Comments on: Three months is not a bad run

By: Notes from all over « Motho ke motho ka botho

Notes from all over « Motho ke motho ka botho — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 09:06:56 +0000

[...] My own disappointment with Xubuntu aside, things done right in XFCE can be quite effective … as I have learned first-hand. [...]

By: Twenty-ten: The picks of the litter « Motho ke motho ka botho

Twenty-ten: The picks of the litter « Motho ke motho ka botho — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 23:40:21 +0000

[...] it ran without a complaint — no, really: without a stitch of attention from me — for three full months. What do [...]

By: raymond300

raymond300 — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 21:13:51 +0000

By: Adrian

Adrian — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 12:09:57 +0000

Mint has the added advantage that, when you install it, that’s it. No Flash, java (?) or w32codecs to mess with. Even Ubuntu needs some extra steps which may be too annoying for some end users.

By: tetris4

tetris4 — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 11:36:04 +0000

ahahaha..same here!!

By: steve

steve — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 09:50:08 +0000

Or a decent OS. Ubuntu is a badly patched fork of Debian and only gets worse with age. Clem does an awesome job but there’s only so much you can achieve with a rotten base.

By: x33a

x33a — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 05:20:14 +0000

When i saw the title in my feed, i first thought that your cf card went kaput

Maybe you can install mint-debian on your neighbour’s computer, if he’s feeling more comfortable with linux now, and is keen on the latest software.

By: LeoSolaris

LeoSolaris — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 01:13:47 +0000

Congrats! To you and your neighbor.

I understand just what an accomplishment having no help for three months with a totally new system is. When I gave my wife Ubuntu a year or so ago, it took about two weeks before I had to do something to it. Granted it was only an update because she forgot about it…

(She is now up to using Arch on her own. I am rather impressed!)

By: Dmitry

Dmitry — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 23:23:56 +0000

Why was it Mint? Celeron 2.2 can be used for something else… Ubuntu, Kubuntu, *buntu, Mandriva…

By: Ken

Ken — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 22:20:06 +0000

very nice, this just goes to show that when people actually try the alternative they find out “hey this isn’t so bad”. Plus less work for the maintainer is ALWAYS a good thing.