Sad Farewell to Vista

Vista has been my favorite OS for the past year or so, after I was breaking in a new hard drive, and installed Vista so I could then install a W7 upgrade. But I decided to fully update Vista just for fun, and rediscovered what a great OS it is. I never did the W7 upgrade (although I had it on the original drive, on the verge of failing). Then disaster struck: while installing Linux Zorin, I was careless and installed it to the Vista drive. It's now gone. I thought I had an image, but couldn't find it. So, I installed the image of W7 from the original drive. That's what I'm using now, until 2020, when I will probably permanently switch to Linux. There's little point in installing Vista again and doing all the updates and service packs, with it going the way of the dinosaurs in 2017. Although it would be fun, and if I get bored...you may see me back here!

I'm looking at Linux Mint 17.2 Cinnamon as a replacement for Windows

I haven't seen the latest Mint version, but I'm currently running Ubuntu 14.04 and Zorin 9, and they are both fantastic. I ran Mint 17 a couple of years ago. By comparison with Ubuntu and Zorin, I find it a bit awkward to navigate. But as I said, I haven't seen the latest version. It may be smoother. (By awkward I mean that the taskbar was too small, things like that - which may be able to be changed anyway). Ubuntu takes some getting used to, but that's not too difficult. Zorin is so similar to Seven that you can just take off running with it. Can't decide between Ubuntu and Zorin, so I use them both!