Wednesday, April 09, 2008

Linux Mint 4.0; first impressions

Installing it as a VM in Parallels, following these instructions as if it were an Ubuntu distro (which it is). I am pleased to say the following about Mint:
  • It shaves several steps off my standard Ubuntu post-install procedure because Mint's maintainers think in similar ways
  • It comes with a better selection of themes
  • Single taskbar instead of two
  • Genuine attempt to merge Gnome and KDE paradigms
  • Its simplified "software portal" package finder is actually kind of cool
  • No goddamn brown/orange color scheme. There's no polite way to tell Mark Shuttleworth that an OS color scheme can't be based on the color of shit.