I have just installed Linux Mint Helena on my PC and I have to say that I'm very impressed. Considering that it is a team of volunteers they do a fantastic job, it is really nice that virtually everything is there out of the box. Helena is the Mint equivalent of Karmic Koala.
I know that it is Canonical's policy to ship without the restricted codecs, Flash, Skype etc but I still can't see why Mint can do it and (K)ubuntu cannot. Firefox, VLC, Gimp and Thunderbird are all there without needing to be installed because they don't try to squeeze everything onto a CD sized disk.
I have had problems with Firefox and the Bookmark This Page option in the Bookmarks menu where it would refuse to scroll with certain FF themes, this works perfectly in Mint. FF also seems to be open up faster. I also upgraded from KDE 4.3.4 to 4.1.1 without any of the problems I encountered with KK. The only real problem so far is that Amarok won't play CDs even with 2.3.0.
Has anybody else tried Helena?
I know that it is Canonical's policy to ship without the restricted codecs, Flash, Skype etc but I still can't see why Mint can do it and (K)ubuntu cannot. Firefox, VLC, Gimp and Thunderbird are all there without needing to be installed because they don't try to squeeze everything onto a CD sized disk.
I have had problems with Firefox and the Bookmark This Page option in the Bookmarks menu where it would refuse to scroll with certain FF themes, this works perfectly in Mint. FF also seems to be open up faster. I also upgraded from KDE 4.3.4 to 4.1.1 without any of the problems I encountered with KK. The only real problem so far is that Amarok won't play CDs even with 2.3.0.
Has anybody else tried Helena?
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