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Re:Canonical, Ubuntu, and Why I Seem so Upset About Them All... by dineshp2 on Friday February 19, 2016 @04:19AM (#11132485)
It still pretty much is along with Linux mint.

The average Joe does not care much about the open source philosophy. If it's free and works well out of the box without having to touch the command line, they would be happy. This is where I think Linux mint wins even though it includes many proprietary codecs.

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Re:Canonical, Ubuntu, and Why I Seem so Upset About Them All... by ZenoArrow on Friday February 19, 2016 @04:37AM (#11132548)
I agree. Will point out though that Linux Mint is also made available without the proprietary codecs included:

http://www.linuxmint.com/download.php

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Re:Canonical, Ubuntu, and Why I Seem so Upset About Them All... by StavrosK on Friday February 19, 2016 @08:40AM (#11133359)
I'm an Ubuntu user and I want to give Mint a spin (because my parents and acquaintances are a bit afraid of the "you have to upgrade your whole OS" prompt). Which desktop should I pick for a casual user?
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Re:Canonical, Ubuntu, and Why I Seem so Upset About Them All... by dineshp2 on Friday February 19, 2016 @09:09AM (#11133499)
Cinnamon would be a safe bet.

It looks and works like Windows 7 and most people would feel comfortable using it.

For old computer hardware choose the lightweight Mate edition of Linux mint.

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Re:Canonical, Ubuntu, and Why I Seem so Upset About Them All... by StavrosK on Friday February 19, 2016 @09:13AM (#11133523)
Great, thank you!
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