Peppermint OS 9 Distro Review

Today we will have a look at the new Peppermint OS 9 release. There are some great things in here and a few things I would have done differently.

Here are some other Peppermint videos I have done:
Top Tweaks After installing:

It was one of my top distros for 2018:

Why I use Peppermint:

Dual Booting Windows 10 / Peppermint:

[Peppermintos]

Thanks STL, We'll look into a small util for choosing/adding the system icons volumes) to the desktop and maybe push it as an update to the settings panel. There's already an option in the desktop right-click context menu to create your own launchers, but yeah is small util to add the four main ones would be a nice addition :)
May be a day or three though, currently stuck doing those most wonderful of things .. the accounts :(

[brianthecomputergeek]

Excellent video Tom. I think I am going to give Peppermint 9 a try. It looks like an excellent distro. The themes look really cool.

[johanb.]

I did a fresh install of Peppermint 9 and I' m very happy with it. Smooth, quick and stable and looks very nice the arc dark theme.. Minimal install does nothing, it installs everything.

[James-ejlb]

Totally agree, great distribution thanks for the insights on 9.

[shaddowdog]

I am using Peppermint 9 re spin, so I do not know if it is the same as the original. However, I can tell you after trying all of the Ubuntu variants that this version is the best that I have tried and that says a lot about it's capabilities for the end user. They say users moving over from M.S. should use Mint Linux, now not to say that Mint Linux is bad it is certainly not, but Peppermint 9 just goes a little bit further mainly I think because they listen to the end users. I have been hacking Linux since 1998 and trust me when I say very few providers listens to their end users. Try it I am sure you will really like it especially all you newbies.

[paulcaskey]

Is there a local version that will run solely on your system, or are you dependent on running all your software on their computers? ( I hear good things about Peppermint, but anything "cloud based" gives me pause.)

[nobodynowhere]

I've got an older laptop I'm trying to make use of. It currently has Mint on it and struggled to even just play this video, and even lags typing this comment. I'm going to see if Peppermint makes it a little less suck. Thanks for doing a video on it.

[drg]

(complete newb) I tried the live USB. I was surprised how easy and intuitive everything was. Everything at hand. All perfect out of the box. Also it run extremely fast and used very very little ram (300-400mb). Fast, snappy.
I personally don't like the peppermint logo looks, so right click on it, takes me to library and change it! It is *that* good!

[dr.mikehughes]

Question is there any way to copy a multiboot USB once you have one made up?

[TheNyBac]

What's the advantage of this comparing to Xubuntu or Mint Xfce ?

[jeffbridges]

Peppermint is a killer distro. I really liked 7 and 8. But I had to get away from it when I started using 4k monitors. I had issues with scaling and couldn't figure it out (super small icons and such). Would you happen to know how to get it to scale properly for 4k?

[RenatIlyasov]

Perhaps a dumb question: WHY is Manjaro #1 top on DistroWatch? Is it really more user-friendly than Linux Mint or my favorite Peppermint OS?

[geraldcragg]

Yeah. I was thinking peppermint 9 should have waited until after Linux mint's final and did a few small Tweak's to it.
It's excellent, I'm not slating it, just not in a rush to install it to hardware.
Hope all is well :)

[peterjansen]

On my hardware (i5-750 and HD 7850, 1333 MT/s DDR3) Peppermint OS 9 runs like crap on a live-USB. The lag in the menu when I hover/click is large, around half a second. I also ran Manjaro XFCE, that runs fine. Yep, the wallpapers are nice. For those who are interested and 'burn' the ISO on a USB:
I recommend to also search for wallpaper packages or download those from the internet (there is a website which collects a few of those). Manjaro has a very nice wallpaper which can be acquired that way if it is in your repo. I use that one at the moment.

[nilz]

have you considered creating an actual review and not a "first impression" reaction type of thing? this way video is not too long because of re-discussing features thats common to ubuntu/mint/debian and not features the exclusively added by distro that makes it standout and why people should at least consider using it.

[Bigbadwhitecracker]

Very very nice but not worth upgrading from 8. I wish I could install Ice on other distros.

[robertcatesby]

2:45
When Peppermint drops lxde for xfce - I'll seriously consider dropping Peppermint.