Linux Mint is based on Sebian.... Why should i use Linux Mint and not the origional?
I know many of you will say that the prototype is never as good as the finished product but come on.... the origionals in this case are a heck of a lot of good and serious developers coders and other skilled people. They're not sitting on their hands after releasing a new version of their distro.
So that answer just doesn't cut it for me, and here i am, asking the question in relation to Mint. What makes Mint better than the lastest release of Debian? Is it because Mint is "Debian and Ubuntu" based?
That has an odd ring to it. It sounds to me like inviting trouble..... I've noticed that, when i tried Ubuntu, trying out Debian packages can really lead to major headaches.
This is my fourth "trying Linux to see if it can really beat Windows" phase since i've been into computers. I'm basicly a bit of a gamer. Loving stuff like CoD BO or Battlefield Bad Company 2 but allso able to spend up to 20 hours straight locked into one single game of Multiplayer Civilization V,
But besides that, and lately more than gaming, i;m basically dabbling about in developement environments, "internet radio broadcasting" (mixing mp3z and blabbering about nothing anyone would want to hear) and i'm allso fond of watching, playing, reading, discussing and yes even writing Startrek, It's that latter part of my personality that has allways drawn me to anything not Microsoft. I started on the Commodore OS's of the VIC20m C16, C64, C128, Amiga Os, IBM DOS, MSDOS and on to where everybodyon the planet is weather they like it or not: WINDOWS! But the truth is... and here's the part where i commit suicide on a linux forum, Linux has never come close to Windows in being the best OS out there. Oh sure, it's allways been safer but hey, Terrorist OS v911 is safer to! Because nobody uses it. And lets face it, there've allmost allways been much much more people using Windows than there were Linux. So ofcourse if you want your virus or other "malicious" software to reach as many people as possible, you soon decide to attack Windows billions over the Linux millions.
So the first time i tried Linux there wasn't even anything like a GUI, Just a prompt. As the commands were completely different from the DOS ones, and far to complicated looking to me, that Linux period was over quickly. The other tries were with graphical deskops and i did notice a lot of progress, moving forward. In the end, it was Ubuntu 7 i think, i was beginning to think that Linux might have finally done it. It looked good, worked kind of intuitive and did everything Windows could do. I was very pleased... at first... Then i noticed somethings that had plagued my earlier tries as well but now were even more frustrating somehow.
- Installing software. It was, is and i'm affraid allways will be a nightmare most of the time!
- Having to choose between KDE and Gnome or another desktop environment sucks! It's something that keeps on haunting you long after you chose when you see that one app you realy like but turns out to be fot the desktop you DIDNT choose. :S
- Maybe its just because it all done by vaulenteers but i've never seen a Linux game not running under Wine that could match its Windows contemporaries for graphics, sound and overall quality
I mean... come on.... put that next to the Windows binaries and their ease of installing... I'll take the Windows way everytime. Doubleclick, [Enter] [Enter] [Enter]
And one of the other reasons Windows has allways beaten Linux in the past:
Windows usually installs and runs correctly on 90% of the hardware one can connect to an intel architecture processor controlled device. Just throw in the dc and the installer goes. Most of the hardwar gets autodiscovered and installed. The rest gets distributed in .exe binaries that can go the Doubleclick, [Enter] [Enter] [Enter]n with.....
I don't know about the linux distro's these days but hopefully that has improved much! Nothingmore irritating than having to compile a driver with modifications because the binaries weren't for your distro version or something.
But still, here i am again, ready to give the Linux community anotherr chance to win me over. I've got me a simple old dell laptop which i've been installing with a different Linux distro for days now. I've tried:
Ubuntu 10
SLax (custom image from their imagebulder.
Mandrake
Fedora
Linux Mint
and now i'm in doubt about weather i should attempt Linux Mint 10 Gnome (or standard) and downloading the latest Debian version.
The latter one has the best and most reliable way for installing new software. The .deb packages work 98% of the time once you get the repositior thing worked out.
The question was and still is: Why should i choose Linux Mint instead of Debian?
And what is the best way to go about making sure the compilers and ide's and so on are installed and configured?
Is there a program that does something like for example the cccleaner? Checks out the windows configuration, removes errors and cleans out the drives from files you'ds nog gonna use?
Come on people, turn me over to the Penguin side!