One more Linux Mint install to my stable...
I have been complaining of my POS ASUS laptop that I bought last year, the WiFi card in it is junk, it can't hear anything farther away than I can piss.
My wife told me yesterday to swap my ASUS for her Dell Inspiron laptop which has an actual keyboard on it, not the vinyl layer piece of junk on the brand new ASUS. A keyboard by the way, that as a 120 wpm typist, I can't tell where the Home Keys are, and the keys don't register even though I hit them hard enough to drive a nail thru the kybd.
Well, okay, I have Linux Mint 17.3 Cinnamon on the ASUS and 18.0 has come out and is said to be the Cat's Meow above and beyond what 17.3 does.
So, I did a new install, this time though I did it with Dual Boot with the OEM Windows 7 Home Premium left intact. ( fully up to date with MicroSloths updates )
That way, I can try both O.S. versions on the same exact piece of hardware.....
and I can compare 17.3 against 18.0 with both running the Cinnamon desktop.
RESULTS:
Mint 18 is FAST! lots faster because a 6 year old Dell laptop is running just as fast, if not faster than the brand new ASUS which has twice the RAM, and a faster processor.
Mint 18 feels sooooo much like Windows, that after using it for only two days now, I had to stop and think this afternoon, Which O.S. am I using right now?? it was Linux, all I had to do to figure that one out was the Keystrokes Windows Key 'E' which brings up the File Manager, er uh, Windows Explorer if you are in MSloth land. It is really obvious when you compare how Linux looks compared to Windows file manger displays.
Firefox looks and works the same on both O.S. products, the same bookmarks are being used, but Linux is running a lot faster than Windows is on the same hardware.
So, that is my Cut To The Chase test report.....
Unprofessional, just a gut feeling from using it for about a total of 10 hours.
https://www.linuxmint.com/release.php?id=27