Linux Mint 11 offers a superior experience to any Apple or Microsoft product. Period.

Not that that has anything to do with tablets, but Linux has a better interface than any Windows or Mac machine could ever hope to in the form of Gnome 2 as done by Linux Mint 11 (and 10, and 9, and 8, and......).

We're going to need an alternative to reality if SOPA passes. I for one welcome our new Maoist overlords.

This. And of course the many great improvements on Android that already exist in the wild, like cyanogenmod. I probably will never buy another phone not capable of running cyanogenmod.

As an atheist I find fundamentalist regimes disgusting, but let's face it: The US is essentially an exact replica of Nazi Germany now, so, I'm kinda glad other countries are downing our drones.

The reality is, if you're using a drone, you're a fucking coward anyway. People call the alleged terrorists who allegedly flew planes into the twin towers cowards, but in reality a kamikaze suicide run takes some serious cajones (I don't believe the official version for a second, and I also don't think cajones is all that it takes to earn respect. As an atheist, if they really were fundamentalist terrorists (And I'm not talking about Bush/Cheney, who probably actually DID perpetrate the attack), they are still a bunch of imbeciles, cajones or not). Launching glorified RC rockets at targets thousands of miles away? That's the very definition of cowardice. I'm completely ashamed to be an American.

Stop the drones, and stop the NDAA, and MAYBE our country will have some credibility again. Until then, we're just pathetic, fat, cowardly bullies.

I read about half way down the comments, and I seriously almost lost it. Tons of complaints about Ubuntu and Unity, tons of comparison with Fedora, Debian Sid, etc..

None of that is what this article is about.

This article is about Linux Mint, and there's a reason it's making a stir: It is the best OS I have used, EVER.

I've used every flavor of Windows, Mac, Os/2, Dos, and even earlier command line interfaces nobody besides me and some other old guy remember.

Let's be honest, almost every one of them has sucked.

I've also used tons of different Linux Distros. Not all of them, obviously, there are now hundreds. Many of them have some good ideas and could be extremely useful for certain people on certain tasks.

But no OS that I have used until Linux Mint (starting at around version 7) was easy, fast, clean, attractive, and had nearly every app a common user would need (and often the best version of that app) installed by default, out of the box with a menu that was extremely easy to use, and almost everything "just worked".

Ubuntu was always ugly. Every version of it was brown, orange, purple, god knows what. The user community is often rude and condescending, and self righteous. Many weird bugs and work arounds were necessary for me on every Ubuntu install. Yes, I eventually got something that was stable and usable, but often times it was still ugly, a little bloated, and I had to spend an entire day replacing the ridiculous choices Canonical often makes as far as which program is installed by default.

As of right now, Linux Mint 11 is almost perfect, out of the box, works on nearly every machine I put it on, installs all the best apps (except Brasero, which totally blows and makes coasters all the time), and is so user friendly I've seen 4 year olds and 94 year olds navigate around with ease.

Ubuntu isn't just losing because Canonical is stupid. Mint is winning because it is the greatest OS in the history of man kind. Period. All this other discussion is largely ignorance, go and install Mint a dozen times and come back and forget the previous conversation. It's all OT.

That's cool and all, but I want one of these:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Pulpit

Many people in Mexico trust organized crime MORE than the government. Actually, that's the case here in the US as well. THAT is why both countries need a revolution. Not do deal with organized crime, but to deal with the even better organized criminals run by corporations who treat both countries and their citizens like those of a banana republic.

Have to agree with above poster. I've installed Linux Mint on literally dozens of notebooks and netbooks recently, and only had a problem once on some rather dated hardware. Most of the new stuff JUST WORKS pretty much out of the box. There's some configuration or tweaking to do usually, but nothing a competent 10 year old couldn't muster (IE changing resolution, connecting to a wifi router with a WEP password).

9/11 was clearly an inside job, yet they make ludicrous claims about pancakes. I say good riddance.

Mod parent up, and as for games on a Mint computer:

Dolphin Emulator

Urban Terror

Wine

With those 3, you can have TONS of the very best games. And at more stable framerates than Windows generally.

Mint is the future. Ubuntu is the past. Come join us. The water's fine!!

Seriously, that's my whole comment. Fuck that nazi piece of shit.

This is a bummer. And it shows that Mozilla has been mishandling the whole situation. They should've cleaned up the memory usage years ago.

The world would be an inherently better place with the majority of users on a free open source browser.

How in the hell did my original post get moderated Troll?!?! I am really curious and really want to do it. As far as cracking WEP, that's a no brainer. Done it already. Once you can crack the WEP and get a hold of the router config internals, uploading your own firmware also becomes trivial.

I like both those links immensely. Thanks!

I live in a very crowded part of town with 9+ wifi hotspots in my area. I'd really like a firmware I could hack in and flash on all the local routers that would provide bandwidth sharing for everybody. I could go around and knock and ask politely before doing this, but I'd much rather just bust in robin hood style, crack the WEP using my little Linux Mint netbook, and change the firmware so that all the routers shared internet bandwidth without the end user really noticing. Except of course when their internet doubles or triples in speed!

Is there a firm ware project or suite out there with this capability, or do I need to start one on Google Code?

This:

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2006/042706-sharing-wi-fi.html

Is what I had in mind, but doing it hacker style without the neighbors knowledge or consent.

I'd love to get it all in place on my whole block, then casually stroll by and say, "Have you noticed your internet is quite a bit faster?".