Comments on: Enjoy The Best In Linux With Linux Mint 12

By: Donlee

Donlee — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 07:44:11 +0000

I’m a windows & recent Ubuntu user and I’ve this issue where my cdrom and touchpad doesn’t work at all on ubuntu. After reading the below comments, I decided to try Linux Mint, hoping it will be more user friendly and feature rich.

By: Aviolano

Aviolano — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 12:22:00 +0000

Hi Rick, so have you solved tearing problem with mint? Which DE?

By: Danny Stieben

Danny Stieben — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 03:31:00 +0000

Linux Mint does have Synaptic Package Manager (well it should; if not, you can install it without a problem) as well as apt-get, as it’s based on Ubuntu/Debian. I believe Linux Mint prefers its own “software center”-type application, but the USC should be installable as well.

By: IanLaporte

IanLaporte — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 20:57:00 +0000

Question from an ''intermidiate newby'' : does LinuxMint have the ''Synaptic package manager'' AND the ''Ubuntu Software Center'' AND ''apt-get'' ?

By: Actingman

Actingman — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 22:40:00 +0000

Linux Mint will ask you if you want to replace Ubuntu with Mint. It will also keep your settings and installed apps, where possible. My friend, who I wrote about below, did just that. He said it worked really well keeping everything in place. But the usual warning holds: Back up first.

By: Gigozap

Gigozap — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 17:24:00 +0000

I currently use Ubuntu, which is alright. I sometimes have trouble working with the terminal. But Linux Mint looks great. I’d like to try it. How would I remove Ubuntu and install Mint? I don’t have room on my HD to have both.

By: Rick

Rick — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:21:00 +0000

I ran Ubuntu for awhile on my laptop, but got tired of tearing my hair out to get video and more advanced graphics to display correctly. Linux Mint solved all of those problems and then some. It’s nice to be able to take full advantage of my hardware’s capabilities without a lot of extra work.

By: Peter Climes

Peter Climes — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 22:30:00 +0000

I recently moved from Windows XP over to Linux Mint/Mate (..the 5th of this month, to be exact)..and it’s the best thing I have done on the computing front in years! I’m sorry I didn’t make the move before now!

I have to say MATE is perhaps the best desktop environment I’ve ever had the pleasure to log in to..and, aside from what everyone says online, I have had no problems with it at all. It appears to be fast and light on system demands..and there’s just something about it’s over-all look and feel that really works for me. I have read elsewhere that MATE could very well fall by the way if it doesn’t grow a big enough following..and I think this is really sad, as I don’t think too many folks out there even know about it at this stage.

It really is, in my own humble opion, a great DE and one that should be developed and supported by all Linux lovers..if not only to give us all yet another free choice in how we use our computers.

Anyway, just wanted to share my experiences with MATE and encourrage others to give it a try if they can..I think they will be pleasently surprised by the experience.

Thanks for an interesting article well worth reading.

By: Danny Stieben

Danny Stieben — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 04:40:00 +0000

Gnome 3. As far as I know, untweaked Mint = Ubuntu. I mean Gnome 3 in general though because it’s implementation in Fedora is decent.

By: Steve Platz

Steve Platz — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 16:37:00 +0000

I have been using Ubuntu for a long time, now using 11.10 on my lenovo notebook. Today I made a live USB stick with Linux Mint 12, which I’m testing currently – works great! I don’t know whether I’m ready to install, but I don’t know that I’m not ready, either.

By: Chubonga

Chubonga — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 03:33:00 +0000

What they meant was that Linux Mint has taken over the #1 ranking from Ubuntu.

By: Danny Stieben

Danny Stieben — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 23:31:00 +0000

Haha great story, Actingman! I actually haven’t used Linux Mint as a main OS since right around LM11 came out, but I guess I’ll think about it again!

By: Actingman

Actingman — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 14:46:00 +0000

I have been going on for awhile now about Mint with a friend who was hardcore Ubuntu…that is until he tried Mint 12 yesterday and found it installed a USB TV tuner we both have, with just the push of a button. He could never get it to work under Ubuntu. He was also amazed with how easy it was to install it over Ubuntu and save all his settings and log ins. Now he is screaming about Mint to anyone who will listen…and to many who won’t…so I have to go out and raise some bail money.

By: Trevor Lenten

Trevor Lenten — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 01:18:00 +0000

Untweaked linux mint or gnome 3? I found it very difficult and confusing to tweak gnome 3 in ubuntu 12.10

By: Danny Stieben

Danny Stieben — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 20:11:00 +0000

Great that you’re enjoying LM and DDG!