![]() On the RedHat side, their free - really LTS distro is CentOS. Mint is an LTS distro, just like, Debian, Ubuntu LTS (and its derivatives) and OpenSUSE Leap. It all comes down to how much time - and patience - you have for setting things up and bypassing possible issues.ĭo you want a rock-solid system? Then it’s best to go with an LTS (Long Term Support) distro. ![]() Fedora would pop an error here and there, nothing major, but Tumbleweed has produced none. The most stable from these distros I’ve found to be Tumbleweed, so far. However, the packages and libraries in those distros are not extensively tested from every angle, therefore some instabilities may arise. The two major options to consider, when deciding on a distro, are the following:ĭo you want a distro with all the newest bells and whistles? Then you can go for Fedora, Manjaro (or if you’re feeling brave, Arch), OpenSUSE Tumbleweed, or even Ubuntu’s short-term editions. The fact is that with a bit of tweaking, you can bring any Linux distro to your standards. The downside of it is that it needs a bit more tweaking to bring it to your standards. I’m currently writing from a MacBook Air with Tumbleweed and it’s an awesome OS. SELinux comes pre-installed and pre-configured in OpenSUSE as well. You can actually install it in other distros, though you’ll need some configuration. SELinux is a great tool, but it’s not limited to RedHat only. ![]() The truth is, everything has its pros and cons. Control-+ and control-shift-+ will cycle through your open tabs.I just wanted to pitch in a little here, since I tested out several distros throughout the years to decide which one I would use as my daily driver. Nemo, the default Cinnamon file manager, gets a couple new features in this release, including a new Recent Places sidebar item and a new tab switching keyboard shortcut. One solution is to use Infinality, which makes it relatively easy to tweak the font rendering to your liking. The same can be said of most Linux distros, though, HiDPI support or not. ![]() We tested this in a virtual machine running on a Retina Macbook Pro and found that, while Cinnamon mostly looks just fine on a HiDPI screen, font rendering, in particular, isn't all that great. The Hot Corners feature now has options to trigger events on hover, a click, or both.Ĭinnamon 2.2 also adds support for HiDPI screens. It's less sensitive, which means it's harder to trigger it accidentally. The HUD, which is there to let you know that you are snapping a window to the edge of the screen, only appears when you get really close to the edge. Two other notable tweaks to the various settings panels include some changes to Cinnamon's Hot Corners and HUD features. The more interesting of the two Mint 17 releases is the Cinnamon flavor, which features the just-released Cinnamon 2.2. Linux Mint 17 CinnamonĪs with all Mint releases, there are two separate downloads available, one for the Cinnamon desktop and one for the MATE desktop. Luckily, after spending some time with it, the good news is that Mint 17 will make a great base on which to build. When things have settled down in Ubuntuland, Mint can jump back in with both feet (assuming it still wants to) when Ubuntu 16.04 LTS arrives. If all goes the way Mint developers intend, these changes will give Mint users a more polished, stable distro.Īll of this makes Mint 17 an important release-it's essentially what Mint will be working with for the next two years. In other words, Mint can sit back and work on perfecting its desktop while Ubuntu stumbles through the Mir and Unity 8 transitions. Not only does it free up the Mint team to focus on its two homegrown desktops (Cinnamon and MATE), but it also spares Mint users the potential bumpy road that is Ubuntu's future. With major changes on the way for Ubuntu in the next two years, Mint's decision makes a lot of sense. ![]() Further Reading Ubuntu 14.04 review: Missing the boat on big changes ![]()
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