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I used to be bothered by things like this but I think you just get used to it. Also, it's not possible to make Linux work like Windows anyway. Thank God. The one thing that really bugged me was that in Linux most DEs don't have the option of right clicking a scroll bar and being able to jump to tha...

For a bit of mostly OT but related to Mint alpha and you: I've ended up replacing caja with the latest nemo build in my MATE environment by the way. I still prefer how caja does some things but the technical advantage of nemo over caja overall has just become too big to ignore (and my caja is git m...

I'm really not surprised by that drop in numbers. At first it's a novelty. And then people will start to realize that alpha really means alpha. And sometimes things are broken. I hope that people who do use it, use it how it's meant. For testing. And that they take the time to report the problems th...

Haha. Maybe that number of 10 users is looking more and more realistic all the time

I recently heard a Canonical employee talking about this. They seem to have some idea because of the number of Mint machines that hit their repos. He put the number at around a half a million. Cool. :D - 5 of the mentioned Mint systems should be mine, on 3 different machines. (Not that anyone will ...

It isn't the first time I've heard him bring up numbers like this in a podcast or interview. Have heard him talk about them for the Ubuntu based ElementaryOS as well so I'm assuming there is something to them.

Doesn't look like it offers anything you can't do with just the mouse under Linux.

I do believe Alan Pope talks about it here a ways into the discussion. This isn't the first time I've heard him talk about something like this and give similar numbers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEED1bU5Id4

Ah. It does seem like just left clicking the trough would be simpler than using a menu unless it provides some really useful options.

I recently heard a Canonical employee talking about this. They seem to have some idea because of the number of Mint machines that hit their repos. He put the number at around a half a million.

I used to be bothered by things like this but I think you just get used to it. Also, it's not possible to make Linux work like Windows anyway. Thank God. The one thing that really bugged me was that in Linux most DEs don't have the option of right clicking a scroll bar and being able to jump to tha...

When a beta is ready it will be announced on the Linux Mint blog.

To be fair, I think people over state the whole "window refugee" thing. Yes they are out there but only a very, very small percentage of Windows users would ever even consider installing a whole new OS. And those are mostly going to be the computer enthusiast types who are likely to actually do a bi...

I'm not sure how anyone really has much belief in those distrowatch stats. Mint was on top for a very long but even as much as I'm a fan of Mint, I seriously doubt anything even comes close to Ubuntu as a desktop linux distro.

I'm not sure how anyone takes these articles seriously. The minute you read the line about how Mate is in maintenance mode, all the authors credibility goes right out the window.

I hope people who start these kinds of posts, reply to them, and read them, understand that from a distro point of view you simple cannot win this. No matter what you do some users will love it and some will hate it. It's just how it goes. For those that have this opinion that no one wants this newe...

The load on the graphics subsystem/hardware is, to some extent, different from the general RAM load...

Fair enough. But is there some proof somewhere that this actually makes a difference? Knowing how this actually works I don't see that it would make much difference at all.

I don't know. It works fine here under Cinnamon. I have it running right now and it shows 3 unreads in the systray.

Interesting that in the future Kubuntu may be the lightest Ubuntu version. I think Lubuntu made a big mistake leaving that title on the table. I can't count how many times over the years people pointed new users toward Lubuntu when they needed a lighter OS. If it is as heavy or heavier than Xfce or...