Community Counts: Another Advantage to Linux Mint | Linux Today

Community Counts: Another Advantage to Linux Mint

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
May 24, 2010

“A few months back I listed five reasons I thought Linux Mint is
a better choice than Ubuntu for a Linux distro. Today I would like
to add another reason to that list. With the recent releases of
Ubuntu 10.04 and Linux Mint 9 we see something that I feel really
makes Linux Mint out shine Ubuntu (yet again):

“Community input counts.

“Now while Ubuntu has a fantastic support community apparently
community input on over all design does not matter. Do I think it
is right? Not really, but it’s their product so
Shuttlesworth/Canonical has every right to make executive decisions
such as these.”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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