Why Is Linux Mint So Popular? - the History of Linux Mint

What led to the rise of one of the most popular and most loved desktop Linux distributions on the planet? Let's take a look back through the project's history.

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[shobhit]

Watching it on mint. Plain simple, stable and comfortable. just perfect

[linuxscoop]

I think Linux Mint is the most stable distro I've ever used and easy too use for beginner linux users

[-NoneOfYourBusiness]

Windows 10 made me install Linux Mint.
I will never go back to Windows. Ever.

[raylowe]

Although I have used other distros from Manjaro to Ubuntu, I always seem to come back to Mint as my daily driver. Been using it for about 3 years now.

[RodrigoGraca]

I've been running Linux Mint Cinnamon for about 5 years, just built a new PC a few weeks ago for my next 5 years and installed Linux Mint Cinnamon 19 and enabled a dark theme and WOW!
Nemo is dark, other programs are dark, I was able to install the nvidia drivers with a few clicks, personalized stuff here and there easily, etc
Its the best OS in my opinion.

[LiaBiscuit]

I use Linux Mint as my main OS when I am not trying other distros. I like mint because for the most part it just works.

[aronsandstedt]

A review of Linux Mint you did in 2012 was the first to introduced me to Linux. I've used Linux pretty much fulltime since then.

[somethingsinlife]

Folks! Don't forget to Donate to Open Source! I'd like to see more mentions of Donations on Linux channels. Alot of the times we just forget.

[TedTheTree]

My first distro happened to be Linux Mint, I brought back my notebook back to life after a Windows 7 password issue & boy was I happy, & ever since then all of my computers are now running Linux OS's;

[theronfarrer]

I have converted several windows 10 users to mint 19, they like being back in control.

[SevenSevenSevenaka]

it does everything well, its a great if not the best distro. stable and easy too use

[Matt-mhud]

Way back when the then dreaded Unity environment debuted on Ubuntu, I was one of the ones running away in full force. Loved the more professional and clean look and serious effort to try and be a contender to the familiar Windows experience that Mint began. Although many in the Unix realm are code monkeys at heart, it's the ease of use that wins the user majority at the end of the day.

[GatlingNG]

Linux mint has been my daily driver since 2013 and it has been a very enjoyable experience.

[dogsnmotorcycles]

Recently installed Linux Mint 19.1 and I really like it. I'm not really an enthusiast, but I like that it seems to be trouble free and makes it easy to get my tasks done.

[erogaki]

To me, Linux Mint is my favorite distro, reasons being compatibility, usability, look and feel and it was also the first dual boot I set up. It also performs 10x better then Windows did, booting up, opening programs and other day to day tasks. I also liked the fact that to install some things you had to use the terminal, that was probably my favorite thing about using Mint. Also I love the file manager.

Everything about Mint is awesome, I had Mint running with the Ubuntu Budgie desktop environment which was my go to environment, I had also installed kde and Gnome to it. All up Mint is my favorite operating system / Linux distribution. I also loved how good games performed with the drivers, they performed better then on Windows

[hotroof]

Linux Mint Elyessa was my first full-time distro. I had played around with Ubuntu a couple times, but being a long time windows user it was just too different. Linux Mint 8 (Helena) was the distro that made me decide to finally delete Windows from my machines and live 100% in Linux. From there the rest is history! Mint is a great gate-way distro. As with you, IG, at the time I never would have become so interested in Linux had it not been for Linux Mint. Great walk down memory lane. Thanks, man.

[ifell]

Its the easiest and most reliable distro I have ever used, and I've been through my fair share. It's classy and sophisticated and is the only os I recommend to people coming to Linux. It has been my daily desktop only to a second #! Bunsen, for older hardware. But hey just to confuse myself I have puppy on a pendrive just for kicks!! If you had to pay £20 for mint I would!!

[pctlc]

Great video I.G!! Currently using Linux Mint 19 myself, been using Mint on and off since the beginning, very consistent development like you said.

[davidnavratil]

New to Linux, Just downloaded and installed LM 19.1 XFCE and looking forward to learning!

[aidan]

linux mint is the most stable distro I've ever used