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post #41 of 47
5/25/12 at 8:48pm
I love Mint, can't wait to download it.

I like Cinnamon but I'm wondering whether it will drain my laptops battery faster than Maya due to it requiring 3D acceleration.

Can anyone give a short list of changes that have been made in 13?
Edited by Liranan - 5/25/12 at 9:02pm
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5/28/12 at 12:22pm
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I love Mint, can't wait to download it.
I like Cinnamon but I'm wondering whether it will drain my laptops battery faster than Maya due to it requiring 3D acceleration.
Can anyone give a short list of changes that have been made in 13?

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5/28/12 at 1:00pm
What would be the difference of going with Mint vs. "Plain" Ubuntu?
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post #44 of 47
5/28/12 at 1:32pm
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The only thing that has ever held me back from trying out Linux is gaming. I'm seriously considering trying this on my laptop though since I never use it for gaming anyways. Should I try it?

No harm in trying especially if you boot of a CD or flash drive
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5/29/12 at 8:29am
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What would be the difference of going with Mint vs. "Plain" Ubuntu?

Mint has all softwares you need out of the box while Ubuntu is missing some stuff, it doesn't have unity crap but a nice green theme with MATE/Cinnamon UI's.
There must be other differences but I don't really know ; that said the standard Mint edition is built upon Ubuntu, you can also go for Mint Debian or Mint XFCE.
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5/29/12 at 10:33am
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Mint has all softwares you need out of the box while Ubuntu is missing some stuff, it doesn't have unity crap but a nice green theme with MATE/Cinnamon UI's.
There must be other differences but I don't really know ; that said the standard Mint edition is built upon Ubuntu, you can also go for Mint Debian or Mint XFCE.

Roger that! thanks for clearing that up. smile.gif
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post #47 of 47
5/29/12 at 8:08pm
Tried it out, Mate and Cinnamon are both very meh. I guess Unity has me spoiled smile.gif
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