Well I have gone and done it

[bootneck02]

I am now a Penguin user officially, I have downloaded Linux Mint 7.1 64 bit Cinnamon LTS and everything seems OK. Now it will be the learning curve. I have removed the drive I had Windows on and therefore less likely to boot that should I get flummoxed over something. My next thing is to set up my email and Facebook accounts and then download my music. Any advice will be much appreciated. P.S spell checker works well

 

[Ian]

Good work bootneck .

What are your thoughts of it so far?

 

[muckshifter]

Any advice will be much appreciated

shave your head, that way you cannot pull your hair out.

Good luck!

 

[nivrip]

Very brave.

Hope you don't regret it later.

 

[bootneck02]

So far still a bit of exploring to do as more different to Windows than I expected, But it keeps me occupied and what I have mastered I quite like. Well Mr mucks I only have a No 1 hair cut and also thinning so there is not much to pull out. Not brave really IMHO niv Microsoft will do something with W 10 as they have done with Office 365 and users will end up with a annual charge and I am not paying that so I would rather bite the bullet now and attempt to find an alternative OS and get used to it before that time comes, and have the time to try alternatives. I have tried Zorin but kept on falling back on Windows as it was dual booted, what I have done now is to remove the drive with W 8.1 on and only got the drive with Mint on the PC so it is more difficult to revert to windows. I have also have on DVD OpenSuse 13.2, Ubuntu 15.04, SimplyMEPIS 11.0 and PCLinuxOS 2014.12 to try if I do not get on with Mint.

 

[Anon_F]

You're the trail blazer for the rest of Bootneck.
See it as a covert hush hush commando exercise, that you will complete!

 

[bootneck02]

Yes I am treating like a yomp across the moors

 

[bootneck02]

The yomp came to a crashing halt this morning, the dam thing crashed, my fault I think as I did not do a update download. But now back on the run as reinstalled and the first thing I did was to update so at the moment all AOK but keep fingers crossed

 

[floppybootstomp]

Well done for finally biting the bullet.

Strange it should have crashed, I've been running Mint 17 since it was released (must be 8 months at a guess) and it's never crashed on me. I'm using a 4 year old AMD quad core system with it.

Thinking about it though it has frozen on me once or twice, when browsing the web if I recall correctly. But generally speaking very stable. More stable than Win 7 in fact.

Good luck

 

[bootneck02]

I have given up with it for the time being as mine crashed as well, I reinstalled it and immediately updated it ran it for a couple of days but found there were things I missed in W 8.1, also it ran slower than W8.1.

 

[floppybootstomp]

oh ye of faint heart......

Just sign in blood on the dotted line right here and make it payable to the devil spawn of William Gates Esq.

 

[bootneck02]