That depends on a number of factors, most boiling down to "what the user wants" but including techno-savvy, primary applications & uses, etc.
Mint includes a variety of pre-installed, pre-configured media codecs, so if the user is not very tech-savvy and wants to play media (in the home entertainment style, or in the web-browsing style, etc) then this helps a lot. It is "dirty" in the sense that the add-on's which offer all the media compatibilities are not all free and open source. If the user wants to learn about linux and has the motivation, patience, and time to learn about a system, then a more standardized (whether bare or not) installation like ubuntu or debian's base itself could be more appropriate. Also, the personal preferences of the one performing the recommendation plays a big part :) cheerio, hope this helps, Ben On 1/13/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: "Mr O" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Eugene Unix and Gnu/Linux User Group" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, January 13, 2007 12:31 PM Subject: Re: [Eug-lug] Linux Mint > Okay, that was amusing on the "About" part. > I still recommend Ubuntu for n00bs. I Why? That is, why recommend Ubuntu over Linux Mint or other Ubuntu derivatives? _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
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