Rolling in Mint

“There are a lot of things I like about the Linux Mint
distribution. One is that they aren’t reinventing the wheel. Linux
Mint is less an independent from-the-ground-up distro and has been
more of the icing on the Ubuntu cake. It’s changing (I think
improving) the Ubuntu experience without starting over from
scratch. Essentially this means that the Mint team is able to
introduce new ideas and features to the user without wasting
resources on the underlying base. Another point in its favour is
that I can easily slap an install on a new computer in twenty
minutes and have all the basics right there with no configuring, no
tweaking and no adding extra repositories. It’s really the pizza
delivery to your door in under thirty minutes distro.

“Some people like to make their own crust or hand-pick and chop
all the toppings for that truly custom exactly-the-way-I-want-it
feel, but if you want a good pizza and you want it now with no
hassles, then Mint is a great choice. And it’s not as if they just
offer one option, they have a selection which includes GNOME, KDE,
Xfce, LXDE, Fluxbox, OEM and no-non-free-software editions (in
32-bit or 64-bit releases). Apparently the developers (and the Mint
community) have decided there need to be more shades of Hulk
available and so the Mint team has put together Linux Mint Debian
Edition (LMDE).”

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