Comments on: Linux Mint 8 ‘Helena’ Review

By: GaryCN

GaryCN — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 05:20:42 +0000

Mint 8 KDE, simple question how do I find to the Character Map?
I’ve been looking all over for it.

By: Sachin

Sachin — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 06:25:01 +0000

it is too fast & easy in working.

By: alamgir_ai

alamgir_ai — Fri, 28 May 2010 13:44:05 +0000

Linux-mint-8-helena is best Oparating system
thanks Linux-mint.

alamgir_ai

By: P

Thu, 29 Apr 2010 12:54:57 +0000

I too found Mint to be faster than Ubuntu, not only in booting but also in applications startup and response. I am using Mint 8 on my laptop. My desktop however did not accept it nor did it accept Ubuntu Karmic. Both just froze my system. So after jaunty for a short time after Mint 7 (which I removed for Mint 8), I decided to give open suse and fedora a try. Open suse is by far the best KDE I’ve experienced and fedora was buggy so I stuck with suse. Being a gnome user I’m eagerly awaiting Mint 9. Hope It works on my desktop. I would definitely say from Gloria onwards mint scores over ubuntu everytime.

By: J

Thu, 15 Apr 2010 02:39:05 +0000

I got Mint 8 to load but it froze up at least seven or eight times inside of the first five minutes of each boot, oh ya, when it seized, it seized, in Gloria you can hold down the alt and system requirement key and type reisub and that is the equivalent of control alt delete, but the mouse, keyboard, screen, everything was locked. I downloaded Ubuntu Studio and will make a partition for Mint Gloria 7 until the work some of the kinks out.

By: Eko Wahyudin

Eko Wahyudin — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 00:30:01 +0000

I’ve Mint 8(helena) installed on my NetBook (Acer Aspire One) wich the highest resolution is 1024×600.

there is a few problem on GUI design. Many form exceed screen resolution. eg. “File Management Preferences”, The “OK” button out of the screen desktop.

By: Pal Joey

Pal Joey — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 01:10:54 +0000

I’ve got Mint 8 installed side by side with Ubuntu and Kubuntu on my MacBook with Boot Camp. It’s slick, sleek, easy to use, and everything worked perfectly at first boot with the exception of my HP USB laptop speakers.

I like — a lot.

By: tkn0jrsy

tkn0jrsy — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 05:45:12 +0000

I have a couple of points to add to your review:

- Ubuntu 9.10 gives you two virtual desktops, Linux Mint gives you FOUR (4) without impacting performance. (This is on a regular laptop [Gateway] with 1GB RAM, dual-core Celeron 2.00GHz)

-Rhythmbox doesn’t require any additional packages in order to play your MP3′s. Haven’t checked for .wav, but I believe these are included as well.

-The interface is sleek and smooth, and incredibly customizable. Whereas Kubuntu and Ubuntu are both customizable, one seems more customizable with less features (Kubuntu) and one is smoother and easier to customize with fewer features (Ubuntu).

Strongly recommend this distro above Ubuntu and Kubuntu for it’s boot-time, footprint, sleek “clean” feel, FOUR vd’s, and “As-is” installation.

By: Tristan

Tristan — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 05:15:05 +0000

Using Mint 8 XFCE on a dell inspiration mini 10 absolutely no problems, been using mint since 6 “Felicia” and have loved it since. I found Ubuntu more of a problem in getting working on netbooks than mint the support has really come along way. Even without a ssd HD which would defiantly improve the performance of this netbook it still runs smoothly and efficiently.

still Sabyaon ftw XD

By: Sqrt(Cos(180)

Sqrt(Cos(180) — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 20:21:00 +0000

A few things usually have to be done with any Linux distro, especially on newer hardware as many hardware makers don’t (want to?) support Linux so drivers appears long after Redmond’s do. Such is life in the alternative lane, and learn to make do as we did with Windows (God, I really hated the Windows registry even with the .ini file complexity! But, I learned to live with it.)

OTOH, one thing Mint really must fix before I upgrade off Mint 7 (beautiful Gloria!) is the touchpad interface. With Mint7′s Mouse control I could deactivate the touchpad entirely; now I cannot–unless they’ve hidden the control somewhere else. One thing Windows did right was allow the deactivation of the touchpad upon plugging in a USB mouse (though that SHOULD have been the default action!!!); Mint et al have not provided that utility yet, at least consistently. HAL and other programming alternatives don’t really cut it as they are not daemons…I don’t get the problem as there is already a daemon detecting USB usage.

By: Kamal DS

Kamal DS — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 03:56:42 +0000

@ fakhri, it does not comes with GMA 500 drivers. So, you’ll yourself have to install them

By: fakhri

fakhri — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 02:22:42 +0000

thanx for this article..
I’m using a netbook that using intel gma 500 chipset..
my question is,

whether appropriate to use this linux mint 8?

that’s all

By: mapkino

mapkino — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 22:14:23 +0000

Linux Mint is really a good OS. Friendly, easy, safe.
Well done Clem!!
Better than Win XP.
Unfortunately exist Win 7,
just a little bit more charmy.

By: Kirk M

Kirk M — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 17:31:45 +0000

@DC – You’re probably correct about a ATI/Xorg conflict being the problem since ATI support is still new and, as you say, a lot of bugs have appeared with several of the latest distros.

For myself, I have an older Nvidia GeForce 6200 (AGP) and install and initial boot went without a hitch for me 2 out of 3 times on an older desktop PC. The one glitch I had out of the three test installs was that initial boot after install stopped at trying to load the login splash screen with a one line error flashing at the top of the display. Rebooting the computer solved that problem and Mint 8 has been working fine ever since. Amazingly capable and stable as a rock.

By: DC

DC — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 02:22:48 +0000

T, it’s unfortunate Mint 8 was your first experience with Mint. I’ve been using it since Mint 5 and love it, but had the same result as you with #8: the live CD booted and ran ok and the install program appeared to function well, as it always had. But on reboot, I received a black screen. This looks to be (if it’s the same bug as you experienced) a problem with Xorg and ATI video chipsets and has been seen on several of the latest distros, so it’s not just Mint.

After several hours of surfing for a bug fix, I gave up and went back to Mint 7.

By: JD

JD — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 00:33:26 +0000

Good Thought ,That could be the case! , looks like they disabled some unneeded services on boot up, making it boot faster, cool cool. Mint is good for giving anyone a working system with no setup needed! I wish ubuntu could do this! but they can’t because of this legal BS its really really lame.

By: T

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 20:16:36 +0000

Mint 8 sucks. It won’t even boot up on either my desktop or my HP notebook. I will stick with Ubuntu as my main OS of choice on my notebook and PCLinuxOS as my favorite Live CD since all the codecs are built in even though my wireless won’t work on PCLinuxOS. I thought I would try Mint since it is suppose to have all the codecs and drivers built in but it won’t even boot it stops at “Loading” on the screen and fails to continue. Mint still needs work, I tried Mint about 2 years ago I didn’t work then either. It just must not support much hardware. I’ll stick with Ubuntu even though I need to setup the multi-media and wireless, it’s just a click and download away.

By: kazuya

kazuya — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 14:37:12 +0000

mint 8 is a good remake or edit of Ubuntu. I find Ubuntu already complete and easier to modify things as i like except for login window which was replaced with login screen. I did not like that. But in all, mint is as good as ubuntu.

By: Kamal DS

Kamal DS — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 10:05:30 +0000

May be they have done some under-the-hood changes to make the device faster? :)

By: JD

JD — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 02:53:50 +0000

Great Review but i severely question mint booting much faster then ubuntu as they do no innovation to the ubuntu base system at what there based on. they basically just create a couple apps and make a pretty theme. and call it Linux mint!

By: LinuxLover

LinuxLover — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:26:22 +0000

Best Debian based Linux experience there is, bar none!