Not mint snuff, Linux Mint. I saw Carol’s post of the Dead desktop (too cool) on the other thread, and investigated. Now running Mint on the CD drive. Very nice, much nicer than the other distribution I was using a while ago. I am tempted to install it, but it’s my company computer. Maybe a good reason TO install it. Wow this is nice, lots of stuff packed in here. It’s faster than my other computer running windows from the hard drive, and the Linux is running from CD!

I’ve got Linux Mint Gloria running on my laptop and desktop. The laptop is split with Fedora 11, but I do love my Mint. The music players irritate me, though. They all seem to have issues with extremely large collections, and my Music folders are probably approaching the 150GB mark. So all the players hate me.

What issues did you have with Mint? I never actually used Ubunutu for a long time, although the only other guy on campus I know who uses Linux loves it.

Its cool to see that some of you guys are also linux users. I dual boot xp and ubuntu right now, but I’m always checking out new distros. I guess it’s not surprising that people with people who use a cool form of tobacco would also use a cool OS

I have Ubuntu on my machine with Vista…but all my stuff is on windows and I haven’t gotten around to switching it over/learning to use programs like Wine and what have you for my games and stuff…so I still use Vista. Someday though…

I use Ubuntu on my laptop, it’s a pretty decent, well rounded distro. From what I can gather Mint is just Ubuntu, but with codecs, etc, pre-installed and a fancier interface. On my desktop I use Arch Linux, which can be challenging at times, but it’s my favourite distro.

This thread is like reading Spanish for me. I understand about every third word.

@ Xander, take it all in with a pinch of snuff LOL!

It’s more like Japanese to me! It does make me think though… I have a couple old, basically useless, laptops laying around. I’ve been wondering if I could essentially make them into netbooks. In other words, wipe them clean and re-install only the most basic OS, I would only use them to surf the web, nothing more. Any thoughts from the computer savvy among us? Is it worth the trouble? I more than doubled my living space and I need to more wireless access to my google calender, docs. etc. Thanks in advance! Mark

Ubuntu, Distros, and someone named Gloria. I’m lost.

@miamimark, that’d be simple (read, reasonably easy)! Just go to this link and follow the instructions. Things are pretty simple to set up and there’s plenty of advice on the internet. Edit: for something even simpler use this link.

Thanks spam, I’ll save that link. I just moved my cpu into a new cabinet so I completely unhooked, organized and re hooked everything back up. I’m brain dead and DUSTY as hell. Maybe tomorrow.

I have Mint installed on both my laptop and desktop, and I love it!

It’s the one distro where I’ve never had flash issues. I just installed Felicia on my desktop, since I didn’t have a spare cd to burn Gloria on to, and encoutered my first big Mint issue. I was going through the steps on the mint blog for upgrading via terminal, and I could do everything except install mint-info-main. Still, it’s upgraded with no apparent problems, so I’m hoping it wasn’t a big error.

This thread makes no sense to me at all lol Stefan

BigBlue, Yes, she did get her Mac, and we love it. It is a great little package. My desk PC is such a mess. After the last try of dual boot, and several Windows fatalities, it’s got multiple OS’s and a big mess of a directory tree. Not to mention hidden germs and bugs and junk. I’m going to finally get an external HD, back up the few pieces of useful information and then scrub it all. Give the smaller drive to windows and partition the big one as maybe half ntfs, the other half partitioned out for Linux. I am so sick of winblows problems. I guess the best thing to do is use winblows only for those apps that REQUIRE it, and use Linux for all internet stuff, internet games, facebook, etc. With the slick Mint interface, I may be able to pull that off, that is, I may be able to get my family to cooperate. :-o MiamiMark, I tried putting mint into some oooold puters at work. Couldn’t get it to work, I guess these are 8 or 16 bit machines. No wonder. Anybody know a good distro for 16 bit?

sprangalang, for older computers, I’d try Damn Small Linux or Puppy.

Thanks Carol.

@sprangalang: If you’re going to try dual booting again, I’d say hold off on making half of the second drive ntfs. If you find out you have a distro you like, you could format it as ext4 for more speed and stability. Also, if you use Linux more, it’s easy to read an ntfs system on Linux, but Windows makes it a grand hassle to read a Linux partition. As far as I’m aware, it’s supposed to be easier to install Windows first and then install Linux for a dual-boot system. Ubuntu and the distros based off it make it much easier to dual boot than any other I’ve tried. Debian systems in general tend to be easier at first, although I find I prefer a Red Hat distro for day to day usage.

Mint becomes snappier on an older system if you use fluxbox or XFCE for your desktop. Much lighter than Gnome or KDE. Enlightenment is fairly lightweight as well, but sort of a PITA to set up. Enlightenment is great eye-candy though.

Carol, Thanks for the tips. I tried Damn Small on this old PC, and I decided to also try Puppy, which runs great. This computer is an old piece of history that was destined for the dumpster. I found all the files on the HD, which I thought (windows told me), were all lost forever. heh heh. There is a learning curve (mountain) to get over, but I am enjoying playing with Linux. -Jeff

Yeah, Windows will pretend that anything on a Linux file system doesn’t exist. If you enjoy the Linux, you should install the ntfs program. Type in yum search ntfs or apt search ntfs, or something like that. It should show something if you type that into the terminal. That’ll let you read/write files on your Windows partition. @Carol: Thanks for mentioning enlightenment. Just installed it, and I do like it. The setup really took care of itself though, don’t know which version you used. It made the menus, and it was done. I explored the options, figured out where everything was (was confused about how to start anything for a minute.), and now I’m up and running. edit: Looks like I’ll have to start all my programs run through wine in the terminal for now.

I keep clicking this thread thinking it’s about mint snuff…

Hey Carol, I liked Puppy so much, I bought a used laptop to try with it. I found an old Micron for $50, and it runs great with Puppy. It’s a P-ii with a whopping 256M ram! Funny thing, it was sold as with a 2G HD, but upon using GParted, I found that only 2 Gs out of TEN were allocated. So lucky me, got a 10G drive instead of a 2G! I wonder how many manufacturers do that? Use the same drive for all levels, then just allocate the space? Does that seem sane?

shikitohno, Yes I let Windoze have the big drive, and I play with the 80G. I finally had a chance to do the full install on it and it just flies. Apps are pretty fast. Open office loads a little slow though, about the same as in Win. Carol, I will check out fluxbox and XFCE. I saw some stuff earlier, had no clue, now I know… Thanks!

I wish I knew what you guys were talking about!! I know so many older people that live in condos with wireless access that would love to learn how to send emails with pics and surf the net. I think it could be a nice thing to do, make a few bucks and keep a few old laptops from poisoning children in Hong Kong.

Asherael, I’m bummed because I have a 3rd gen iPod nano, and it won’t support Rockbox or iPod Linux.

My internet connection spontaneously stopped working in both Fedora 11, and Mint 7 the other day. Just as randomly, it’s back. Yay, I won’t ask questions.

I’m looking to buy myself a Norwegian laptop keyboard, so my keys correspond to what’s actually there with my layout. I like the Norwegian keyboard layout best, as it let’s me type all the accents I want/need. The downside is humorous typos that are hard to explain to my fellow Americans. Submitting my physics homework online, I typed graåph, and hit submit before I noticed.