First Look | Linux Mint 18 "Sarah"

I have an X60 IBM on its way to me. In excellent shape (so they say). Win 7 home prem. x64, 4 ram, core 2. It doesn't look like I should try to install Sarah, maybe the older version. What do YOU think? I'm a real beginner. Thanks.

Nice men

Yes love Linux Mint 18 and love it best yet 14-11-18

upgrade to Sonya!! :p

hola Linux menta Petra. el
16 es el mejor versión 32 y 64 bits. para procesadores. AMD. tiene un Kit. de. herramientas y oficina muy completos lo recomiendo!! saludos, grillo009.

firefox in 2016 lol? :DDDDDDDDDD

I down vote loud graphic intros this waste my time...

What about people with AMD GPU ? ????

Peeps, handful Does anybody know smarter this result?# wvf

are you thenewboston?

I liked , but one of my main problems i could not see , that task bar down , change the resolutions was hard , i could one made the bar biger , but became wierd , rest was ok

Why does Cinnamon have those ugly black marks on the bottom bar (for instance, where the time is) when you run it on a virtual machine? I see it in your video, and when I do it too. Looks terrible.

Sure would like to be able to access MS word with Mint

Linux is worst thing what

yeaaaaaaa i think ill pass

Linux Mint 18 is great except you cannot install some microsoft fonts in WPS Office & LIbreOffice no matter how you try and all linux experts are looking up at the sky, whistling and keeping mum on this issue cos they themselves don't know what to do about it

Running Mint (17.3 Maté right now) here since Canonical started their god-awful Unity (Gnome 3) UI. I love Mint (although I'm still finding Ubuntu 10.03 the nicest OS I have ever used). I think I'll stick with 17 until it's no longer supported.

please help me how you can install sarah in usb .. i try for all the ways and i still fail ...

Lol. I'm still on Mint 17.1 KDE and have been since the get go. Wow time goes by quick. Used every day and has been rock solid, hence I haven't been tempted to update to newer versions and frankly didn't know they were in 18beta till now.

so, this OS is free? I don't have to use crappy windows anymore? Can I install Steam on Linux and play my games? I'm thinking of getting a new pc, I want to try linux. Can I reformat hardrive and install lixux. thanx

Is automatic update available? I mean upgrading to a new version without formatting and reinstalling. I'd like to try it just for fun (I love mint) but I don't want to format at every version

Just spent 2 hours on the phone with Microsoft trying to get them to support a CoA that had "refurb" on it, purchased from a company that went out of the sky.

After 2 hours, got sick of it and stated "You understand that I can go to the dumpster of any Best Buy, take of picture of a sticker from an HP system I find back there, install using that CoA, and even one better, then upgrade to Windows 10 by claiming I have disabilities, effectively getting your flagship OS for free, and technically legal by all your standards? It would be more difficult to catch a Charizard." (I don't play Go.)

I'm not sure if that would all actually work, with the new updates to the way product IDs are managed in relation to OEM keys, but before I hung up the phone I stated "I'm going to Alibaba to buy 200 flash drives, putting Linux Mint on every single one, and the next time someone I know asks me for help on a Microsoft platform, I'm going to hand them the jump drive and tell them I retired."

Should probably start a Kick Starter and make it in the millions for the flash drives. Just mail them to people. Random people. Complete saturation.

So anyway, after hanging up the phone, I realized I was trying to get a copy of Windows, so I ate a snickers and download Linux Mint 18.

VLC is the only media music player?

My laptop is pretty weak. 2GB of ram and it has windows 10. I may be wrong, but I think the heavy memory usage of windows 10 is slowing down my computer. I have used windows for all of my life but I want to switch to linux. Will linux mint help speed up my laptop, and is it a good OS for a first time linux user? If not, what would be a good and light alternative?

Hi Joe what is the menu you're using at the top of your desktop

well somehow I tried elementary OS (eOS would sound a lot better) and I love it :D

I just installed Mint 18 and I have the same problem I had with MInt 17 " no sound." Nothing things to work. Mint has lost its magic, little polish, little eye-candy, old software and on top of that hardware issues after installing. It is a pity for a distro that was all about stability. I was forced by Mint itself to try other distros, just installed PepperMint and it works like a charm out of the box.

Hi just a question, what is xed ?You make great vids by the way, keep up the good work :)

I've played that "don't hit me, I'm stoopid" part about 18 times already :D

i never tried Linux mint i am excited to use it for the first time ! i am still downloading Linux mint cinnamon edition 18

Thinking of finally getting into a Linux system and mint seems to be the way go for for me.

Does it have some type of cache configuration like ramdisk for windows?

Hi! Nice reviews here. Would you take a look to Makulu Linux 11 "LinDoz" and maybe making a evaluation for it too? It is a interesting customized Cinnamon.

Hi Mr. Collins, first i wan't to thank you, for the videos that you have made, they have been helpful:-) I have been using unity DE now for a couple of years and my experience with the new 16.04, is that the computer now is runing a bit slower, i have now istalled a partion, with "sarah". and the comptuer runs much faster with mate DE. But I miss the unity feel, with all my major programs on the left side. I see that ubuntu mate 16.04 have made it possible make it look like unity easy. My question : what do you think is best of "sarah" or ubuntu mate? And can I make "sarah" look like unity as well?

+Joe Collins How to do compare it to Ubuntu Maté? better or not? (I mean the Maté edition)

Nothing impressive about this release

I have 17.3. What kernels should have loaded?

Hello! Where did you get that beautiful picture of the record player on 11,23? Have you got the link? T.Y.

what are minimum hardware requirements particularly ram and when will the alpha version come?

Been running beta 18. Worked well out of the box. Similar to 17.3. Like it.

Nice video, but I'm waiting for the XFCE variant, but good to hear it's becoming more of a rolling release cycle, and will be much easier when doing all the upgrades for my families computers.

well I have 17.3 running and very pleased with it, I will hold off on 18 until a few weeks have passed in case there are issues, I am using xfce desktop. still configuring and adjusting it to my liking.  watching videos on how to customize the desktop, want to add things like a large date and time on upper corner. and adjust font/icon sized. running on a 42 inch tv. and I have a bit of a vision problem, my eyes not the Avenger  ;-)

I have loaded 18 and replaced 17.3 on my main computer, I know it is beta but so far so good, love it.

Linux Mint very slow on their releases. 18 "Sarah" BETA looks a bit 'last week' to me

How did you change the taskbar icons (your Mint 17), it looks much better.

Hi Joe/all,

did u get backup working ? I tried both from live CD and full install. I can't get software backed up. it's not simply displaying list of apps

how does bluetooth work?

I cannot wait for this to come out!

You said it's based on Ubuntu 16.04... Does that mean it has wi-fi and display driver problems just like Ubuntu? Or are those fixed in mint 18?