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I am switching to Linux. I am done with Windows! I spend almost 1k on Anti virus anything each year on 7 systems and viruses still get in and screw with what ever it's designed to do. Of course that is not all and you all have heard it all before so I wont repeat it. I Am Just Done!

I started out with the $5000 PC/XT/AT systems back when they were hard to buy and only a big company could buy them and afford the $150 an hour tech support guy to come out and fix it. So I collected broken systems from companies and started playing with them. I fixed them and sold them to anyone who would buy them for cheep. Lots of fun!
So, I have been building CPU's since then.

So as many others, I am trying to decide on a Linux OS.

From hear I will post my questions in the forum.

Steve

Steve,

Welcome to the Mint Community. I hope we will be able to ease your transition.

Check out this thread, it offers tips and "tricks of the trade" and has links to a number of guides and tutorials. Also, there is a tutorial section in the Linux Mint Community Site.

Hello Steve,
Welcome to Mint Forum
There is realtime help available on IRC, open MintMenu>Internet>XChat and you will be connected automatically to #linuxmint-help and #linuxmint-chat
If you decide to try out LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition) there is a dedicated IRC channel for that #linuxmint-debian and a dedicated LMDE section of the forum
Have fun

Thank you Gentlemen. Great info to get started.

dawgdoc: Is that you enjoying the free fall. I have just over 4k jumps. (Military jumps)


Steve

MrDX wrote:dawgdoc: Is that you enjoying the free fall. I have just over 4k jumps. (Military jumps)
Steve

Yes, that's me. 35 military jumps from 90 to 93 (JFKSWC and 44th Med BDE), and 275 sport jumps.

Doc, thats Great. 1983 - 1989 82nd ABN - Spec ops. Glad to meet a fellow Paratrooper. I am so glad you Medics were around. Thanks for doing what you did...

Steve

Hi Steve and welcome to the community. And @ both you and dawgdoc: ARE YOU CRAZY? I can see jumping in the military, but there is no way I could jump out of a perfectly good airplane for fun.

Tom
Retired Navy

tdockery97 wrote:... there is no way I could jump out of a perfectly good airplane for fun.

Tom
Retired Navy

Who says I ever did. I mean they flew, but get real, perfectly good NO WAY
Our Cessna 182 is 55 years old, our Cessna 206 is about the same, and the Pilatus Porter PC-6 that was in last weekend may be older.
As a Chinook, CH-47, crew chief I met said "If it ain't leaking hydraulic fluid, I won't get in it. It must be out."

hi there, I also were a window's user, but one time i try to install Linux in my PC, so now, goodbye to Window

Hi Littlejenny, and welcome to the Mint community. We're happy to have you here.

tdockery97 wrote:Hi Steve and welcome to the community. And @ both you and dawgdoc: ARE YOU CRAZY? I can see jumping in the military, but there is no way I could jump out of a perfectly good airplane for fun.

Tom
Retired Navy

Haha... Well, since I never took care of the planes, I don't know if they were "good". According to a few crew chiefs I talk to, they we not always in the best working order. So it was best just to get out... And that plane at 21k feet had a high altitude hiccups and it was best not to be in it anymore. Good thing I had my parachute and oxygen with me.

Welcome Louise and LittleJenny,

Check out this thread, it offers tips and "tricks of the trade" and has links to a number of guides and tutorials. Also, there is a tutorial section in the Linux Mint Community Site.

Welcome Louise. Hope you enjoy the community.

Louise's was a spam post,I had to delete it.....