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All you had to do was say No to when it asks you to download the "real" dropbox.

Why not install Linux on the laptop with internet?

BTW, ubuntu is not forcing you to use Unity. It's just the default. You could always install XFCE, LXDE, MATE, Awesome, Cinnamon, or whatever DM you want on it. Same with Mint or any other distro. Anyways, welcome to Mint!

catalin-ch wrote:And what is the answer?

Huh? see above.

Question is, with all that open, are you using all 4G of the RAM? If not, then putting 4G more in won't really matter.

The one listed as 105, is that not it? click on it.

what's your hurry? 12 is great!

Because Mint updates what is stable for Mint, not Ubuntu.

Unless you are compiling software or encoding audio/video often there really is very little speed difference between the two operating architectures. Meaning that most people who just use the computer for everyday tasks such as webrowsing will not notice a difference between the two. For the averag...

With my system, Mint12 32bit is much, much more stable that the 64bit version.

Yeah if you want the old Gnome 2 then MATE is what you want.

You're using Gnome classic and not Gnome-shell. Log out and hit the cog-wheel by your name and choose Gnome for the new Gnome 3.

What hard about reading and then selecting?

Clonezilla rocks.

Just a FYI, I downgraded to Mint 10 64 and all the quirks you mentioned that I had too, were gone. 10 just seems more stable.

Probably because your hardware is too old.

For me it is far less buggy and: 10 – Julia – Ubuntu Maverick – Supported until April 2012

istrandi wrote:I don't think there's a fix, and people have already filed bug reports, so its just something you'll have to live with I suppose...

Install Mint 10, fixed

That is one of the reasons I downgraded back to version 10. Happened a lot for me when using version 11. Never happens in 10.

For a windows program, yes, use wine. To actually run Win7 in Linux, use something like VirtualBox.