Linux Mint Appreciation Thread

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It's a good DE for ubuntu, but i prefer xfce.

>>59530930
Just werks, keeps up to date on packages, and it controls like Windows.

Why use it over ubunutu

>>59531526 (Samefag)
I don't use it.

>>59530930
chiya is my gf

>>59531471
Mint has XFCE.

>>59531535
It's lighter than Ubuntu and is pretty competent in terms of theme management.
Also the application store is quite nice.

I'll admit I'm pretty new to Linux.

But it seems where other distros won't recognize a piece of hardware Mint recognizes everything 100% every time right out of the box.

Is there a way to have my wireless mouse not behave like a spastic on this OS.

I have the speed all the way down as low as it'll go and it still jumps from one end of the screen to another at the slightest tap. This doesn't happen with wired mice.

Unfortunately I had back surgery and I can't bend down to unplug my 1 functional wire mouse.

>>59530930
Because it just werks

>>59531569
>It's lighter than Ubuntu and is pretty competent in terms of theme management.

No

>>59530930
>How long have you been using mint?
8 months

> Why is it better than all of the other overhyped distros when it comes to desktop experience?
It just werks. Easy install, easy to get into.. works like Windows.

It's the only Linux distro that got me off Windows addiction.

>>59531569
>lighter than Ubuntu
my sides

>Mint
>literally a terrorist distro

>>59531895
>>59531840
Amy Schumer is lighter than Ubuntu.

>>59531979
now now anon

>>59530930
Good evening for you, Mint brother.
Today is my first day. Zero filled my HDDs and installed Mint. The whole win10 thing plus the end support for winxp was a good incentive to make the change.
I'm only confuse in how to play my animu.
Don't want to installl the mint full codec pack.
Any sugestions? FFMPEG will do the job? Do I install mpv?

>>59532035
If you've moved from Windows to Mint, just use VLC. It's very much among the easiest players out there though it may not be the fastest or look the best.

>>59532059
On windows I used CCCP (with MPC-HC). Is the something similar on Mint?

>mint
>bloated abortion of a distro
>YA BUT ITS EZ 2 USE N SHINY XD
>install image repositories have been hacked twice.
NO FUCKIN THANKS LOL

>>59532126
>install image repositories have been hacked twice.

I thought it was only once.

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>>59532126

>>59532180
literally anything is better than linux mint. arch is for tryhard ricer anime watching manchildren.

>>59532218
Is there any meaningful problems with Mint not found with other Linux distributions?

I am currently using Mint xfce, works pretty well on my shitty Acer Aspire 5050.

Daily reminder that Cinnamon is a bigger mistake than Gnome 3.0.

Using

lsb_release -d

since

echo $(ls -tcd --full-time /lost+found | awk '{printf $6 " " $7}')

>>59532165
The website was hacked, not the iso server.
The download link was altered to point to a different server in Bulgaria.
Feb 20, 2016.

>>59532530
So just the once then.

>>59531569
you are confusing cinnamon with mint

>>59531596
what kind of mouse is it? perhaps there are some kind of drivers you can install for it?

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>>59532346
Honestly I don't see any real problems with Mint. It's probably one of the most stable distributions ootb. Literally it's just updating and drivers.

xfce is pretty neat if you want light weight resource consumption.

>>59532403
At least cinnamon fucking works. Gnome gives me cancer.

>>59531596
Are you overweight?

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really laggy on my VM

mint was cool in 2012. its just a meme now.

>>59534401
i think you mean arch

>>59534396
probably because of the video device you have allocated for it. what's chromium as far as GPU? kek

>>59534480
hit em with the facts anon.

>>59534487
>what's chromium as far as GPU? kek
get this: my gpu IS my cpu

>>59534597
that's surprising considering you have an i7. what VM software are you running?

>>59534647
VirtualBox

>>59534687
how much video memory you giving it?

>>59534808
64MB
I can double it. should I double it?

>>59535057
you can try doubling it, maybe give it more cpu as well?

>>59535105
I have it at the max settings. I can only giv it 2 cpus. doubling it still left it laggy :/

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>>59535153
perhaps try running with a different environment? Xfce is lighter than Cinnamon.

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:xubuntu-dev/xfce-4.10
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install xfce4

>>59535235
assumes ubuntu

>>59535323
well Mint is a derivative of Ubuntu

>>59530930
i've been using it for about 14 months now? overall i like it.

>>59535348
I've been using it for about 2 years now and sometimes I try and venture to another distro just to satisfy curiosity. I always end up coming back to mint. Plus with my high end specs It's kind of silly not to use mint since i'm not looking for minimalism.

>>59535370
i tried upgrading my version, from 13 or some shit, i don't remember, and it fucked over my battery gauge, for some reason. truly the only reason i have to not try reinstalling 7 on it is all the freaking roguelikes i compiled on this thing. i like it, yeah, but i'd rather just use 7, or something that would run better with the ease of windows. it's really a hassle sometimes, i like linux, but as a dilettante, i can't be bothered with some of this shit.

>>59535338
hmm, seems legit. i only rocked a vm of it for a day or two. liked what i saw tho.

>>59535426
i will say that i grabbed the "Lenovo ThinkPad T420 Recovery DVD Windows 7 Pro SP1 x64"
and it hilariously ran at 80c upon installation. it was insane.

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>>59530930
Mint is Mossad.

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Been using mint for a while...... need to maybe update my shit.

>>59535524
leave it at 17.3

>>59532180
I enjoyed this cartoon

>>59532218
your comment and your comment alone - specifically coming from /g/ - has convinced me to try mint

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>>59535524
>Kernel: 3.19.0_32
>Bash: 3.4.11

>>59532035
mpv should work just fine. Customizing might be a bit confusing if you're totally new to things that aren't windows, but you could always just ask someone to share a basic but workable config file for ya.

My own setup is pretty much just the defaults tho. If you just want something that can play animu and don't demand no fancy functions, it'll work fine out of the box, probably.