Another Linux Post but it tastes like Mint
Well that is the most cryptic heading so far. (quite proud of it acutally). As you all know from previous blog posts that I have been running Linux (ubuntu) for a couple months now. To be honest its probably good enough for most people but not for me.
It has some really annoying things. The Unity desktop is slow and painful when multitasking and the removal of the close minimize maximize buttons from right to left is just stupid. I mean most people have been using windows for years they all know where the x button is to close a screen. Unity is horrible they say its intuitive but its not, you are constantly having to think about how you get to the next thing you need to do. That and a propensity to deliver pages from email and web browsing that are blank is maddening as it needs a full reboot to fix.. remind anyone of windows.
Sound out of the box works fine just don't ask it to do anything complicated like auto switch between headset and desktop speakers when using Skype (not sure if its Skype of Ubuntu either way its a pain).
So after a bit more digging in the last 2 weeks I have downloaded and installed linuxmint, which uses the backend from ubuntu but makes the user experience far nicer. We have a menu which looks like a windows start menu, we have an intuative system which allows a quick switch between open applications. Like Ubuntu everything worked straight out of the box, no painful tuning.
Now I intend to use this for a little while so there will be an update post at some time, if you want to try it out, I suggest it looks pretty good so far.
http://www.linuxmint.com/ Go check it out.
It has some really annoying things. The Unity desktop is slow and painful when multitasking and the removal of the close minimize maximize buttons from right to left is just stupid. I mean most people have been using windows for years they all know where the x button is to close a screen. Unity is horrible they say its intuitive but its not, you are constantly having to think about how you get to the next thing you need to do. That and a propensity to deliver pages from email and web browsing that are blank is maddening as it needs a full reboot to fix.. remind anyone of windows.
Sound out of the box works fine just don't ask it to do anything complicated like auto switch between headset and desktop speakers when using Skype (not sure if its Skype of Ubuntu either way its a pain).
So after a bit more digging in the last 2 weeks I have downloaded and installed linuxmint, which uses the backend from ubuntu but makes the user experience far nicer. We have a menu which looks like a windows start menu, we have an intuative system which allows a quick switch between open applications. Like Ubuntu everything worked straight out of the box, no painful tuning.
Now I intend to use this for a little while so there will be an update post at some time, if you want to try it out, I suggest it looks pretty good so far.
http://www.linuxmint.com/ Go check it out.
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