Linux Mint, anyone?
Mint is my go-to distro for when I need Linux. They've managed to avoid doing anything stupid to the interface (*ahem*) and things generally seem well supported.
Haha, yeah, I hated having all language packages installed. Good grief!
>What surprised me the most about Mint is how much faster than Ubuntu it was, and I was even running it off of a live CD! It seemed more fluid. Also, even though it's just aesthetics, the wallpapers are amazing!
Me too. First time I booted it from my crappy flash stick it was really fast, and the installation was nice too. I especially did not miss not having Ubuntu's ridiculous "installing those 500MB language packs that you will never use but for some reason I need to download them anyway, you know, just in case you happen to speak all 177 languages, never mind that I actually asked what language you wanted five minutes ago". Now on my SSD it's beautiful. It takes about ~1 second for the desktop to appear and the system is ready for use
And holy crap on that boot time! I might have to install an SSD in my tower for Mint... that'd be so awesome to have a section of my computer, ready in less than 5 seconds!
We tried it out at work for a while, but every revision seemed to muck with the boot process, and the overall stability was abysmal.
Admittedly, that was a couple of years back, so the situation may have improved since then.
We tried it out at work for a while, but every revision seemed to muck with the boot process, and the overall stability was abysmal.
Admittedly, that was a couple of years back, so the situation may have improved since then.
I've been running it at work for a bit over a year now, everything just works and it starts a heck of a lot faster than Windows7 (allthough i only reboot to switch OS when i have to test in a proper windows install (rather than a VM) so it might just be that my win install gets rusty from the neglect)
Hmm, well, I seem to be having some issues getting to recognize my sound... that's not good. :P
I'll tinker with it some more. You've always got to tinker with Linux, no matter what distro you use!
You prolly need a closed source driver for it.
Or a sacrifice.
Goats may work, if you don't have a handy supply of virgins.
Actually I got it to work. It was trying to go through my headphones (which were plugged directly into my PC and not through my speakers), so I just had to unplug them. Simple, silly mistake. :P
