Re: [orca-list] victory! Linux mint to ship orca by default

[Tony Baechler <tony baechler net>]

Note that the following is only my own opinion based on what I've read and 
heard from someone who tried Mint.

On 11/4/2015 5:41 PM, Glenn wrote:
> What compelling features are there with Mint?
> Seems like I was drawn to it a year or so ago, but I could not get Orca
> working well on it.
> I mean, can you let folks know what is good or different about Mint?


Honestly, I don't see the "victory," but I have not personally tried it. 
It's based on either Ubuntu or Debian testing, so in my opinion, one would 
be better suited using one of those.  It ships an older kernel than Ubuntu 
and seems to have more hardware compatibility problems.  That might be why 
Orca didn't work for you.  The user I mentioned has an older HP with an AMD 
processor.  He tried several different versions of Mint, but none of them 
would install.  They all crashed as did Ubuntu MATE 14.04, but Ubuntu MATE 
15.04 worked fine, presumably due to the newer kernel.  Ubuntu 14.04 ships 
kernel 3.13 while 15.04 ships 3.16 if that matters.  I don't know what Mint 
ships, but I would think it's probably 3.13 or earlier.  The Mint issues I 
mentioned were with versions 16 and 17.