Okay, Here's my sum up of using Mint Beta for one day. I probably didn't test it as extensively as some others might have, but I'll put in my €.02...
-The drivers for my GPU, a GeForce 7950 GT, didn't work in the Live CD, as they did in the Daryna Live CD.
-I have to type in "noapic"
every time I boot my computer. I think I can just edit a grub file (I'll try this) but the average user would have no idea that they have to type this every time and would probably be annoyed by it if they did.
-Minor problem, when the restricted drivers module comes up with its info bubble, it says that "ubuntu" needs to use restricted drivers.
-For some reason changing any settings in compiz at all requires a log out. Huh.
Things you really could improve;
-There are still no native drivers for my printer, the iP1600. I can get it working, but I have to follow this guide;
http://digitalife.wordpress.com/2008/04 ... linux-710/
-It'd be nice to put this in the repos;
http://gfire.sourceforge.net/snapshots/
-If I increase the size of my panel, some icons in the notification area don't enlarge with it at all (like the network manager). It would be nice if these could scale too or something... (The Gnome notification area is annoying to me often, for more reasons than this. A mint version of this would be great.)
-Put Cairo-Dock in the repos; it's a really great program
The good things!
-My network now automatically connects when I log in. It wouldn't do this in Daryna for some reason.
-Envy worked perfectly for me, I've had no problems.
-Thank you so much for including the Advanced Desktop Effects Settings by default. Things like this will save some users many headaches.
-I like that you got rid of some redundant themes and added a little variety. Not much, but still nice.
-I tested various media files, they all worked! (mpeg4, wav, mp3, wma, ogg, and ogv) I already expected this from Mint, but nice to see you aren't letting me down.
-I love the live CD boot image thing. Very nice, it wasn't expected.
-I really think that Mint is going in the right direction. This release in the beta already feels more stable to me than the final release of Hardy! (Speaking of which, I think if Mint starts being based off of Debian and gets its versions out just before Ubuntu that would be a good plus)
Good job, guys. Keep doing whatever it is that you do!