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Linux is about choice, but I'd rather be provided with reasonable defaults so that the needed customization is minimal.
Having heard about Linux Mint before, I decided to give it a try.

TL;DR: Mint has a good De-facto installation. Many applications which don't come with other distros (mostly because of patent and licensing issues), are already installed out of the box. But, beside not needing an install-fest, I didn't find anything special in Mint. Cinnamon was slick, the community seemed to be passionate and active, but nothing extra ordinary.

What I did NOT install in Linux Mint (which Ubuntu used to need):

  1. Codec: So you used to installed VLC and Mplayer and all those codecs? You won't need to do it anymore.
  2. JRE: Java Runtime Environment needed for running any Java application. A must-have.
  3. Pidgin: I used to do apt-get purge empathy; apt-get install pidgin, this time I didn't.
  4. Flash Plugin: Many scruffy-smelly-bad-guys on the web are flash-aholics.
  5. Nautilus Extensions: Believe it or not, I couldn't live without nautilus's "Open In Terminal" and "Open as root". They are installed out of the box, on Mint. Kudas!
  6. Synaptic Package Manger: You know what? I used to think that Canonical guys were idiots because of removing Synaptic from the default installation, and I still do.
  7. /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/20archive: Haha. Who needs periodical cache cleanup? Mint has it disabled by default.

What follows is a list of configurations and customizations I did after a fresh installation. This is NOT intended to be anyhow general. Actually, it's more of a personal TODO-list-after-you-install-Mint, but I thought one might find something useful amongst these.

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