Linux Mint vs Peppermint OS

Linux Mint and Peppermint OS are Linux distributions. Peppermint OS is based on Linux Mint. Mint is based on Ubuntu, which in turn is based on Debian.

Mint includes OpenOffice (spreadsheets, presentations, word processing) and other applications designed for use on a local hard drive.

Both Mint and Peppermint can take advantage of online services for image editing, word processing, etc such as pixlr or google docs. Peppermint provides more convenient access to these web applications by including "site specific browsers".

Linux Mint comes with the GNOME desktop by default. GNOME allows many things to work "out of the box" without requiring the user to edit configuration files. Peppermint comes with LXDE.

Peppermint uses very little RAM, while the standard edition of Mint may run slowly on computers with less than 1GB of RAM. Peppermint takes less than 2GB of hard drive space when initially installed. Mint requires nearly 3GB.

Both systems come with Adobe Flash Player preinstalled, along with software required for wired & wireless high-speed internet and the Firefox web browser.