In readiness for post-XP independence, I've finally installed Mint15(or was it 16?) on the deskie
Just got to suss out what apps and setup now - and printer setup! Firefox looks a little different - need to migrate my FF-profiles so hope that Mozbackup is linux friendly...
But what a difference that the ubuntu base can use NTFS format files so doc/music/photo sharing is so much easier now - same shared partitions as with XP!
And, so impressed was I with the Mint demo, that I'm going to add that to the EeePC to dual-boot that with Win7.
So I've bought a 32Gb stick to create a Win7 Recovery backup. Then I'll re-partition that and hopefully get a higher-speed holiday music box/browser. Though, Win7 Home Starter means that there'll be sod all usable tools, so I foresee a stack of de-crappifying and installation of partition managers, etc, coming v soon before the great Mint flavouring.
And, whilst buying sticks in Staples, I got 2 x 8GB SD cards to use as Readyboost for the EeePC and the Laptop, free-ing up valuable USB sockets for speakers/mouse/etc. Should have done that ages ago!