I did some distro "assessment" a few weeks ago and i've switched to Mint 9 xfce (not quite answering your question).
I wasn't very keen on purple and the other changes and i wanted the less sophisticated desktop. I didn't mind brown - i just got used to it. I preferred Mint's green to xubuntu's midnight blue [too dark].
Mint's xfce Ver 10 is due out shortly. I'm surprised that Alistair found the Mint main 10 slow... but with recent development they are running a bit slower.
The main reason for using Mint is that they do a final check on *buntu and release when it's ready - not 'as is' on a particular date.
james
On 19 December 2010 21:16, Alistair Macgregor alistairnacf@aol.com wrote:
Hi
I had LinuxMint 10 installed on my laptop for around 10 days and went back to Ubuntu 10.04.
I found Mint too slow and I could never find the software i wanted in the downloader.
Mac
Royal wrote:
Hi
Has anyone tried the new 'Julia' version of Linux Mint. Its version 10.
I used Linux Mint 9 LXDE a few months ago and it was amazing. Stable, gorgeous and very fast even on a P3 500mhz.
Im thinking of putting 10 on my ThinkPad when it arrives.
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