Comments on: Bye Linux Mint http://www.nickhammond.com/2009/11/13/bye-linux-mint/ freelance web developer in Chandler, AZ Thu, 22 Jul 2010 21:03:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Nick http://www.nickhammond.com/2009/11/13/bye-linux-mint/comment-page-1/#comment-1320 Nick Fri, 23 Apr 2010 04:07:49 +0000 http://www.nickhammond.com/?p=437#comment-1320 Well Mint is really just a skinned version of Ubuntu. The Mint guys really focused on the UI and made it much better so usually go with Mint. Well Mint is really just a skinned version of Ubuntu. The Mint guys really focused on the UI and made it much better so usually go with Mint.

]]> By: Connor McSheffrey http://www.nickhammond.com/2009/11/13/bye-linux-mint/comment-page-1/#comment-1319 Connor McSheffrey Fri, 23 Apr 2010 03:26:58 +0000 http://www.nickhammond.com/?p=437#comment-1319 I absolutely loved using Ubuntu on my old notebook, haven't had a chance to play around w/ it since I got my mac, would you recommend using Ubuntu or Mint? Cheers, Connor I absolutely loved using Ubuntu on my old notebook, haven’t had a chance to play around w/ it since I got my mac, would you recommend using Ubuntu or Mint?
Cheers,
Connor

]]> By: Ollie Treend http://www.nickhammond.com/2009/11/13/bye-linux-mint/comment-page-1/#comment-1315 Ollie Treend Sun, 07 Mar 2010 10:44:08 +0000 http://www.nickhammond.com/?p=437#comment-1315 I couldn't agree with you more! I love Linux. I think it's an amazing OS, especially Ubuntu and Mint. Linux's speciality is being a server, and Ubuntu server especially is amazing at its job! It's so good, in fact, that most of the Internet runs off of Linux - be that web servers, application servers, routers, VoIP servers, etc. However, I don't think Linux is quite there yet when it comes to desktop environments. It always feels a little too flaky and unreliable for day-to-day use. Which is a real shame, since I really love the way Linux does things. Plus, from a web developer's point of view, it's much easier to code things on a similar system to which they will run on in production. Apache2 + PHP5 + MySQL just isn't the same on Windows... it's not natural! :-P I do hope Ubuntu will get there one day. They really deserve to properly break into the desktop operating system market... hopefully before Google take over with their cloud-based OS! ;-) I couldn’t agree with you more! I love Linux. I think it’s an amazing OS, especially Ubuntu and Mint.

Linux’s speciality is being a server, and Ubuntu server especially is amazing at its job! It’s so good, in fact, that most of the Internet runs off of Linux – be that web servers, application servers, routers, VoIP servers, etc.

However, I don’t think Linux is quite there yet when it comes to desktop environments. It always feels a little too flaky and unreliable for day-to-day use. Which is a real shame, since I really love the way Linux does things.

Plus, from a web developer’s point of view, it’s much easier to code things on a similar system to which they will run on in production. Apache2 + PHP5 + MySQL just isn’t the same on Windows… it’s not natural! :-P

I do hope Ubuntu will get there one day. They really deserve to properly break into the desktop operating system market… hopefully before Google take over with their cloud-based OS! ;-)

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