Linux Mint 17.1 is fantastic at first glance
I'm a relative newcomer to Linux and originally tried Kubuntu 14.04 and made the mistake of "upgrading" to 14.10 a few days ago which introduced some nasty bugs e.g. after resuming from Standby mode the wifi was disabled and the only apparent solution was to reboot the computer. Also found some of my software no longer worked. So rather than reinstalling 14.04 again I decided to try Mint 17.1 first and installed it yesterday. It really is a breath of fresh air. Slick and easy to use. The desktop is less clumsy. The file manager is also less clumsy. All in all it is smoother to use. Very pleased with it and won't be going back to Kubuntu.
Mint also seems to be faster and have less impact on this old (ex-Vista) laptop than Kubuntu did; the noisy fan seems to be running less too.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
