Mint saved my life... (Mint anecdotes)

[qbicdesign]

a rather cool anecdote:

Today i was in a business meeting with a new client about a new website he needs designing. I was using my laptop with Mint installed on it, thats the first time i used it for real work, and it seemed to attract some attention. At the end of the meeting my client started to complain about a pdf which he needed to print, but for some crazy reason the print feature had been locked. Knowing that i had dealt with that before I offered to take the file home and fix it with Adobe Acrobat (in Windows). So he gave me the file on a memory stick which i then inserted into my laptop. Then i began to wonder what Mint could do for me. I opened the pdf in Mint's default pdf viewer (Envince) selected print > print to pdf in documents folder, Copied the new file back to the memory stick and handed it back to my client who was duly amazed that he could now print it.

Sweet !

[badmotor]

Haha excellent.

[qbicdesign]

Anyone else care to post anecdotes on how Mint saved your (or someone elses) life?
would make this a very cool thread

[67GTA]

I used Mint 5 live CD to chroot into my father-in-law's Ubuntu 6.06 partition yesterday to change his password. I installed it for him 3 years ago and he had turned off the autologin on Nov.1st, and couldn't remember the password.

I used Mint 5 live CD to heal my daughter's boot.ini file that had gotten corrupted in Win XP.

[qbicdesign]

heh.. nice

[qbicdesign]

Didn't exactly save my life but its a cool anecdote anyway.
I was in UK over christmas visiting family. Obviously i had my laptop with me, beaten up but still working... running Mint of course.
My 7 year old niece peering over my shoulder said "Wow uncle Phil, you have a really cool computer!"
First impressions really do count...
Mint=Cool