Distro Review: Linux Mint 8
Today I’d like to talk to you about Linux Mint 8, AKA Helena. I’ve said this many times before, but the codenames still sound a little tacky to me. The distro itself is anything but tacky though and it’s been one of my firm favourites in the past. How would this release stack up?
The Mint installer is inherited from Ubuntu 9.10 and they don’t seem to have modified this much, I guess it didn’t need it. All in all the installation was quick and painless. I think the Ubiqity installer has to take most of the credit here, but it’s good that the Mint devs realised not to mess about trying to change it.
Much as I love Mint, there are a few things about the default desktop layout I’m not crazy about. These may be purely personal preferences but I’ve never understood why there’s no workspace switcher on view by default. I’ve speculated before that perhaps this is meant to make the desktop more recognisable to fresh Windows exhiles, but being able to use multiple workspaces is something I’ve loved about the many Linux desktop environments I’ve used over the years.
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