"Linux Mint is a derivative distribution of Ubuntu. Its purpose, according to its Web site, 'is to produce an elegant, up-to-date, and comfortable GNU/Linux desktop distribution.' Unfortunately, it falls short in at least one of those areas, and suffers from several other disappointing shortcomings.
"Mint comes in two primary editions: a main edition, which includes proprietary codecs and plugins, and a light edition, which does not. Like Ubuntu, both versions use GNOME as the user interface, though there are other versions of Mint available which include Xfce and KDE..."
