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Welcome Vernon! My advice is to get Linux Mint 21.3 MATE. If this 89 year old Geezer found it the easiest, I think you will too. Old Geezer Tango Charlie

@ The Duck Thanks for putting those links up. All three are excellent and worth the time to read. Old Geez TC

@Diputs If you wish to point out "grammatical errors" in others, you might want to look in the mirror. "there's several grammatical errors . . . " 'There's' should be 'there are' to agree with the plural 'errors' which is the subject. In addition to that, you could check all your posts for...

Hello Vimmer, A little history might help here. Almost everything done in Linux is because someone had an itch they had to scratch - in other words, Linux programs are created for personal reasons. The creators all had different 'itches'. One thing most people coming to Linux for the first time...

Greetings Diputs, Please do yourself a favor and read the history of Linux. Unix preceded Linux by several years and could not possibly be a Linux distro. Eric Raymond has an interesting book about some of it. Old Geezer Tango Charlie

@atanere Thanks for the tips I learned just now!!! Keep on chatting. LOL. OG TC

Welcome @ferree , The only one who can answer that is YOU! Relax, we all went through the same process when we started using Linux. Believe it or not, you are the only one who knows what you want. The only way to find out which is best for you is by reading as much as possible about the...

Erik, The more you do it, the more comfortable and confident you will get. That seems to be the way it works. BTW I downloaded LM 21.3 Cinnamon and installed it on my test machine, alongside LMDE 6; which is what I am using to post this now. It took about 1 hour for the whole process, including...

Erik, Look at it this way - re-installing an OS is part of the learning process. With each time you do a re-install, you will learn something new. I can't count the number of times I have installed, or re-installed a Linux distribution. It's all a part of the learning process, and showing us...

Good morning Erik, I believe the program you are looking for is called Timeshift. If I remember correctly Windows has one called SystemRestore. I used to use SR quite a bit. After using TS for a few years, I find that I like it better; mainly because I have full control over it. I can use any...

@MikeWalsh I really like your comment - "It's largely got where it is by word of mouth......" I owned and operated a shoe repair shop for 45 years and found out that the best advertising anyone can get is "word of mouth". Shop owners can relate to that, as confidence in the product is already...

Good Morning Erik, Please do not get discouraged with Linux. Believe me, it took me several months to get adjusted to doing things the Linux way. Once I did, it became much easier. I was a Windows guy for the first 15 years of my computering. When I switched to Linux as my main machine, I had a...

Good Morning @Erik Groothuijzen , And welcome to the forum. One thing I noticed when I switched to Linux from Windows, was this: the more steeped I was in doing Win stuff, the more I had to unlearn. Terminology is different, but Linux terms make more sense. Security is a HUGE issue with...

I started playing golf when I was discharged from the U.S. Army in 1957. {Honorable Discharge} I was 21 and joined my dad and two brothers to make up a foursome. The first thing I did was to, RTFM, read all the books in the public library on the subject. The first round I played was 18 holes...

My answer is - never have I had to do it in Linux. Just one more difference between Linux and Windows. I use LM 21.3 as my daily driver and just do the updates as they appear in the task bar. Never had even a suspicion of anything bad since I have been a Linux user. OG TC

It once was that way, then it became popular. Now it seems as if it is going back to where it was. OG

@Emanate Presence In answer to your question - Will Etcher make either a 'Bootable Linux installation pen-drive' - Yes it will. I don't know about the 'persistence' part though. At this point I really don't think you need 'persistence'. I would put that in my "advanced Linux" area. As with...

Good morning everyone, After seeing many posts from newbies on this forum about how many choices there are in Linux; and how having so many choices gives some headaches; I got to thinking about how similar the game of golf is to Linux. Linux is very easy to obtain - so are books about golf...

@Emanate Presence This is what I would do. {I have LM 21.3 installed on this computer} 1. Download Linux Mint 21.3 CINNAMON. 2. Use Balena Etcher to 'burn' LM to a flash disk. 3. When that is finished, shut down computer; leave flash disk attached to computer. 4. Start computer and enter the...

Another welcome. This time from an Old Geezer. LOL. Tango Charlie