[TexasRepublic]

I don’t play games on any OS, but I do have a few suggestions for you.

Years ago, I tried various lightweight Linux distros such as Mepis, Puppy, Knoppix and others. Then I discovered Ubuntu and Mint. Vastly superior. I alternate between those last two and forgot about the former. In my experience, Mint has been more fussy about booting systems with certain video cards than Ubuntu.

1) Try the “Mate” desktop on both Ubuntu and Mint if you haven’t already.

2) Install the distro you want to evaluate directly to the hard drive and forget about running under VM. I have read a number of reviews where the OS’s did not function well on a virtual machine, but did on a physical machine.

3) Are you married to that mouse? Try a different one. Ditto for the keyboard other other problematic hardware.

4) I prefer running Linux on Dell PC’s over other brands.

[Bob434]

thanks for the reply- have tried all of those- mint- mate and cinnamon- Ubuntu mandrake, manjaro etc-

I’m just not liking the idea of having to go back and relearn everything as well as running into problems constantly- Windows just works—

I began with windows 95, and remember having to always fiddle with it to get it working, to get things installed, to get drivers working etc- I wasted more dang time doing that when all I wanted was just to start the machine and have it work- insert a disk and install something without having to spend hours online looking for the right drivers etc-

Linux is making progress- but they are ,in my opinion, about as advqanced as say windows 95- perhaps windows 98- but it can’t use nearly the programs and games that windows can