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how is this different from ubuntu? 2016-12-20 04:25:46 Post No. 58092216
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how is this different from ubuntu? Anonymous 2016-12-20 04:25:46 Post No. 58092216 [Report]

Besides having cinnamon desktop, how is this any different from ubuntu? Does it just use ubuntu's repos, or does it also have it's own? And, if it has it's own, are they more out of date?

Anonymous 2016-12-20 04:44:18 Post No.58092389
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Anonymous 2016-12-20 04:44:18 Post No.58092389 [Report]

They have their own software included with the install.

Anonymous 2016-12-20 04:47:46 Post No.58092432
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Anonymous 2016-12-20 04:47:46 Post No.58092432 [Report]

>>58092216
Should be as up to date as Ubuntu for the most part. Just make sure you install all the latest updates; ignore their grading system.

Anonymous 2016-12-20 04:56:45 Post No.58092531
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Anonymous 2016-12-20 04:56:45 Post No.58092531 [Report]

If you tell it to boot with startup text it will first say Welcome to Ubuntu, ´some more text, and then Welcome to Mint

Anonymous 2016-12-20 05:01:22 Post No.58092575
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>>58092216
most updates are Ubuntu or Debian. packages from mint repos are typically mint apps, cinnamon stuff.

my update history, besides my recent upgrade to 18.1 which has a lot of mint stuff, looks like this

Anonymous 2016-12-20 05:04:59 Post No.58092610
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Anonymous 2016-12-20 05:04:59 Post No.58092610 [Report]

Mint is just Ubuntu painted green and with security removed.

Anonymous 2016-12-20 05:10:03 Post No.58092643
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Anonymous 2016-12-20 05:10:03 Post No.58092643 [Report]

>>58092610
not true, i literally get every security update ubuntu lts gets.

Anonymous 2016-12-20 05:11:25 Post No.58092657
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Anonymous 2016-12-20 05:11:25 Post No.58092657 [Report]

No Amazon AIDS, no Unity, pre-installed codecs (the initial reason for mint's existence), other inconsequential shit.

Anonymous 2016-12-20 05:17:06 Post No.58092711
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people on /g/ really go out of their way to hate on mint. This is what you see in the mint update manager.

/g/ is really offended by Mint's update manager warning people that updates can fuck their shit up. This isn't because Mint is unstable, it's because updates can fuck your shit up... in Debian, Arch, Ubuntu, Manjaro, openSUSE... you name it. This is because hardware, conflicts, bugs... not a single distro exists that hasn't fucked up somebodies system with an update.

But because Mint says "hey if you update to this latest kernel, be warned it might fuck your shit up" Mint is somehow bad

Anonymous 2016-12-20 05:25:03 Post No.58092788
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Anonymous 2016-12-20 05:25:03 Post No.58092788 [Report]

The only problems I've ever had with Mint (and Ubuntu) have been due to the damn meta packages.

Anonymous 2016-12-20 05:29:00 Post No.58092831
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Anonymous 2016-12-20 05:29:00 Post No.58092831 [Report]

>>58092610
Meme: the post

Anonymous 2016-12-20 06:08:46 Post No.58093272
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Anonymous 2016-12-20 06:08:46 Post No.58093272 [Report]

A better name and no horrible purple color scheme.

Anonymous 2016-12-20 06:33:24 Post No.58093598
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Anonymous 2016-12-20 06:33:24 Post No.58093598 [Report]

>>58092657
Didn't Mint remove the codecs in the newest one?

Do you even need codecs anymore? Shouldn't VLC or mpv play everything?