I downloaded Mint 12 and am evaluating it in virtualbox.. Gnome 3 chased me over to KDE (Kubuntu) but if I decide to reinstall my desktop for some
reason i might switch to Linus Mint.

Anyone Else try it out?


Instead of LinuxMint; maybe the should it call it Mubuntu?

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Re: LinuxMint 12 - Unity I can live with..
By: Rastus to DOVE-Net.Unix on Sun Dec 04 2011 12:22:46

Hi Rastus,

I downloaded Mint 12 and am evaluating it in virtualbox.. Gnome 3 chased me over to KDE (Kubuntu) but if I decide to reinstall my desktop for some reason i might switch to Linus Mint.
Anyone Else try it out?

Yes. I installed it in VBox, booted it up, had a big "meh" session, and destroyed the VM. Unexciting is how I'd rate it. To each his own, tho!

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Re: LinuxMint 12 - Unity I can live with..
By: Rastus to DOVE-Net.Unix on Sun Dec 04 2011 12:22:46

Anyone Else try it out?

I have not, but I am thinking about switching distros on my laptop. I might give it a whirl.

echto

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art wrote:

Yes. I installed it in VBox, booted it up, had a big "meh" session, and destroyed the VM. Unexciting is how I'd rate it. To each his own, tho!

I'm not "excited" about it either. But, I do care for Gnome3 .. and since I found Gnome2 to very useful...Mint 12 seems to fill the niche.. You don't agree?

Since I've already switched, I'll probably stick with KDE Plasma for my desktop.. But it is nice to know that there's still a workable Gnome option that still appeals to me.

Art, I'm curious, what Desktop, if any, do you run?

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echto wrote:

I have not, but I am thinking about switching distros on my laptop. I
might give it a whirl.

echto

I'm still running the last Ubuntu LTS on my laptop.. I haven't decided on
what distro I'll use when it's time to upgrade it..

But I do know one thing.. I'm going to start running the LTS version on all
my desktops next time I upgrade.. I'm getting tired of fighting with
upgrades every 6 months or so...

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Rastus wrote:

I'm not "excited" about it either. But, I do care for Gnome3 .. and since
I found Gnome2 to very useful...Mint 12 seems to fill the niche.. You
don't agree?

I made a typo... I should have said I do NOT care for Gnome3!

I'll go further and say that while I have "tried" to like Gnome3, I can
not.. I won't say that it SUX because it might be a good choice for a
tablet.

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Re: Re: LinuxMint 12 - Unity I can live with..
By: Rastus to art on Wed Dec 07 2011 19:24:33

Hi Rastus,

art wrote:

Yes. I installed it in VBox, booted it up, had a big "meh" session, and destroyed the VM. Unexciting is how I'd rate it. To each his own, tho!

I'm not "excited" about it either. But, I do care for Gnome3 .. and since I found Gnome2 to very useful...Mint 12 seems to fill the niche.. You don't agree?

Agreed, however in a VM I did not find any advantage to running Mint over a slimmer distro. The MGSE stuff may help get over the initial shock of Unity, still, I'm not sure where Gnome 3 is headed; likely not towards making MGSE a standard part of Gnome 3.

These days I'm using XFCE4 more often than Gnome or KDE desktops, as I can be fairly certain it's not going to get a complete UI revamp anytime soon.

Art, I'm curious, what Desktop, if any, do you run?

I run Windows 7, Windows Server 2008, Debian and Arch machines, mostly.

Kind regards,

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Re: Re: LinuxMint 12 - Unity I can live with..
By: Rastus to echto on Wed Dec 07 2011 07:30 pm

I'm still running the last Ubuntu LTS on my laptop.. I haven't decided on what distro I'll use when it's time to upgrade it..

But I do know one thing.. I'm going to start running the LTS version on all my desktops next time I upgrade.. I'm getting tired of fighting with upgrades every 6 months or so...

Try Sabayon (http://sabayonlinux.org).. it's a rolling distro. New versions come out, but if you upgrade regularly, you're already at the new version, without having to go through a "dist-upgrade" as you do on Ubuntu.

Comes with most popular choices of desktop environments, and is by far, IMO, the most complete linux distrobution while still keeping you a linux user. And the default graphics and installation music is just an added bonus. :)

I use Sabayon_KDE currently, and love it!

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Re: Re: LinuxMint 12 - Unity I can live with..
By: Access Denied to Rastus on Thu Dec 08 2011 08:26 pm

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Re: Re: LinuxMint 12 - Unity I can live with..
By: Rastus to echto on Wed Dec 07 2011 07:30 pm

I'm still running the last Ubuntu LTS on my laptop.. I haven't decided on what distro I'll use when it's time to upgrade it..

But I do know one thing.. I'm going to start running the LTS version on a my desktops next time I upgrade.. I'm getting tired of fighting with upgrades every 6 months or so...

Try Sabayon (http://sabayonlinux.org).. it's a rolling distro. New versions come out, but if you upgrade regularly, you're already at the new version, without having to go through a "dist-upgrade" as you do on Ubuntu.

Comes with most popular choices of desktop environments, and is by far, IMO, the most complete linux distrobution while still keeping you a linux user. A the default graphics and installation music is just an added bonus. :)

I use Sabayon_KDE currently, and love it!

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Re: Re: LinuxMint 12 - Unity I can live with..
By: art to Rastus on Thu Dec 08 2011 06:25 pm

Re: Re: LinuxMint 12 - Unity I can live with..
By: Rastus to art on Wed Dec 07 2011 19:24:33

Hi Rastus,

art wrote:

Yes. I installed it in VBox, booted it up, had a big "meh" session, and destroyed the VM. Unexciting is how I'd rate it. To each his own, tho!

I'm not "excited" about it either. But, I do care for Gnome3 .. and sinc found Gnome2 to very useful...Mint 12 seems to fill the niche.. You don' agree?

Agreed, however in a VM I did not find any advantage to running Mint over a slimmer distro. The MGSE stuff may help get over the initial shock of Unity, still, I'm not sure where Gnome 3 is headed; likely not towards making MGSE standard part of Gnome 3.

These days I'm using XFCE4 more often than Gnome or KDE desktops, as I can b fairly certain it's not going to get a complete UI revamp anytime soon.

Art, I'm curious, what Desktop, if any, do you run?

I run Windows 7, Windows Server 2008, Debian and Arch machines, mostly.

Kind regards,

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\ http://fatcatsbbs.com /

I generally use KDE 4. Initially hated it when it came out, but once I figured out how to bring the classic menu back, I got to like it. The plasmoids are quite useful, and I like "yaquake" very much (there is guake for GNOME). Both of these give a Quake style drop down console, very flash.

But what sets KDE apart for me, is the control panel. It's all there, everything is configurable, and you can make your own colour schemes easily. Something which you just can't do with the GUI in GNOME.

XFCE4 I run time to time, very good. LXDE is nice.

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Access Denied wrote:

Try Sabayon (http://sabayonlinux.org).. it's a rolling distro. New
versions come out, but if you upgrade regularly, you're already at the new version, without having to go through a "dist-upgrade" as you do on
Ubuntu.

I tried Sabayon and I like it very much... I'm gonna give it a try on the laptop soon.. That 2G download took a while though...I wasn't in a hurry so
I downloaded it via torrent.

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Re: Re: LinuxMint 12 - Unity I can live with..
By: Rastus to Access Denied on Wed Dec 21 2011 03:24 pm

I tried Sabayon and I like it very much... I'm gonna give it a try on the laptop soon.. That 2G download took a while though...I wasn't in a hurry so I downloaded it via torrent.

Excellent. Glad to hear you liked it!

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