Reccomend me an operating system

jonwhite · 29 Aug 2013 at 19:17

hi,
im building a tower so excited, i have everything now but no operating system funds have really dried up i cant afford to buy a windows operating system.

wondering if there is a good free operating system which i could download then use on my new system blank hard drive.

or is there any other options? (im so skint i really am)

thank you

jonwhite · 29 Aug 2013 at 20:54

linux mint, i was reading about that last night, had some really good reviews think ill go for that,

cinnamon or the Mate version, what are these? anything to do with the linux mint?

jonwhite · 31 Aug 2013 at 13:20

definatly going for mint as an operating system, thanks for the help really appreciate it

jonwhite · 31 Aug 2013 at 13:33

just one more thing, is there a special way this should be burnt to a dvd ? i keep seeing the word isofile really dont who what this means in the mint instructions is says burn isofile to DVD? do i just copy then paste it to a dvd?

thank you