


Upgrading to 11 was a breeze and works even better. When I ran a check (via the Hard Drives SMART info), I was utterly shocked to discover that in around 5 years, this client had used this lovely, expensive unit for only 36+ hrs.ĭamn, I gave him a $100 tradein value on the unit, being as old and heavy as it is and promptly installed Mint Linux 10 DVD 圆4 with wonderful, snappy reliable performance. I have a favorite old (heavy) MSI 17" Turion 64 / Radeon x700 video equipped laptop that I purchased for a client many years ago for around $2500 and this year he finally wanted to get a new more powerful unit. I don't particularly like the non-configurable Ubuntu interface though v11.10 looks pretty solid and thus I am greatly looking forward to the next version of Mint Linux 12 DVD 圆4.

I was just so pleased to discover just how refined Linux has become, well Mint Linux anyway. I've been using Ubuntu for years but this year I took time to test other distros, most fortunately Linux Mint 10 and now 11 DVD 圆4.
