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<blockquote data-quote="Captain Holly" data-source="post: 1065726" data-attributes="member: 90494">I started with Linux Mint Cinnamon back in March. I ran it in a few different ways and for the most part I was pretty happy with it. There was a lot to learn and I tried my best with it. About two weeks ago I went back to Windows full time. I had trouble with Linux playing audio. I listen to music a lot on my laptop and never could find a player in the Mint repo that I liked for my MP3 library. None of them sounded very good and I was not interested in using Wine to make a Windows based media player work. In Windows I use Media Monkey, it sounds great and is easy to use. I also had trouble getting good sound from Pandora on Mint. I tried for a long time to fix the audio problems but just got tired of messing with it.The main thing that got to me about Mint was the lack of any anti-virus. I know they say viruses won&#039;t run on Linux and malware is targeted toward Windows so Linux is secure by itself. I guess that is true but I just could not get used to the idea of not using any kind of security software. Since I went back on Windows, I am using Kaspersky Free and Firefox as my default main browser. I had to change a lot of settings to stop the MS Co-Pilot and Bing Chat Search but this laptop is as free from AI as I can get it. I did learn a lot about Linux during my Mint experience. Mint has a lot of good points but I really feel much better and more confident with Windows. Linux/Mint is not bad at all, it just wasn&#039;t right for me.C.H.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Captain Holly, post: 1065726, member: 90494"] I started with Linux Mint Cinnamon back in March. I ran it in a few different ways and for the most part I was pretty happy with it. There was a lot to learn and I tried my best with it. About two weeks ago I went back to Windows full time. I had trouble with Linux playing audio. I listen to music a lot on my laptop and never could find a player in the Mint repo that I liked for my MP3 library. None of them sounded very good and I was not interested in using Wine to make a Windows based media player work. In Windows I use Media Monkey, it sounds great and is easy to use. I also had trouble getting good sound from Pandora on Mint. I tried for a long time to fix the audio problems but just got tired of messing with it. The main thing that got to me about Mint was the lack of any anti-virus. I know they say viruses won't run on Linux and malware is targeted toward Windows so Linux is secure by itself. I guess that is true but I just could not get used to the idea of not using any kind of security software. Since I went back on Windows, I am using Kaspersky Free and Firefox as my default main browser. I had to change a lot of settings to stop the MS Co-Pilot and Bing Chat Search but this laptop is as free from AI as I can get it. I did learn a lot about Linux during my Mint experience. Mint has a lot of good points but I really feel much better and more confident with Windows. Linux/Mint is not bad at all, it just wasn't right for me. C.H. [/QUOTE]

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