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MintNut, now that is an interesting flavor!

Seriously, welcome and enjoy the ride.

Or you could use a Remix OS Live USB with persistence:

http://www.jide.com/remixos-for-pc#downloadNow

Full Android 6.0 Marshmallow! It works very well with a USB 3.0 flash drive.

If you need it only for games, you could also try just Remix OS Player.

theeyan wrote:But then... What is the difference between Mate and XFCE/KDE? :/

Same as the difference between blonde, brunette and black haired women

Just in case you have to do a reinstall from scratch, it may help to double check you follow all the steps outlined here:

viewtopic.php?t=163126

My first experience with Linux was around 2002 with Knoppix. After trying a dozen or so distros I settled on Mepis for many years. Once (sadly) development for it ended, I tried Mint LMDE Cinnamon, as I wanted to try a rolling distribution. Few weeks ago I was about to upgrade to LMDE 2, but decided...

This should keep you busy for a while :D http://www.onlineprogrammingbooks.com/linux/ One that I read a while ago is "Introduction to Linux - A Hands on Guide". You can find it here in various format, the fifth down the list: http://www.tldp.org/guides.html On the same page there is also o...

Used LMDE Cinnamon for a few years. Rather than going to LMDE 2, I decided to give a shot to Mint 18, but went with Mate. As you can see in my sig, my hardware is modest (and old now, 2011 laptop). So, I went with Mate to make sure I kept it "snappy". Very happy with it so far. By the way,...

Actually, I believe that you should always be cautious (to some degree) while installing lv 1-3 patches. Two weeks ago there was an update of nvidia drivers which caused some users serious problems. Of course it may be quite difficult and time consuming to investigate every patch and look for possi...

Maybe I am talking non-sense, but would such links work if opened from within Wine, using a Windows file manager installed there?

Before installing Mint 18 Mate 64bit, I had Linux Mint Debian Edition Cinnamon. My computer is a 2011 Samsung laptop, with a Dual Core i3 processor. A modest setup by today's standards (see my sig) While Cinnamon was perfectly usable, Mate is for sure snappier. Besides personal preferences, your har...

Welcome Chris. Enjoy the ride!

If it doesn't give you a headache looking at the charts , try this:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of ... tributions

Welcome Rob, nice folks around here. You are in the right place. I am an Extra as well. If you are into Digital Modes, give fldigi a try: http://www.w1hkj.com/ I installed Mint 18 Mate 64bit just a week ago and I have not had the time to test fldigi yet. However, it worked well on my previous Mint i...

I wanted to try the four Mint 18 desktops too, but took a different route. I got a 64GB USB 3.0 Flash Drive (one of the tiny ones that sits almost flush with the connector once plugged in) and with YUMI (a free Windows utility) I created a multi-boot USB drive with all four of Mint desktop flavors p...

A little late to the party, but if you still want to "test drive" several Linux distros I recommend YUMI. It is a pretty cool software (similar to Universal USB Installer and UNetbootin) which allows you to put as many distributions can fit in a single USB Flash Drive. When you boot, you a...

Welcome Bob, I am new myself to the forum, although I have been a Linux user for about 13 years.

It would be only fitting you were running Mint 18 Mate...

Software Manager and Synaptic are (for lack of a better definition) like an "app store". Software Manager is a bit more user friendly and it looks nicer, but they both do pretty much the same things. I am running Mint 18 Mate as well, Software Manager is right under the label "System&...

@markfilipak, thanks for the suggestion about TC, I will give it a try. I still use Windows, if it gets the job done, although I prefer Linux. I often run a VM on one of our home Win boxes to try Linux distributions. I am a tinkerer, love to try new things. Heck, I even put Android Marshmallow on an...

I cheated to check the ISO: - Ignored the instructions - Found a simple free program that could do sha256 check - Opened the file where the checksum was stored - Copied and pasted the checksum in one of the input boxes of the sha256 program - Browsed to where I had saved the ISO through the other in...

Thanks everyone for the warm and friendly welcome. As I get more familiar with Mint 18 and work out a few kinks, I hope to be able to share my experience, in the hope it may help others.

Go Linux, go