What Flavour of Linux Next ?

[asadmalik]

Mint.
Just to see, why people are so CRAZY about this OS.

Recently read about Backtrack. So may be that's the one after Mint.

[BrokenKingpin]

Mint.
Just to see, why people are so CRAZY about this OS.

A lot of good ideas come out of Mint (LMDE for example), it is just a shame the implementation is often broken and unusable for me. So I also don't understand why people go so crazy for the Mint release.

LMDE was a good idea, but both the Gnome and Xfce versions are horrible out of date. The Xfce version is still on 4.6... why, 4.8 has been out for quite some time? I also find these release quite buggy. The recent KDE release I could not even open the Update Manager without it crashing. And I just don't see why Cinnamon needs to be a full fork of Gnome 3. People have done similar with Gnome 3 with just config changes. If you really want a Gnome 2 experiences just use Xfce.

I guess I have only found Mint irrelevant. Back in the day it was just Ubuntu with codecs, and now they have all these projects that are never fully done properly.

[ratcheer]

Fair enough; my dislike of the ArchBang artwork/aesthetic may be clouding my objectivity. If you had personal success with Arch without following the Beginner's Guide then I respect your testimonial.

Yes, thanks. I started with ArchBang in early October. I am still running it and I have the latest secure pacman 4, kernel 3.2.12, fglrx 12.2, etc. I have also made substantial non-pacman changes such as systemd for sysinit and I have replaced slim with lxdm. In other words, I have been learning tons.


Tim

[Peripheral Visionary]

I stick to LTS releases. By the time 10.04 reaches end-of-life, 12.04 will be as rock-solid and wonderful as Lucid has been.

[MisterGaribaldi]

I have a better idea.

How about we work on getting Microsoft, Adobe, Apple and others to release versions of their commercial software for Linux, and work on getting F/OSS alternatives whipped into shape as full, competitive alternatives, instead of wasting precious time and money on screwing around with solid, proven UI paradigms? Hmm?

I would love to have Photoshop, iPhoto, MS Word, iTunes, RapidWeaver, QuarkXPress, QuickBooks, various games, all running natively on Linux, along side such great software as K3B, Chrome, Thunderbird, VLC, HandBrake, and others. That day comes, sign me up! because I'll be all over that stuff.

Until then, o great and wise Linux community, kindly shut up.

Thanks.

[troymius]

I have a better idea.

How about we work on getting Microsoft, Adobe, Apple and others to release versions of their commercial software for Linux, and work on getting F/OSS alternatives whipped into shape as full, competitive alternatives, instead of wasting precious time and money on screwing around with solid, proven UI paradigms? Hmm?

I would love to have Photoshop, iPhoto, MS Word, iTunes, RapidWeaver, QuarkXPress, QuickBooks, various games, all running natively on Linux, along side such great software as K3B, Chrome, Thunderbird, VLC, HandBrake, and others. That day comes, sign me up! because I'll be all over that stuff.

Until then, o great and wise Linux community, kindly shut up.

Thanks.

Sorry, I don't use any of the non-Linux applications you listed above.

What do you suggest should the Linux community do to make the big companies develop SW for Linux?

[linuxyogi]

You can try Linux Mint Debian Edition. Its a rolling release based on Debian testing.

[linuxyogi]

A lot of good ideas come out of Mint (LMDE for example), it is just a shame the implementation is often broken and unusable for me. So I also don't understand why people go so crazy for the Mint release.

LMDE was a good idea, but both the Gnome and Xfce versions are horrible out of date. The Xfce version is still on 4.6... why, 4.8 has been out for quite some time? I also find these release quite buggy. The recent KDE release I could not even open the Update Manager without it crashing. And I just don't see why Cinnamon needs to be a full fork of Gnome 3. People have done similar with Gnome 3 with just config changes. If you really want a Gnome 2 experiences just use Xfce.

I guess I have only found Mint irrelevant. Back in the day it was just Ubuntu with codecs, and now they have all these projects that are never fully done properly.

I am using LMDE Gnome atm. They offer updates once a month. Real slow on updates but its stable.

[forrestcupp]

There's always Hanna Montana Linux.

I foresee a wildly popular ad campaign with this slogan. But who does the voice-over? James Earl Jones?

Morgan Freeman has been doing a lot of voice overs lately.

[keithpeter]

I would love to have Photoshop, iPhoto, MS Word, iTunes, RapidWeaver, QuarkXPress, QuickBooks, various games, all running natively on Linux, along side such great software as K3B, Chrome, Thunderbird, VLC, HandBrake, and others. That day comes, sign me up! because I'll be all over that stuff.

Hello MisterGaribaldi

Adobe might take Linux desktop seriously if it has plenty of users, and if there is a commercial aspect to it.

Logically, therefore, we should be pushing Ubuntu like mad, and we should be supporting the application market features in Ubuntu.

I feel a thread coming on...