I’ve long been a fan of Ubuntu, my favourite brand of Linux. It’s fast, has all the features I need, has a great community and feels good….. only thing is, there are of course some areas where I feel like it’s not quite finished.

Enter linuxMint. Mint is a great distribution built on Ubuntu that finishes off all the little unpolished areas that Ubuntu lacks.

Here are my 10 reasons to use Mint instead of Ubuntu:

  1. It is Ubuntu anyway – you get everything in Ubuntu and more.
  2. It looks soooo much nicer – swap dodgy orange for sexy green.
  3. Start menu style launch system makes loading applications fast and un-clunky.
  4. Software installation system simplified with great selection of commonly used applications.
  5. Great selection of packages pre-installed.
  6. Applications are reviewed and have screenshots so you can see what packages are like before installing them.
  7. Codecs for all your standard media comes installed and works out of the box.
  8. Grub runs in full graphics mode as standard and doesn’t look like something from 1987.
  9. Fully compatible with your existing ubuntu setup, runs on the same repositories.
  10. Lots of small tweaks like fonts setup and my own favourite – decent out of the box East Asian language support.

Go on….. give it a try: http://www.linuxmint.com/

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