Best Place To Start

[Thought Taxi]

Hi,
I figured this is the best place to start as a new member.
I've been using Mint MATE for a couple of years now and am fairly sold on it. I am also a keen Puppy user, too! I am not the smartest user on the block and am still learning, usually the hard way, by messing things up and trying to fix it. Sometimes I don't even have to try to mess things up, probably because I am using older PC stuff and I wondering if the modern systems are a bit much for it.
I'm not a fanatic and sometimes go for weeks without switching my PC on. I inherited my wife's android tablet because she couldn't come at it a while back (but she now is happy with another one I bought her) so I fiddle around with that sometimes too. Not a bad system really.

One thing I really want to say, though, is thank you to everyone who puts MINT together for people like me. While I run into problems occasionally I am always aware that I am using this system thanks to the MINT team and I am in no place to ever grumble!
Having said that, I intend to bring up a few things that I have come across. I am no expert or anywhere near even getting close to being one, so my future posts are purely attempting to help out with quirks that I come across that might be fixable and I ask for patience as i am still learning Terminal stuff and even simple PC things.

Any mentors out there who want to help guide me in the direction of happy Linux using, please know your welcome!!

I think that'll do.

[Pierre]

welcome to the Forum

Do take the Time to read the Mint Users Guide that came with the installation.

yes - sometimes, the best way to learn about something - is to mess it up.

[Thought Taxi]

thanks Pierre.

I think I did read it a bit at least. I shall go back and look again, though.

thanks again for the welcome

[Crewp]

Welcome to Linux Mint, and the Mint forum. This might be useful for you. http://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/244

[Thought Taxi]

thank you Crewp,

I have opened that link and have a look.

Thanks for the welcome!

Edit: one quick look and it's bookmarked and I might even print it out. Thank you

[The-Wizard]

Welcome to the Mint family forums

wizard

not sure what you mean by old equipment, my tower is now about 10 yrs running mint 64 cinnamon my dell is now about 8 yrs also mint 64 cinnamon, then I have a 14 yr old acer laptop running mint DE2 and a 12 yr old acer netbook [ZG5] running mint 32 XFCE, the acers are a bit slow but they do the job I need them for, the secret is choosing the right build and desktop environment for the capability of your machines.

[majpooper]

Hey Taxi - glad to see you on board - I am in the exact same boat as you. I am pretty good at fresh installs now because I basically have just enough knowledge to be dangerous so I end up doing something that I can't fix and doing a fresh install - and it's like it never happened. And of course I had to learn the hard way to back up by data on an external drive.

[vrkalak]

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[Fred Barclay]

Welcome to the family, and Happy Minting!

[austin.texas]

Hello, Thought Taxi.
Welcome to Mint and to the forum !

Linux Linx 2016
Ubuntu Help wiki
IBM's Learn Linux, 101 Tutorials
Linux Mint Beginners Search Engine
A guide on how to post on the Linux Mint forums
Rescatux CD: A tool everyone should have (includes SuperGrub2 and gparted)

[Thought Taxi]

Thank you all!

I've had a full throttle day and bed beckons. If not I'm bound to waffle on and keep pressing the wrong keys.... or is that buttons?

Thanks again for you kindness help and suggestions and for your welcome.
Looks like I have a lot to read. Is there an application or program that can expand time?

I'll try to write more personally over the next few days. Then I will pop some questions and 'issues' somewhere here in the forum. I had better read up and if I don't get sidetracked trying everything I come across.... hmmmm

thanks again.