Technology Gift: fresh Linux Mint installation

Technology gift for yourself or a loved one: have an old laptop/desktop computer refurbished by an Open Source Software expert that will install Linux Mint on the hardware, offering a choice of keeping the Windows software as a dual boot operating system, or making the unit a sole Mint installation.

A quick review of the applications available via Mint shows that it runs non-proprietary versions of major (Microsoft/costly) applications:

• Firefox, Chrome and Opera browsers (instead of Internet Explorer)
• Libre Office (Writer, Calc, Impress, Dia, Base & Math) instead of MS Office
• Thunderbird (email) instead of Outlook
• GIMP (graphics) instead of Photoshop, Paint or Corel)
• Scribus (desktop publishing) instead of Framemaker
• VLC, MPlayer, Miro (media players) instead of Windows Media Player
• Avidemux (video editor) instead of Final Cut Pro
• KompoZer (WYSIWYG HTML and CSS editor) instead of Dreamweaver
• ClamWin (virus scanning and definition) instead of McAfee
• Clonezilla (disaster recovery, disk cloning and deployment) instead of N.Ghost
• Amarok & Nightingale (music player & manager) instead of iTunes

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Other Linux Operating Systems available for installation:

• Elementary OS
• Zorian OS
• UberStudent OS
• KaOS
• Antix OS
• Bohdi OS
• PepperMint OS
• Manjaro OS
• Centos OS
• Blu OS
• Fedora OS
• OpenSUSE OS
• Debian OS
• Lubuntu OS