It's elementary...
Utterly painless install... not only did it install pretty much automagically, it offered to repartition the Mint install, and configured grub so they could co-exist in harmony. AND it fixed whatever MacOS deliberately borked on the hard drive when, in a moment of stupidity, I tried to boot with the MacOS AND Mint drives in the machine at the same time.
I think I'm gonna go give them a donation right now... my ballsack just gave a huge sigh of relief.
mnem
ST:TNG time...
(urrrggghhh... GnomeWeb sux ballz, but FireFlump crashes if I try to attach a pic... Yup, must be *NIX...)
Mini-Review: elementaryOS vs Mint First ImpressionsInstallation was utterly painless, updates completely painless as well, and app installation was only slightly confusing. However, after using it all morning with the included GnomeWeb browser (because FireFox is not supported properly and keeps crashing if you do anything except
look at the internet) I was ready to knock my own brains out with a slice of lemon wrapped around a large gold brick. It is fucking
slooooooow at everything, even on the desktop.
I want to believe that was just the old hardware (Dual 3GHz XEON with 20GB RAM)... except
Mint is really nice & tight and fast, and FireFox feels exactly the same as on Winbloze. Only weakness for my morning "browse over coffee" was the photo editor included in
Mint was a bit unweildy... but at least I was able to crop and adjust contrast with a little work.
elementaryOS has no such app integration, so it was like "use it as you found it on the web or get bent".
So... still liking
Mint much, much better.
elementaryOS has a much better OOBE, but that is where it ends. I have the feeling a
lot of tinkering under the hood will be necessary to get it to actually
run as well as
Mint... and I'm not sure I can be arsed. Their list of curated apps is pretty small, and even FireFox came with a bunch of warnings that it might not work right... which it didn't.
IMO, not supporting something as common as FireFox is a complete non-starter. I'll continue to dabble with it... but odds are will be working with
Mint unless some miracle occurs and my attempts at fixing the original MacOS are actually successful.
And in a distant 4th place, we have GhostBSD with a DNF... evidently it only supports AMD 64-bit ATM; as I was unable to get it to install at all, nor could I find a version which claimed support for 64-bit Intel.
mnem