Having
grown tired of waiting forever for Vista to respond to anything I want
to do, I decided to give Linux Mint 7 a try, something I'd been meaning
to do for a while now. It proved to be as fast running from the CD as
Vista is running from my hard drive and every piece of hardware I have
works with it smoothly, from the entire assortment of hotkeys to the
wi-fi and mobile broadband.
Amusingly, the most
annoying/difficult part of the installation was trying to get Vista to
shrink its partition to make space for the Linux ones. Ultimately I had
to boot into safe mode to get around the cryptic access denied errors
Microsoft so helpfully provides. Pretty much everything else was
automatic; Mint's setup created my user account (and could have
imported my one from Windows, if I were so inclined), had most of the
software I needed right from the get-go, and provided a welcome screen
to explain anything I might have needed help with.
I've been using the OS all weekend now and I'm still extremely
happy with it. Everything is significantly more responsive, sometimes
almost too much so; I keep having to disable the touchpad since it is a
little too sensitive now. :) As I migrate things over to Linux I may
end up dropping the Vista partitions entirely and just going for broke
with Mint, but that's something I won't decide on for a couple months,
just in case something suddenly goes awry.
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