G'day from Australia

[igel_au]

Hi all

I'm an Engineering PhD student from Australia. I'm mainly a Windows user, but wanted something a bit less CPU/RAM intensive on my netbook (Acer AspireOne). I've been running mint for about 5 hours now.

I've used Ubuntu in the past but in my experience it's been slower to boot and run, and uglier, than anything else, especially since Unity. Mint seems heeeeeeeaps better. Also, it's green!

I still consider myself a newbie at linux, despite the fact that I edited my fstab this morning. I guess linux kinda has that effect on people..?

[The-Wizard]

I have been running Mint LXDE on an aspire one for just over a year without any problems..

Welcome to the Mint family forums


wizard

[xenopeek]

Hi igel_au, welcome to the Linux Mint forums Thanks for joining the forums and I hope you continue to enjoy using Linux Mint!

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 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

[Linuxephus]

Greetings and welcome friend.
You'll find this to be an especially active forum.
And certainly you'll have no regrets in using LinuxMint alongside Windows.

[mahureen]

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