hmmm.... gave helena a spin (finally)... cleared out Fedora 11 and Ubuntu 9.10 to do it. Pretty impressed with it, as is usual with Mint versions. Really dumbed down though... the shutdown options have explanations for restarts and the like. Didnt notice it before, it was there. Irritated with the default google search, which gives no image and news tabs, but that was always a problem I had with mint. Apart from that, the new gnome themes are kickass. Really like what they have done to the control panel equivalent... hadnt noticed that before also, if it was there. Would love to see Mint with KDE, but I dont really like KDE, too buggy for me. The only time I have used KDE is with Sabayon. When it comes to desktop environments, I am totally a fan of BlackBox. BB allows such easy customization, that it feels great just to be able to tweak the smallest of things, all by editing a simple text file. And the plugins, themes available etc. It makes for a great Windows shell replacement too, but a little buggy on Vista, and buggier on 7.
Getting irritated with having to constantly re-install newer distros. Drifting towards Arch or Gentoo... think will do that next, if I ever feel like I really need to un-install Mint now. Spent about a day and a half customizing my Vista desktop and my Mint desktop to cross link to each other. The "home" folders of the Vista and the Mint installations are the same now, and the download managers are pointed to the same location. Used the same icon sets too. Gnome is not letting me use custom icons on the home folder though. Even when I customize it individually, it is reverting back to the defaults. Donno how to change this, was a pain changing it in Vista too.
Improvement over the month old Ubuntu, definately. However, must say that 9.10 has come a long way, installed graphic card drivers and restricted formats pretty easily, didnt have to pull the whole buy for free trick from Fluendo. Again. Anyone tried the new SUSE? still does that there?
Oh yeah, one more thing, can anyone just give me, in one line, what I need to add to fstab to automount dev/sda1 on startup? Tried a few online tutorials. One just did something that wouldnt let me mount it even after startup, and another didnt seem to do anything.
