In response to the above, apparently Linux Mint Cinnamon's kernel is now rather old and may therefore have issues with some of the future updates which might require a newer kernel (see Quidsup youtube review on cinnamon). It is also annoyingly laggy when opening the web-browsers - my experience too. It also did not permit me to pin icons to the taskbar, apparently a limitation with the cinnamon desktop.
I have been using LL since I moved from XP in April this year. As I mentioned elsewhere in this forum, I flirted with Zorin, Linux Mint, PClinuxOS amongst numerous others, in dual boot (with Win 7, and also with the embedded version of win XP, as well as multiboot (distro-only), but have always returned to LL as the main OS.
LL is now my main OS on two laptops, a 64-bit version of LL2 running on a 4-core Asus laptop (X71Q), and the 32-bit version of LL2 on a 2-core Samsung netbook (N145 Plus), where I run Windows on both as virtual machines - mainly because linux is incompatible with many of my scanner's features, which of course was originally bought for my previous WinXP set-up.
Unlike other distros, I have found LL to be the best for three main reasons:
1. Intuitive and easy to use, and seemingly very adaptable
2. An extremely supportive & friendly LL Forum community (invaluable) - many thanks particularly to goldfinger (Puppylinuxworld's youtube videos (a.k.a. Linuxhelpguy) on LL have also been v. helpful in getting me started in LL).
3. Stable (no wobbles, bugs or crashes as often happened with Zorin)
I notice there have been one or two comments in the LL forums re. difficulty of use of the synaptic package manager for installing new software for newbies. Even though I'm a newbie from XP, and not a computer expert by any means, I have found synaptic fairly easy to use for installing or deleting software, after of course an initial bit of fiddling around to see how it worked. In addition, I picked up command line basics (e.g. downloading software) quickly by simply googling when I needed to know a particular command to carry out a specific task. Heads up all round, I'm very happy with LL, and would say for me, at least, it is the best by far of the many distros I have tried and is the one I wish to stay with, certainly at least for now.
Regards
Mike
I have been using LL since I moved from XP in April this year. As I mentioned elsewhere in this forum, I flirted with Zorin, Linux Mint, PClinuxOS amongst numerous others, in dual boot (with Win 7, and also with the embedded version of win XP, as well as multiboot (distro-only), but have always returned to LL as the main OS.
LL is now my main OS on two laptops, a 64-bit version of LL2 running on a 4-core Asus laptop (X71Q), and the 32-bit version of LL2 on a 2-core Samsung netbook (N145 Plus), where I run Windows on both as virtual machines - mainly because linux is incompatible with many of my scanner's features, which of course was originally bought for my previous WinXP set-up.
Unlike other distros, I have found LL to be the best for three main reasons:
1. Intuitive and easy to use, and seemingly very adaptable
2. An extremely supportive & friendly LL Forum community (invaluable) - many thanks particularly to goldfinger (Puppylinuxworld's youtube videos (a.k.a. Linuxhelpguy) on LL have also been v. helpful in getting me started in LL).
3. Stable (no wobbles, bugs or crashes as often happened with Zorin)
I notice there have been one or two comments in the LL forums re. difficulty of use of the synaptic package manager for installing new software for newbies. Even though I'm a newbie from XP, and not a computer expert by any means, I have found synaptic fairly easy to use for installing or deleting software, after of course an initial bit of fiddling around to see how it worked. In addition, I picked up command line basics (e.g. downloading software) quickly by simply googling when I needed to know a particular command to carry out a specific task. Heads up all round, I'm very happy with LL, and would say for me, at least, it is the best by far of the many distros I have tried and is the one I wish to stay with, certainly at least for now.
Regards
Mike
64bit OS (32-bit on Samsung[i] netbook) installed in [i]Legacy mode on MBR-formatted SSDs (except pi which uses a micro SDHC card):
2017 - Raspberry pi 3B (4cores) ~ [email protected] - LibreElec, used for upgrading our Samsung TV (excellent for the task)
2012 - Lenovo G580 2689 (2cores; 4threads] ~ [email protected] - LL3.8/Win8.1 dual-boot (LL working smoothly)
2011 - Samsung NP-N145 Plus (1core; 2threads) ~ Intel Atom [email protected] - LL 3.8 32-bit (64-bit too 'laggy')
2008 - Asus X71Q (2cores) ~ Intel [email protected] - LL4.6/Win8.1 dual-boot, LL works fine with kernel 4.15
2007 - Dell Latitude D630 (2cores) ~ Intel [email protected] - LL4.6, works well with kernel 4.4; 4.15 doesn't work
2017 - Raspberry pi 3B (4cores) ~ [email protected] - LibreElec, used for upgrading our Samsung TV (excellent for the task)
2012 - Lenovo G580 2689 (2cores; 4threads] ~ [email protected] - LL3.8/Win8.1 dual-boot (LL working smoothly)
2011 - Samsung NP-N145 Plus (1core; 2threads) ~ Intel Atom [email protected] - LL 3.8 32-bit (64-bit too 'laggy')
2008 - Asus X71Q (2cores) ~ Intel [email protected] - LL4.6/Win8.1 dual-boot, LL works fine with kernel 4.15
2007 - Dell Latitude D630 (2cores) ~ Intel [email protected] - LL4.6, works well with kernel 4.4; 4.15 doesn't work