Has anyone installed this Mint 16 XFCE? Junk. During the install it asks the user if they

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2. What a great idea. The product doesn't work, so instead of fixing it, don't use it.

Just out of curiosity, I blew it away and installed Cinnamon. Same thing. It does give you the option of looking at the changes - 6 pages of undocumented junk, programs that are replaced, but not word one about what one should choose or why.

Concerned about the developers? I'm not the one pissing on their work by telling users to go use something else because this is a second-rate install. Then again, such remarks are all people have when they don't know the answers and haven't really got much of anything important to add.

I am trying to find information about a hitch in the install that shouldn't have been there in the first place. If I didn't like their work I wouldn't waste my time - as you pointed out, there are other choices.

I went through this garbage in the 90's. Running Solaris, couple of other things, and to get linux you had to go to the computer store and compile your own. It ran exceedingly well, and we used it to talk and do stuff on bulletin boards all across the country.

Windows came along, dead bang simple. Until it bluescreened, anyway. And a lot of those problems were hardware incompatibilities that got ironed out over time (we actually had to pull cards and change dip switches - now we have progressed, and I know techs who have no idea what those are )

But guess who won? And they shouldn't have - Linux is superior in nearly every way - but this whole arrogant "If you don't like it, how dare you say anything" attitude keeps them in second class.

Then, they are used to making excuses...and that's too bad.