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jonathonball

jonathonball

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Installed Linux Mint isadora today.

I loaded it into a VM at first.. that lasted all of an hour before I put it on my laptop.

I'm really excited about this distro... it's really snappy, most of the GUI configs that I want are already installed... and not much else really... just bare essentials.. and openoffice and gimp.

i hit a bit of a snag with the wireless not seeing WPA or WPA2 networks, but I was freakin' DELIGHTED to see that Realtek not only provides a unix driver for this adapter (RTL8191SEVA2); it was last updated 2010/6/30. I had to make then make install the drivers, but that was pretty painless.

I've been playing with Linux for a few years now and have been looking for a distro to call home...

so we'll see how it pans out as I start loading shit onto it, but thus far.. I'm really digging the Minty flavor.
 
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I'm quite a fan of Mint myself. I'm just running Ubuntu right now, but I'm still hunting for a distro for my laptop. Mint is definitely in the running :)
 
I tried Mint 6 months ago and honestly hated it. It's a clone of Ubuntu which is based off Debian. It's too bloated and your learning experience with Linux is severely crippled. I guess if it works for you and gives you what you need...party on Garth.
 
Carlosinfl said:
I tried Mint 6 months ago and honestly hated it. It's a clone of Ubuntu which is based off Debian. It's too bloated and your learning experience with Linux is severely crippled. I guess if it works for you and gives you what you need...party on Garth.
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i thought about this and figured maybe your right, f'ing learn something.. so installed i gentoo in a virtualbox (windows 7 host).

i followed this http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1 guide.

it's alive... but I'm stuck on figuring out why gnome isn't starting.. i'm pretty sure I installed it during the walkthrough. my only guess is the fact that it's in a vm and doesn't know what to do with the virtualbox display.. what ever. Hopefully I'll find time to load it on a real machine and find out.

good advice though.. what a look down the rabbit hole that was.

i'm gonna re-push easy mode and stick with Mint for now.
 
I will do what I wished someone did for me. Please download the netinstall Arch .ISO and load that in VirtualBox. Follow their official Wiki as it's the best organized and easy to follow I have ever used. I downloaded the x86_64 edition & it's the best distribution I have ever used.
 
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jonathonball said:
Installed Linux Mint isadora today.
I've been playing with Linux for a few years now and have been looking for a distro to call home...
so we'll see how it pans out as I start loading shit onto it, but thus far.. I'm really digging the Minty flavor.
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That is Wintergreen baby!

LOL

I have been running Ubuntu on my work system and have Mint on my laptop and WILL NOT go back to windows on either.

I have a separate system I game on with windows. But that is ALL it is good for in my opinion.
 
Anyway, jonathonball, glad you found a distro that works. I didn't like mint when I tried it last year; there were problems with GNOME. Next install/upgrade will either be OpenSUSE or Ubuntu; I'm completely over Fedora.
 
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