This is a remake of Linux Mint. The intention with this ISO is to provide a very minimal and optimized version of Mint with sensible defaults and a coherent experience and muted look-and-feel.

Since it is very much Linux Mint under the hood, the OS will receive the same updates as Mint through the update-manager.

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  • Minimal, muted, consistent, responsive, no fluff
  • Open-source, customizable, extendable
  • Firefox, obsidian, code, terminator, libreoffice, drawio

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  • I'm mostly an Arch user but I do have Linux Mint on a work machine and a couple of older laptops, I typically use when I go away on holiday. I was curious about a light Mint spin so I took this for a test drive. The first thing I did was move the panel to the bottom of the screen. I'm not a fan of top mounted panels . I'd suggest that most people coming to Mint or a derivative, are probably coming from Windows and maybe not so tech savvy, so maybe a fine tune there, perhaps? Beyond that worked well in most regards. Enabling GUFW from the terminal was easy but could not find it in the menu? Speed wise was reasonably fast on the old laptop I ran it on and things like browsers, seemed to work well enough. I guess the obvious question for the dev is do you plan to maintain it? People are often a bit squirrely about new forks, as they come and go. Anyway, I'd give this a four out of five. Its solid, competently done and works well enough to merit consideration.
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    Reply from NovaOS
    Posted 2024-04-05
    Thanks for trying it out. I appreciate the UI feedback. If anyone wishes to move the panel somewhere else, simply right-click it, click move and click on a new location. The default is simply my personal preference. Maintenance-wise, since it is very much Linux Mint under the hood, it will receive the same updates as Mint through the update-manager.
  • It's awesome. Try it :)
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2023-10-24