hello world from pennsylvania,USA

[kmos101]

Hi my name is Timothy Kelley. I have been been exploring the web an leaning of the all these free operating system. So far i have found that Ubuntu an Linux Mint are the top two that I like but i meanly like mint a lot from of all that i have read about it but i still do use windows to only work with them as a career. i was trying to use Kubuntu which i really like for the lay out a lot but it seem to always have a problem so i gave up on it.

but i am new to Mint an i am liking how nice this system works and i am wanting to use it on my own personal computer, but i am still learning on how to use it and please leave me some tips on how to use it thank you

[xenopeek]

Hi Timothy, welcome to the Linux Mint forums Thanks for joining the forums!

Be sure also to check out the Community website (ideas, tutorials, and hardware and software reviews). You can also chat in real-time with other Linux Mint users. In the Mint Menu, in the Internet section, start the application XChat IRC. You will automatically get connected to #linuxmint-chat for general chat and #linuxmint-help for support with other Linux Mint users.

Though I gather you enjoy KDE more than GNOME, have a look at Cinnamon which is the new user interface being developed by the Linux Mint developers. See here the most recent update for a teaser, and see the Cinnamon Spices website for adding themes, applets and extensions to Cinnamon (and check out the Cinnamon Extras package, which will install a lot of these for your automatically).

[kmos101]

okay thanks i will take a look at it, an by the way what is the difference between KDE and GNOME

[mank_in]

hello kmos101,
Gnome,KDE,Xfce,LXDE is Desktop Environment ( DE ), Cinnamon is Fork of Gnome3 shell and MATE is fork of Gnome 2.
This article explain better than me :
http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/kdegnome
http://www.renewablepcs.com/about-linux ... me-or-xfce

[The-Wizard]

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