Linux Mint 7 (KDE)
Desktop & Apps
One of the first things that you’ll notice if you are coming over from the Gnome version is that the desktop wallpaper in the KDE version is blue. It looks every bit as beautiful as the Gnome version but it’s a different color that better matches the KDE desktop environment theme.
There’s quite a bit of software included with Linux Mint 7 (KDE) and here’s a sample of what you’ll find:
Graphics
DNG Image Converter
Okular Document Viewer
OpenOffice.org Drawing
GIMP
Gwenview Image Viewer
Scribus Page Layout
Krita Painting and Image Editing
KolourPaint
digiKam Photo Management
Karbon14 Scalable Graphics
KSnapShot
XSane Image Scanning
Internet
KTorrent BitTorrent Client
Krfb Desktop Sharing
Akregator Feed Reader
Guarddog Firewall Configuration
Kopete IM
Quassel IRC
KMail
Mozilla Thunderbird Mail/News
KNode News Reader
Firefox
Konqueror
Multimedia
Amarok Audio Player
K3b CD & DVD Burning
Gnome MPlayer Media Player
Mplayer Movie Player
KMix Sound Mixer
K9copy Video DVD Backup
Dragon Video Player
VLC Media Player
Office
OpenOffice.org
Krita
KOrganizer
KAddressBook
Others
KNotes
KMouth Speech Synthesizer
SuperKaramba Desktop Widgets
Ark Archiving Tool
Adding software is quite easy, just mintInstall to find the apps you want.
(18 votes, average: 4.56 out of 5)
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Sounds like a winner. I’m gonna grab a copy and at least try it out in my sandbox on Virtualbox OSE. However, right now I have some NEW TOYS, with KDE 4.3 being available, so I have been playing with it in sidux and so far it is behaving really well – better than KDE 4.2.4. When Mint adds KDE 4.3 to their mix, it ought to be EVEN BETTER, because KDE 4 has now stabilized and the 4.3 release is all about bug fixes and improvements to existing code (and there will be monthly maintenance releases until the first of the year, after which 4.4, a feature release, is planned).
Nice review, sounds like Mint is worth a look in KDE skins.
For people new to Linux, Mint-Gnome or Mint-KDE probably rates a 5/5. It is going to do a no-fuss install and the things most people want are going to work with very little, if any, fiddling around. So what else is there, really?
PCLOS 2009 and Mepis trail behind only by a small margin and they deserve a look by new people as well.
But the Mint team is doing beautiful work with its desktops and its understanding of what many people coming over to Linux expect in a contemporary system.
My experience with an earlier version says that wireless is going to work. Suspend/hibernate may require just a small bit of tinkering depending on a person’s hardware (and the kernel) but it is probably going to work. If it does that is significant for laptop users.
Clement LeFebvre is one impressive team leader!
ill have to give mint (kde) a try… im a KDE person.. but mint has taken gnome and made it nice… i always say.. when is gnome not gomish.. when it is linux mint.. so my latest main home distro is mint… but since im partial to KDE ill give mint KDE a shot…..
@ Bill Julian:that wireless is going to work.
I run Kubuntu 9.04 KDE 4.3 on my laptop and all that works flawlessly. I don’t see a reason why it shouldn’t work the same in LinuxMint since it is based on Ubuntu.
I like LinuxMint, especially their TastyMenu, but I have been following KDE 4.x development and Kubuntu was the best distro that kept up with all updates. Besides, I don’t have a DVD at the moment and LinuxMint, for some strange reason, wasn’t offering a CD for KDE.
I also will wait until they offer KDE 4.3. For some reason, I could never use Gnome especially when they keep insisting on including Mono by default.
Gave Mint 7 KDE spin a try. First impression: more polished version of Kubuntu — maybe the Kubuntu folks could take some lessons here.
After a short time I realized the version of KDE 4 wasn’t as feature-packed as the KDE desktop available in Mandriva or Fedora 11. After changing repositories and downloading the development release of KDE 4 from Ubuntu repos, the distro really worked well — surprising given a testing version of KDE4 (is that redundant?).
However, the big killer for me was the segmentation fault preventing running QGIS — a must-have for my computing needs. So, back to RPM-based distro hopping for now.
My desktop PC has only 256 MB RAM. Will Linux Mint 7 KDE run smoothly with minimal desktop effects enabled?
Hands off Mint — especially if you are an international user. As with Kubuntu, their KDE language packages are always broken. For proof, see here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/19616885@N00/3786255180/
The Mint people also refused to offer a fix when the same bug was reported by me in a Min 6 pre-release and they even claim that’s not their fault, because KDE 4 is supposed to be a (and I quote) “mess”: http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=109&t=23316
Fixing the bug was “against their policy” during the Mint 6 development cycle and it obviously stayed the same for 7.
So if you are looking for a new Linux distro, get one where bugs actually get fixed.
In addition to the forums and wiki, the Linux Mint IRC Support channel is a great place to get live help. xChat in Gnome and Quassel in KDE.
Linux Mint 7 KDE is a great distro. Sad to say that’s a no go for me because I use a 64 bit system. I do have it on my 32 bit backup system. People need to focus more on 64 bit but that’s just my opinion.
@ windmonger:Probably to slow at 256 megs of ram.
Linux Mint does have a XFCE version that will run snappy
for your box. Good luck.