Hello from Scottish Borders

[jim3rg]

Hey folks
I live in the picturesque Scottish borders near the coast. I have only used Windows in the past although I did have a brief fling with unbuntu but couldn't quite get the hang of it. I had to recently restore my windows 7 due to a sneaky virus I just couldn't get rid of, but luckily I had made a back up with a program called Acronis, however it was from when it was new so I restored it and lost quite a bit of data.

I was pointed to Mint by a buddy who uses it and tells me its very user friendly, so I am gonna install it alongside windows os until such a time as I can ditch windows.... maybe.

I guess it will be a learning curve but hopefully one I can manage.

Cheers Folks

Jim

[xenopeek]

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

Be sure also to check out the Community website (tutorials, hardware and software reviews, ideas), and the Cinnamon Spices website for adding even more themes, applets and extensions to Cinnamon.

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.

Have fun with Linux Mint

[The-Wizard]

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wizard