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03-21-2008
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| Linux Mint for me; all the way!!
Dude, it's the truth! I love Linux Mint. I can't live without it. 9 months of searching for that "distro for me" and I finally found it. Now, I am a KDE fan, so I of course had to pick up the KDE Edition of Mint 4.0; but come now, do we really fret of DM's? haha... Anyway, My laptop is fried (as many of you know from helping me with hardware issues since January). So I bought a new one from Dell. The most powerful computer I will have ever owned. Probably just keep Vista on it. (BOOOOOO!!!!!).... Yeah well, I agree. I just don't want to mess with a brand new computer.
So en lieu of this decision, I wiped the other distros off my Linux box and just went mainstream Mint. Anyway, to bring this thread to a close, Mint is for me! If anyone is new to Linux, or a familiar friend looking for a new distro to seriously check out, I definitely recommend Mint. KDE or GNOME are equally good. Just decide which you want based on your own personal DM preference. 
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03-22-2008
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Originally Posted by SkittleLinux18  Dude, it's the truth! I love Linux Mint. I can't live without it. 9 months of searching for that "distro for me" and I finally found it. Now, I am a KDE fan, so I of course had to pick up the KDE Edition of Mint 4.0; but come now, do we really fret of DM's? haha... Anyway, My laptop is fried (as many of you know from helping me with hardware issues since January). So I bought a new one from Dell. The most powerful computer I will have ever owned. Probably just keep Vista on it. (BOOOOOO!!!!!).... Yeah well, I agree. I just don't want to mess with a brand new computer.
So en lieu of this decision, I wiped the other distros off my Linux box and just went mainstream Mint. Anyway, to bring this thread to a close, Mint is for me! If anyone is new to Linux, or a familiar friend looking for a new distro to seriously check out, I definitely recommend Mint. KDE or GNOME are equally good. Just decide which you want based on your own personal DM preference. | get vista off your new laptop it will fly with mint or any other linux on it | |
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03-22-2008
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Originally Posted by markharding557 get vista off your new laptop it will fly with mint or any other linux on it | Welcome to the forums, dude! You really think it will fly? Specs are:
Intel Core 2 Duo Processor 2.0Ghz
3 GB of RAM
160 Gb SATA Hard Drive
256 Mb nVidia GeForce 8600m GT
16x DVD R/RW Drive
17" HD Widescreen
Is that any good?? 
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03-22-2008
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Me too loved Mint.I had installed 3.0.
It's really a polished distro.
Now i want to install Fedora 8.
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03-22-2008
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| I have just installed mint, the KDE version. So far I like it.
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03-22-2008
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Originally Posted by Cool G5 Me too loved Mint.I had installed 3.0.
It's really a polished distro.
Now i want to install Fedora 8. | Yeah man, that is a safe way to go every time. The older, more polished distro. Right on! Quote:
Originally Posted by elija I have just installed mint, the KDE version. So far I like it. | I'm glad you do! It's one worthy of users' love. Just out of curiosity, did you do this enlight of this thread I started??
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03-22-2008
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Originally Posted by SkittleLinux18 I'm glad you do! It's one worthy of users' love. Just out of curiosity, did you do this enlight of this thread I started?? | I've been curious for a while and just recently decided to go for it, so no, I didn't
decide based on your thread. Great coincidence though 
Will it be the distribution that I stick with? I don't know as I have the attention
span of a mayfly on amphetamine so I keep swapping about. I have pretty much
decided that I like the distributions that have sprung from Debian. I will have to
have a go at Debian again (last time I didn't have time to spend getting
everything installed) at some point. Maybe in a VM to start with.
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03-22-2008
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Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: France but my heart stays in Britain
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| Oh-ho Elija, I've said it to you before and I'm saying it again: you are definitely a 'pure' Debian/Slackware sort of a guy! The Easter holidays are on us, I reckon it's time for you to try again! Mint is good, true, but you don't get that 'I'm getting my hands dirty' feeling that you do with Debian.
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03-22-2008
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Originally Posted by Manchunian Oh-ho Elija, I've said it to you before and I'm saying it again: you are definitely a 'pure' Debian/Slackware sort of a guy! The Easter holidays are on us, I reckon it's time for you to try again! Mint is good, true, but you don't get that 'I'm getting my hands dirty' feeling that you do with Debian. | HAHAHAHAHA Great point!!
Ubuntu = newbies
Mint = average/seasoned users
Fedora/Gentoo/Debian = experts!
The next step is to be like Devils_casper.... cause then you're a God.
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03-22-2008
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The next step is to be like Devils_casper.... cause then you're a God.
|  And you won't get that far if you're using Mint! But yeah, I agree: Mint is one of the best developments in recent times: it might help more people to get on their feet with Linux. The more people we convert, the weaker Windows will become.
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