I was pretty pleased with myself to get my upgraded rig (Core 2 Duo CPU and 775 motherboard) running without loud bangs or other mishaps, but after the reinstall Ubuntu was a little flakey and things which had worked well before now either didn't work well or didn't work at all. In particular my media player of choice VLC seemed to have decided not to play any sounds no matter how much I tinkered. So turning a frown upside down, I decided an install of Linux Mint 4 was the order of the day.
The live CD impressed me, picking up the wireless network first time and playing my collection of avi's, wmv's and ra files with no problems whatsoever.
I can't say it was a completely hassle few experience; the CD stalled the first couple of times I tried to load it but three goes and a second burn and I was in. Trying to install on free space on the HDD resulted in a Grub error, but an install using all the space seemed to do the job.
The install also partitioned my external hard drive, which is a nuisance because I will have delete the partition and probably copy file back to the drive. The partition appears on the desktop as an additional drive.
Visually I like Mint4 although the black desktop background that installed as default was less than inspiring for a first time use. Firefox, Thunderbird and the GIMP all appeared as part of the install. No sign of Konqueror which is a shame.
Linux Mint doesn't have any games installed which was a bit of a disappointment and I am not sure if I can get them from the repositories.
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