Linux mint 17

[The Silent Hobo]

For those who really care, Linux Mint just released their newest LTS: Mint 17 Qiana today:

http://www.linuxmint.com/index.php

I'm probably gonna download the Cinnamon version and throw it on my laptop

 

[coffee]

You beat me to the punch

Had a simple file server come in with a bad pwr supply and raid drive dropped out.

I just installed Mint 17 Mate on a fileserver and setup shares for windows. This went very quick actually except adding in the drive to the raid.

Im impressed. Very responsive and some pretty good polishing going on. Samba sharing was spot on thru the filemanager. Turned on desktop sharing also. Havent tested that yet.

I think its really nice. Its also cool to have a long term release happening here. There are alot of improvements under the hood.

Linux Mint 17 Mate 64bit

coffee

 

[The Silent Hobo]

Haha, sorry, i've been waiting for this release for a while.

My mom is still using windows xp on her laptop at the moment, so I suggested downloading and doing a live CD of mint just to see if she likes it, and if she does , then to convert over to it.

I'm downloading the cinnamon now and will probably change my xfce of 16 to the new one tomorrow.

Curious how it'll install off my Yumi flash drive

~Josh

 

[gunslinger]

Set it up in a VM this morning. Seems pretty snappy so far.

 

[coffee]

Haha, sorry, i've been waiting for this release for a while.

My mom is still using windows xp on her laptop at the moment, so I suggested downloading and doing a live CD of mint just to see if she likes it, and if she does , then to convert over to it.

I'm downloading the cinnamon now and will probably change my xfce of 16 to the new one tomorrow.

Curious how it'll install off my Yumi flash drive

~Josh

I installed from a "patriot" 8 gig flash drive earlier. Went good.

raid5 rebuild 66 % done.

coffee

 

[The Silent Hobo]

Just got 17 cinnamon installed on my laptop, it's working out great, the Mint crew has done a remarkable job with this LTS update

 

[JohnKennex]

I love linux mint. It's fun on my laptop. I like it cuz it's pretty. I wont lie

 

[AlexCa]

I think it's interesting the fact that normally Linux is associated to advanced users, but in fact, imo, the use of a friendly distro like Mint will probably offer a great experience for those who are less technically inclined and that really only use the computer for browsing, facebook, movies, music, etc.

Assuming, of course, that the distro will work outside the box in the user laptop. Lots of benefits here over Windows for those users: free, fast, no crapware unintentilonally installed every couple of days (or weeks), no antivirus subscriptions, etc

 

[The Silent Hobo]

I think it's interesting the fact that normally Linux is associated to advanced users, but in fact, imo, the use of a friendly distro like Mint will probably offer a great experience for those who are less technically inclined and that really only use the computer for browsing, facebook, movies, music, etc.

Assuming, of course, that the distro will work outside the box in the user laptop. Lots of benefits here over Windows for those users: free, fast, no crapware unintentilonally installed every couple of days (or weeks), no antivirus subscriptions, etc

I've ran it on a desktop of mine as well as my laptop. The only issue I ran into so far was running it on another of my desktops, and the driver for the LAN wouldn't work. For some reason, it had to be blacklisted to be able to use the older driver for it, so I said forget it. other than that. It's been working well.

 

[tim fitzgerald]

Try Zorn

Have you thought about Zorn? I put it on clients pc's who want a Windows like system and it works nicely for them. Not much of a learning curve if you set it up correctly. You get a nice windows like start menu that is costomizable to look like xp, win7 or even window 8.
Zorn is based on Ubuntu so it's very stable.

http://zorin-os.com/tour.html

 

[The Silent Hobo]

Have you thought about Zorn? I put it on clients pc's who want a Windows like system and it works nicely for them. Not much of a learning curve if you set it up correctly. You get a nice windows like start menu that is costomizable to look like xp, win7 or even window 8.
Zorn is based on Ubuntu so it's very stable.

http://zorin-os.com/tour.html

I've installed zorin on my laptop, tried to modify it, like adding in wine and stuff, and the start bar started having issues, taking longer to load, so any normal modifications you add in, or even doing updates with dist-upgrade, and changing the kernal, does have the distinct possibility of crashing zorin.

This is just from my personal experience, it was also back on zorin 6 LTS as well as zorin 7 iirc, so i don't know what all they've changed in zorin 8 to account for it.

~Josh

 

[tim fitzgerald]

I haven't had the problems you speak of, or I wouldn't recommend it. I'm using Zorn 8.
I have never had a crash with it. I do however make sure it's running well with no issues before handing over to the client. I always enplane that it's a new system and wouldn't install it for just anyone, they must be above average in common sense.