. Always been an Ubuntu user (years ago) and on the crappy pcs a Puppy Linux user.
Mr Windows guy himself reviewing a product he already had a negative view of to start with..... I'll buy that for a dollar.Never heard of Linux Mint before I read the name here... not too hard since I dont follow the Linux scene that much
I have now installed Linux Mint and am somewhat impressed. Only issue I had on install was the lack of "brains" the installer had in finding the free space I had made on my harddisk for the linux install.. had to go to the partition manager and do quite a lot of voodoo, something an average user would not be able to do. But then again Ubuntu aint much better on this issue if I remember right.
But the system it self is semi smooth, although either because my machine is too slow (doubtful... E7300 Intel and 4 GB ram) or there is something wrong with the install, I do have areas where the system gets slow as hell and basically freezes for a bit. Loading my picture folder into the background took ages...And chrome browser feels much slower in Linux than in Windows, plus in general the system feels sluggish (barely but noticeable) compared to my windows install.
But the software packages included are good, and after a lot of tinkering the desktop seems more windows familiar than I have ever had on a Linux machine. But it did take a lot of tinkering.
One thing I love with Linux is the Skype client.. that is so much better than the bloated piece of shit Windows is being fed.
But as usual, I always get back to the issue... no games, hence I find myself having to reboot all the time to my windows install to play my games. Wine and Playonlinux are hellish to get to work so that I have given up for now.
Mr Windows guy himself reviewing a product he already had a negative view of to start with..... I'll buy that for a dollar.Never heard of Linux Mint before I read the name here... not too hard since I dont follow the Linux scene that much
I have now installed Linux Mint and am somewhat impressed. Only issue I had on install was the lack of "brains" the installer had in finding the free space I had made on my harddisk for the linux install.. had to go to the partition manager and do quite a lot of voodoo, something an average user would not be able to do. But then again Ubuntu aint much better on this issue if I remember right.
But the system it self is semi smooth, although either because my machine is too slow (doubtful... E7300 Intel and 4 GB ram) or there is something wrong with the install, I do have areas where the system gets slow as hell and basically freezes for a bit. Loading my picture folder into the background took ages...And chrome browser feels much slower in Linux than in Windows, plus in general the system feels sluggish (barely but noticeable) compared to my windows install.
But the software packages included are good, and after a lot of tinkering the desktop seems more windows familiar than I have ever had on a Linux machine. But it did take a lot of tinkering.
One thing I love with Linux is the Skype client.. that is so much better than the bloated piece of shit Windows is being fed.
But as usual, I always get back to the issue... no games, hence I find myself having to reboot all the time to my windows install to play my games. Wine and Playonlinux are hellish to get to work so that I have given up for now.
I hope you don't expect to be taken seriously?
Mr Windows guy himself reviewing a product he already had a negative view of to start with..... I'll buy that for a dollar.Never heard of Linux Mint before I read the name here... not too hard since I dont follow the Linux scene that much
I have now installed Linux Mint and am somewhat impressed. Only issue I had on install was the lack of "brains" the installer had in finding the free space I had made on my harddisk for the linux install.. had to go to the partition manager and do quite a lot of voodoo, something an average user would not be able to do. But then again Ubuntu aint much better on this issue if I remember right.
But the system it self is semi smooth, although either because my machine is too slow (doubtful... E7300 Intel and 4 GB ram) or there is something wrong with the install, I do have areas where the system gets slow as hell and basically freezes for a bit. Loading my picture folder into the background took ages...And chrome browser feels much slower in Linux than in Windows, plus in general the system feels sluggish (barely but noticeable) compared to my windows install.
But the software packages included are good, and after a lot of tinkering the desktop seems more windows familiar than I have ever had on a Linux machine. But it did take a lot of tinkering.
One thing I love with Linux is the Skype client.. that is so much better than the bloated piece of shit Windows is being fed.
But as usual, I always get back to the issue... no games, hence I find myself having to reboot all the time to my windows install to play my games. Wine and Playonlinux are hellish to get to work so that I have given up for now.
I hope you don't expect to be taken seriously?
Who is reviewing anything? Just commenting on Linux Mint that is all.
As for my preconceived negative view of Linux.. it is based on how the average user would react to the OS and how user-friendly it is. This "negative" view is far more realistic than Windows haters who hate windows because it is Microsoft and Bill Gates behind it. Their negative view is not only childish but arrogant.
Mr Windows guy himself reviewing a product he already had a negative view of to start with..... I'll buy that for a dollar.Never heard of Linux Mint before I read the name here... not too hard since I dont follow the Linux scene that much
I have now installed Linux Mint and am somewhat impressed. Only issue I had on install was the lack of "brains" the installer had in finding the free space I had made on my harddisk for the linux install.. had to go to the partition manager and do quite a lot of voodoo, something an average user would not be able to do. But then again Ubuntu aint much better on this issue if I remember right.
But the system it self is semi smooth, although either because my machine is too slow (doubtful... E7300 Intel and 4 GB ram) or there is something wrong with the install, I do have areas where the system gets slow as hell and basically freezes for a bit. Loading my picture folder into the background took ages...And chrome browser feels much slower in Linux than in Windows, plus in general the system feels sluggish (barely but noticeable) compared to my windows install.
But the software packages included are good, and after a lot of tinkering the desktop seems more windows familiar than I have ever had on a Linux machine. But it did take a lot of tinkering.
One thing I love with Linux is the Skype client.. that is so much better than the bloated piece of shit Windows is being fed.
But as usual, I always get back to the issue... no games, hence I find myself having to reboot all the time to my windows install to play my games. Wine and Playonlinux are hellish to get to work so that I have given up for now.
I hope you don't expect to be taken seriously?
Who is reviewing anything? Just commenting on Linux Mint that is all.
As for my preconceived negative view of Linux.. it is based on how the average user would react to the OS and how user-friendly it is. This "negative" view is far more realistic than Windows haters who hate windows because it is Microsoft and Bill Gates behind it. Their negative view is not only childish but arrogant.
Mr Windows guy himself reviewing a product he already had a negative view of to start with..... I'll buy that for a dollar.
I hope you don't expect to be taken seriously?
Who is reviewing anything? Just commenting on Linux Mint that is all.
As for my preconceived negative view of Linux.. it is based on how the average user would react to the OS and how user-friendly it is. This "negative" view is far more realistic than Windows haters who hate windows because it is Microsoft and Bill Gates behind it. Their negative view is not only childish but arrogant.
All of you previous posts concerning this subject belies your claim.
Considering the fact you had to do "partition voodoo" means you can't follow simple instructions.
Given my druthers if all the mainstream games were written for Linux I'd ditch Windows in a heartbeat for my own reasons which I don't expect anyone else to make their OS decisions based on.
All of you previous posts concerning this subject belies your claim.
Considering the fact you had to do "partition voodoo" means you can't follow simple instructions.
Seriously? My PC has several partitions and I wanted to install it on the partition of my choosing. The only way I could do this was via advanced partitioning, which already there is far too much for the average user. But instead of just taking the the free space I had created, Linux wanted a "linux type" system already made, including a Swap disc.. what the hell?
Actually it seems it is you that dont know shit. E7300 is not the chipset.... The chipset if you must know is a P45 chipset from Intel on a MSI motherboard.
Oops I used the wrong word (which I have heard/read to be interchangeable with processor by many writers).
And maybe with all your supposed wisdom can explain to me why my Linux Mint install feels slower than my Windows install when doing normal things like opening folders with many files in? Or setting up a background picture from a folder of my choosing (with 100+ pictures in)?
Simple, is your graphics NVidia or Radeon?
LOL then I did it faster than you... Took me 5 to 10 min to tinker with the desktop to get it as I liked it... at least 5 minutes more than on a windows machine.
It took me a half and hour to configure my first Windows desktop to the way I wanted it but I knew nothing about computers at all at the time.... Go figure, it's different for everyone..........
Could have fooled me the way you sing Linux praises.. but hey!
Only because you choose to read what you want to read. But hey! As I have always stated I have no real problems with ether OS.
Given my druthers if all the mainstream games were written for Linux I'd ditch Windows in a heartbeat for my own reasons which I don't expect anyone else to make their OS decisions based on.
I can actually follow you on this point. If games were made for linux then I too would switch in a heartbeat.. since it is free. Hell I would even try Mac OSX if it was installable on any machine..
