Anyone here using Linux Mint?

Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hey howdy folks,

Anyone here using Linux Mint? Hows the experience been?

I know this ain't a linux forum, but just got a new laptop and want to toy around with a user friendly version of linux which my wife can use and something that I can use to play with Linux in general and Perl/bash in particular. Its mostly windows and some Redhat 5.8 (heck, 3 linux servers to be precise) at work, but at home, I need to meddle with Linux and with bash and Perl.

So anyone here using Linux Mint (especially Linux Mint 15 on a thinkpad), hows it going so far? Can I take the perl and bash scripts written on Linux Mint and use them on the RHEL 5.8?

Note - I am sorry if I posted this more than once, I should have read the Formatting Tips before I posted it here first time, but fixed the format later.

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Re: Anyone here using Linux Mint? by pvaldes (Chaplain) on Jun 20, 2013 at 09:29 UTC
Can I take the perl and bash scripts written on Linux Mint and use them on the RHEL 5.8? I bet that the newer version of mint provides perl 5.14, as Debian stable, unstable and Sid. (You can even have a bomb... err package... for Debian with perl 5.18). I think that RHEL provides perl 5.8.8 (I could be wrong) So, probably not all perl scripts from mint will work in RH. See also this UPDATED: confirmed, Linux mint from Maya (13) to Olivia (num 15; newest): perl 5.14.2, same as Debian Old Linux mint versions from 1 to 5 provide perl 5.8.8. You could start playing with these as source of perl scripts supposedly compatible with your Redhat	[reply]
Re^2: Anyone here using Linux Mint? by vsespb (Chaplain) on Jun 20, 2013 at 15:49 UTC
Old Linux mint versions from 1 to 5 provide perl 5.8.8. You could start playing with these as source of perl scripts supposedly compatible with your Redhat That's strange advice. It's probably discontinued years ago an unsupported. OP has a choice - either read perldoc time-to-time to check perl compatibility and check module compatibility (check Make/Build.PL scripts), or install RHEL family (for example CentOS 5.9)	[reply]
Re: Anyone here using Linux Mint? by marto (Cardinal) on Jun 20, 2013 at 15:56 UTC
An alternative approach would be to install whatever Linux distribution you're happy with then install whatever Perl version you want. Using perlbrew it's trivial to install multiple versions of perl, while leaving the system perl alone (you can make life really difficult by messing with the vendor perl). If you are testing your code against multiple versions of perl perlbrew can help here also by running it against all installed (via perlbrew) versions of perl: `perlbrew exec yourapp.pl` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Anyone here using Linux Mint? by blue_cowdawg (Monsignor) on Jun 20, 2013 at 13:42 UTC
Been using Mint on both laptops and desktops with very few issues. My wife's desktop runs Mint 14 (?) and she has issue for issue compatability with her usage of Windows a while back. Peter L. Berghold -- Unix Professional Peter -at- Berghold -dot- Net; AOL IM redcowdawg Yahoo IM: blue_cowdawg	[reply]