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Hi all :D I'm from DC area in VA. I've been shopping Linux distributions to cut ties with windows for a time and settled on Mint. It is really intuitive and clean and I am starting to dive in so I came to the forums.

Currently dual booting Mint 19 Cinnamon and Win10 on a middle-aged laptop and planning on doing the same for a desktop I'm building. The plan is to have everything except select games on Mint and keep a minimal windows profile...unless I find success with wine.

I'm new to the Linux and pc building world but am exciting about it and trying to catch on.
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WharfRat

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Hello smaus13 Image

Welcome to Linux Mint and the Linux Mint forum :)
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Welcome to the forums!
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Welcome aboard, smaus13! Are you using Steam games? They recently announced that they had done some work with the Wine people and now a whole lot of Windows games will run in Linux.
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Welcome to LM. I hale from the Tidewater area, so we are virtual next-door-neighbors!

The LM forums are probably the most friendly of it's genre on the net - I think you're going to like it here!

Building a desktop computer for Linux. Read up on what's compatible and what's not. Gotta remember that support for bleeding-edge hardware might be lacking a bit. If you're not sure, ask here before you buy (in the Hardware Support sub-forum) and folks will be happy to give you the benefit of their experience - saving you a lot of grief down the road.

Above all - have fun!
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Hi smaus13,

Welcome to the wonderful world of Linux Mint and its excellent forum!
Phd21: Mint 20 Cinnamon & KDE Neon 64-bit Awesome OS's, Dell Inspiron I5 7000 (7573, quad core i5-8250U ) 2 in 1 touch screen
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Hi smaus13,

Welcome from SA (down under) :D
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smaus13 wrote: ⤴Thu Aug 30, 2018 11:17 am Hi all :D I'm from DC area in VA.
Welcome aboard! Where in the world is DC in VA?
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smaus13

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Thanks all
jimallyn wrote: ⤴Thu Aug 30, 2018 2:00 pm Welcome aboard, smaus13! Are you using Steam games? They recently announced that they had done some work with the Wine people and now a whole lot of Windows games will run in Linux.
I did see that announcement on these forums actually (joining is already paying off). Still doesn't include all games I was hoping to play (like WoW, LoL) but steam does house a decent bit of my library so I am happy about the news :D I will attempt to configure the outliers according to whatever guides I find (I know it can be done albeit with a slight fps tithe).
srq2625 wrote: ⤴Thu Aug 30, 2018 2:31 pm Welcome to LM. I hale from the Tidewater area, so we are virtual next-door-neighbors!

The LM forums are probably the most friendly of it's genre on the net - I think you're going to like it here!

Building a desktop computer for Linux. Read up on what's compatible and what's not. Gotta remember that support for bleeding-edge hardware might be lacking a bit. If you're not sure, ask here before you buy (in the Hardware Support sub-forum) and folks will be happy to give you the benefit of their experience - saving you a lot of grief down the road.

Above all - have fun!
Awesome! Thanks for the tip I will poke my nose around in there.
catweazel wrote: ⤴Fri Aug 31, 2018 1:52 am Welcome aboard! Where in the world is DC in VA?
Washington, DC, USA metropolitan area. But I'm part of the Virginia portion as opposed to Maryland or DC proper.
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