Hello from Portugal

[Avenzel]

Hi Everyone,

After more than two decades of MS-DOS/Windows and after a first (incomplete) attempt on Linux some ten years ago, I'm in for real this time.

I started by test driving Ubuntu 11.10 on a virtual machine but I didn't really like the interface. It is not very functional in my opinion. Then I gave Debian Squeeze a try and I was really enjoying it until I was reading about the various Linux distros out there and Linux Mint 12 caught my eye. It is now sitting on my desktop machine for five full days and I am loving it!

[nunol]

Welcome to the Linux Mint Forums Avenzel!

Mint 12 is great!

Cheers.

[The-Wizard]

Welcome to the Mint family forums


wizard

[xenopeek]

Hi Avenzel, 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