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“Unity like Gnome” may feel more familiar to Mac OS X users, while Windows users will feel right at home on Linux Mint. Applications appear in the panel on the bottom of the desktop, with a launcher menu in the bottom left and system icons on the right in a manner quite similar to MS Windows. Mint ships with Cinnamon as its default DE. Ubuntu and Mint both offer support for UEFI. Both use the Ubiquity installer and the experience is quite similar. There isn’t much difference in the installation experience of both distros. For older hardware, Ubuntu does best with Lubuntu, Xubuntu, and Ubuntu MATE flavors, and Mint users also have Mint MATE edition available. For new computers, whichever way you go, you’re going to be fine.

Ubuntu System Requirementsīoth Linux Mint and Ubuntu have quite similar requirements. They are both quite user-friendly and for the Linux newbie, you couldn’t be wrong choosing either.įor a very long time, Ubuntu was considered the distro of choice by most Linux enthusiasts, but it has currently been surpassed by Linux Mint (and Debian) as the distro with the most hits.īut which one is better? I believe we all have our favorite distros but having used either of these distros, I’m gonna make an argument for why I believe one is better than the other, so kindly indulge me and let’s see if you can agree with me.

Linux Mint are currently arguably two of the most popular Linux distros (with Debian) around.