It's the easiest and most beautiful Linux-experience for me after trying several distros out there searching for the right one.
It has good support for my laptop. Okay, but hibernation failures (maybe I will try out TuxOnIce later) and I've got problems with my sound card. When I plug in my boxes I hear sound from the boxes AND from the boxes integrated in my msi-laptop. I've already played around a bit with the controls.
The only free operating system that makes no problem with my sound is OpenSolaris 2009.06. With "every" Linux-distro I have the same problem as I got it with Gloria. Oh, and no free operating system, not even Gloria, does support my USB-webcam
.Aaand the go-forward and go-backward-extra-buttons of my hama-mouse do function in Firefox, but NOT in Nautilus.
(I'm talking about out-of-the-box experience)
This is the software I have installed additionally:
- I have replaced Rythmbox with Banshee (I like more Banshees design and for my use it's far better than Rythmbox)
- Picasa (It's simply great, I can edit my photos, organize them, create collages, create slideshows, import new photos, upload to my Picasa Web-account)
- Replaced Pidgin with aMsn (I have used Windows Live Messenger under Vista, now, aMsn has a far better WLM-network-compatibility than Pidgin, I can write and receive offline-messages, send and receive webcam-stream, send and receive almost all winks and emoticons.)
- WINE (maybe this should be default, so the newbe that installs Mint, can install a Windows-application automatically)
- Screenlets
- Wakoopa Tracker
- VirtualBox OSE (that's also great, I'm running Windows 7 RC on it)
- VLC (this should be the default player I think, together with Banshee as the multimedia management tool)
- Replaced the default scan-utility with Xsane (it works much better with my HP-scanner)
These are other tweaks that I've made for improving my personal usage:
- Opacity in Compiz (see my screenshot) (this should be standard, if graphics card supported)
- GRUB bootloader timeout shortened (You could shorten it by default to 3 seconds)
- Cube activated in Compiz (again...why not standard?)
- in Compiz, changed the behaviour of the windows, the animations for closing, opening and minimizing. I propose this as new standard: opening: Curved Fold, closing: Horizontal Folds, minimizing: MAgic Lamp
- Repristined the original Google-search in the searchbox in Firefox
- Removed "Computer" and "Personal directory"-shortcuts from the desktop (this should also be default, and, why isn't the name of the home-folder named like the name of the user of the account...or something more personal like that?)
It would be nice, if, in the Mint-Menu everytime that I close it and reopen it I'd see my favourites applications. If I search a certain application by clicking on "All applications" and then close the menu, it remains that way. It should open by default at Favourites at the right side. The same problem is when I type somethin in the filter and then close it. When I reopen the Mint-menu I see still what I've typed in minutes...hours before
.Why is the shortcut for the menu Ctrl+Super? Why not simply Super, as in Windows?
Why doesn't Gloria automatically detects if there's an external display connected or not? I have to change the Display preferences every time i plug out and in my TFT, that's not cool [as in Vista].
I don't know how installing Xflux, the Linux-variant of F.lux. I used F.lux under Vista. It changed the brightness and contrast of my display when it gets late, that's awesome for my eyes. So, if someone has already installed it, may I know how?
This little great tool is still beta I think...but when it's stable, please add it to Mint!!
And why didn't you choose Go OpenOffice rather than OpenOffice.org? Take a look at: http://www.go-oo.org, I've used it already in Vista and I think openSUSE uses it, it's great!
And, what I've already submitted as candidate "Paper cut" to the Ubuntu-project is the request of a default integrated script in Nautilus for hide files.