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To: gibsonguy
Mint is a derivative of Ubuntu, which is descended from Debian.

It's supposed to be pretty good, though I have not played around with it. Do you like it?

11 posted on 04/28/2020 8:12:59 AM PDT by ShadowAce (Linux - The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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To: ShadowAce

I have not used it a lot but so far so good. The install ISO was smart enough to allow preserving the Win partition so at start you can choose either Win or Mint. What I don’t like is it defaults to Mint unless you are there to there to switch it
after start up. It’s a clean responsive interface. It was able to play nice with the wireless card and wifi printer. PC is a 3 year old Dell office laptop, printer is an HP laser so I would expect no issues.


15 posted on 04/28/2020 8:57:07 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: ShadowAce

I’ve been using mint for several years. I just downloaded and installed mint cinnamon 19.3 onto a two year old computer and I was impressed. It makes 18.3 seem clunky in comparison. It booted up in seconds, was fast and responsive, contains upgraded and necessary features. It is very polished. Now I need to learn how to make a dedicated /home partition so I can move my stuff over and get rid of the old os on my own computer.

I do wish making that separate partition was a chouce in gparted.


17 posted on 04/28/2020 11:35:55 AM PDT by PrairieLady2
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To: ShadowAce

I’m liking Mint 19.2 - as far as it goes. My biggest issue is using it in a hybrid (Windoze) networked environment. Mint seems easier for configuring the cobbled up RDP applets and I’ve only crashed it once (so far).


20 posted on 04/28/2020 11:49:25 AM PDT by rockrr ( Everything is different now...)
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To: ShadowAce; gibsonguy

I use Mint Cinnamon. I never liked Red Hat.
If that distro ever gets compromised, it is simple to change to another distro as there are many to choose from.


21 posted on 04/28/2020 12:29:11 PM PDT by Dalberg-Acton
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