My eyes were a bit bleary earlier on.
If you are running the DVD as a "live session" once you reboot, you will find you have only wasted broadband downloading stuff. Mind you, live sessions are a good way of determining whether your system works in a capable manner, ie, Sound Card, Video Driver, Network etc.
As Haggisman has said, you have the option to either install as dual boot or fully. I chose to install fully as I was running other machines at the time, which is
always helpful if you run into problems. Dual booting
is the easy option, but, and this is a
small "but",
sometimes, you
can run into difficulty’s with driver conflicts between Windows and Linux with a dual boot set up. Its becoming scarce, but, it does happen.
That aside, take a look here
https://sites.google.com/site/easylinux ... amon-first
This page is for
Cinnamon, there are pages for KDE and Mate too.
For any software you should stick to your software manager to kick off with. There are other ways to install stuff, but, just keep it simple in the beginning, until you start to find your way around.
One thing that is
always a breath taker..............Linux does not have a native "System Restore Point"
Do not let that put you off, there
are applications that will do this job very nicely!
You will find limitations within Linux Mint, but some tlc
will smooth the way.
I have lost count of the re-installs and re-boots I have done, just to get things right. The frustration has had me thinking I should go back to Microsoft for simplicity’s sake.
Noooooooooo, just keep on trying, its well worth it in the end.
One
last thing in this post................IF YOU DELETE ANYTHING USING
RIGHT CLICK DELETE, its gone! Use "Send To Rubbish Bin" instead.
(You can configure the options in the
Context Menu, maybe
before you delete a directory
)
I tell you its all true,
we are all humanary stew
if we pledge allegiance to
the BLUE window..................
