![]() In, restart Xorg or restart Cinnamon, whichever comes first. The battery applet does not really hide its percentage indicator, not until you reboot, log out and log back Works fine, including a very fast network discovery. The upside of this effort is less heat, more Was able to retrieve and install the drivers without any problems. No need for special pimping like with Ubuntu. Then you will be able to retrieve extra stuff in seconds, like Steam, Skype, Google Earth, Opera browser, and But if you burrow into the Software Manager, like I did, Pidgin, VLC, Banshee, Transmission, and a few more. The default repertoire remains solid and tested. The closest I could find was Keanu Reeves. Qiana, and a popular item, person or motif. Finally, I could not find any easy relation between the distro name, The one thing that is missing is the ability to install Window borders separately from the themes. And with each new release, it looks more and Session, including applets, desklets, backgrounds, and themes. Moreover, as always, you have a wide range of options to beautify your Hot corners are disabled by default,īut the desktop effects are there. The new Cinnamon desktop environment in Linux Mint 17 Qiana offers a lot. Software manager is more robust, and you no longer get that package refresh splash. I do believe the update manager is that much livelier. Speaking of updates, it really went well. It's also a little faster to login and respond, probably due to the tweaks introduced to the update manager. The desktop comes with a new, polished welcome screen. Then this is a classic, trivial layout, when you compare to the Ultrabook test, where I've showcased all kinds of tricks for a dual-bootĬonfiguration with Windows 8.1 and Ubuntu.Īll right, now the really interesting bits and pieces. This will also give us a good opportunity to see how it fares when it comes to both Well, in this review, Ubuntu goes, and we are going to be This laptop has two operating systems on it, both Linux distributions.Ĭurrently, it's hosting Ubuntu 14.04, as I've shown you in the second review, as well as the latest Kubuntu Trusty. ![]() Launched in Totem by default, which is not integrated with the volume applet, so you don't get the fancyĬontrols like for Banshee and VLC, which are also there. The one complaint I have is that if you try to play an MP3 file, it is Seen in the third Ubuntu review recently - plus the networkĭiscovery has also notched up in speed - Bluetooth, and some multimedia. I limited my fun and fanfare to Wireless, both 2.4GHz and 5GHz, Samba sharing, which is faster, much like we've ![]() Since it comes newbs-ready, there's everything, out of the box. Well, in a sense, reviewing the Mint live edition can be extremely tedious, or not, depends how much fun you No revolutions, just a single turn of a well-oiled titanium cog. Invested in the Cinnamon desktop environment. If anything, it feels a little snappier, little livelier, and there's that much extra polish Live session is identical to many a predecessor, and there's a lot of stable goodness and calmness present in True to its heritage, Mint delivers a highly consistent experience. Let's start with an Nvidia-powered laptop, dual-boot config, lots of fun. We will be having a whole bunch of Mint reviews, with at least twoĬinnamons and one MATE. We all heard rumors about Debian taking over, LTS only derivativesĪnd such, and today, it all comes unveiled. ![]() The Qiana review all the more interesting. While there ought to be more friendliness, there's a fair dose of rivalry and mistrust, and this is what makes When it comes to how the desktop is perceived and used. And Mint has always been the counterweight to Ubuntu, ![]() So if Ubuntu is bad, we're in for a five-year hiatus. The reasons are many, but the chief one is that the LTS-ness of the former directly impacts the latter, After Ubuntu, Linux Mint is the most anticipated spring release forĢ014. ![]()
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