[sf-lug] MINT VS UBUNTU 12.04 or 11.04

[Kai Chang]

I tried the new elementaryOS recently and quite liked it. I will probably
use that when setting up computers for new Linux users rather than Ubuntu
or Mint. It's based on Ubuntu, so you'll get similar driver support to
12.04.

http://elementaryos.org/

I may use it myself when they update to the new installer that supports
full-disk encryption. That video makes it look like an OS X clone, but I
found it's a well-thought out distro that takes good ideas from KDE,
Windows, and OS X. It's quite fast, compared to Compiz or Unity, so
hopefully it performs well on eee.


On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 12:13 PM, Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com> wrote:

> Quoting Frantisek Apfelbeck (algoldor at yahoo.com):
>
> > Hi toa ll,
>
> Gree tings.
>
> > I had Asus eee Pc for many years, using Ubuntu for 3 years or so till
> > the 12.04 which I really did not like - I do not like unity or how you
> > call it and it was kind of tricky for me in several ways (also that
> > commercial things which I did not like). I tried to Install Mint then
> > but I had issues with USB bootable device which I did not manage to
> > sort - the installation got stucked several times. I used the same
> > device to install Ubuntu 12.04 and no problem, smooth first try. After
> > that I played with Ubuntu and stayed with it for another several
> > months or so, now I'm running Mint on my new desktop computer and I'm
> > quite happy.
>
> Just as a reminder:  People are always welcome to come down to CABAL
> meetings in the wildlands of Menlo Park (2nd and 4th Saturdays, 4pm to
> midnight), and we'll be glad to walk you through installation of those
> or just about any Linux or BSD onto just about any hardware.
>
> http://linuxmafia.com/cabal/
>
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