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Re: First impressions, without even installing.

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neocookie wrote: I think there is too much of a community feel about the project.
Maybe because it really is a community project?? :D :D :D
neocookie wrote: Ubuntu is forging ahead in dominance
And? I fail to see what this has to do with Mint? If Ubuntu want to go ahead with their "dominance" why not let them?
neocookie wrote: From that perspective, I think LinuxMint would benefit from a branding exercise
You need to talk to clem about this ... this is basically his one-man-show. As far as I understand he's focussing on technical issues now, e.g. working on getting a KDE-based release out of the door. You have to bear in mind how relatively young Mint as a distro is 8)
neocookie wrote: I don't think it would take much work.
Well, why don't you post suggestions then? e.g. screenshots, or pictures that show what you have in mind? There are others here who posted suggestions about changing the web design, the default wallpaper, and so on. As I said above: this really is a community effort here :wink:
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I have to agree with a lot of what the man said... after all I pretty much said the same thing...


Ubuntu is forging ahead in dominance
And? I fail to see what this has to do with Mint? If Ubuntu want to go ahead with their "dominance" why not let them?
Scorp you have to realise that it's difficult it is to think in an open, free, equal and non-competitive way... it's a totaly new idea, even for me who grew up in a communist country :) :lol: :lol: :lol:


but the fact remains that the better a product is, the more people will use it...


As far as the branding goes, I think LiuxMint or just Mint is perfectly fine, and I believe that the community through mintArt project will provide a very good branding and quality polish ... let's just leave clem to work on the technical part of what makes this distro so great and appealing...
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First impressions, without even installing.

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Welcome Neocookie,
Bianca is at the Mint Café every night, serving all the members and our guests.

Please feel free to stop by for a virtual Mint cocktail :) Our official drink now is Diabolo Menthe.
So here's to your health and a long-lasting friendship.

Regards, Npap
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NiksaVel wrote: Scorp you have to realise that it's difficult it is to think in an open, free, equal and non-competitive way... it's a totaly new idea, even for me who grew up in a communist country :)
Ah, come on .... the good old SFRJ wasn't that bad. There were always good things you could firmly count on ... e.g. that the police ("Milicija") would stop you for whatever BS they could come up with ("Oh you don't have the chains for your tyres with you ... Oh, that's bad, that's gonna cost you 20.-- DM .... " "... but: IT'S SUMMER !!!!!" "Don't care. 20.-- Deutschmarks please ... or else !!! ... " :twisted: ) and that really everybody was corrupt and stubborn (or both!) down to the bone.

If we apply SFRJ thinking here .... Let's bribe the guys at Ubuntu to put a red star in their logo (red stars are always good), have them bribe us in return (let's think about the reasons for this later ... the most important thing is we get our bribes), let's head to the next Café and have a few drinks on the house and chant BS about "brotherhood + unity" (bratsvo i jedinstvo) together ... :D

If someone asks anything apply these typical SFRJ excuses in this order:
  • We don't know anything.
    We are not responsible.
    These are orders from Belgrade ... don't ask.
    Tito loves you, my son.
    The Slovenes designed it.
    The Croatians sold it off to the West.
    The Serbians screwed it up.
    The Bosnians ... oh well you know them, right?
    The Makedonians smuggled this from Greece, I dunno.
    This is some decadent Western sh*t, don't touch it.
    This is some hippie modern socialist sh*t straight from Moscow, oh comrade!
    Uh, what? (act as if you are drunk + burp a lot ... communist state employees are not supposed to look sober during their work hours!!)
    20 DM and I forget that I seen you ...
Oh ... I forgot. We should rename the whole thing: YUbuntu :D
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YUbuntu

muuuaaaahhhahahahahah ROFLMAO!!! :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

and instead of a start button we should have a GO button... and call it YUGO :))))))))

btw.... while on the topic:

http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Croatia
http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Yugoslavia
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NiksaVel wrote: and instead of a start button we should have a GO button... and call it YUGO :))))))))
“You go what? I don't go anywhere! What the **** are you talking about?�

~ Oscar Wilde on Yugoslavia :D

http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Serbia_and_Montenegro

:D :D
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ahhahahhahhaa
Roots of this divine nation reach back to many many millennias BC when a Slavic-Klingon tribe settled in the area
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