resignator writes:
"'Arm yourself with the information needed before telling someone to install such and such distro because it's great,' warned blogger Ken Starks in his recent FOSS Force post. 'It might be great for you, but maybe not so much with my hardware choices.'
What considerations do SoylentNews readers have when recommending an OS? What OS do you recommend the most or least? How far would you go to 'tailor' a Linux distro to a potential adopter before recommending something that will work out of the box but lack non-essential features?"
(Score: 1) by HiThere on Wednesday March 05 2014, @10:02PM
From my experiences (limited) Mint is a decent distro, but one that takes a more powerful CPU (or perhaps more RAM) than does Debian. This might be because I was using Mate on Mint, but xfce on Debian, but at that time Mate wasn't in the Debian repository. Mint may have had xfce, but the target user wouldn't have been satisfied, so I didn't test it.
OTOH, I've tried a different version of Mint on the machine I'm now using with Debian wheezy KDE, and found it slow. I don't have any idea as to what's going on to cause this, however. Again, no straight-up comparison, so no strong conclusions can be drawn...but the result is that I tend to think of Mint as a slow system.
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