It could be worse, it could've been Chet Rippo from Paper Mario.
that's unbalance it;s different lol
Anyway popping in to just show the.........stylishness of what is goign to be linux mint 18.
I am serious just look at these shots I took from the beta!
@Flight this is how you do good flat design like it's flat, but not boring. In fact, it's so attractive, I fell in love pretty quickly and proceeded to keep talking to myself (not subtly) on how good it is and then I may have ended up crying.
Like I can't explain how much hype I am for this release, I never was THIS HYPED for a linux mint release and the first version I used was Olivia which was Mint 15 and this is mint 18.
All the previous releases were hype, but not as much at this one, god I love it way too much.
Let me just go over why this is probably the most hype OS release for me.
1: FINALLY A DARK THEMED GUI! just this one, already makes this GUI much superior to the other for me because I hate to have too much lights, it annoys my eyes and recently, I keep making my stuff as dark as I can even going as far to use stylish css styles to darken most webpages I use. You have no idea how much of a chnages this little thing does to me because it's not just one application or partial stuff that are dark, it's the entire OS gui meaning everything that can be dark will be and this means I'll never have to look at gray or white stuff most likely for most stuff. This is a similar change to when I realised that the font settings in mint were the best, but even better.
2: It has the only flat theme that is imo both simple and freaking gorgeous. Like I said, I love to have simple stuff that has a lot in the inside and this theme (mint-y) has that and they even added a dark version to it unlike mint-x. Just look at these icons! they are so......simple and yet, they are so vivid, I just want more and then I look and there is more! Most of the icons are like this actually which just makes me sad and cry to know that I have to wait a month for installing it. As for the gui components, they are basically the most optimal. They are simple, but not Windows 10 kind of simple, no, they are simple, and not enough to look like nothing. The result is I can;t help myself but click on these......which just means I enjoy the UI so much.
3: Xenial based (ubuntu 16.04). This is major because there has been so much progress in the past 2 years that a lot of the repos couldn't have bugfixes or features of stuff I wanted. The most frustrating one was Dolphin and Bluez, a bluetooth stack. Dolphin, I had to use a ppa which forces me to use the lattest dev build (I can't choose my version because the binary package will not work). Though, I switched to manually build it to have debugfast, it was very frustrating to do this. Bluez however, that was another huge problem. I wanted to sync my wiiu pro, I need a certain version or higher of bluez, I don;t in the one included in the repos, have to find an obscure ppa, and because mint doesn't want to update to it, I have to force the version and lock it. Then all sorts of other problems like gcc (the compiler) being too old, pulseaudio not having a fix with recording with the right sample rate, etc..... Basically, with updated repos of 2 years, everything is now more stable.
4: more utilities. I didn't even know a lot of these existed, but there is now a firewall included finally (idk why that one took so long), system log (THANK YOU!) and as I showed, more informations about the update manager which is actually HUUUUUUUUUUUUGE for me who keeps using ppa to get newer stuff (because you knew what you would have done if something goes wrong after an update).
5: it's linux mint!
So, I feel honestly mint is getting exponentially better each major releases like this one. Btw, they will still do a point release idea of basically keeping the same base until a x.3 release to then go to 19, but tbh, it doesn;t matter, each time they will do a major release, less problems will occur until it becomes not annoyign anymore. I remember when i tried mint 15, there was quite a lot of issues imo that annoyed me, then 16 came and it just felt really more stable......so I installed it, but then 17 and......god I love it. And it kept improving until 17.3 and now 18 is just gorgeous and I cannot wait for it.
I really want to emphasise on how crazy clever the mint team are. They literally do everything good, if they try new things, they at least do it properly and it basically keeps getting better with that. What's next? Wayland? Wayland would be hype btw because X is basically you run a display server locally to display......which sounds odd and i heard it has a lot of obsolete stuff which is why they are starting to move away to wayland. Mesa having ogl 4.3 on haswell is close and they already have their vulkan driver for intel.....
yeah, I really keep thinking that switching to linux was the best decision I took.
So
FalKoopa
, if you want to see how anything looks in the beta, tag me and I will post a screen