[TriLUG] What would you do?

[Wes Garrison via TriLUG]

I would recommend Ubuntu over Mint, but using either the Mate desktop (for
speed and familiarity to Windows users) or Cinnamon desktop (for modern
OSX-like beauty)

The consensus with Mint is that it seems to hybridize Debian and Unbuntu in
a way that is not always stable, using packages from Debian unstable (Sid).

People like Mint because it ships with almost any software that you could
want, licensing concerns be damned.  It was actually nice for a novice
because you don't have to futz around for days trying to figure out how to
get video files to play.

I think Ubuntu has mostly taken care of that concern nowadays, and includes
great audio and video players based on libav or ffmpeg out of the box.

The other reason people like Mint are for the excellent Mate (Gnome 2
based) and Cinnamon (Gnome 3 based) desktops, but those have been available
in Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, Arch, etc. for years now.

We run Debian in the office, but with the Mate desktop from Mint, and even
new employees have picked it up without any training at all.

The one major oversight in Mate, unless I'm missing something, is that they
don't seem to include a GUI printer config utility.  Maybe cool people
don't print anymore?  You'll need to add the system-config-printer package.

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Wesley S. Garrison
Network Engineer
Xitech Communications, Inc.
phone:  (919) 260-0803
fax:       (919) 932-5051
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On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 3:06 PM, Ron Kelley via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org>
wrote:

> I have been playing with Linux Mint (Cinnamon) recently.  Not bad.  A few
> glitches on the video card stuff, but overall, a pretty good experience.
> Coming from a Mac, it takes a while to get the keyboard shortcuts working
> as expected.  And, I really like the Synapse plugin (quick launch tool)…
>
> -Ron
>
>
>
> > On Nov 16, 2017, at 3:03 PM, Ken MacKenzie via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org>
> wrote:
> >
> > +1 on ubuntu, debian is great and all but ubuntu is typically a better
> > desktop experience for most users.
> >
> > On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 2:47 PM, John Vaughters via TriLUG <
> > trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> +1 on Ubuntu - I have found non-technical users have no trouble with
> Ubuntu
> >> Scratch may be the only thing you have to look up on how to install, but
> >> from what I saw it will work.
> >> John Vaughters
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