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I love Win7, and that's why I'm using Mint

Post by Polex-P » Mon Apr 29, 2019 7:48 pm

I've been a Microsoft user since I bought a 286 with DOS 4. I've had DOS 5,6,Win95,Win98,WinME,XP and am currently on Win7. I looked at Win8 and it's interface, and said no thanks. Support for Win7 will be ending soon but I won't be stuck with that buggy, tiled piece of spyware known as Win10 thanks to Mint 19.1. It works well and the learning curve is probably easier than Win10. Playing in Terminal brings back fond memories of the power of DOS.

Someone said that Win8 and Win10 are the best things that happened to Linux, and I couldn't agree more.

A massive THANK YOU to the Linux Mint dev team !!

And now I get to show off the coolest wallpaper evarrrr.
https://www.deviantart.com/polex-p/art/ ... -424835865

ps I am not the artist, I just needed a username and that one popped into my head.
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Re: I love Win7, and that's why I'm using Mint

Post by WharfRat » Mon Apr 29, 2019 8:44 pm

Hello Polex-P Image

Welcome to Linux Mint and the Linux Mint forum :)
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Re: I love Win7, and that's why I'm using Mint

Post by phd21 » Mon Apr 29, 2019 11:07 pm

Hi Polex-P,

Welcome to the wonderful world of Linux Mint and its excellent forum!
Phd21: Mint KDE 18.3 & 19, 64-bit Awesome OS, Ancient Dell OptiPlex 780 Core2Duo E8400 3GHz,4gb Ram,256gb SDD, Video: Intel 4 Graphics, DVD Lightscribe. Why I use KDE?:https://opensource.com/life/15/4/9-reasons-to-use-kde
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Re: I love Win7, and that's why I'm using Mint

Post by vansloneker » Tue Apr 30, 2019 2:57 am

Welcome Polex-P. Seems you got Mint up and running but if you encounter any problems or have questions: that's what this forum is for!
Unless stated otherwise Mint 18.3-64 XFCE

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Re: I love Win7, and that's why I'm using Mint

Post by Polex-P » Tue Apr 30, 2019 9:48 pm

Thanks for the warm welcome, and you can bet this newb will be back for tips on further freeing myself from M$ grasp.
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Re: I love Win7, and that's why I'm using Mint

Post by Greencedar » Tue May 28, 2019 8:04 pm

Hello and welcome to the forum Polex-P. :)
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Re: I love Win7, and that's why I'm using Mint

Post by lsemmens » Tue May 28, 2019 11:11 pm

Pretty wallpaper, and welcome, PolexP
Kernel: 4.15.0-46-generic x86_64 bits
Desktop: Cinnamon 3.8.9
Distro: Linux Mint 19 Tara

Laptop HP-ProBook-470-G2 8Gb RAM SSD
Server AMD Phenom 9650 - GEForce 9400GT 6Gb RAM
+ three other Mint machines
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Re: I love Win7, and that's why I'm using Mint

Post by Dot_mdb » Tue May 28, 2019 11:22 pm

>>Someone said that Win8 and Win10 are the best things that happened to Linux, and I couldn't agree more.<<

That's probably true. I was never in love with Win 7 but in retrospect it was better than what came afterwards. It was win 8.1 that drove me to Linux after one year of use. Fortunately I found Mint before Windows drove me crazy.

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