Hello! I'm Emmanuel_Chanel from Japan.

[Emmanuel_Chanel]

Hello, people from all over the world! I'm Emmanuel_Chanel from Japan. I'm Japanese. So Emmanuel Chanel is just a handle and not my real name. But it's like my real name on the net.
I started to use Linux with RedHat Linux 7.2. And I used only RedHat / Fedora for a long time. But for high system requirement, from sometime, I've begun to use Debian on my server on which I have some websites. As a desktop Linux distro, I used only RedHat / Fedora till I install Ubuntu Linux 10.10 soon after its release.
After Unity becomes the default desktop of Ubuntu, I continued to use it at first. But I feel it too inconvenient. I hate Unity but I don't expect Gnome Classic to continue to be maintained. In such situation, I found that many people reffers Linux Mint as an alternative distro of Ubuntu. So I installed Linux Mint 13 Maya MATE Edition 64bit on 7 June, 2012.
P.S.
In the result of the installation, I've got back the sound input function that I didn't get on Ubuntu on this PC. It's the aimed feature of Linux Mint from the first, right?
* I deleted unnecessary linking at 11:02, 3 Aug., 2012 UTC.

[The-Wizard]

Welcome to the Mint family forums

wizard

[xenopeek]

Hi Emmanuel_Chanel, 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). 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.

[Emmanuel_Chanel]

Be sure also to check out the Community website (tutorials, hardware and software reviews, ideas). 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.

Thanks but I've already done those. I haven't got customed to the Community yet, though. Are you on #linuxmint-chat ?

[xenopeek]

Be sure also to check out the Community website (tutorials, hardware and software reviews, ideas). 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.

Thanks but I've already done those. I haven't got customed to the Community yet, though. Are you on #linuxmint-chat ?

I'm not there daily, but you can encounter me as vincentv on all the Linux Mint channels.