[Leaplist] quick opinions - ubuntu vs. mint

[Bryan J. Smith]

Ack!  I just broke my own rule!  ("I heard" -- bad BS!  BAD!)

What I meant to say it that one should check if Mint just merely reuses
Ubuntu's KDE and related packages "as upstream."  If that is the case,
I doubt it makes much difference.

In general I don't make a judgment call on distros when it comes to KDE
or GNOME.  I've helped others clean up GNOME config/GConf for users
after Ubuntu upgrades much like I have on Fedora.  They are distro
agnostic and tied to GNOME changes -- although a distro shouldn't
change major GNOME versions mid-release, and leave it until the next
distro version upgrade (that would be a distro backport-regression
difference that would cause me to consider switching).

I would assume (i.e., I could be totally ignorant) KDE is the same.
Creating a new user typically identifies if it's a change an old user profile
just wouldn't take.



----- Original Message ----
From: Bryan J. Smith <b.j.smith at ieee.org>

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.

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