I want a personalizable interface, I'm very new to Linux, and I don't mind using unfree software like media codecs (something Ubuntu had kept bothering me about ^_^ ), so when I encountered the Linux Mint description at http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=major, it seemed like a good fit.
Also, I vaguely had in mind that I wanted a theme with hints of green in places (probably because I had seen Linux Mint somewhere before), and the release of Linux Mint 10 happened the day before my search, so it was sorta meant to be. :-p
I had some trouble with both, which Internet searching was mostly able to resolve. But I never figured out the whole too-much-KDE-on-GNOME thing, for instance. @_@
Right now my network connection is really the most annoying thing, but it's passable as long as I'm patient enough to unplug my USB dongle, plug it back in, and reboot until the magic happens. (One reboot's almost always enough.) Usually I'm not that patient 'cause I'm still trying to figure this out, so I fumble with commands like "service network-manager restart" trying to find some combination of them that will actually work this time around. XD It'd be awesome if someone could help me out with this. ^_^;
