Peppermint OS One Review

JimLynch writes "I've covered a lot of remastered versions of Ubuntu since DLR launched. But, every once in a while, I bump into one that is particularly interesting to review. Peppermint OS One is definitely in that category. Peppermint OS One is a web-centric Ubuntu remaster that passes up common desktop applications like OpenOffice.org in favor of web-based alternatives such as Google Docs. And it doesn't stop with office applications either; Peppermint OS One integrates video sites like YouTube and Hulu right into the desktop experience."

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[Dark_Matter88]

I used to use gOS a distro with similar aims, and judging from those screenshots, better aesthetics

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[micheas]

The biggest speed improvement would be if the replace firefox with chrome.

For the non-linux desktop users. Chrome is slightly faster on Linux than Windows, Firefox for linux is so slow that Firefox.exe under wine is much faster than the native version of firefox. (about 90% on my machine.)

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[Goaway]

I remember this coversation.

But last time Firefox was Seamonkey and Chrome was Phoenix.

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[thePowerOfGrayskull]

Until there's an adblocker that prevents content from downloaded, then the one plugin that matters most is not available under Chrome ;) (Yes there is an adblock plugin. No, the last I checked it did not stop content from loading, it only prevented it from displaying -- due to limitations in the Chrome plugin architecture. This is a problem both because I don't want to download content I don't need; and because it doesn't let me prevent requests from going out - thus continuing to give data to third part aggregators.)

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[tropicflite]

Indeed. Vimperator is a must have.

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[st0nes]

Firefox for linux is so slow that Firefox.exe under wine is much faster than the native version of firefox. (about 90% on my machine.)

This hasn't been my experience--I find FF faster by far on Linux than XP. I haven't tried Chrome yet.