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Comments for 'Blog in isolation': how I ditched Windows and embraced Gloria - Blog in isolation

  • David Marsden · 2 months ago
    Too much green on Mint when I last looked at it, for my liking. I like the Ubuntu brown, the African name and philosophy behind it. Great community on the Ubuntu Forums, too, although I guess you can use that with Mint, if required.

    I tried a few other distros, too, when I had problems with the latest linux kernels updating to Jaunty, but Fedora, Foresight and BLAG - while all had some appealing features - just didn't cut it with me for one reason or another. The main one being lack of support, variously, for Dropbox and Tonido, which I use to access work and personal files when I'm not at home or at work, respectively.

    I might try installing Mint on my Mum's laptop next time I'm over there. If you can use it, Andy, I'm sure she can! :-p
  • Andy C · 2 months ago
    I'll be posting more about my day to day experiences with Mint. After all, the courtship and first date is one thing but there's simply no substitute for living with someone for a whole week.

    I was pleasantly surprised about how much of Mint just worked out of the box. I guess the only installation steps that might intimidate newcomers is 'Partition Disks' but you get that if you are installing Windows.

    Thanks for being the freedom loving angel perched on my left shoulder responsible for these voices in my head :-)
  • rpcutts · 2 months ago
    I weep, I weep.
    I'm stuck on year old distros because my video card wont support xserver > 1.5

    I satisfied my need for change when Jaunty came out by switching to crunchbang but now Karmic is coming and it makes me feel like I'm missing out.

    Damn you ATI !!!!!!
    Discontinuing support for a graphics card 3 months after I buy it. Bastards.

    Anyway, now I got my self pity out of the way. I like how mint assumes you're a regular human and installs all of the closed codecs et et cetera without you having to figure anything out for yourself.

    It will be interesting to see if it upgrades seamlessly to Mint 8 when it arrives.
  • michaeltwofish · 2 months ago
    This is a great overview of the first few moments you get to spend alone with a distro. And an enjoyable read too.