Why Out of the Box Linux Performance is Still Important

[ Thanks to Steve York for this link. ]

"Recently I reviewed Linux Mint KDE edition and concluded that it's probably missed it's window for success now that distros like Ubuntu are now supplying codecs (etc) on demand. But someone posted a comment that made me second guess my judgement.

"I'm not going back on my conclusion of Mint but I am going to explain why I now believe 'out of the box' performance to be very important to the growth of Linux..."

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