Linux Mint is the new sensation. It’s been the most popular distro for the past four years, even more popular than Ubuntu, the distro upon which it is based. This is ironic, because Ubuntu was the most popular distribution for the prior six years and it was based on another one, Debian1. However, there’s popularity and there’s install base, and in the latter, Ubuntu still has a bigger number by far. So, what makes Linux Mint so successful? The main reason is that Linux Mint goes a step further than Ubuntu in making the distro easier to use, and it listens to its user base about what direction ...
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Jose Dieguez Castro, Introducing Linux Distros, 10.1007/978-1-4842-1392-6_8
8. Linux Mint
Jose Dieguez Castro1
(1)A Coruña, Spain
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