[tech] Why we should not use Mint as the SOE

[Sam Moore]

My personal preference would be debian (stable... not testing) with MATE.
It actually comes with menus by default. KDE would also be acceptable.

I think the diversity in our desktops is actually a good thing 
and it is cooler to have this diversity on actual physical machines
people can sit down and use than pointing them at VMs.

We *could* adopt a blanket Mint policy,  but it isn't fun to update, it 
doesn't have a net installer, there are no menus by default,
and the default login manager is completely and utterly broken.

[SZM]

On Thu, 10 Apr 2014, Mitchell Pomery wrote:

> But we should have some setup so that every machine has the same UI when we 
> want to try show people how to do things (i.e. Fresher Welcome, Introduction 
> to Programming).
>
> If not Mint, what?
>
> [BG3]
>
> On Thu, 10 Apr 2014, Sam Moore wrote:
>
>> [SLX] tried to update it, this was apparently extremely difficult.
>> 
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