I've been using Mint 14 on my main laptop for quite a while... was considering an upgrade to 15 due to some troubles I had with Bluetooth, but I'm glad I've held out. I did go ahead and upgrade to Cinnamon 2.0, though, and so far it's very very nice.

Will be upgrading as soon as I complete a backup

Edit: For those of you who are curious, but not terribly adventurous when it comes to your computer, you can run Mint from a live DVD... just download the ISO file for your machine's architectures (32 bit will work across the board, but 64 bit is required for most modern machines to use >4gb RAM). Anyway, just burn the ISO to a DVD and then you can boot from it to try out the OS.

Can't beat the Linux flavors and there are some great ones to choose from. Mint is right on top!

Does Mint require lots of command-line stuff? It's more confusing to me than DOS, which I at least could get to run WordPerfect back in dinosaur days.

I guess there's no Linux release that will allow running current Adobe software, is there?

it's very easy to set up a dual boot system. I use Linux for 95% of my normal activities, especially going online. For those programs that there is not a Linux equivalent, very few nowadays. I boot to Windoze.

I've been playing with some of the apps on linux and am impressed. Win OS disk was stolen, original HD failed so must do total linux.

Still, are there major benefits between Elementary and Mint latest?

If we know what your priorities are, it's easier to say whether Mint might be good for you.

That said...it is a fantastic all-purpose OS for the general user. There may be one or two things you have to tinker with to get just how you want them, and that may require an hour or two of Googling... but once you have a system set up how you want it, it is stable and slick.

Installed Ubuntu (10.4?) first, but found it counterintuitive, had to keep downloading more and more code to do even simple things, like connect to my home network--and had to d/l it on a Mac because the laptop PC couldn't connect. Had to get Wine, something else with a weird name, and something else again, burn them all to CD or USB drive, then install them in the laptop.

Read about Elementary and it worked immediately. I'm a Mac dude but used DOS/WIN for years, though not very productively.

My sociopathic sister stole the Win OS-7 and Vista disks that came with the machine, which was my dad's, because she planned to sell it, like most of the stuff she stole from my parents and I.

I need Adobe Illustrator, indesign, photoshop, etc., and have them on Mac desktop but not portable laptop. license allows installing on one other machine, and hoped to install on laptop even without WinOS.

-Laelth

I was playing with the RC and so far this looks and seems to be the same.
I was reading earlier that 16 was going to have mate 1.8 but it doesn't.

I'd appreciate any further insight you can provide on this exciting release. I am about to purchase a new Win8 machine, and I'd like to put a new OS on it before I install anything else.



-Laelth