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[News] Linux Mint Works Nicely for a Girlfriend

  • Subject: [News] Linux Mint Works Nicely for a Girlfriend
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2010 17:13:49 +0000
  • Followup-to: comp.os.linux.advocacy
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Minting the Girlfriend

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| Is Vista gone from her laptop? Not yet, but 
| maybe someday (Move Media Player not 
| installing on Linux or through Wine is the 
| last hangup). She is booted in Mint more often 
| than not and has found her way around the 
| Ubuntu Software Center to install Frostwire 
| (among other things). She also used the Linux 
| answer machine to hunt down the driver for her 
| Cannon MP190 printer when it was not auto-
| found by the printer installer on Mint.
| 
| All in all I must say though, the best part 
| about installing Mint on her laptop is that 
| now when I use it to check my email I no 
| longer have to use Vista :)
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http://jeffhoogland.blogspot.com/2010/03/minting-girlfriend.html


Recent:

- From Mandriva to Mint

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| I have liked Mandriva since Mandrake Linux
| 9.1. Its been an amazing distribution ever
| since. Pure visual delight and ease of use.
| I like KDE for the look and feel, GNOME is
| mostly a no no for me. Mandriva being a KDE
| centric distro fits the bill perfectly.
| Mandriva is the default king of our two
| year old Family Desktop. We all loved the
| latest version and despite KDE being a
| little buggy, find it convenient to use.
| I gave this info to emphasize that it was
| not easy for me to think about moving from
| Mandriva to any other distro, specially a
| GNOME centric Mint. Here goes the story :
|
| My wife's vaio completed 1 year and ran out
| of official warranty. Hence she allowed me
| to dual boot it with Mandriva and Vista.
| She was already comfortable with Mandriva,
| so it was supposed to be a smooth move. The
| problem started right after the first
| install.
`----

http://abhay-techzone.blogspot.com/2010/02/from-mandriva-to-mint.html


Taking a look at Linux Mint 8 "Helena"

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| DW: What's new in Mint 8? What are some of
| the new features people will enjoy in
| Helena?
|
| CL: We answered many of the requests we
| received after the release of Linux Mint 7
| and some of the changes we made were quite
| popular among our users. The Update
| Manager now allows you to ignore updates
| for certain packages. The level associated
| with each package is something we maintain
| so this addition gives a lot more power to
| the user. We also improved many aspects of
| the Software Manager and we implemented
| numerous little things to make the system
| more comfortable to use.
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http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20100222#feature


Linux Mint 8 KDE Community Edition

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| The final release of Linux Mint 8 (Helena)
| KDE Community Edition is available for
| download. I wrote about the Release Candidate
| of this a couple of weeks ago, so I won't add
| too much more now. I'm still more of a Gnome
| desktop user than KDE, but as KDE 4 gets
| better and better, and combined with the
| excellent integration with Linux Mint, this
| one is a real alternative for me.
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http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10015054o-2000498448b,00.htm
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