Linux Mint 14

I am not pleased with this operating system because I have used kali linux and debian and when compared with these then linux mint is quite like windows.

The user interface is good but almost everything could be done in the same way I use for windows. The chances are low if you want to learn about linux by using linux mint. It is not fully command based OS like most other linux based OS are.

The ease of installation was just like the others and not that difficult. The features provided are good but found an analogy with windows.

Overall it is not ideal to install if you want to learn about linux and community support is also less.

Linux Mint is a very fast and well feature loaded OS , I have been using it for 3 years and there is no problem it will not stuck in any program in fact is a very safe and secure OS as compare to any other OS I mean there is not a very frequently attack of virus. It's start menu is like windows 10 and log off screen and startup screen is very nice and almost the entire features too but as far as I know it can not be run live , I don't know about the newer version but the older version can not be run live by pendrive you can use it in VM but except VM you have to install it and it does not make partition during installation no matter what you stored in your hard drive no matter how important it is to you , you have remove in order to install linux mint but maybe you make partition afterwards.

Coming around much faster than 13, Mint 14 Nadia is the latest version in the popular line of Linux Mint distros, based on Ubuntu. 14 itself is based on Ubuntu 12.10, and as usual replaces the Unity desktop with their own DE offerings of Cinnamon and MATE. It also comes with the Mint developed MDM display manager, which debuted in Mint 13 as a replacement for LDM and GDM, and their own Software Manager.

Images come in two flavours, MATE and Cinnamon, both of which have 32 and 64-bit versions. Installation of the distros is about as easy as it gets, with the installer software showing its Ubuntu roots, even if it has been heavily rebranded. There’s not much control over which repos are included, and whether or not you’d want to add, say, MATE as well to the installation, however it keeps it simple for the more novice users who might find that a bit overwhelming.

Since Mint 14, the flagship desktop environment Cinnamon has come leaps and bounds. The developers themselves admit that the largest contributions have gone towards it over the past six months, and people using Linux Mint 13 will be familiar with how its changed via updates over the past few months. Workspaces have been updated, with the ability to create a persistent number of named spaces. Notifications now work similar to Android, popping up and either being dismissed or clickable for more information. Otherwise they live in a little applet you can bring up at any time. Alt Tab now has window previews, and there’s an applet that lists all windows open in all workspaces. A huge amount of work has been done to pretty much all the parts of Cinnamon, which benefits the user with a faster and more usable desktop, even in the new, low-resource Cinnamon 2D mode.

Aesthetically speaking, it looks and feels like any modern desktop environment, with a great theme that keeps it completely practical.

One of the issues we had with the last version of Mint was the new MDM Display Manager, which included a very basic login screen that required you to type in your username rather than choose one from the now standard userlist of other display managers. While the default version of the newer MDM carries on with that style, it now fully supports all legacy GMD 2 themes, and a handful of included themes allow you to add the user list. We’d much prefer this by default, but at least the option is much easier to obtain now.

An absolute pleasure to use thanks to its Ubuntu base and alternate desktop environments, Linux Mint is one of the great examples of how Linux can be shaped by the community for the better. Perfect for home use on a main PC, and still great in an office or development environment.

This is without a doubt the best Linux Mint yet.

Hello all, I have been using Linux Mint along with Ubuntu and The best thing I achieved is total Peace of Mind!

Pros: 1. No scrapware/adware/malware 2. No hidden thing like svchost in Windows which shares something which is still unknown to all of us. 3. Great Security updates hence no need to worry! 4. Google Chrome by default has Latest Flash player hence no worries. 5. Basic and Best Graphic and Multimedia Options available. 6. Have been a Graphic Designer This System Fully satisfies me and All of my work completed on this system, resulted in happy Customers. 7. Very low resource load. 8. Very easy of use compare to other Linux distros and also more handy than Windows. 9. Installs Instantly. And worry free.

This is a Linux OS with Windows XP interface. This OS is virus free and it have a fully customizable desktop and login screen.

You can use html5 page as long .That is actually great. You can create your own login screen. It has a in-built store for you . You can download any of them, installation is very easy, just use unetbootin and copy the files to pen drive.

Install whole disk for Linux. So you have long life for your hard disk. To use Windows software's install wine.

I have been using a PC(or a laptop) for nearly 12 years - started out with windows 95. So I dont know the pre-windows 95 era OS, UIs and the like. Over the years I have maintained my laptops and systems myself and I know the pain of having a bricked PC because of a broken OS/virus infection - happened twice when using WinME. My history with MS Windows brand of operating systems will require a separate review (or several).

So, I am dodging that topic. Though I am satisfied with Windows and understand its impact on the user base, I was let down when MS dropped the ball a couple of times - WinME and Vista- I was so sick and tired of the Blue Screen of Death (or lovingly called BSOD). By that time I was doing my PG project (my college was pro-FOSS) which needed to be run from Debian, which is pretty hardcore, not for the casual users. That is exactly where Linux Mint comes in. I have been using it from Version 9 - Helena and found that it works out of the box.

Coming back to v14- Nadia, the OS has almost everything a casual PC user needs from the get go. I mostly use my PC now for watching movies, browsing, online shopping, some development work using eclipse and some light documentation. I have found that it works perfectly for my needs. The default software selection is spot on and if you have a taste for something else then you can install almost anything from ubuntu's vast repositories. I even installed and used MS Office 2007 using wine / PlayOnLinux for a while. With the current chaos over the desktop environments I was disappointed and scared even, when gnome V3 came out. I was using Linux mint 11 at that time. The Linux Mint devs stuck with the classic Gnome desktop and they created a fork - 'Mate Desktop'. But initially things were not good. When Linux Mint 12 go released I tried and switched back to v11. Same happened with v13. But I am finally happy to say that the transition from v11 to v14 is almost seamless. 'Almost' because there are still some issues with compiz and some metacity and murriane themes. But if you are not of the tinkering kind then you wont even notice them. The stability is great and it just works.

I still have a windows installation in my laptop which I use to play games - thanks to the MSDN academic alliance I got a couple of Windows 7 licenses for free. Over the last couple of years I have had a lot of issues with linux. But everything is fixed just by following the instructions provided in the ubuntu forums. I have fixed every thing from broken kernel to increasing the distance between the close and maximize buttons in window borders (i like it that way so that I don't accidentally close a window when trying to maximize it) all just by following instructions from the forums. If you think this will be time consuming and a haggle, think again. I have has no major downtime because of issues in Linux Mint. The OS installation itself is a live DVD- I watched a episode of House MD through it.  In fact being a avid torrenter (and because india has some of the suckiest internet speeds in the world) my PC runs nonstop for months at a time, still I have no problem. In fact, the time I spent browsing through the forums for linux (very few show stoppers really so more for tinkering than fixing) is less than the time I spent for installing the Device drivers, codecs, updating antivirus, cleaning up crap files and 'tuning' the OS in windows. Sometimes when your close buddy looses the driver disk that came with the laptop and asks you to do a fresh install of windows xp or vista on his laptop then you will know what I mean. This has happened to me countless times - mid install they will say "what driver CD?".

So, dont judge me if you have not been there and done that.  Ohh and I forgot, you dont have to do all these things in Linux. Most devices work out of the box - others work after you install the package needed from repository using synaptic. I have not installed a single codec so far that was not already there. No antivirus needed - unless you give root access to all programs or dont update the system at all. Crap gets cleaned from temporary folders during shutdown and there is no such thing as 'tuneup' in linux.

So gaming aside, I have been using Linux Mint for the last 4 years and I am loving it. I would definitely recommend this to my friends - I already have to many. As for me, all I need is Linux Mint and a fast internet connection to keep me happy.