Mint 17.3 may be the best Linux desktop distro yet
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Mint 17.3 may be the best Linux desktop distro yet
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Re: Mint 17.3 may be the best Linux desktop distro yet
#2No, I disallow it.
Re: Mint 17.3 may be the best Linux desktop distro yet
#3> it'd be nice to have a keyboard-based way to do this as well, perhaps using "enter" rather than return to trigger it
Does F2 not work for renaming files? Maybe that's only a Caja thing, I don't know...
Re: Mint 17.3 may be the best Linux desktop distro yet
#4As someone whose desktop needs are pretty simple, I agree with this assessment. If you want a *nix that's point-and-click configurable, looks nice, makes it easy to install software, and generally doesn't get in your way, Mint is definitely the way to go. I've tried all the popular distros, from (X/K)ubuntu, to Debian, to Fedora, to Arch and others, and I inevitably keep coming back to Mint. Just my 2 cents.
Re: Mint 17.3 may be the best Linux desktop distro yet
#5I was using Mint for over a year. New one is really glitchy on windowing or graphics. Sometimes it makes a weird pattern while keystrokes dont do anything. Also, dragging file save dialog to see a title in background causes entire window to unmaximize & hide behind dialog. Huh!?
About to ditch it entirely if I dont find work-arounds in a few days.
Re: Mint 17.3 may be the best Linux desktop distro yet
#6I understand the appeal for sticking with what you know (because ease-of-use is most often just "what I'm used to"), but I don't really find the modern Gnome UI and desktop problematic. It has some pretty big annoyances, in terms of notifications (some of which are seemingly impossible to disable), and the screen dimming thing that it does when using any menus (which also effects the secondary display, meaning you simply can't use a Gnome desktop for any professional video or presentation task).
Nonetheless, I'm not choosing a distro based on the desktop; Fedora has spins for every major desktop I'd want to use (though no good tiling WM options, with good integration, unfortunately, but nobody seems to build something like that).
I do like that they're building based on the LTS release of Ubuntu. The life cycle of a standard Ubuntu release is too short for comfort, IMHO. (Fedora, too, though security updates stick around long enough for me.)
Re: Mint 17.3 may be the best Linux desktop distro yet
#7+1 to Cinnamon being great.
I've found Ubuntu's Unity to be really non-intuitive and awkward to use ... even after several years of using it I've never got used to it and generally found it frustrating to use. Cinnamon is an absolute joy to use in comparison - just does its job and gets out of the way.
Sounds like Mint is a sort of "unbuntu-without-unity" which is worth its weight in gold in my opinion. Wish I could change my work's distro to use it!
Re: Mint 17.3 may be the best Linux desktop distro yet
#8+1 to Cinnamon being great. I've found Ubuntu's Unity to be really non-intuitive and awkward to use ... even after several years of using it I've never got used to it and generally found it frustrating to use. Cinnamon is an absolute joy to use in comparison - just does its job and gets out of the way. Sounds like Mint is a sort of "unbuntu-without-unity" which is worth its weight in gold in my opinion. Wish I could…
how about {x,k,l}ubuntu?
Re: Mint 17.3 may be the best Linux desktop distro yet
#9> it'd be nice to have a keyboard-based way to do this as well, perhaps using "enter" rather than return to trigger it Does F2 not work for renaming files? Maybe that's only a Caja thing, I don't know...
F2 for rename is a Windows idiom - as is the slow double click mentioned in the article. I'd be surprised if F2 didn't work, given the way Cinnamon apes Windows idioms.
(Not that that is a bad thing. I use Cinnamon by choice on Ubuntu 14.04 in my day job. I far prefer Windows idioms to the Mac conventions that much of Unity is aiming for.)
Re: Mint 17.3 may be the best Linux desktop distro yet
#10ChromeOS is the best :p