I am new to the Linux environment and have been using mint for a month, dual booting with windows. The reason I first installed mint cinnamon is to test out some LLM applications (text-generation-webui ect) that I have been learning, used huge resources on my windows install. Over the past month, mint has become my daily driver for my day to day applications, my writing tasks and learning software applications. i am currently only using windows partition for college and work related aspects and software like cad etc. I have to say that I use the GUI for majority of the tasks on Mint, but, slowly, I am learning the basics of using the terminal for few tasks, that are easy thru terminal.

I found the forums and the tutorials to be a great help during the past month, and other than a couple of occasional hiccups, i never had any issues with mint. Probably, sometime down the line, I might build my complete workstation to be based on Mint, when the opportunity arises.

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