Happily using Mint for about a week now
Posted: Wed Mar 06, 2013 9:50 pm
Something I like: Out of the box MATE desktop environment. I am a fan of MATE. Woohoo! It's very stable and looks great on Mint.
Something I don't: Mint's Google Custom Search Engine. It appears to return poorer results and have no options. I have just now become distressed enough about it to go and figure out how to get rid of it for good.
Mint sort of reminds me of old school Ubuntu. It runs very smoothly out of the box on my laptop, which has in the past had at least one problem with every Linux distro I've run on it.
I gave OpenSUSE a run for a few months last, and had to fix problems with screen brightness not changing according to keyboard commands and the microphone not working. Also the out-of-the-box software generally wasn't jiving that well. The system kept trying to install stuff using Apper which is deprecated or had some problem I forget, and YaST was basically a general pain. What finally broke the camel's back was an overheating problem with the video card that I couldn't figure out. Anyways, more to the point, Mint just works.
My name's Randy and I'm a 20 year old Computer Science major currently living in Munich, Germany. I've been using various Linux distributions for about five years. I usually give a new one a try every time I manage to corrupt my system enough to require reformatting. On this machine, I've only had good luck with Debian based distros, but on my old machine Fedora did the trick.
Anyhow, hi, glad to be here, thanks to the devs, and to anyone who ends up helping me out farther down the road.
Something I don't: Mint's Google Custom Search Engine. It appears to return poorer results and have no options. I have just now become distressed enough about it to go and figure out how to get rid of it for good.
Mint sort of reminds me of old school Ubuntu. It runs very smoothly out of the box on my laptop, which has in the past had at least one problem with every Linux distro I've run on it.
I gave OpenSUSE a run for a few months last, and had to fix problems with screen brightness not changing according to keyboard commands and the microphone not working. Also the out-of-the-box software generally wasn't jiving that well. The system kept trying to install stuff using Apper which is deprecated or had some problem I forget, and YaST was basically a general pain. What finally broke the camel's back was an overheating problem with the video card that I couldn't figure out. Anyways, more to the point, Mint just works.
My name's Randy and I'm a 20 year old Computer Science major currently living in Munich, Germany. I've been using various Linux distributions for about five years. I usually give a new one a try every time I manage to corrupt my system enough to require reformatting. On this machine, I've only had good luck with Debian based distros, but on my old machine Fedora did the trick.
Anyhow, hi, glad to be here, thanks to the devs, and to anyone who ends up helping me out farther down the road.