<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">@Philip Newborough</font><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">I've had Mint12 on my laptop for the last few weeks, and I'm really liking it...although I'm more enjoying that it's not Unity.</font></div>
<div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">I would be wary of putting Gnome3 on a 'Linux Newbie's' machine straight away. In fact I loaded a friend's old laptop up with Mint11 yesterday...She wanted W$ but that wasn't going to happen :)</font></div>
<div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">In other news I've dug out a path in my study, and found my way to my desk (and desktop), I'm going to spend a few days messing around seeing if I can persuade it to take anything other than #! 9.04.01</font></div>
<div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Dave</font></div>