Mint 17.3 may be the best Linux desktop distro yet

Re:Mint 17.3 may be the best Linux desktop distro yet by VonGuard on Saturday December 26, 2015 @02:00PM (#10794853)

All the Ubuntu's have terminal GUI problems. They just keep tinkering and changing things. Gnome did this to itself, too, and thus, we're left with all these weird GUIs that aspire to be Windows 8, or Mac OS, when Gnome 2 was fucking perfect and shoulda been left alone.

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Re:Mint 17.3 may be the best Linux desktop distro yet by noir_lord on Saturday December 26, 2015 @06:55PM (#10795758)

> All the Ubuntu's have terminal GUI problems. They just keep tinkering and changing things.

Xubuntu doesn't. 4.12 in 15.04/15.10 was much the same as 4.10 in 14.04 (other than bug fixes and some small tweaks to fix stuff they where near identical).

The XFCE folks reached rough parity with Gnome 2 in terms of desktop usability then just focussed on small increment improvements and bug fixes and that has been a major win imo as I can use a desktop that supports modern linux distro's, is fast on everything and rarely surprises me.

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Re:Mint 17.3 may be the best Linux desktop distro yet by bachmeier on Saturday December 26, 2015 @03:38PM (#10795199)

I was a happy Gnome 2 user for years, and am now a happy Mate user. I don't think the weird GUIs aspire to be Windows 8 or Mac OS. They just aspire to be weird.

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Re:Mint 17.3 may be the best Linux desktop distro yet by icelancer on Saturday December 26, 2015 @02:52PM (#10795036)

Totally agree. Ubuntu 10.04 was the height of usability. Unity is an embarrassment.

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