If you’ve made it this far, you’re
clearly among the growing
number of people who are curious
about Linux. I’m not sure what has
led you here – perhaps you’re sick
of installing security updates every
other day, perhaps you’re tired of
rebooting when your computer runs
slowly, or maybe you’ve just had
enough of the Blue Screen of Death
– but whatever it was that brought
Linux Mint is a computer operating system designed to work on most modern systems,
including typical x86 and x64 PCs.
Linux Mint can be thought of as filling the same role as Microsoft's Windows, Apple's
Mac OS, and the free BSD OS. Linux Mint is also designed to work in conjunction with
other operating systems (including those listed above), and can automatically set up a
“dual boot” or “multi-boot” environment (where the user is prompted as to which
