Visit www.linuxmint.com for various versions to download and try. All Linux Mint Operating Systems are open source and free. Much more stable than Windows and has no NSA snooping back doors built into it. No virus protection required. Wine is a program that will allow Windows based programs to install run in Mint. Mint will read and run most files from Windows and will access FAT16, FAT32, and NTFS file systems external USB drives and thumb drives. 100% compatible. LibreOffice will work seamlessly with Microsux Office files as well.
You can download an ISO image and burn it to a blank DVD disk or make a bootable USB thumb drive. You can boot from the disk or thumb drive and test drive Mint without installing it. You can install as a dual booting system with Windows if you choose. Install time is usually less than a half hr where Windows would take most of a night including it's updates.
I have been a windows user since Windows 3.1 and finally gave my win7 5 family install disk to the dog for a chew toy a month ago. I will never go back to Microsux. Love my Mint!
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Why to use a window if you can own a door ?
I guess I am a touch older than most of you (76): I had my first piece of computing equipment in September 1959, and "messed around" with this until Basic came out in 1964. That started me thinking seriously about "useful" programs, and I wrote and ran a good many ... I actually sold one. I moved up to a massive machine (CRT display, 5Mb Winchester disc [which weighed almost 2Kg]), and needed spoon-feeding with CPM on 5" floppies when you switched it on ... state of the art at the time, and all my colleagues thought I was a genius !!!
Then came Windows. I still have the install discs for Win 2 and for Win 3.1 ... the best OS produced until Win XP ... and they still work. I stuck with Win 3.1 until 2003 (I'm very conservative), but when I had a chance to investigate Win XP, I jumped into it.
On and off over my "Windows years", I have beta tested for them, sent suggestions, and actually made two personal friends within their organisation. I have put up with the apparently endless need to enter codes proving purchase and similar items, and recommended XP to countless colleagues and friends.
Then I was forced to buy an extra laptop, which came with Win 8 installed. To be fair, I tried to live and work with it for seven months. A major annoyance was that some fool in their marketing department had decided that Basic wasn't needed, which meant substantial changes to the front end of many of my personal programs. I had already tried to use Red Hat, but never found out how to install it successfully. One morning, I stripped the entire machine in a rage, and put in Linux Mint / cinnamon, having seen a favourable comment about it somewhere. A life-changer! Now, I use Linux Mint 17.3, and couldn't be more pleased. I started with version 1, leaving Win XP on the hard disc for safety, but I blew that away a few months ago. Free of Microsoft at last!
Microsoft have changed over all that time. Large, rich, and with many good brains working for them, they seem to me to be reacting to our honest competition in the market like spoiled children. They have bought their way into many companies (e.g: Skype) in order to reduce or remove support for Linux, rather than learn from us and provide mature competition. I am deeply disappointed in them, and heartily sick of the whole business: I wouldn't use Windows again for anything.
Sorry for the over-long entry, but I couldn't resist it, and just hope that it may be read by some who are wondering about changing to Linux ... don't delay, change today!
PS - the friendly and rapid help I have had in the Community and the Forums has been a life-saver, and I appreciate it very much.
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