Mint

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Partitioning

How to install with manual partitioning. Yes you could do that, using the manual partition option in the installer the next time you install. Instead of following the guide above and creating new partitions, you would click the "Change" button for each existing partition. For the root partition, you would set the mount point again to / and select to format it to the filesystem type of your choice (ext4 is current recommendation as a default).

Same for the home partition, you would set the mount point again to /home but not select to format it. [Linux Mint] How to migrate from Ubuntu to Mint. Tips and Tricks for Linux Mint After Installation [Mint 13 Maya - MATE Edition] Linux Mint is one of the top free operating systems widely used in the world and currently receives the highest hits at DistroWatch.

Even though it's an Ubuntu-based system, Linux Mint features only one panel at the bottom which looks closer to the taskbar in the Windows system, and a well-organized start menu complete with a useful Search box. It also pre-installs some proprietary software, including the Adobe Flash plugin and necessary media codecs, by default so that you can view streaming media, such as YouTube videos in a browser, and play mp3, mp4 or most other media files with a player right away out of the box.

The MATE Edition of Linux Mint 13 to 16 uses MATE, a traditional desktop environment which continues to develop as a fork of GNOME 2.