Paladin of the Pegasos
Posts: 1113 from 2013/5/24
From: Nederland
@Dave,
Don't mess around with the "lightweight" distros if you don't have experience with Linux.
My kids all have Linux Mint on their machines and they use it with no problems. Some have beasts with lots of RAM and my youngest has a 10yr old netbook with Mint XFCE edition.
Grab yourself a copy of Mint 18.2 Cinnamon Desktop edition for 64bit machines and give it a whirl. Then if you want to use WINE I recommend getting Crossover as it's simpler to use and comes with support.
http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=3289
https://www.codeweavers.com/products/crossover-linux
1.67GHz 15" PowerBook G4, 1GB RAM, 128MB Radeon 9700M Pro, 64GB SSD, MorphOS 3.15
2.7GHz DP G5, 4GB RAM, 512MB Radeon X1950 Pro, 500GB SSHD, MorphOS 3.9
