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Another Printer Answer and Mint 3.0 Beta 012 » PCLinuxOS is 100 times better than Mint
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Steve Carl
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At some point along the line functionality issues like "Does it make use of all the hardware" stop being the issue, and things switch to more esoteric differentiators.
The great news there of course is that Linux has now moved past the "Is is good enough to be a desktop OS" stage to questions of style, look and feel, and preference.
My whole recent set of posts about Fedora versus Mint was meant to shine a little light on this, because it is still possible to run a Linux version that is *hard* to install on some hardware, but still worthwhile doing under certain circumstances.
At the end of the day, I like Mint better for my personal systems *at this point in time*. I try many of them: As many as I have time for, and hardware for, and Mint was a recent change for me from a previous long history with Fedora. One of the reason I liked both of those was that I could switch between Gnome and KDE desktops easily, so that I could observe and write about the state of each, as a separate topic than what the underlying OS Distro was. I see the PCLinuxOS is going to have a Gnome desktop flavor now, so that will make me more interested in looking at it again.
Then there is OpenSUSE 10.3 about to come out. I'll have to look at that too: That is Richard Meyers (a frequent contributor here, and in fact to this particular post) favorite Distro. He tried Mint because I liked it, but he still prefers OpenSUSE.
The beauty of Open Source is the way that each of these distros learns from each other, and get better and better with each release. Its a beautiful thing (tm)