[sf-lug] MINT VS UBUNTU 12.04 or 11.04

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Mikki (mikkimc at earthlink.net):

> If you all have opinions on these choices, please respond with reasons.  

Here's a thought:  Try one, then wipe and reinstall with the other, then
decide which one you like better.  Iterate as long as there are
attractive prospects you'd like to try.  It really doesn't take that
much time and effort, and you're the best judge of what you like.

Give each serious candidate at least a couple of weeks, to make sure you
get some sense of what it's like to -live- with the thing as opposed to
merely installing it.  Far too many people judge Linux distros based
primarily on the installer, which is over time the aspect that matters
least of all.

Additional thought:  Try out distros in virtual machines under something
like VirtualBox.