Guilty of infidelity
Yes, I have been unfaithful.
For years I have been extolling the virtues of Linux Mint, but I have gone over to The Dark Side.
When I got this laptop it had Windoze 10 installed. It also had a gigantic hard disk of one terrabytes which is one hell of a lot of space. Naturally I wiped the disk and installed an older version of Windoze [7, I think but it’s a while since I ventured into it].
It still had a moxy load of space left so I installed Linux Mint and just for the laugh I installed Ubuntu as well.
Since then I have been happily working on Mint but the other day I decided to experiment. I copied over some of my files [mail, browser files and the likes of Documents] and fired up Ubuntu. Everything worked and I have been using it ever since.
I like it. I don’t know why. Maybe it’s the fact that it looks even less like Windoze? It is certainly different from Mint. It takes a little getting used to and I still check the time in the bottom right hand corner only to realise that it’s now at the top centre.
Finding programmes is a bit different too. Instead of a little menu with categories such as Sound or Administration, I just get a screen full of icons which is colourful but a little confusing [I find myself clicking them just to see what they’ll do].
I think I’ll stick with it. It’s not for the faint hearted and certainly would confuse someone used to Windoze.
Sorry Mint!
Windows is the future
The future of what?
At least you're still using a Linux distro? For myself, I'll stick with Mint simply for the reason it still uses a classic WIMP interface which is what I prefer. Not the Gnome/gnome-shell, touch screen, tablet interface that straight Ubuntu now uses instead of Unity. I also prefer all the "Mint Tools" that are included plus Mint's update manager. After my distro/DE hopping spree I'm pretty much settled.
Still, it's all a matter of personal taste and all that so no worries there. I've sometimes wondered why Mint hasn't tried out a Gnome/gnome-shell edition of their distro since they had to drop KDE then again, their team can only handle so much?
I don't mind the layout too much. The only real problem is that I was used to the old Mint/Windoze configuration.
The menu button should be bottom left [it's now bottom right], the time should be bottom right [it's now top centre] and the little icons such as volume or wifi should be at the bottom right [they're now top right].
I have the menu set to display "Frequent" rather than "All" so it's not too cluttered. In fact I rarely use the menu as all my usuals are on the task bar.
Flipping heck, when you said you had gone over to the Dark Side, I thought you had succumbed to the wiles of Fianna Fail canvassers!
Going over to Fianna Fail would imply I was leaving another party? Seeing as all parties are the same there would be much point in preferring one over another.
With Mint I found that they just about get all of the bugs sorted out and it's time to upgrade (again). I switched to CentOS. Supported until 2024!