’s all working, though it’s a little odd that it needed a reboot.
Mint is meant to make things as easy as possible especially for people who are used to Windows.[quote1243035251=Britman]One small thing I have noticed, the screen brightness whilst on battery doesn’t seem to go too high, not a deal breaker as I’m showing 6 hours of battery life at 99% charge.[/quote1243035251]
Checkout my post on how to fix the low brightness you should only need to do stages 1 and 2.As for battery life it may take a while/several charge/discharge cycles for the power management system to report the battery life accurately.
[quote1243035251=Britman]I’m yet to try my Vodafone 3G dongle but notice the option in the network area.
Anything I should know before I try 3G?[/quote1243035251]
You will probably need to know the various settings that are required by Vodaphone to connect. Other than that try plugging it in and see if anything happens, you may need to go into the network manager (right click on the WiFi icon and Edit Connections) to set it all up.Cheers Alfihar,
I managed to sort the screen power management, before seeing your post.
Also tried the 3G dongle, worked an absolute treat, just had to select which Vodafone contract, ie contract, PAYG, pre-pay. Only down side is there’s no way to check how much credit is left of topping up. Under windows there’s a little app that you use for those things.Something else I’ve noticed, whilst working the system seems to hand, say I browsing the browser will just grey out, only last a few seconds.
Am I a convert, could be 🙂
EDIT: oh yeah I’m running of a photofast SSD so this might explain the greying out issue as it’s not a particularly fast SSD
I see windows show up as unresponsive occasionally, though it could be the SSD causing it to occur more frequently.
There are some tweaks you can make for the SSD drive, you may want to take a look at the post on the Ubuntu forum here, the SSD tweaks are about half way down the first post. Unfortunately the changes that can be made aren’t the easiest though
As far as I can tell those changes are safe to make on non Acer Aspire One machines, though it will stop files from having their last opened date recorded and log files will be saved to a ram disk and lost at shutdown/restart.
Alternating every other day at the moment between Super Ubuntu, Pclinux Gnome and Mint. Just cant decide which one I prefer. However, today when i installed Mint I got the wifi issue mentioned here. Tried a reboot and actually reset the router as well but no deal. Reintalled Mint and it worked ok. Weird.
Have to say that with the final release coming out soon it is now down to Mint v Super Ubuntu as Pclinux Kde is too slow booting and snome has display issues with blanking screens.
Still getting…”why dont you use windows” but i can do the same and more with Linux.
Well I’ve now only got and installed it on my main PC, duel booting between Vista and Mint. I Still need Vista for Photoshop Elements and a few other editing software..
However I have Gimp and have been pointed in the direction of some video tutorials, if anyone else knows of good tutorials for Gimp let me know.
Britman wrote:I Still need Vista for Photoshop ElementsHmm it appears that Photoshop Elements 7 works well under Wine.
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