I tried Ubuntu first and moved to Mint within a month or so... Been
using Mint for maybe a year and a half... I really like it!!
On 2015-08-03 13:23, Michael Havens wrote:
> Mint is NOT ubuntu.
>
> On 8/3/15, Kevin Fries <kevin@fries-biro.com> wrote:
>> I thought about trying Mint, but Ubuntu makes some horrible design
>> choices. Went to Arch, and have never looked back. If it isn't in
>> pacman,
>> AUR almost always has it, and if the packager does something silly
>> (for a
>> while, VIM did not have python support, so you couldn't use
>> NERDTree!), I
>> can always use ABC to fix it... if only Ubuntu had a tool that would
>> fix
>> Upstart and Unity, ha ha.
>>
>> Kevin F
>> On Aug 3, 2015 1:43 PM, "Michael Havens" <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> yeah... mint is the only thing i run.
>>>
>>> On 8/3/15, Keith Smith <techlists@phpcoderusa.com> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > Put Mint 17 on it. I think Mint 17 is based on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
>>> >
>>> > I'm running Mint 17 KDE and here is what my version file(s) say:
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > cat /etc/*-release
>>> > DISTRIB_ID=LinuxMint
>>> > DISTRIB_RELEASE=17
>>> > DISTRIB_CODENAME=qiana
>>> > DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Linux Mint 17 Qiana"
>>> > NAME="Ubuntu"
>>> > VERSION="14.04, Trusty Tahr"
>>> > ID=ubuntu
>>> > ID_LIKE=debian
>>> > PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 14.04 LTS"
>>> > VERSION_ID="14.04"
>>> > HOME_URL="http://www.ubuntu.com/"
>>> > SUPPORT_URL="http://help.ubuntu.com/"
>>> > BUG_REPORT_URL="http://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/"
>>> > cat: /etc/upstream-release: Is a directory
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > On 2015-08-03 08:13, Michael Havens wrote:
>>> >>
>>> http://symplepc.com/blogs/news/16853255-symple-introduces-the-89-planet-friendly-ubuntu-linux-web-workstation.html
>>> >> I wish we could get something other than Ubuntu pre-installed!
>>> >
>>> > --
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