For those truly interested in popularity, most pundits use http://distrowatch.com/ to track what is popular in the linux space.
The numbers line up with what I am seeing in the real world for desktop usage. On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 8:08 AM, Michael Torrie <[email protected]> wrote: > On 12/04/2013 11:59 PM, Dan Egli wrote: > > Never heard of Mint before. What's good/bad about that one? :) > > > > That's the whole reason I started this thread, so I could learn about the > > less common distributions, and what makes them good or bad. :) > > Mint isn't less common. It's probably one of the fastest growing > distros in terms of popularity. Though in some respects it's not that > interesting, since it is directly based on Ubuntu, with a few minty > features added (which you can read about on their web site). Personally > I don't use much of the minty add-ons. I used mint on my laptop solely > because it was the first distro to support the Mate Desktop environment. > And Mint is probably best known now for the Cinnamon Desktop, a modern, > GTK3-based traditional interface. Used to be based on Gnome 3 core > libraries, but I think they are going their own way now. > > Mint seems to be gaining in popularity because 1) it doesn't have Unity, > and 2) it gives other desktop environments like LXDE, XFCE, and Mate > more first-class attention (KDE used to be supported, but that's now > forked off into its own distro, SolidXK. > > Another distro that's been getting a lot of attention lately (but I > frankly don't understand why) is Elementary OS. Seems to be debian or > ubuntu based, with a pretty theme that's vaguely Mac-esque, and a hyped > but simplistic app called "Geary." > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ > /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
