Comments on: Technobabble: Microsoft hates you if you are gay, Newly minted Mint

By: MarkusR

MarkusR — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 04:27:12 +0000

Running Mint practically full time right now. Got dual monitors, and even Matlab student edition on it. Using Eclipse for the C programming class.

Son still boots it into XP for his games. The funny thing is that the Win7 installation I got on this same box as well is now totally useless because it’s not compatible with the wireless card.

By: Roland

Roland — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 03:53:12 +0000

Mint over Ubuntu: it’s about patents and copyrights. Ubuntu doesn’t (by default) include codecs (converters, if you like) for things like Adobe Flash and some audio/video formats. Mint does, which makes it much more user-friendly. How Mint gets away with this, I don’t know. But I’m converted. Copyright law is a mess, and Patents are worse, and will always be a threat to Open Source, which by definition won’t pay license fees.

By: MadScientist

MadScientist — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 01:29:44 +0000

@Rob: Oops … various things got me thinking that it must be some customized version of MSWin, but sources on the internet all claim it’s Sony’s own system. It’s a pity Sony is now blocking the use of Linux on the PS3 though.

By: MadScientist

MadScientist — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 01:17:39 +0000

@DuWayne: I guess no one is allowed to log on from Fucking Austria then? I wonder what town Microsoft insists they claim they’re from.

By: MadScientist

MadScientist — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 01:14:56 +0000

Oh yeah, I agree Mint is very good. I was looking at Linuxes for a friend of mine last year and ended up with KUbuntu, Mint, and Suse. Mint was not only very pretty but did the best job of setting up the system and common features like wireless access and bluetooth without any hassles.

By: Rob

Rob — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 01:11:12 +0000

@MadScientist:

Huh? Since when has Sony licensed Windows for the PS3?

By: MadScientist

MadScientist — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 01:09:03 +0000

One more reason to buy a PS3 instead. Unfortunately the PS3 still runs WinDuhs. However, it *is* pretty good for games. Oh, just don’t ever use the “online store”. Your credit card information is retained forever and if you set the machine up to automatically log in, anyone who steals your computer can buy hordes of stuff off the network. So Sony obviously has its share of idiots.

By: Rob

Rob — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 00:30:43 +0000

Mac is the best host platform for now.

Right, because Apple would never, ever censor anything about gay

By: George

George — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 23:06:31 +0000

I will try Unix soon as some linux distribution. This is the age of virtual machines. I have Mac OS 10.6, Win XP, Win 7 and soon some flavor of Linux or maybe two.

Mac is the best host platform for now. Expand your world.

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 22:25:39 +0000

I don’t think Mint is enough different from Ubuntu to be considered a different OS. There are some differenes in the menus, but that is true across distros and releases of gnome and KDE anyway.

I think Mint simply installs and operates out of the box better than Ubuntu. Otherwise, it is Ubuntu. It is Ubuntu with some of the philosophically placed limitations lifted.

Although I have installed it once, I’ve not really used it, so I can’t say much beyond that.