Linux Mint 8 64bit Setup Tutorial – Upgrading from Windows Vista and Dual Booting Guide
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Linux Mint 8 64bit Setup Tutorial – Upgrading from Windows Vista and Dual Booting Guide. Original video production by the www.OSGUI.com Tech Show.
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Linux Mint 8 is THE BEST. I upgraded, and only use this on my hard drive now, because in my opinion, it’s better then the original ubuntu.
Awesome, yep thats why I love it too
Great vid.
Mint’s a great distro, possibly my favourite. I probably more prefer the more typical Gnome/Ubuntu look, but that’s the great thing about Linux and it’s many desktop environments, it’s so customizable!
So I use Linux Mint (because it’s more ready “out of the box”), but I change around the Gnome menus/bars/themes to look more like Ubuntu and pretty much just put things wherever I want.
I love it.
I would like to understand what you say, but also as I would like to speak English, greeting friend
GReat how-to
yeah it would it took longer that than because of downloading the AU English Pack and transferring the Windows Vista Users Files
Puppy Linux or maybe Mint but the XFCE edition would be faster
I know, I did say that it took longer to download Language pack and also transfer the Windows User Files but this video is about doing a upgrade from Vista for people who are not in the US it will take that long for most Windows users… the Live CD only has US English on it for some reason…
both Mint & Ubuntu
So you would recommend Mint for beginners, what do you use yourself? Mint as well?
The install would have been much faster if you skipped that language updates, installed on a blank drive vice setting up the dual boot. I just say that so others will know. The average time it take to do a fresh install in about 20min and then another 20 to get all the security updates and drivers (depends on internet speed). Really you’ll have a fully working system in like 20-30 minutes in my experience. Good Video.
ok I’ve been looking through your videos, and can’t find how you do the video effects, can you just tell me?
I havn’t tried using Mint, but it has been highly recommended by others as one of the most user friendly distros.
I have an old laptop somewhere around here. You know the sort of thing: 4:3 screen, 1.6GHz, 512Mb of RAM. It is currently running Windows XP (slowly). What would it be like if I took it and installed Linux on it?
Beautiful. Thnx for sharing mate! really useful
yes i would agree linux mint works well out of the box for beginners.
But, saying that my install of karmic took 20 minute
:O I know, mad huh?
yep, yep
Linux Mint 8 is the best replacement for Windows XP Vista 7 or OS X
This is not your own PC right? Did you install it for a knowledge? Is Linux Mint the OS you would recommend for linux starters?
thnx!
Very interesting. I was curious about
this distro. your videos are great.
You are speaking slower thank you.
Now I and many others foreigners can
understand you.
Best regards,
Mario.
Yep for sure, and when I’m not using Mint I miss the Mint Menu
Yeah, that’s also the impression I got. I put Mint on a friend’s laptop and now he is like “Linux FTW”. Really a decent distro for people new to Linux.
Well it just depends on what I want or who it is for
Ubuntu is a bit more work to setup the way I like it then Mint is
Excellent tutorial! Since we were both playing around with Mint and the main Ubuntu distro…where would you say are you preferences, Tim?
@thermalz0mbie not sure but i think it’s called the main menu. i could be wrong so don’t quote me.
Did a good job on that tutorial might try linux mint when I get my new pc looks pretty good I use firefox and thunderbird all the time. Would be interested to see what the main menu looks like with a theme applied what do you call the main menu in linux.