It’s simple, stable and has worked great for me. Linux Mint uses Ubuntu’s installer by default. On rotational disks, this service can speed up the boot-up times by around 30-40% (it’s useless on SSDs), in my experience. The ‘ureadahead’ service (originally developed by Ubuntu, now abandoned) that Linux Mint still ships with, is one such example. Booting into a freshly installed OS a few times is not always necessary, but, on certain ‘Linux’ distributions, there are boot-up services that do require a few boot-ups for them to properly set things up. Then I boot into it a few times (and shut it down a few times as well) to let things settle down. It's an Asus laptop (F302LJ-FN024H).Īfter installing the OS I opened the ‘Startup Manager’ and disabled a few apps (Update Manager, Print Queue Applet and SSH key agent if I remember correctly). Intel Core i7-5500U, Hybrid GPU Setup (Intel Broadwell HD Graphics 5500, Nvidia 920M), 4GB RAM DDR3, Hybrid Permanent Storage Setup (Seagate 5400 RPM, 500 GB rotational disk and a Kingston 24 GB SSD), Qualcomm Atheros AR9565 Wireless Adapter, Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller, Realtek ALC3236 Sound Card, LED Display (1366 x 768 resolution, 60 FPS/HZ). I tested it on my Asus laptop and below are some of its hardware details:
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For this review, I downloaded the 64-bit ISO image (2.0 GB), and completely securely deleted the 3 partitions (‘ /EFI‘, ‘ /boot‘ and ‘ /‘) on my rotational disk, that I used to install it. I have decided to compare it with the data I have gathered on a freshly installed Kubuntu 19.04.
Web-browser Video Playback & Multimedia CodecsĪs always, in this Linux Mint 19.2 Cinnamon review, I’ll be focusing mostly on its performance, such as the Boot-up speed, memory usage upon loading the desktop, power usage (idle), system responsiveness, shutdown speed, and system stability, although I will mention new features that I feel like worth writing about.
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