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	Title	Score

Software reviews

Software	Score
nvidia-331 "Same performance as Nouveau on my system if running most applications. Works better than Nouveau running Minecraft using Oracle Java though."	4
mintdrivers "Very good. I'd like to see it in LMDE as well."	5
usb-imagewriter "very simple and works perfectly. I use it all the time to test systems that I cannot properly test in a virtual machine"	5
virtualbox-guest-additions "I don't know why many people critizise that it doesn't come with the main virtualbox package. I rarely need it but when I do it works."	5
mintmenu "It works but I don't like the look and feel of it. I prefer using Xfce with the standard menu or whiskermenu"	3
guake "works well but I don't need it at all"	3
mintdesktop "works without flaws"	5
mintupdate "best update manager I ever saw in a Linux system"	5
mintbackup "works well if I back up the file system without my huge home folder and make it a compressed archive. works for software selection as well. doesn't work for the entire file system with default settings unless you shutdown and run the program in a live system."	3
clonezilla "The text is too incomprehensible. There is already so much text but you still need a tutorial to figure out how to use it."	2
nautilus-dropbox "Works well in Xfce. You don't even need a GNOME dekstop or other nautilus software."	5
sudo "I use it all the time and never had any issues."	5
mintwelcome "Good for beginners but why does it have to be essential for mint-meta-core and mint-meta-xfce?"	4
mdm "works even better than lightdm"	5
hexchat "I use it less than once a month but when I need it it works just great and it's faster and smaller than many browser chat plugins."	5
xscreensaver "Pretty useless in my opinion"	2
thunar "It's the single best file manager. It has all the features that I love in Nemo but the RAM footprint is about 10 MB smaller and it's faster. Great software."	5
file-roller "Extracting files and checking archives couldn't be much easier"	5
apt "not only useful to update/install/remove software but also my favourite way of finding errors in repositories and to autoremove packages that are not needed anymore."	5
baobab "I don't really understand the graphs but the quick number output is great"	4
openjdk-7-jre "I mainly use it for Minecraft 1.7.10 and it works great"	5
powertop "I'm still looking for a way to automatically load the optimized settings when loading the xfce desktop environment"	3
mintinstall "I like searching for commonly used software here and sometimes install it via terminal or synaptic. I'd like to have more sorting options for search queries."	4
galculator "I used the standard MS Windows calculators for many years and I find everything I need in galculator as well."	5
nvidia-settings "Works quite okay but graphics card swapping in hybrid graphics laptops could be better."	4
totem "I don't see why mint-meta-codecs has to depend on it"	3
evince "works perfectly"	5
hardinfo "It works perfectly and it's one of the easiest way to check if all your hardware is correctly recognized"	5
libreoffice-calc "I don't see many differences to openoffice Calc and MS Excel but it works just fine and stable."	5
compiz "It's too big for the simple window compositioning that I require. I don't see whe mint-meta-xfce and mintdesktop have to depend on it. I also can't get keyboard shortcuts to work."	2
nano "it just works"	5
virtualbox-nonfree "I use it all the time. Copy-pasting and drag-and-drop doesn't work like in previous versions and sharing folders could be easier but it still works just fine. Ubuntu-based distributions (except for Linux Mint) tend to behave very differently in a VirtualBox from a real machine though."	4
gthumb "It's okay but I prefer ristretto"	3
gedit "Recently became my favourite plain text editor. Doesn't look as sleek at Leafpad but is really useful for programming, CSS editing and similar."	5
gnome-disk-utility "very useful, should come preinstalled by default"	5
libreoffice-writer "many times better than MS Office and more stable than openoffice.org"	5
transmission "favourite bittorrent client: lightweight, easy and stable"	5
synaptic "Works perfectly, especially in Linux Mint. It's my favourite package manager to browser packages and plugings for non-default desktop environments"	5
pidgin "don't like it at all especially not for facebook, the notifications are too annoying"	2
thunderbird "Favourite mail checking and calendar syncing app."	5
gimp "Easier to use than Adobe Photoshop for sure."	5
vlc "favourite video player for Linux systems (and MS Windows)"	5
mintupload "not useful at all"	2
mintnanny "I don't see why it's essential for the system but it's small and it works so I don't really mind"	3
mint-meta-mate "Didn't encounter any bugs yet but I don't like the menu and the panel customizability"	3
mint-meta-kde "too bloated and slow. only looks good if you have a gigantic resolution and much power to spare "	2
banshee "crashes frequently on 17.1 Cinnamon unless I manually reinstall it. works perfectly in 17.1 Xfce. too bad newer iOS devices aren't supported though"	5
xfce4-netload-plugin "I use it all the time, especially usefull during torrenting or if you connected to an instable wifi"	5
xfce4-taskmanager "it's okay, but gnome-system-monitor is more useful"	3
xfce4-places-plugin "It's good but I like the Directory Menu applet better"	4
xfce4-battery-plugin "I like how customizable it is but I'm missing a link to the power manager"	4
xfce4-artwork "nothing outstanding, but not bad either"	3
xfce4-datetime-plugin "highly customizable, tooltip works without issues, nice simple calendar"	5
xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin "the RAM footprint could be a little smaller. I still prefer it over the default Xfce4 menu because of the app search bar."	4
xfce4-power-manager "must-have if you use Xfce on a mobile device"	5
xfce4-panel "The applet manager isn't as user-friendly as the one in Cinnamon but other than that the Xfce panel is my favourite panel. I use two panels. One of them as a dock - looks a bit like the dock in Unity."	5
xfce4-goodies "contains many things I don't need but it's an excellent starting point for beginners"	5
xfce4-terminal "My favourite terminal, works well in other desktop environments as well - unlive gnome terminal"	5
xfce4 "I love it. It's usually the first thing that I install on Linux systems that don't come with Xfce"	5
gnome-system-monitor "Favourite system monitor. It's like the xfce task manager, except for that it also gives you info about the file system sizes and a few other small extras"	5
mint-meta-cinnamon "a little slower and less stable than mint-meta-xfce, but looks really good and the window tiling is unmatched"	4
mint-meta-xfce "works really well for me. only thing I miss is the 12-fold window tiling like in cinnamon"	5
htop "works perfectly"	5
firefox "Firefox is a little bloated but still has the best customizability, addons and interface"	5