I have been looking at Linux Mint or Cinnamon.
Mmmmm, Cinnamon.
Once you experience it, you’ll never go back....as solid as rock and so fast .
The cinnamon is same the mint base but is a fuller boxed set of needed app software and features. What I found is to just go for the full cinnamon package, because even if you go for a “lighter” mint package with less apps you will end up needing to download them all later anyhow. May as well just get the fully loaded package in one install from the get go. :)
Yep, mint cinnamon package is the way to go. I’m going on almost four years now and have never even needed to update it once. Umloke MS, with linux once you know all the hardware is working fine just turn off updates because they are not needed.
If any app new installs require any extra dependencies you do not already have it will go grab those also at the same time. That alone is pretty cool.
I dropped Cinnamon on a spare tower I have in a caddy under my desk. I’m impressed but the video driver is all banjaxed and I’m missing the left 4” of my screen. Might switch over to Mandriva and see how that does.