Way a long time ago I was using Knoppix and other live Linuxes, but, seemed like about 9 years ago I dedicated a couple partitions to Ubuntu. Ubuntu worked okay on my PCs, but wasn't crash-resistant enough to take seriously. I'm sure pilot error had a lot to do with it. But one thing I did do, was try a lot of apps, wrote down the ones I liked (since my favorite apps weren't there by default) and decided to start fresh. Then I run into Mint. The same apps! Cinnamon GUI! Whoah!
Fast forward till lately, in addition to a USB stick of Arch and Debian for Pogo, I've also got two other USB sticks that are totally freaking me out they help so much (I installed to USB using the breathtakingly easy Universal-USB-Installer) One is Damn Small Linux and other is Mint.
Tonight I plugged in a brand new Gigabit ethernet into a laptop's Expresscard slot and the company's own Win 7 x86 and x64 drivers didn't work, yet Mint worked. Turned out the manufacturer had the wrong drivers up. I wouldn't have known if if it weren't for Mint working. And yes, your advice about gigabit switches, zoom very nice speed increase.
So I've decided to dedicate desktop partition(s) to Mint, and lucky me there's different versions to choose from. I'm eyeing the Mate one because it's based on Debian and that would compliment the Debian learnin' going on elsewhere (here).
All in all, for the first time in 18 years i feel like a lucky consumer again. I don't remember a version of Windows that was actually fun. Mint is fun. Maybe i'm referring to the Cinnamon interface and don't know what i'm talking about, no problem LOL
Debian Mint anyone? Or what's your Swiss Army Penguin of choice?
Fast forward till lately, in addition to a USB stick of Arch and Debian for Pogo, I've also got two other USB sticks that are totally freaking me out they help so much (I installed to USB using the breathtakingly easy Universal-USB-Installer) One is Damn Small Linux and other is Mint.
Tonight I plugged in a brand new Gigabit ethernet into a laptop's Expresscard slot and the company's own Win 7 x86 and x64 drivers didn't work, yet Mint worked. Turned out the manufacturer had the wrong drivers up. I wouldn't have known if if it weren't for Mint working. And yes, your advice about gigabit switches, zoom very nice speed increase.
So I've decided to dedicate desktop partition(s) to Mint, and lucky me there's different versions to choose from. I'm eyeing the Mate one because it's based on Debian and that would compliment the Debian learnin' going on elsewhere (here).
All in all, for the first time in 18 years i feel like a lucky consumer again. I don't remember a version of Windows that was actually fun. Mint is fun. Maybe i'm referring to the Cinnamon interface and don't know what i'm talking about, no problem LOL
Debian Mint anyone? Or what's your Swiss Army Penguin of choice?