Greetings from Cyprus.

[Labarum]

I haven't used Linux for eight (?) years - I played with SUSE Linux for a bit.

What a difference in that time! I have Linux Mint in use - well, three hours use. It's snappy, even from a USB stick.

I am no stranger to Firefox and Thunderbird, and my IMAP mai is hosted by www.fastmail.fm - has been for years.

Open Office Writer I am just as likely to use as MS Word. I don't have much use for the other stuff.

I am into computer audio and run two Squeezeboxes and a Beresford Caiman DAC.

http://www.beresford.me/main/main.html

For the HiFi buffs the DAC drives directly a refurbished Quad 405-2 power amp into a pair of large German speakers M Quart 980s.

I have recently retired from the British Army and now spend most of the year in Cyprus. My only TV access is via BBC iPlayer which I run by VPN back to a UK agent. Workis in Windows 7.

I have raised a question elsewhere on the forum about HDMI sound. I need to sort that before even trying to get iPlayer working in Linux.

[Habitual]

Welcome to the LinuxMint Community!

There is a lot of useful information for new and not-so-new users here -> http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.p ... 5&start=20
We have a Community site http://community.linuxmint.com/

For real-time help and discussion there are IRC channels,open MintMenu>Internet>XChat and you will be automatically connected to #linuxmint-help and #linuxmint-chat

Enjoy the Minty goodness!

[tdockery97]

Welcome to the forums Labarum.

[rivenathos]

Welcome to the forum!

[The-Wizard]

Kýpros... one of my favourite places

Welcome to the mint family


Yasus
wizard

[Oscar799]

Hello Labarum,
Welcome to Mint Forum