DeskTop Linux Whats your Fav Flavor?

Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2010 7:51 am

Mint is really refined and polished. That said one of the main reasons I never used it is that I needed a dialer gppp or kppp to get online. With Mint it was in the repositories but not on the install cd. I thought that was short sighted and figured if dial in users were that easily left out who am I to argue?

Mint did make me an ext4 convert though.

Worker Joined: Mar 30, 2009 Posts: 132

sixonetonoffun wrote:

Mint is really refined and polished. That said one of the main reasons I never used it is that I needed a dialer gppp or kppp to get online. With Mint it was in the repositories but not on the install cd. I thought that was short sighted and figured if dial in users were that easily left out who am I to argue?

Mint did make me an ext4 convert though.

well you kinda got to think how many people actually use dial up anymore. i think the majority is on DSL or Cable.

Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2010 3:50 pm

I understand that. But I can't apologize for living in a rural community. If it wasn't for EVDO (for which I also use a dialer) I'd still be dial n waiting. Good news is with the increase in EVDO use there is a renewed interest in fixing all the broken dialers and network connection tools!

Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2010 5:02 pm

Just goes to show how much we take for granted these days. Even here, in deepest, darkest, post-communist Slovakia, nestled at the base of Europe's second largest mountain range (The High Tatra's; part of the Carpathian Mountain Range) I have excellent internet.
I cannot even begin to imagine using a dial up modem.
Is satellite uplinks still expensive?

registered · Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2010 6:19 pm

4G wireless is cheaper that satellite now. We got Clear 4G for about $40 US a month with speeds as fast as cable.

Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2010 7:01 am

I love my 3G can't wait for 4G to come ! Would give up phones and TV before I'd give up the freedom!

Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2010 3:10 pm

I moved over to openSUSE 11.3 not being afraid of the evil empire it seemed like a pretty safe bet. Wanted to give Fedora 13 a try but suse is working really well for me now.

Kubuntu 10.10 should be nice too but I was happy to leave ureadahead, grub2 and especially plymouth behind for a while. (Regressions not always a bad thing!)

Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2012 1:21 pm

I switched from Ubuntu to Mint a while back - loving it!
Of course Mint uses a huge chunk of Ubuntu's upstream repositories but I found Ubuntu too unproductive when they forced Unity on everyone.
With poetic license, where else are you going to get a Girl, Mint Muffin with Cinnamon and IcedTea for free.

Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2012 2:03 am

Kubuntu is amazing! Linux becomes very popular.

Involved Joined: Jul 03, 2006 Posts: 273

I've tried a few and all seem to have their merits for one thing or another but to pick a fav I would say MINT. I like to use it to convert novice window users over to linux because it is one of the most user friendly with best driver and codec support out of the box. However if there were only a silverlight player for linux so my converts could watch their netflix without a hassle I would have a better chance keeping them converted. But most of em move back to windows without it.