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Whos using Mint these days anyway ?
The poor saps who have it recommended to them or installed for them. It's a desktop environment theme at best, and could be packaged as such. Maintaining a distro for general consumption (it's pitched to new users as "Windows like"), is very hard work and carries a lot of responsibility.
Cinnamon is more than just a desktop theme, and Mint is more than just Cinnamon. Worth looking into it further.
Whos using Mint these days anyway ?
When my daughter asked what Linux distro she should install on her laptop, I didn't hesitate in recommending Mint.
> Add to that, that they do not care about copyright and license issues and just ship their ISOs with pre-installed Oracle Java and Adobe Flash packages and several multimedia codec packages which infringe patents and may therefore not be distributed freely at all in countries like the US. Hmm, that was actually one of major selling points for Mint around me - it was the distro that "worked", with relevant software,…
OTOH, it's exactly what pushed me away from Mint. I remember not long ago Mint included just about every browser media plugin ever made, including RealMedia, WindowsMedia etc., stuff that was obsolete 15 years ago. Maybe it still does. All that stuff doesn't just mean bloat, but also significant security risks. You can somewhat get away with it because desktop Linux isn't a major target (yet), but it's just very bad…
As a super happy user of Linux Mint - guys, please keep doing what you are doing! Thank you so much for giving us a proper desktop Linux! You have my (financial) support! Don't get pressured by some random loud Internet criticism and change for worse! Please don't do Win7->Win8 or iOS6->iOS7 regression in Mint as well because of a few unhappy voices trying to acquire power over you!
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The point of GPG is to download the public key of the signer (in this case, the package maintainer). Then, you check it's bona fide, either by verifying that you have a trusted connection through your web of trust, or (more likely) by verifying the key id is mentioned in other trustworthy places (like legitimate Ansible and Bash scripts, etc.). After that, you have a trusted signature, and it doesn't matter if it the…
I am first time linux mint user. The only place I can find who the developers are/what keys are used/signed and so on is their (compromised) site. Once we have established trust it is easy to maintain it.
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How bad must desktop Linux in general be, if people are so busy rejoicing about a volume icon that works, that they accept poor security?
They mean from a usability perspective. Mint is famous for it's volume icon that includes album art for what's playing, various other info, and controls to let you pause/skip tracks. It's like a tiny music player in your task bar. That said, no it should not excuse poor security.
Does Linux have a standard API for surfacing interactive icons and menus in the menu bar? An ICCCM extension, perhaps -- set some properties on the root window and cross you fingers? Or would you have to do it differently for every different Linux desktop environment or window manager that supported such a feature?
[1] https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Cocoa/...
Could [Linux] be added before Mint? I thought it was about Mint.com
Original page title is more communicative (so I suspect dang will fix it when he notices): Linux Mint downloads (briefly) compromised
More ontopic: Having your Wordpress instance compromised is rather expected with the amount of security bugs Wordpress gets.
There's something interesting to be said here. "They make {{ package }} unusable by hijacking it's name space", well who gave them that name space? I understand the whole first come first serve and all but if we played that way things could get messy real fast. There was recently an article on HN about the "Web of Hashes" and this article got me thinking about it. Why not give each application an UUID and let that be…
That is you can run both:
/opt/appfs/linuxmint.com/mdm/platform/latest/bin/mdm
/opt/appfs/debian.org/mdm/platform/latest/bin/mdm
Every once in a while, I get difference error in /etc/issue*. I really hate all of these. I use Mint only because I like its GUI interface. I really cannot stand Ubuntu desktop for a moment
I also use Mint mostly because of its interface and i hate Ubuntu desktop too. Given this, what are the best alternatives to Mint GUI that offer the same level of comfort?