Linux Mint 11 offers a superior experience to any Apple or Microsoft product. Period.
Not that that has anything to do with tablets, but Linux has a better interface than any Windows or Mac machine could ever hope to in the form of Gnome 2 as done by Linux Mint 11 (and 10, and 9, and 8, and......).
This. And of course the many great improvements on Android that already exist in the wild, like cyanogenmod. I probably will never buy another phone not capable of running cyanogenmod.
Yeah, unlike Microsoft, Google slips up (Honeycomb) and fixes it (ICS). Where as Microsoft just keeps whipping the lame horse (Vista, 7, 8) without the full rewrite they really needed.
OSX is far from Unix done right. I can't stand working on Macs, and I have to all the time.
As an atheist I find fundamentalist regimes disgusting, but let's face it: The US is essentially an exact replica of Nazi Germany now, so, I'm kinda glad other countries are downing our drones.
The reality is, if you're using a drone, you're a fucking coward anyway. People call the alleged terrorists who allegedly flew planes into the twin towers cowards, but in reality a kamikaze suicide run takes some serious cajones (I don't believe the official version for a second, and I also don't think cajones is all that it takes to earn respect. As an atheist, if they really were fundamentalist terrorists (And I'm not talking about Bush/Cheney, who probably actually DID perpetrate the attack), they are still a bunch of imbeciles, cajones or not). Launching glorified RC rockets at targets thousands of miles away? That's the very definition of cowardice. I'm completely ashamed to be an American.
Stop the drones, and stop the NDAA, and MAYBE our country will have some credibility again. Until then, we're just pathetic, fat, cowardly bullies.
I read about half way down the comments, and I seriously almost lost it. Tons of complaints about Ubuntu and Unity, tons of comparison with Fedora, Debian Sid, etc..
None of that is what this article is about.
This article is about Linux Mint, and there's a reason it's making a stir: It is the best OS I have used, EVER.
I've used every flavor of Windows, Mac, Os/2, Dos, and even earlier command line interfaces nobody besides me and some other old guy remember.
Let's be honest, almost every one of them has sucked.
I've also used tons of different Linux Distros. Not all of them, obviously, there are now hundreds. Many of them have some good ideas and could be extremely useful for certain people on certain tasks.
But no OS that I have used until Linux Mint (starting at around version 7) was easy, fast, clean, attractive, and had nearly every app a common user would need (and often the best version of that app) installed by default, out of the box with a menu that was extremely easy to use, and almost everything "just worked".
Ubuntu was always ugly. Every version of it was brown, orange, purple, god knows what. The user community is often rude and condescending, and self righteous. Many weird bugs and work arounds were necessary for me on every Ubuntu install. Yes, I eventually got something that was stable and usable, but often times it was still ugly, a little bloated, and I had to spend an entire day replacing the ridiculous choices Canonical often makes as far as which program is installed by default.
As of right now, Linux Mint 11 is almost perfect, out of the box, works on nearly every machine I put it on, installs all the best apps (except Brasero, which totally blows and makes coasters all the time), and is so user friendly I've seen 4 year olds and 94 year olds navigate around with ease.
Ubuntu isn't just losing because Canonical is stupid. Mint is winning because it is the greatest OS in the history of man kind. Period. All this other discussion is largely ignorance, go and install Mint a dozen times and come back and forget the previous conversation. It's all OT.
Many people in Mexico trust organized crime MORE than the government. Actually, that's the case here in the US as well. THAT is why both countries need a revolution. Not do deal with organized crime, but to deal with the even better organized criminals run by corporations who treat both countries and their citizens like those of a banana republic.
Have to agree with above poster. I've installed Linux Mint on literally dozens of notebooks and netbooks recently, and only had a problem once on some rather dated hardware. Most of the new stuff JUST WORKS pretty much out of the box. There's some configuration or tweaking to do usually, but nothing a competent 10 year old couldn't muster (IE changing resolution, connecting to a wifi router with a WEP password).
How in the hell did my original post get moderated Troll?!?! I am really curious and really want to do it. As far as cracking WEP, that's a no brainer. Done it already. Once you can crack the WEP and get a hold of the router config internals, uploading your own firmware also becomes trivial.
I live in a very crowded part of town with 9+ wifi hotspots in my area. I'd really like a firmware I could hack in and flash on all the local routers that would provide bandwidth sharing for everybody. I could go around and knock and ask politely before doing this, but I'd much rather just bust in robin hood style, crack the WEP using my little Linux Mint netbook, and change the firmware so that all the routers shared internet bandwidth without the end user really noticing. Except of course when their internet doubles or triples in speed!
Is there a firm ware project or suite out there with this capability, or do I need to start one on Google Code?
Why the hell is this posted anonymously? This is like the best post I've ever seen.
In fact, corporatism is completely anti-capitalism, in that capitalism will inevitably fail under corporate monopolism, and unrestrained corporations (the current model) ALWAYS lead to monopolism.
Worst Slashdot Comment ever. The giant corporate mega banks have devastated nearly every global economy, families, individuals, and brought the world to it's knees.
Obama's entire staff is ex Goldman Sachs. The fox is fully inside the hen house, we're all fucked, and a few people shouting about it in the streets and getting beaten by the corporations police force (the corporations own the state at this point), IS NEWS.
These giant corporations and corporate mega banks need to be shut down, permanently.
A) Make it cheaper than all the other tablets. Corner the market by throwing money at it. Make a $150 tablet that is every bit as functional as a netbook, and watch them sell like hot cakes.
B) Make it boot stock Cyanogenmod. Also have it be able to run Linux Mint and also Windows XP. Don't include them by default, but have them runnable out of the box. Easily runnable. None of this rooting crap. Include links to the custom Linux and ReactOS distros right in the opening tutorial. Give it an easily triple boot boot loader.
C) Include a couple of killer apps that don't currently exist. A really good video chat, at least as good as google's video chat, but with no sign in, just any email address would work, and anybody in your contact list is already added to your buddy list. For good measure have it able to connect to skype, google+, and google talk video chat.
D) Give it stylus capability and a great GIMP/airbrush program that really works, really well out of the box.
E) Include an excellent ereader and every text out of copyright downloadable for free in an easy to read format. Also include a great organization to find and download them. Something better than currently exists.
Do these 5 things, and you will beat them all: Apple, Google, Microsoft, Barnes and Noble, Amazon, HTC, Samsung, all of them.
Ah, who am I kidding. None of these corporations are smart enough to really go big like this. Fucking chicken shit bean counters the lot of them.
I've worked on/in a lot of big steel frame buildings over the last 20 years, and frankly the official explanation never made much sense to me either, but then again I'm not a metallurgical expert like some of the poeple on that site are.
I had over 70 reviews on there, mostly positive. This one place totally ripped me off. They censored my fair and honest negative review, then they deleted my account, and all 70 of my reviews. Many of the reviews were for undiscovered and locally owned gems that needed the exposure.
Fuck Yelp. Censoring Nazi Puss Bags.
Oh, for the record, the business was "San Elijo Dance and Music Academy". They STILL owe me $300, and the owners Ben and Laurie-Michelle are total charlatans, phonies, and liars. I really cannot say enough bad about the place.
The iPhone has PLENTY of stern competition from Android phones. T-Mobile crippled itself in 4 simple ways:
Not competing on price with the big 3, and following Boost's lead. Not competing on contract length, or better yet ditching contracts altogether. Not updating existing Android phones to newer builds in a timely fashion. Entering into talks with AT&T in the first place.
I was a happy T-Mo user for many years. But the second my current contract is up (which is way too high, and I'm still on a Froyo device that came out > 2 years ago!!!), I'm gone. Those four reasons are really it, but truthfully, having had AT&T in the past, I will NEVER use their service or a company who partners with them ever again. There is tons of room in the cellular market to make money and compete. Offer better service at lower rates, and offer the latest software which is BASICALLY FREE from Google anyway.
T-Mo has a good network. I get signal almost everywhere. They have good high speed data connections. But they don't have a reasonably priced contract and new cheap device to take advantage of it. And their in talks with AT&T. I don't know a single person who's sticking with them. I'm moving to Boost myself in the next couple of months.
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Linux Mint 11 offers a superior experience to any Apple or Microsoft product. Period.
Not that that has anything to do with tablets, but Linux has a better interface than any Windows or Mac machine could ever hope to in the form of Gnome 2 as done by Linux Mint 11 (and 10, and 9, and 8, and......).
We're going to need an alternative to reality if SOPA passes. I for one welcome our new Maoist overlords.
This. And of course the many great improvements on Android that already exist in the wild, like cyanogenmod. I probably will never buy another phone not capable of running cyanogenmod.
Yeah, unlike Microsoft, Google slips up (Honeycomb) and fixes it (ICS). Where as Microsoft just keeps whipping the lame horse (Vista, 7, 8) without the full rewrite they really needed.
OSX is far from Unix done right. I can't stand working on Macs, and I have to all the time.
As an atheist I find fundamentalist regimes disgusting, but let's face it: The US is essentially an exact replica of Nazi Germany now, so, I'm kinda glad other countries are downing our drones.
The reality is, if you're using a drone, you're a fucking coward anyway. People call the alleged terrorists who allegedly flew planes into the twin towers cowards, but in reality a kamikaze suicide run takes some serious cajones (I don't believe the official version for a second, and I also don't think cajones is all that it takes to earn respect. As an atheist, if they really were fundamentalist terrorists (And I'm not talking about Bush/Cheney, who probably actually DID perpetrate the attack), they are still a bunch of imbeciles, cajones or not). Launching glorified RC rockets at targets thousands of miles away? That's the very definition of cowardice. I'm completely ashamed to be an American.
Stop the drones, and stop the NDAA, and MAYBE our country will have some credibility again. Until then, we're just pathetic, fat, cowardly bullies.
I read about half way down the comments, and I seriously almost lost it. Tons of complaints about Ubuntu and Unity, tons of comparison with Fedora, Debian Sid, etc..
None of that is what this article is about.
This article is about Linux Mint, and there's a reason it's making a stir: It is the best OS I have used, EVER.
I've used every flavor of Windows, Mac, Os/2, Dos, and even earlier command line interfaces nobody besides me and some other old guy remember.
Let's be honest, almost every one of them has sucked.
I've also used tons of different Linux Distros. Not all of them, obviously, there are now hundreds. Many of them have some good ideas and could be extremely useful for certain people on certain tasks.
But no OS that I have used until Linux Mint (starting at around version 7) was easy, fast, clean, attractive, and had nearly every app a common user would need (and often the best version of that app) installed by default, out of the box with a menu that was extremely easy to use, and almost everything "just worked".
Ubuntu was always ugly. Every version of it was brown, orange, purple, god knows what. The user community is often rude and condescending, and self righteous. Many weird bugs and work arounds were necessary for me on every Ubuntu install. Yes, I eventually got something that was stable and usable, but often times it was still ugly, a little bloated, and I had to spend an entire day replacing the ridiculous choices Canonical often makes as far as which program is installed by default.
As of right now, Linux Mint 11 is almost perfect, out of the box, works on nearly every machine I put it on, installs all the best apps (except Brasero, which totally blows and makes coasters all the time), and is so user friendly I've seen 4 year olds and 94 year olds navigate around with ease.
Ubuntu isn't just losing because Canonical is stupid. Mint is winning because it is the greatest OS in the history of man kind. Period. All this other discussion is largely ignorance, go and install Mint a dozen times and come back and forget the previous conversation. It's all OT.
That's cool and all, but I want one of these:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Pulpit
Many people in Mexico trust organized crime MORE than the government. Actually, that's the case here in the US as well. THAT is why both countries need a revolution. Not do deal with organized crime, but to deal with the even better organized criminals run by corporations who treat both countries and their citizens like those of a banana republic.
Have to agree with above poster. I've installed Linux Mint on literally dozens of notebooks and netbooks recently, and only had a problem once on some rather dated hardware. Most of the new stuff JUST WORKS pretty much out of the box. There's some configuration or tweaking to do usually, but nothing a competent 10 year old couldn't muster (IE changing resolution, connecting to a wifi router with a WEP password).
9/11 was clearly an inside job, yet they make ludicrous claims about pancakes. I say good riddance.
Mod parent up, and as for games on a Mint computer:
Dolphin Emulator
Urban Terror
Wine
With those 3, you can have TONS of the very best games. And at more stable framerates than Windows generally.
Mint is the future. Ubuntu is the past. Come join us. The water's fine!!
Seriously, that's my whole comment. Fuck that nazi piece of shit.
This is a bummer. And it shows that Mozilla has been mishandling the whole situation. They should've cleaned up the memory usage years ago.
The world would be an inherently better place with the majority of users on a free open source browser.
How in the hell did my original post get moderated Troll?!?! I am really curious and really want to do it. As far as cracking WEP, that's a no brainer. Done it already. Once you can crack the WEP and get a hold of the router config internals, uploading your own firmware also becomes trivial.
I like both those links immensely. Thanks!
I live in a very crowded part of town with 9+ wifi hotspots in my area. I'd really like a firmware I could hack in and flash on all the local routers that would provide bandwidth sharing for everybody. I could go around and knock and ask politely before doing this, but I'd much rather just bust in robin hood style, crack the WEP using my little Linux Mint netbook, and change the firmware so that all the routers shared internet bandwidth without the end user really noticing. Except of course when their internet doubles or triples in speed!
Is there a firm ware project or suite out there with this capability, or do I need to start one on Google Code?
This:
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2006/042706-sharing-wi-fi.html
Is what I had in mind, but doing it hacker style without the neighbors knowledge or consent.
I'd love to get it all in place on my whole block, then casually stroll by and say, "Have you noticed your internet is quite a bit faster?".
...and the sweet sound of crickets as MS loses their hegemony to google.
Fuck You.
Put me in jail.
I defend the second amendment with cold hard steel.
Why the hell is this posted anonymously? This is like the best post I've ever seen.
In fact, corporatism is completely anti-capitalism, in that capitalism will inevitably fail under corporate monopolism, and unrestrained corporations (the current model) ALWAYS lead to monopolism.
Worst Slashdot Comment ever. The giant corporate mega banks have devastated nearly every global economy, families, individuals, and brought the world to it's knees.
Obama's entire staff is ex Goldman Sachs. The fox is fully inside the hen house, we're all fucked, and a few people shouting about it in the streets and getting beaten by the corporations police force (the corporations own the state at this point), IS NEWS.
These giant corporations and corporate mega banks need to be shut down, permanently.
A) Make it cheaper than all the other tablets. Corner the market by throwing money at it. Make a $150 tablet that is every bit as functional as a netbook, and watch them sell like hot cakes.
B) Make it boot stock Cyanogenmod. Also have it be able to run Linux Mint and also Windows XP. Don't include them by default, but have them runnable out of the box. Easily runnable. None of this rooting crap. Include links to the custom Linux and ReactOS distros right in the opening tutorial. Give it an easily triple boot boot loader.
C) Include a couple of killer apps that don't currently exist. A really good video chat, at least as good as google's video chat, but with no sign in, just any email address would work, and anybody in your contact list is already added to your buddy list. For good measure have it able to connect to skype, google+, and google talk video chat.
D) Give it stylus capability and a great GIMP/airbrush program that really works, really well out of the box.
E) Include an excellent ereader and every text out of copyright downloadable for free in an easy to read format. Also include a great organization to find and download them. Something better than currently exists.
Do these 5 things, and you will beat them all: Apple, Google, Microsoft, Barnes and Noble, Amazon, HTC, Samsung, all of them.
Ah, who am I kidding. None of these corporations are smart enough to really go big like this. Fucking chicken shit bean counters the lot of them.
http://ae911truth.org/
I've worked on/in a lot of big steel frame buildings over the last 20 years, and frankly the official explanation never made much sense to me either, but then again I'm not a metallurgical expert like some of the poeple on that site are.
I had over 70 reviews on there, mostly positive. This one place totally ripped me off. They censored my fair and honest negative review, then they deleted my account, and all 70 of my reviews. Many of the reviews were for undiscovered and locally owned gems that needed the exposure.
Fuck Yelp. Censoring Nazi Puss Bags.
Oh, for the record, the business was "San Elijo Dance and Music Academy". They STILL owe me $300, and the owners Ben and Laurie-Michelle are total charlatans, phonies, and liars. I really cannot say enough bad about the place.
Actually, it IS rooted, but the hardware is so ancient it runs like shit on anything later than froyo. LOL
The iPhone has PLENTY of stern competition from Android phones. T-Mobile crippled itself in 4 simple ways:
Not competing on price with the big 3, and following Boost's lead.
Not competing on contract length, or better yet ditching contracts altogether.
Not updating existing Android phones to newer builds in a timely fashion.
Entering into talks with AT&T in the first place.
I was a happy T-Mo user for many years. But the second my current contract is up (which is way too high, and I'm still on a Froyo device that came out > 2 years ago!!!), I'm gone. Those four reasons are really it, but truthfully, having had AT&T in the past, I will NEVER use their service or a company who partners with them ever again. There is tons of room in the cellular market to make money and compete. Offer better service at lower rates, and offer the latest software which is BASICALLY FREE from Google anyway.
T-Mo has a good network. I get signal almost everywhere. They have good high speed data connections. But they don't have a reasonably priced contract and new cheap device to take advantage of it. And their in talks with AT&T. I don't know a single person who's sticking with them. I'm moving to Boost myself in the next couple of months.