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Last month, while researching the Apricity OS, I stumbled across mentions of Peppermint OS. Britec09 at http://www.briteccomputers.co.uk has a youtube video demonstrating making a pendrive USB drive for the Peppermint OS. I decided to give this cloud-centric version of Ubuntu a try. The pendrive worked well, but I would rather try the full experience.
Peppermint is based off Lubuntu Trusty Tahr 14.04. It installed easily onto my newer HP. A new version of Peppermint is released yearly. This distro was released while Chromebooks were in beta testing. There is a strong instructional PDF and friendly community. Additionally, you can purchase the iso from their website as a wooden USB stick.
It uses the Linux Mint Software Center and Synaptic Manager. It uses the Nemo file manager from the Cinnamon DE. The Xfwm4 window manager is utilized to. It appears the Peppermint OS uses the best options from the other Ubuntu derivatives to improve the end user’s experience. You can use the Peppermint Control Center to change the settings.
The strongest element to Peppermint is ICE. This is the strongest feature that helps create the hybrid cloud OS. ICE is found in the Solus and the Apricity OS. This app will be reviewed in detail later on.
Peppermint is a nice OS with great support. The forum is not as busy as the other previously mentioned cloud centric Linux Distros; however the community is helpful. And I believe it might be the oldest of the cloud-based OSes. I can say this distro picks up the missing Chrome OS pieces for the end user to make a great stable system. My only gripe; the system update was not great. I had to refresh it two or three times to get all the security updates. Additionally, my WiFi would drop, something that does not happen with Manjaro. I would need to change the antenna driver within Peppermint.
I used Peppermint for a full week. Once I was past the security updates, Peppermint is a stout and solid OS. It uses the Google Chrome browser; I prefer Chromium for browsing. It incorporates Google Drive as a quicklink to the internet browser for cloud drive access. The Dropbox App is installed by default. Peppermint felt fast and responsive, more so than Solus and Chromixium. It felt like Linux Mint in some regards.
If I wanted to introduce a cloud-centered DE to a new user, I would choose Peppermint OS. Solus and Apricity OS are for more experienced users. Peppermint has the benefits of using Ubuntu’s friendly first-user foundation. It has a simple and graphical installer; it can be fully installed in less than 15 minutes barring OS updates. It has an awesome array of well known apps: Twitter, Dropbox, Google, etc. The manual is spot on perfect from install to using ICE for streamlined operation. I can see me using Peppermint OS if the Chrome OS is completely destroyed by Google.
Next month, I will cover the Apricity OS in full detail.