[Leaplist] quick opinions - ubuntu vs. mint

[Bryan J. Smith]

I've found GNOME to need some config/registry cleaning almost
every Fedora upgrade.  I.e., it works flawlessly for new users, but
there's always a config or two that has issues.

With Fedora 10 -> Fedora 11 it was a little issue with the local
folders (mainly Sent) in Evolution.  With Fedora 11 -> Fedora 12,
it was Nautilus, although I used the DVD instead of PreUpgrade
(not ideal -- PreUpgrade, YUM+Anaconda, network upgrades are
far better than media, because it's only Anaconda with official repos).


So I think your issues are user config than OS.  Unless this is happening
mid-release.  I never have issues with Fedora mid-release, just full
version upgrades, and then only some GNOME/GConf detail that is
an easy fix.  That would be different.

Although if Mint is based heavily on Ubuntu, then that won't help.  I only
heard Mint does "questionable" package inclusion versus Ubuntu, and
most packages are unchanged.  In the Fedora Remix world, a lot of
people run "Omega" which is Fedora with all the RPM Fusion (fka Livna
+ FreshRPMS) on  media.  Of course, this makes no difference for
full version upgrades (done via PreUpgrade).
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----- Original Message ----
From: Dan Cherry <dan.s.cherry at gmail.com>

I've been breaking my Kubuntu installations more often than I care to work on (mostly my own fault).  And I'm going to give gnome a try for a while - I'll go back to KDE4 when it stabilizes a little more, or when I stabilize a little more;)

Time to clean up and reinstall.  Ubuntu 9.10 or Mint 8?

I hear a lot of good things about Mint - but not familiar with their community support, and Ubuntu is really well supported by the community (almost too well supported - lately there seems to be 20 fixes for every problem, which is why I may be breaking my KDE boxes more frequently). I want to stay with the debian style repositories for familiarity's sake.

Any sage advice on either of those two OS's, before I click "install" this afternoon?

Thanks,
Dan

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