Good to say that Arch has infact moved to gnome 3 and gnome-shell but I
guess you can choose to install whatever you want then. The standard rolling
release has gnome 3 in it now

On 3 June 2011 09:03, Ovidiu Stroe <[email protected]> wrote:

>  Hi,
>
> I'm new on the MLUG list but i have some insights .
> I would go for the debian edition, which is also a rolling distro  . Since
> ubuntu moved to Unity the guys at Mint will have a hard time maintaining the
> gnome 2 packages .
> I recently divorced ubuntu and got to Arch ;) .
>
> /Ovidiu
>
>
> On 06/03/2011 09:00 AM, Anton Xuereb wrote:
>
> why don't you try arch Ramon ? I never looked back
>
> On 3 June 2011 08:59, James Attard <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hello Ramon,
>>
>> Linux Mint is incredibly fast (the fastest distro I ever used)...but
>> you have to see it by yourself. Alas, not that this should be the
>> reason to use a different distro.
>>
>> The difference between the debian and standard edition is that the
>> former can be always updated so in theory you dont ever need to
>> reinstall the system again. That's one big plus. I also find it faster
>> than the standard (ubuntu) edition. Also I am assuming you talk in
>> debian lingo and comfortable in that environment.
>>
>> James Attard
>>
>> w. www.jamesattard.com
>> w. www.r00tb0x.com
>> e. [email protected]
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 7:51 AM, Ramon Casha <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> > Does anyone have any experience with Linux Miint?
>> >
>> > In particular I'd like to know whether the standard edition or debian
>> edition is better.
>> > I'm thinking of getting a divorce from Ubuntu.
>> >
>> >
>> > Ramon Casha
>> >
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