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.
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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.
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