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I've never tried Ubuntu, so I can't really compare with first hand knowledge, but I can tell you what I have gathered from others using Mint.

 

The Mint distribution releases have been based on Ubuntu. The developers take the latest Ubuntu, fix all the problems and add some features to make it more user friendly. People call it "Ubuntu done right." Mint is the first distribution I've tried where I installed it and pretty much everything worked - audio, video, internet, etc - instead of spending hours trolling forums to try and fix things.

 

I said "have been based" because I think the future of Mint will be Debian based. Ubuntu is based on Debian, but they always seem to muck up and break a bunch of things that Mint developers have to fix again. I hear lots of complaints about how the quality of Ubuntu is going down. They are so focused on their fixed release schedule that many bugs don't get fixed, and they get carried from one release to the next.

 

Mint now has two editions (Gnome, XFCE) based directly on Debian. They are still a little rough, probably not newbie friendly, but a new "release" coming soon may fix that. (Not really a release since Debian is rolling, but a new respin on the iso).

 

I'd suggest downloading one of their livecd isos and giving it a try.

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I use ubuntu on my netbook on a day to day basis, and at university, the computer science department computers run SUSE, so I am fairly experienced with Linux. I like it but sometimes the lack of compatability with other stuff just gets on my nerves and I think about going back to windows/OSX, but I never do

 

If I remember right Linux mint is a derivative of ubuntu that includes things like proprietary codecs and drivers out of the box and slightly different default artwork, I tried it a few years ago though, so it may have changed by now

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If I remember right Linux mint is a derivative of ubuntu that includes things like proprietary codecs and drivers out of the box and slightly different default artwork, I tried it a few years ago though, so it may have changed by now.

 

There is more to it than that, but including the codecs and drivers is an important part of Mint's popularity. You don't have to hunt around the web trying to find a a driver for your video card or network adapter. It's pretty close to windows in that respect. You install it, and things work.

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