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25 reasons to use Linux Mint

Submitted by srlinuxx on Fri, 10/17/2008 - 09:09.

Mint, the only leafy plant not to be ignored (excluding the cannabis). How about Mint Linux?

  1. At least, people understand what it means, Mint. With Ubuntu... (Ubuntu is also an award granted to Fidel Castro this year!)

  2. It's not brown. No, really, it's not brown! Brown was interesting in October 2004, but four years later and still brownish...
  3. It features the most elegant, business-like desktop of all the Linux distributions, right out of the box. Most people would not bother to get rid of the default look (theme, icons, wallpaper, GDM splash, boot splash, whatever). Just look at home many Windows XP boxes are displaying the horrendous blue window decorations, with red close buttons and the green Start button, although changing to the more business-like Windows 2000 look is a simple task.
  4. Multimedia codecs, browser plugins, DVD playback, and so on, out of the box. I mean, out of the box. No fuss.

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Mint is cool

Submitted by madevan on Thu, 11/06/2008 - 06:36.

I have worked with mainframes since 1975 - With PC's since 1984 - I've got personal computing magazines from 1978 - I work with microsoft operating systems and until last year exclusively so. I have "played" with Linux but until Clem's Mint Linux came along I could not find a Linux distro that did what I wanted - I started with celena 3.1 upgraded to Daryna 4.0 and am now on Elyssa.5.0 Its stable and much more than adequate. I have used XP at home 2 or 3 time in the past six months. I still try other distros because I enjoy the diversity that open source allows but at the moment I'm VERY happy with Mint.

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