Mum tries out Linux Mint Cinnamon Edition 14 (2012)
Mum tries out Linux Mint Cinnamon Edition 14 (2012) is the 6th episode in the OSFirstTimer series.
Description[edit | edit source]
She's back again with another distro of her favorite kernel so far: Linux. Last time she tried Ubuntu (most popular version of Linux) but this time she has decided to try Linux Mint Cinnamon Edition 14 as requested by a viewer of her previous videos. Does she like it? Watch and find out ;) (note I correct a few myths about Linux I made in the Ubuntu video in this video)
OS Info[edit | edit source]
Linux Mint is a 32 bit and 64 bit series of distributions, all based on Ubuntu and Debian. New versions of this distribution are released every 6 months, the latest version (as of 2020) is Linux Mint 20 codenamed Ulyana. It started life as a Kubuntu based Linux distribution codenamed Ada. Version 2.0 was based on Ubuntu 6.10. The codenames are based on female's names.
Tasks[edit | edit source]
- What time is it?
- Write, save and open a text document
- Customize the way your computer looks
- Open the documents folder
- Open a .pdf file
- Open a .doc (Microsoft Word) file
- Download and install Google SketchUp
- Turn off your computer
Diana's Review[edit | edit source]
- She was curious about the name of this distro. After Philip first mentioned it in the video, she responded: "What's that? for cooks?"
- She first saw Linux Mint 14's boot screen, and described it as "Nice, simple, uncluttered.".
- She described the main interface the same way and thought it looked very professional.
- She really liked this OS and she found it logical, very uncluttered and she liked that when you hover the cursor over an icon that it shows a label of what the program/action is.
- Her only struggle with this OS was finding out how to customize the look.
Trivia[edit | edit source]
- It is one of her favourite operating systems yet and she even placed it top of her Top 3 Best Operating System User Interfaces list.
- She preferred Linux Mint over Windows 8 and Microsoft BOB and at the time said she would use it as her next option when Windows XP lost support.