I have switched to Linux Mint 11 Katya about a week ago and I’m completely satisfied. It’s really like coming home from the alien Unity. The interface is very usual and intuitive, no problems with Skype, screensavers etc. (See my post “Ubuntu 11.10 – First Problems“).
Linux Mint distribution has become a “number one” in DistroWatch.com page hit rating. Ubuntu is now on the second position. The reasons for this are quite obvious.
Dropline Gnome 2.4.x is purely a desktop replacement for the standard Slackware 9.x Gnome desktop. So you might ask why you would need a package that is only a desktop distribution. Well there are plenty of reasons to do this.
Desktops are complex. It has taken twelve years for Linux distributions to reach the stage that their desktop features are starting to chip away at the Microsoft stranglehold on graphical usability and functionality. Graphical software is also quite CPU intensive. Look at the hardware required to support Windows XP.
I haven’t been a frequent Gnome user. My last flirtation with it was in Red Hat 7.2. That was Gnome 1.4. While it operated well enough, it didn’t seem to have the same responsiveness of KDE, occasionally crashed and the operation of the Nautilus file manager was a bit foreign.
With my recent plunge into Linux laptop computing with Slackware 9.1, I decided to give Gnome another try since it was now at version 2.4. It seemed simple enough and most programs installed well enough. I had my first file association problem with Real Player but this wasn’t a major concern. I installed Open Office 1.1 and file associations worked perfectly.
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