Greetings from Phoenix, where itś already 106 degrees!

[SoiSauce]

Greetings!
Switched to dual boot ( XP & Mint 12) on an old P4 2 weeks ago without any Linux experience, none, nada, zero.. and not completely literate in Windows before either.
So far, it has been a move without too much hassle and for that I am pleased.

~John
Prachinburi, Thailand
&
Glendale, Arizona USA

[xenopeek]

Hi John, 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), and 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). If you haven't installed Cinnamon, see here the most recent update for a teaser.

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.