Quote Originally Posted by heatemyfather View Post
May I recommend that you try Mint Linux (Debian branch) on that old Lenovo laptop, I was surprised how well it runs on an old Acer of mine, and thus far it's been a lot better and more stable than Ubuntu Mint or any other flavour of Ubuntu.

I have a big old iMac sitting in it's box, sadly unloved and unused because the graphics card expired (seems to be a running thing with me, my main gaming PC graphics card went splat too). Hmm, someone somewhere probably knows how to get around this problem with the iMac assuming there's onboard Intel graphics available as well, I shall have to investigate!
I used Mint on my desktop back at my old address, but since I started writing books and sending work in to magazine editors, I have found that online publishers mostly want manuscripts using Word and and Mac docs