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LM17 Cinnamon wins...

jefboyardee

jefboyardee

Extreme Android User
Coming from Win7, preparing to enter the world of distros was baffling. An earlier Linux Mint was one of the first I tried, and it's been the only one I've returned to, repeatedly. I am not claiming that I've learned anything useful about Linux. Actually, my research, more than anything, has made me further appreciate Windows 7. And why do I prefer Mint? Even though almost everyone will disagree, it's the easiest to understand coming from Windows and that must've been an important theme for the Mint people. I've kept a partition for Mint and another empty one for who knows what.

For various reasons, including my thickheadedness, I've already tried and abandoned: antergos archlinux blagblagblag bodhi bridge centos clearfoundation crunchbang debian elementaryos fedora freebsd gobolinux knoppix korora kubuntu linuxlite lubuntu mageia makululinux manjaro netrunner openindiana opensuse paldo pclinuxos peppermint pinguy proxmox puppylinux robolinux sabayon salentos salixos siduction slackware snowlinux solydxk sparkylinux tanglu ubuntu ultimateedition planetwatt xubuntu zenwalk zorin

...I think I have to give up at some point. Congrats to Linux Mint, sole survivor.

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Mint 17 is definitely a solid choice. However, given your vast trials on multiple distros - I'm a bit surprised you had not tried out Gnome Ubuntu. That is another solid choice behind Mint 17.
 
Even though there are many distro's out there the thing you have to remember with Linux is Ones size does not fit all. Thats why there are so many choices. Windows tries to be a One Size fits all but if it truly were then Linux would not have survived as long as it has.

What it boils down to in Linux is finding that which works for you. I to have tried many distro's just to check them out and see what they have to offer. My findings is that all have advantages and disadvantages. As well known my distro is OpenSUSE with KDE desktop. It does everything I am wanting it to do and more. Just like some people prefer to drive a porsche others just wants something that gets them from A to B.

My advice is if Linux Mint is working for you stick with it. Distro hoping can get quite frustrating trying to find something "Better"
 
I agree with argedion, one size doesn't fit all with linux. You can find & customize a distro to make it fit if it doesn't out the box. Also, I started out distro hopping for the fun of it, plus to find THE one until I got tired doing it. In the end, I settled on Mandriva/Mageia with Gnome 2. I've also installed KDE 4, and have been enjoying it more then earlier.
Every so often I may install a second distro to try it out and put Arch Linux on a separate partition and man, I'm having fun again, after trying it years ago. If you haven't tried it, give it a shot. It starts out as a barebones type of install then you add whatever else you may want or need, plus you can learn alot about how linux works.
 
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