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A fair review of Mint. The multi-media codecs part was confusing to me when I first installed Mint, which was my first time installing an OS myself.
I am now also critical of the services and apps advertised, though it does comfort people who are unsure about the switch to a non-Windows system that yes, the services and software they care about work on Mint as well. I know I was comforted during my first installation to see that Mint could do the same things as Windows. I see it as a good first step towards adopting FOSS in place of proprietary and predatory software / services. Learning about and subsequently moving to free software takes a good while and is no mean feat.