In Tamil it means speech that leads no where. In the sense of debating but not useful.

Can confirm, using DDG, Fedora, Lineage, never looking back.

By how much does the income tax increase.

Can you put it on vimeo?

Time to mine coins in Germany...

I think he was being sarcastic.

Is this for real? Do people really use Mint?

Just installed my second Mint machine for desktop work yesterday. Really cannot complain. The difference in desktop responsiveness between this 7 year old Mint machine versus a brand new PC or Mac is night and day.

Every modern OS needs a major GUI refactoring, I swear. It takes a full minute for my Mac to open control panels. Mint can do it in microseconds... Silly that this is the case.

It's what I installed on my parents' computer. Cinnamon by default has the Windows look and feel; it comes with codecs available out of box, and it just works.

I think the article is over the top, but in terms of thoughtless lowest common denominator user experience I don't think there's a better choice. I use it on several machines accordingly.

I don't know about now, but a year or so ago it was the most popular distro yeah.

Elementary OS seems to be on the path to take over for best desktop distro though.

That’s what I setup for my siblings whenever I can. I’m starting to get bored of doing full upgrades from scratch for them, but I only do them once or twice a year.

For Archlinux users like myself of course I could care less about Mint, but it cannot be denied that “normal” users appreciate intuitive and good-looking interfaces.

Install Debian instead and you will never have to do a "full upgrade" again.

I don't know if "people" do. I have since about 2009, although not exclusively, and using Mate instead of Cinnamon.

I think it's funny that they mention running it on a "vintage" 2011 Lenovo. I've got it running on a 2009 Lenovo Netbook and a 2002 IBM R-series laptop too.

Mint's pretty great. I use it because it's basically a lightweight Ubuntu.

How does it compare with xubuntu (xfce) or lubuntu (lxde)?

What does it remove from ubuntu?

I don't know, and TBH I don't care, it just seems like the mint ui is more responsive, and it feels more intuitive to me (but that's likely a personal preference)

I'd like to know this as well

It works for me!

Ignore them.

Guile community probably wants guileemacs to be the future, but I think it would be only natural for emacs community to think otherwise.

I'm part of the emacs community, and not part of the Guile community (though I am a fan of Scheme, just not Guile in particular, Chicken Scheme is more my speed) and I think a Guile-based emacs would be a huge step forward, and can't wait for it to Guile to be fully integrated and all the outstanding issues to be ironed out.

I really can't understand the objections from some people in Emacs land, except for those that would prefer a Common Lisp-based Emacs, but that's not what we've got. We've got Guile, and while that might not be as great as Common Lisp (in their eyes, not mine, for me Scheme is preferable), it's still a lot better than elisp. Rejecting Guile and sticking with elisp just makes no sense to me at all.

Keep in mind that having emacs be based on Guile does not mean that all the elisp emacs packages have to be jettisoned. They will still run as elisp under Guile, and you can continue writing scripts in elisp and have them continue to run under a Guile-based emacs.