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[padre29]

Recently acquired a Mint 12 CD and have to say..someone finally got it right in linux land.

I say this simply because an older laptop I needed to add an OS  to simply works with Mint 12, and I do mean everything works, Wifi card, camera card, screen drivers, flash player for videos etc

Plug and play is somewhat new to linux in my experience, so if this is not new pardon the recommendation, but after trying the late 00's version of linux this generation of linux is far superior for non linux power user folks.

[slidemansailor]

I cut my Linux teeth on Ubuntu not that long ago, but the overhead reminded me too much of the resentment I felt when Windoze took over my machine when I was wanting to use the processor for my own purposes.  I have had three Mints. 11 was good, 12 seems cleaner. All beat Ubuntu for my purposes. I'm hard-pressed to ask for much more than Linux 12 delivers. ... oh, except to accept a USB blue-tooth.

[MamaLiberty]

That sounds great! I wonder if the productivity programs have been improved as well. This might answer some of the questions I'm having about Ubuntu. The OS has worked fine for me, but I find some of the programs that go with it less than optimal. I'll check it out! Thanks.

[padre29]

I cut my Linux teeth on Ubuntu not that long ago, but the overhead reminded me too much of the resentment I felt when Windoze took over my machine when I was wanting to use the processor for my own purposes.  I have had three Mints. 11 was good, 12 seems cleaner. All beat Ubuntu for my purposes. I'm hard-pressed to ask for much more than Linux 12 delivers. ... oh, except to accept a USB blue-tooth.

On the hp it recognized the blue tooth port at install (though that is probably not what one was referencing).

Mint is a touch slow to boot up, compared to how fast I normally like to boot up however it needs none of the usual virus like anti virus software that makes a boot hellishly slow.

Other really zorchy thing about mint is the format and install process is very rapid, anyone who has sat through a M$ install and format knows it will take over an hour, maybe longer, with Mint, it wiped out XP, installed itself, got everything running in about 20-25 minutes on a 40 gb hd in a laptop no less.

[gooch]

Links to downloads or purchase opportunities?

PLEASE?

[padre29]

Links to downloads or purchase opportunities?

PLEASE?

http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=mint

I wound up just buying a linux admin mag with the Cd included as the whole iso thing is something I've never bothered with, but so far, so good, it even offers a more logical (for me) updating and download and install process w/o using terminal commands or what have you.

http://knolinuxguy.blogspot.com/2010/04/returning-to-linux-round-2mint.html

good review of mint

[MamaLiberty]

I looked at the link, but couldn't figure out what I was seeing... most of the words used to describe these things mean little or nothing to me. I'll have to consult my Linux guru about this too. sigh

[gooch]

Links to downloads or purchase opportunities?

PLEASE?

http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=mint

I wound up just buying a linux admin mag with the Cd included as the whole iso thing is something I've never bothered with, but so far, so good, it even offers a more logical (for me) updating and download and install process w/o using terminal commands or what have you.

http://knolinuxguy.blogspot.com/2010/04/returning-to-linux-round-2mint.html

good review of mint

Thanks padre   

I'll go check it out.

[MamaLiberty]

I read as much as I could about it. Seems that most of the changes are geared toward the graphics and sound capabilities, so I doubt it would be of any particular use to me. Will continue to search for improved production programs.

[padre29]

I read as much as I could about it. Seems that most of the changes are geared toward the graphics and sound capabilities, so I doubt it would be of any particular use to me. Will continue to search for improved production programs.

Probably, the difference with Mint is it supports wifi out of the box.

Stuff like dreamweaver probably needs to be written specifically for linux.

[MamaLiberty]

Stuff like dreamweaver probably needs to be written specifically for linux.

Don't really need "dreamweaver" - just a program that performs the basic WYSIWYG html editing... consistently and at least to some degree conveniently. Kompozer is arbitrary - even what little it does do can't be done all the time - and it is not set up for efficient use in any case. I would lose my mind if I had to do very much webpage maintenance in that program. My own weekly update is enough of a headache.

[padre29]

Have run into one issue with Mint 12:

ATI screen drivers, support was dropped in 2007, my box has them and when it hibernates it has to be hard rebooted to get to the GUI.

Disappointing really, have not found a solution and would love to know if anyone has any information on solving this issue as Mint is really great otherwise.