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| wolfen69 Dec 28, 2008 1:50 AM EDT |
mint does not offer me anything that debian can't. as far as i'm concerned, it is strictly a noob distro. |
| tracyanne Dec 28, 2008 1:53 AM EDT |
good, I'll tell noobs about it then |
| Steven_Rosenber Dec 29, 2008 3:16 PM EDT |
What Mint does is give you preconfigured multimedia capability. That ain't nothing ... I know a few noobs who run it. They seem pretty happy with it, too. I, too, would rather add CODECs as I need them (or not), but there's a definite need for out-of-the-box multimedia. |
| helios Dec 29, 2008 10:01 PM EDT |
as far as i'm concerned, it is strictly a noob distro. That's Wonderful. And the kids that receive our computers get Mint on 90 percent of them. It actually offers a bit more than Debian but then again, some of it is just different ways to do the same things, some of it is quite innovative. That "strictly noob distro" may be within sight of your contempt but I personally know about 300 kids who think it's their technological salvation. It's a shame some people can take the talent, time, sweat, stress and sacrifice of a giving person and turn it into a verbal yawn. Sad. h |
| rijelkentaurus Dec 29, 2008 11:47 PM EDT |
Yeah, h, there is a lot of work on the backend that makes it so easy on the frontend, rather in the same vein as Mepis and Mandriva and a few others...well, dang near all others. Even a "not-so-easy" distro like Slackware or Debian proper has a lot of the load taken off the user to make things easier. If someone wants to be "l33t", I reckon a person should be rolling their own distro. If you're not then it doesn't matter which distribution you use, you're getting the benefits of thousands of hours of work that weren't your own. More power to Mint, yo. They're doing a nice thing...not just great, but actually nice...you know, that quality generally considered "good". |
| tracyanne Dec 30, 2008 12:31 AM EDT |
a bit off topic, but sorta not. It's about noobs. I've been conversing with a friend of mine, she lives in San Antonio, I gifted her and her son a couple of computers (older laptops that work very well with Mandriva and KDE installed on them), 2 years and 12 months ago, respectively. She pinged me because she had bought an HP printer and the salesman, who she said couldn't tell the difference between a computer and an operating system, had got her all confused, he kept telling her that she had to have either a Mac or a PC (which, he said, meant she had to have Windows, he'd never heard of this Linux thing), and she wanted to set up the printer, we sorted that, and she was pretty impressed with how easy it is on Linux. During the conversation she told me how she'd gone out and bought a 5 port switch, as I'd told her to, and connected the computers up so they both had access to the internet, and no she's got her own little LAN. She was very proud of herself, because she said she followed my earlier instructions and everything just worked. In addition her son had broken the monitor on his laptop, several months ago, by slamming the lid shut, so they had bought an external monitor for it (a replacement one being too expensive, and connected it up, and got that working too. I do have to explain to her how to get the resolution right, but other than that she's done really well, and is very proud of herself. |
| rijelkentaurus Dec 30, 2008 2:00 AM EDT |
People can be self-sufficient and darn efficient on Linux in a very short period of time with just a tiny bit of initiative, whereas on Windows it doesn't matter how good you are, "registry rot" (or a rogue virus from a hijacked website) will eventually force you to reinstall the OS because there is no other way to fix it. |
| helios Dec 30, 2008 8:46 AM EDT |
will eventually force you to reinstall the OS because there is no other way to fix it. I am continuously amazed at the amount of people who would rather do this for the rest of their lives rather than take a bit and learn something new and better |
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