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Mint is a good (and often recommended) distro for first timers. Cinnamon is the type of "desktop environment" or GUI (desktop layout, menu buttons etc). I'd suggest that you try a few different DEs (Mate/XFCE are the alternatives for Cinnamon DE in Linux Mint) and see what you like..
Try to download a few of the other distros and run them in a virtual machine or in a live mode to see if you like them. [If you need recommendations, please search existing threads instead of creating a new one ]
Thank you for the good report on Mint Cinnamon. I'll try it. My laptop and hard drive are big enough...I think. 2.8 GHz speed, 8 G ram, 500 Gig hard drive.
Question re a place to put the Mint Cinnamon...I'm thinking that I'll place the software on an external SSD drive away from my Windows 10 internal hard drive. Do the backup Seagate SSD drives that you buy in COSTCO perform the same function as the SSD drives for Live operating system software? Either a 500 G SSD or 1 TB size.
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it's good enough to spice up your day, ... with Cinnamon that is.
I use it whenever I boot it up.
it is not tooo heavy or complicated, but I do have a habit of installing some other window manager and using that instead.
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