https://egeiro.net/tags/mint/ Recent content in Mint on egeiro Hugo en-us &copy; 2017-2025. All rights reserved. Tue, 04 Jul 2017 21:00:00 +1000 https://egeiro.net/post/linux-distros/ Tue, 04 Jul 2017 21:00:00 +1000 https://egeiro.net/post/linux-distros/ <p>Over the years I&rsquo;ve tried many different <a href="http://www.distrowatch.com">distributions (distros) of Linux</a>, running a variety of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desktop_environment">Desktop Environments</a>.</p> <p>I bought my first desktop computer back in 1995. It was extortionately expensive for what you got. Around $3,000 if I recall correctly. It came with Win 3.1 (soon upgraded to Win 95), 8MB of memory (yep, you read that right), a 540MB hard drive (yep, again), a 3 1/2 inch floppy drive and not much else. Years before that I had owned a Sinclair Spectrum which connected to a TV and used a cassette tape for storage and loading programs.</p>