Mint 17

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Good Morning!

I've been running Kubuntu on my desktop computer for about 8 months.  It 
seems to do the job.  This is the 3rd time I have tried to escape M$.  
First in 2000, then again in 2007.  This time it looks like I might be 
able to do so.

Last night I installed Mint 17 KDE on my laptop.  I was amazed.  I was 
only able to spend 15 or 20 minute with it, however it was a much better 
experience than Kubuntu. I'm not sure why, however my Laptop running an 
i3 seems to be faster than my desktop running an i5.  I wonder if it is 
the OS alone that makes the difference.  Mint is a much smaller 
download.  Maybe it is optimized in some way.

I hope to add a modern.ie in a VM and configure my laptop to do LAMP dev 
using the localhost.  I will probably install a second VM for CentOS 5.x 
and a third for CentOS 7.x for testing.

If this works out, which I'm sure it will, I'll be moving my desktop to 
Mint as well.

I think Linux is finally ready for the mainstream desktop world.

This is exciting!!
Keith