Mexico
Being here is something I owe to my wife: she dropped my hp netbook and ruined Windows 7 in it for good. Since I had no backup usb unit, I finally got round to the idea of installing Linux in it. I had had Mac before so I can talk about all 3 main systems out there: Linux is so much easier to install and maintain than Windows. I used to think Mac was the best thing out there but now I see where many of their good ideas originally came from. I have no training in programming or things like that but I have been able to work with Linux Mint in an otherwise window environment.
2015 update: I still have the good ol' HP mini with Maya Cinnamon in it and now a new Lenovo ThinkPad G400 with Rebecca Cinnamon. I've distrohopped around a lot but I always come back to what works best for me: LM. In terms of DEs: MATE is nice for nostalgic moments, KDE looks awesome but a bit scary with all the tweaking available, Xfce not too bad, but the best development around these days is definitely Cinnamon.
Tutorials
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Software reviews
| Software | Score |
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| alien-arena "It reminds me of Marathon back in the late 90s when it came free in Macs. I had to edit the link on the panel, removing the "-- quiet" parameter otherwise it doesn't run." |
4 |
| mintmenu "Reason enough to install MATE." |
5 |
| gparted "Excellent tool to format partitions and much more." |
5 |
| focuswriter "Excellent for focusing on your writing only." |
5 |
| gnome-alsamixer "Fast and easy way to get rid of the login and logout bleep in LMDE. Just mute the beep!" |
5 |
| mate-desktop "I convinced an ubuntuer friend of mine who had to migrate to a new LTS (12.04) and was sad to see gnome2 go, when I talked him into trying out MATE, He loved it!" |
5 |
| praat "This is a very useful tool for phonetic linguistics." |
5 |
| virtualbox-ose "Excellent solution to try out distros or to run Windows software." |
5 |
| virtualbox-guest-additions "Absolutely necessary when using Virtualbox." |
5 |
| turpial "Works for me! And it's getting better all the time." |
4 |
| konqueror "Hace muchas cosas!" |
4 |