Posted by: Anonymous
[ip: 88.123.120.99]
on June 19, 2008 09:08 PM
Hello
I'm living in France now and I also agree that having all the media working "out of the box" is the greatest feature Mint brings to simple mortals. Same applies to proprietary closed source graphic card drivers.
What is ALL WRONG in Mint is identical to what is ALL WRONG in Ubuntu. Here, in Europe, lots of people prefer to use KDE as a desktop. The main feature of this is "Konqueror" very versatile file browser, pdf reader, picture and movie player and so on. Konqueror is great. But the Ubuntu developers, i don't know why, have decided to REBUILD their own version of Konqueror stripping off all the useful toolbars and easy-to-do items that are built in.
The result is that if you use Konqueror in other Debian based distros : Knoppix, Sidux, Dreamlinux and of course Debian itself, you get easy desktop and full functionality.
If you use Konqueror from Mint or Kubuntu you get a completely "castrated" konqueror. Just try to type a letter with your toes instead of your fingers, that's the difference.
Maybe i will try to enable Debian repositories in my sources.list and "apt-get build-dep konqueror" to bring the real and full Konqueror to the Mint desktop.
For the moment, I use Sidux, an amazingly fast distro based on the latest Debian developpement branch (Sid).
Thanks for reading all this.
A. GOMEZ.
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Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 88.123.120.99] on June 19, 2008 09:08 PMI'm living in France now and I also agree that having all the media working "out of the box" is the greatest feature Mint brings to simple mortals. Same applies to proprietary closed source graphic card drivers.
What is ALL WRONG in Mint is identical to what is ALL WRONG in Ubuntu. Here, in Europe, lots of people prefer to use KDE as a desktop. The main feature of this is "Konqueror" very versatile file browser, pdf reader, picture and movie player and so on. Konqueror is great. But the Ubuntu developers, i don't know why, have decided to REBUILD their own version of Konqueror stripping off all the useful toolbars and easy-to-do items that are built in.
The result is that if you use Konqueror in other Debian based distros : Knoppix, Sidux, Dreamlinux and of course Debian itself, you get easy desktop and full functionality.
If you use Konqueror from Mint or Kubuntu you get a completely "castrated" konqueror. Just try to type a letter with your toes instead of your fingers, that's the difference.
Maybe i will try to enable Debian repositories in my sources.list and "apt-get build-dep konqueror" to bring the real and full Konqueror to the Mint desktop.
For the moment, I use Sidux, an amazingly fast distro based on the latest Debian developpement branch (Sid).
Thanks for reading all this.
A. GOMEZ.
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