Linux Mint: the New Ubuntu? 685
MrSeb writes "In the Linux world, a war has been raging for a couple years. At stake are the hearts and minds of its user base. The combatants: the various distributions of Linux itself. For some time, Ubuntu Linux has been the clear leader in the fight, amassing more users than any other. Canonical and its baby seemed poised to take over the Linux desktop/laptop market completely — until it released Unity. Unity has caused an uproar in the Linux community — especially amongst the power users who decry its lack of customizability and inability to scale on big- and multi-monitor setups — and users are defecting in droves to Linux Mint, now the second most popular Debian-based distro and gaining fast on Ubuntu. Mint has very similar commands and shortcuts to Ubuntu, runs most apps the same as Ubuntu, and you can customize it to look and feel exactly how you want — which, for most users of Linux, is exactly what they want."
Re:Wait ... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Real men use ... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Definition of Linux is...muddled (Score:5, Funny)
How apt to port apt, port apt-port to port an apt port and apt a port!
Re:Wait ... (Score:2, Funny)
If he wants to be told what to think, he probably already has a Mac.
Re:How about Fedora? (Score:5, Funny)
"just works" appeals to me
"just keeps working" appeals to me. So I use Linux.
Re:Talk about a knee-jerk reaction (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah guess Linux will have to settle for 2/3rds of the server market, 95% super computing, the most popular mainframe framework outside of native, arguably the most popular cell phone environment. But hey, they didn't beat companies with hundreds of billions in market cap each at desktop.
Re:Definition of Linux is...muddled (Score:5, Funny)
Interesting!
I moved over to FreeBSD .....It's a good operating system, but package management is a pain. If only if someone could port APT over to FreeBSD... sigh.
Totally.
apt-get install sumpackage
is so much more comprehensible and understandable, and totally not a pain, whereas,
pkg_add sumpackage
is out of control, a total pain, and whomever came up with such a nonsensical and grotesque idea is a really disturbed individual.
I keep telling people... read the book first. If you watch the movie first, you'll forever incorrectly believe the movie was better than the book. The movie is apt, but the book [netbsd.org] is the true source. And even the sequel [freebsd.org] is better than the movie.
Re:Ubuntu hatred (Score:5, Funny)
Really Linux support team? (Score:5, Funny)