Re: Mint vs. Ubuntu

On 18/07/11 11:43, J G Miller wrote:
On Monday, July 18th, 2011 at 05:02:21h +0100, Sid explained:

I don't like ubuntu

On your machine with Mint Linux installed, do (for bash shell)

COLUMNS=120 dpkg -l | grep ubuntu | wc -l

and tell us how many Ubuntu packages are installed.

Then repeat with

COLUMNS=120 dpkg -l | grep mint | wc -l

and tell us how many Mint packages are installed.

the reason I like mint is the desktop and layout, the packages (like firefox for example) in the repositories are not made by Mint or Ubuntu, the fact the packages are made for ubuntu and run in mint is not the point.

The last time I installed ubuntu I had to mess about with a load of other stuff which just worked out of the box with mint, if I am putting an OS on someone elses computer I don't want to spend hours with it just to get things like printing, wifi, mp3s and DVDs working, I want to install it and go home.

a lot of the things I install at home are not from the repositories so they are not either mint or ubuntu, they are either self installing packages, installed with software manager or I have to build from source. for those packages it would not matter if I was using mint, ubuntu, or dildo linux, it's all the same underneath.

to answer your question though, 1171 and 53.


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