On Jan 16, 2008 3:16 PM, Atanu Datta lfyedit2@efyindia.com wrote:
On Wednesday 16 Jan 2008 1:49:12 pm Nishit Dave wrote:
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hmm hmm hmm.... I reviewed Mint in this issue. Can you elaborate on your claim that it is "self-contradictory". Criticisms are welcome, as that'll only help me improve. But when they are vague it's actually as good as Macrosoft's Get The Facts campaign or Steve Ballmer ranting how "Linux" is worthless. Kubuntu could be your favourite distro, and you can order it from their Ship It service-- if you would've ordered it in October, you have been running it by now. All major distros were released in Oct-Nov 07. So, by the time Jan issue hit the stands Ubuntu was an old news. Besides we asked in December issue if readers want Ubuntu 7.10 or wait for their LTS. People who wanted to skip it out numbered the ones who wanted Ubuntu. And frankly I (not the opinion of the mag) being a desktop user find distros like PCLinuxOS, Mandriva and Mint (which I tried for the first time), much more useful than Ubuntu and co. cuz at the end of the day it's all about out-of-the box experience.
Well, it's nice to see response after so many people have vented their rants. I usually do not carry copies of LFY along, so can't immediately point out the contradictions etc., but man, we really don't need vague installation experiences as well. Why can't you tell us how different the installation was as compared to Ubuntu's, what steps you took for your dual install, what, apart from inclusion of closed codecs and drivers and new colours, would sent Mint apart from Ubuntu to make somebody want to switch, etc.?
What you wrote was (and pardon the lame analogies) like saying you took a such-and-such model of car, a notchback based on a hatchback for a spin, it sported new colours and had a hi-fi stereo as addition, and felt about the same. But uh-oh, it lacked some parts that were supposed to be there, e.g. the odometer was only for show. Of course, you can easily get the odometer cable installed from the original version.
I have been using Shipit since a long time. I have however never been able to find the link that leads you to get Kubuntu through it. AFAIK, K is a related project, an offshoot of Ubuntu. So kindly enlighten.
Your last point could be very controversial. We might as well go along with Linspire, going by that credo.