I too, just installed Linux Mint. I found an older laptop with Win 7 on it and I had managed to... [View all]

install a dual boot with Ubuntu on it, but it seems there was a password involved, so I couldn't use Ubuntu. And Win 7 never thrilled me.

So, I downloaded Mint to a thumb drive, booted from the drive, and it asked me if i wanted to destroy the partitions on C: and wipe the drive.

Sure, why not...

So it installed itself without any hassles, left me with a desktop that looked pretty familiar, and pretty much everything works with just one network printer out in the cold. It came with Thunderbird, Firefox, LibreOffice, and Gimp-- all of which I am already familiar with. Downloaded Opera, Vivaldi and a few games and I'm ready to go. Still have to find some replacements for Windows stuff,

Infinitely simpler than the horror show with Red Hat years ago.

I still have two working Win10 computers, and another two that may be working again some day, so this is mostly for fun. But what fun it is-- Linux is ready for prime time.