Linux Mint 16 “Petra” Xfce RC released

http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=2516

by iamtechaddict • 13 years ago

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kfk2• 13 years ago

I was very disappointed with the debian version of linux mint. It was just awful. I have used archlinux for 2 years and I wanted a rolling release easy to use, but mint debian was slow, had connection problems and overall crashed way too many times.

I moved to crunchbang and it works very well. All out of the box. Fast, very fast. Very nice design overall. I don't understand why its releases never reach the front page of HN.

k__• 13 years ago

yeah, I felt the same...

Switched to normal Debian.

TsiCClawOfLight3• 13 years ago

Interesting... How would you quickly compare Arch vs #! vs Debian?

kfk2• 13 years ago

Arch is very lean and it's absurdly up to date. Debian is a monstruosity and even it's testing branch is not as up to date as arch.

However, arch breaks things often, very often. You make updates crossing fingers you will be able to reboot. Debian, crunchbang, overall, is very stable.

It depends what you want. If you are not a linux guru and need to work on your system, then go for something easy and stable like debian, otherwise do go for arch.

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Yes, I talked all the time about Debian and I missed #!. Let me say, crunchbang for me it's just an easy way to get a debian testing. I prefer it like this as last time I used Debian it had some rough edges I have no time anymore to smooth over. I want things to work out of the box and a good community, check #!, they actually have a nice welcoming community.

w1ntermute3• 13 years ago

I'm about ready to move back (from Ubuntu) to Arch for the rolling release support. Can't stand having to do "upgrades".

jeltz• 13 years ago

I do not like upgrades either so I really hope Debian will manage to shorten their freezes of Testing. Otherwise I might move to Arch too.

klrr2• 13 years ago

Could not agree more, although I dislike Arch. The reason I do is since it's extremely unsafe, I would want something as bleeding edge as Arch but with a purely functional package manager like Nix or GNU Guix. (I know you can install Nix on Arch but then I will still have to use Nixpkg repo.)

andrewcooke• 13 years ago

there's also opensuse's tumbleweed - http://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Tumbleweed

rajbala• 13 years ago

I also recently tried out Crunchbang and love it for the same reasons that you cite.

It provides everything that I love about Debian without the Ubuntu overhead.

codfrantic3• 13 years ago

I swapped Ubuntu for Mint Cinnamon,

Mint Cinnamon for Xubuntu.

Maybe Mint with XFCE is what I really want :P Will try it for sure :)

Justen• 13 years ago

What was wrong with Mint Cinnamon? I've been using Mint 13 for a while and I was just about to upgrade to 16.

collyw• 13 years ago

Its nice, but occasionally Cinnamon seems to grab the CPU and take a huge amount of resources for no apparent reason.

codfrantic3• 13 years ago

Nothing wrong specifically with Mint Cinnamon the only thing I can remember bugging me was the mintMenu being slow to show up after clicking it. I do enjoy messing with a different OS every now and then, XUbuntu actually stuck for quite a while, might be going back to it too, but I installed Mint XFCE yesterday (after trying ElementaryOS for a little bit) and it seems to run quite nicely on my AMD-E450 APU 11,6 inch net(ish)book

rpupkin• 13 years ago

i try other distros but i always wind up back w/Xubuntu. so hard to beat. recent 13.10 upgrade on an old Inspiron 8600 is clearly faster than 11.04 it was previously running. what a concept ... OS version upgrades w/smaller resource footprint. Mint/Xfce sounds promising, i'll give it a shot this weekend on similar old hardware. will also try CrunchBang's "older hardware" version. but Xubuntu is the rock.

crasshopper3• 13 years ago

I found Lubuntu the fastest. I copied ArchBang's awesomewm setup because ArchBang is beautiful. The result was fast and usable.

brownbat• 13 years ago

Is this somehow more notable than other distro + desktop releases?

drcube• 13 years ago

I'm wondering that myself. Mint doesn't normally use XFCE, or at least didn't when I used it in the past. It was always a fork of GNOME. So maybe that's the news?

Mint is also pretty popular as an alternative to Ubuntu for Linux newbs, so I can see why people think it's interesting and upvote. We get a fair amount of distro release announcements on HN.

codfrantic3• 13 years ago

Indeed XFCE is a new option. It used to be only MaTe or Cinnamon desktop environments.

eigenvector• 13 years ago

I know upgrades-in-place are not officially supported by Mint, but has anyone done it for 15->16 without exploding their system?

supermatou• 13 years ago

One word, for those in the know ;-)

-Aptosid

Linux Mint 16 “Petra” Xfce RC released

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