On December 5, 2013, Michael Torrie wrote: > Mint isn't less common. It's probably one of the fastest growing
> distros in terms of popularity. Well, it's uncommon to me because I don't recall hearing of it before. But then again I have been out of the game for a few years now. > Mint seems to be gaining in popularity because 1) it doesn't have Unity > and 2) it gives other desktop environments like LXDE and XFCE and Mate > more first-class attention (KDE used to be supported but that's now > forked off into its own distro, SolidXK. Okay. I guess that shows how long I've been out of the game, but What is Unity? From what I can gather it seems to be a display environment/window manager ala KDE/Gnome/XFCE/etc... but if is, why is it so hated? What was it intended to do that it's apparently not doing? Thanks for the info! --- Dan /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
