If it works, does what you want it to do, supports your hardware, and don't need to add any fancy new applications (or changes to ones you have that you would like to see), you are golden.
Buy new box and it comes with new wind blows.  What happens with new wind blows is that it no longer supports older apps, so you have to buy new apps, then you have to buy new hardware to get the performance back, and the cycle repeats.

Me???  I use OS/2 Warp at work.  Does what I need, does it fast, and has been doing it for many years.  Golden.

 
Naw, I'd just google "install new hardware XXX on Mint 9.0 Isadora" and 20 hits will show up with 6 different ways to do it and there will be three people who wrote fully automated short scripts to go get it from the repository and tuck it all in place on my old white box machine.

(copy and paste that line of code into my command line and whammo -- she goes and gets it and puts it in place herself inside of 10 seconds, that sweet sweet little Isadora).


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Also new and shocking is the total "no need for new faster hardware" -- I haven't gotten used to that yet
(I still oggle at new hardware all the time).

But I don't buy any.  Reality is that the old hardware moves so fast I don't even want to go get any faster.

All I have to do to be totally content is use a modern machine with IE 8 or 9 on it -- then I go home all happy again.

It takes real talent for MicroChoke to bogggg down a 4 core 64 bit 3.4 gigahertz processor equipped with 6 gig of systems memory --- but IE 9 can sure do it fer ya.

I'm proud of them -- drive that next upgrade boys, drive it !!!

Hey, go get you a mini browser like Chrome, install it and only use it to go look at the totally craptastic sites like Eastwood.

Eastwood doesn't say webwise what's in it or how to use it -- somebody is gonna have to email them and then catch a buttload of attachments back in the return email that have all this good info in them.

Oldfeller--FSO wrote on 08/12/12 at 08:38:23:

I called and left a message on their techical support line.  They are closed right now but if they get back to me next week with the pertinent info about their product, they are still in the running. I did also ask about any additional friction modifiers that might be in there.

It's been awhile since I messed with Mint,  but there is a setting for the file browser that allows you to change it from single click to dbl click and vice versa.  Right now I've just got a few servers running in the house on Nix atm but will so be back to dual booting my new laptop and my main workhorse which is an 8 core running at 4ghz and 16gb of ram.

R.F.

 
Serowbot, my laptop is an ancient XP small 13.2" screen HP unit that was given to Grandma so she could get e-mail.  She never used it much and as the years went by it got sooooo slow that nobody even wanted to use it to go on line with, so it got replaced and the corpse came home to me to "do something with it".

I needed a laptop at work for when I was stuck in the guard shack at the front of the University doing Welcome Center duty, so I took it and started renovating.

First, I used the hidden drive D to put back the original software, then spent a month throwing away crapware and letting MS update the XP up through the service pack chain.   Installed a free virus checker, installed a better defragger, installed Firefox and Office 97 (all the Office you will ever really need).  Bought a long ear (USB wifi booster antenna) that can scoop up a wifi connect a quarter mile away.  Got some external powered speakers so I could hear a streamed movie with the AC running full blast.

Then I stumbled upon a net source selling 2 each 2 meg sticks of old pulled systems memory from returned rental units -- 4 megs of systems memory that was so modern my system could barely use it -- all for $27 with free shipping.   It worked so well I went and replaced the battery with an 12 cell extended jobbie for $34 so I have 6-8 hours of battery run time on a single charge.

I have an really really old XP laptop that zips right along now.   It is the one I carry on vacations and motorcycle trips, it is abused and neglected but it always works.   When my wife messes all 3 of hers up, I lend her my old reliable XP laptop and then I threaten to convert all her machines to Linux if she doesn't start saying NO to worms and trojans and fake virus alerts that look just like her antivirus is talking to her.

She knows I won't do it because her work has her so firmly locked into MS products.   But she appreciates my old XP laptop when she needs to use it.

I downloaded the iso and will burn a lookie see CD.

I really don't like Chrome all that much, prefer firefox.  Would use Chrome in preference over MS Explorer Whatever
Boy, MS E sure is sllllllooooowww to load a page, ain't it?

I'm gonna be flexible until my monitor dies or until somebody comes up with a A15 dual core stick PC with Mali 624 graphics for say $89 with 2.x gigahertz speed and 8 core graphics and 2 gigs of systems memory  

(ie twice the specs on all components of my old white box pc)   

Until then, I'll suffer along with what I got .... and be right happy with it !!