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Mint Vs Puppy Linux?

Post by Yoni » Thu May 29, 2014 4:23 am

Be Gentle with me as i’m still a Windows users at the moment looking to change over to Linux.

Can anyone give me the Pros and Cons between Puppy Vs Mint as both have been suggested to me.

People have said Puppy is better for older hardware and Mint is best on newer hardware but there must be more to it than that surely?

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Re: Mint Vs Puppy Linux?

Post by xenopeek » Thu May 29, 2014 5:07 am

You can try both out by booting from the installation media. See which you like best. Both Linux Mint and Puppy have multiple editions, that come with different desktop environments (e.g., Linux Mint has Cinnamon, KDE, MATE, and Xfce editions) — desktop environments are basically the user interface to your operating system. Most users have one that they like best.

What kind of hardware you have? Few years old with multi-core CPU and more than 1 GiB RAM? Linux Mint should run fine. On very lightweight hardware, like the trash netbooks that flooded the market few years back, Puppy should run better.

This is probably not what they mean with older hardware, but heh

Re: Mint Vs Puppy Linux?

Post by Yoni » Thu May 29, 2014 5:14 am

LOL , the days when everyone had Mechanical Keyboards.

Running i3 2100 with 4gb of ram.

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Re: Mint Vs Puppy Linux?

Post by killer de bug » Thu May 29, 2014 5:25 am

Re: Mint Vs Puppy Linux?

Post by fu-sen » Thu May 29, 2014 6:10 am

Linux Mint and Puppy Linux are good friends for me, and both these install it in a PC.
Linux Mint will be usually comfortable. Puppy Linux is convenient for root authority operation.
We have a place unlike other distribution in Puppy Linux, Specifically please visit forums of Puppy.

Re: Mint Vs Puppy Linux?

Post by wanderer7 » Thu May 29, 2014 8:21 am

Puppy Linux runs from RAM. It doesn’t even need to be installed on the HDD. You can install it on a 4GB USB flash drive, for example. When you boot your PC with Puppy, it loads into the RAM and when you want to shut down the PC, you have the option to save your session on that USB.

So, normally, unless you have a really old computer, it’s better to choose Mint.

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Re: Mint Vs Puppy Linux?

Post by Neil Edmond » Thu May 29, 2014 8:24 am

Looks like wanderer7 posted while I was typing, but here is what I wrote anyway.

Another of the differences between Mint and Puppy is, Mint works best as a full install that can be easily kept up to date. Puppy is designed to be run as a Live system with a save file (although it can also be installed). Puppy can also be installed (frugal) within a functioning Windows or Linux system without the need to give it a seperate partition, which makes it especially easy to run both.

So, my recommendation would be install Mint 17 on your system, then if you still want to experiment with Puppy, just boot it from Live media and use it that way since that’s the purpose for which it was designed.

Re: Mint Vs Puppy Linux?

Post by Fuzzy Penquin » Thu May 29, 2014 6:37 pm

Puppy is best used on computers with single-core 900MHz CPU (processor) or slower, and 512MB RAM or less. It’s for REALLY old stuff, or for running off a USB stick and easily porting it around. It’s what your revive a 10+ year old computer/laptop with. I have it on my IBM ThinkPad X23, which is completely incapable of running anything else because of it’s low factory specs (866MHZ CPU & 512MB RAM).

Mint is easily used on anything with better specs than my laptop. Mint is also lovely for novice Linux users.

Re: Mint Vs Puppy Linux?

Post by Nilla Wafer » Thu May 29, 2014 8:07 pm

Fuzzy Penquin wrote: Puppy is best used on computers with single-core 900MHz CPU (processor) or slower, and 512MB RAM or less. It’s for REALLY old stuff, or for running off a USB stick and easily porting it around. It’s what your revive a 10+ year old computer/laptop with. I have it on my IBM ThinkPad X23, which is completely incapable of running anything else because of it’s low factory specs (866MHZ CPU & 512MB RAM).

Well my processor is a little faster, but my Mint 13 Xfce computer runs sweetly on 512 RAM — installed to the HDD, unlike Puppy which is not meant for installation.

Re: Mint Vs Puppy Linux?

Post by shengchieh » Thu May 29, 2014 10:47 pm

Puppy linux is an excellent distro if you use it for liveCD/liveUSB, but I would not install it because it defaults as no root (I know you can add users).
For installation, which I do all the time, i prefer LM, #!, Korora, etc. For someone who travels all the time and use other people computer, Puppy
is lightweight and a good fit. [And use liveUSB to store your data on it.]

Re: Mint Vs Puppy Linux?

Post by xerion567 » Thu May 29, 2014 11:16 pm

Puppy is fast, really fast. I’ve yet to come across anything that comes even remotely close to it’s crisp responsiveness. It is also small enough that you can easily add it to your installed OSes (so you don’t have to choose one vs another, you can pick both! ). Compared to Linux Mint it is bit rough around the edges in terms of ease of use, software management, eye candy, and security. Personally I use both: I use Puppy for when I want to get the best performance out of my hardware, and I use Linux Mint to demo a Windows alternative that gives users something familiar to get started with. (Ubuntu Gnome is my home OS, I really dig the interface!)

Re: Mint Vs Puppy Linux?

Post by Fuzzy Penquin » Fri May 30, 2014 12:12 am

Fuzzy Penquin wrote: Puppy is best used on computers with single-core 900MHz CPU (processor) or slower, and 512MB RAM or less. It’s for REALLY old stuff, or for running off a USB stick and easily porting it around. It’s what your revive a 10+ year old computer/laptop with. I have it on my IBM ThinkPad X23, which is completely incapable of running anything else because of it’s low factory specs (866MHZ CPU & 512MB RAM).

Well my processor is a little faster, but my Mint 13 Xfce computer runs sweetly on 512 RAM — installed to the HDD, unlike Puppy which is not meant for installation.

Yup, XFCE is awesome like that. I think my laptop’s lack of CPU speed is what makes the biggest difference, in this case. Because I have another laptop with 512MB of RAM, that has a bit faster CPU, and it can run SolydX (XFCE) just fine.

Re: Mint Vs Puppy Linux?

Post by Yoni » Fri May 30, 2014 1:47 am

Re: Mint Vs Puppy Linux?

Post by linux-dummie » Mon Jun 02, 2014 12:07 am

Puppy’s harder to learn for a new Windows refugee. However, it is eminently practical and comes with a LOT of useful software installed; most are bare-bones apps which do the job but have zilch eye-appeal, though you can always add more if you have the space. If you take the time to really learn Puppy, you might find it is all you need. Mint is like a full-size Cadillac—has all the bells and whistles, looks and drives with utter elegance, and takes you wherever you want to go in style. Puppy is like a Porsche engine running inside a go-kart body.
In my work, I find that on my older Athlon64x2, heavier OS’s like Mint run Gimp more slowly than I would like. I use Gimp a lot. When it’s time to process a bunch of pictures, I reboot into Puppy which is completely contained on a tiny USB stick (about the size of a tiny oblong Lego), and use Gimp there. The internet connection is disabled, which gives a little extra speed. Gimp goes so fast there I can almost smell the smoke! Then I reboot into Mint to do the rest of the day’s work in soft comfort. The only downside is that if I have to do a minor change to an image I edited in Puppy, I have to change the permissions. Easy enough to do, though.
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Puppy Linux

Puppy Linux is an operating system and lightweight Linux distribution that focuses on ease of use and minimal memory footprint.

Linux Mint VS Puppy Linux Feature comparision

Feature	Linux Mint	Puppy Linux
Based on Debian
Out Of The Box
Ad-free
Program Launchers
Built-in File Manager
Cinnamon Desktop
Community based
Customizable
Extensible window manager
FOSS
Multiple languages
Night mode/Dark Theme
No Tracking
Support for Nvidia drivers
Operating system
Privacy focused
Security & Privacy
Based on Ubuntu
Unix-like
User friendly
Windows-like
XFCE support
Lightweight
Linux-based
LiveUSB
Portable
Rolling release
Stability
Arch User Repository
Based on Arch Linux
ARM support
An in-built GUI
Key rebinding
macOS-like
Flatpak
App center
Windows XP Compatibility
Run Windows software
Nt kernel
Anonymity
Booting from USB
Kde support

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Puppy Linux

Puppy Linux is an operating system and lightweight Linux distribution that focuses on ease of use and minimal memory footprint.

Linux Mint

Linux Mint is a Linux based free operating system.

Puppy Linux VS Linux Mint Feature comparision

Feature	Puppy Linux	Linux Mint
Lightweight
Linux-based
LiveUSB
Operating system
Portable
Rolling release
Stability
Customizable
Based on Debian
Windows-like
Ad-free
Out Of The Box
Arch User Repository
Based on Arch Linux
ARM support
An in-built GUI
Key rebinding
Multiple languages
macOS-like
Flatpak
App center
Based on Ubuntu
Windows XP Compatibility
Run Windows software
Nt kernel
Anonymity
Privacy focused
Security & Privacy
Booting from USB
Kde support
Community based
Program Launchers
Built-in File Manager
Cinnamon Desktop
Extensible window manager
FOSS
Night mode/Dark Theme
No Tracking
Support for Nvidia drivers
Unix-like
User friendly
XFCE support

*community curated information: This table may not have the most accurate information. Please suggest changes

Compare Puppy Linux

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