It's the easiest Linux distro to live with I've found. No need to go looking for apps, extensions or codecs: they're all there. And should you happen to want an app that wasn't loaded out of the box it's easy enough to round up, you almost never need to download installation packages and you will probably never need to install anything off the command line. If you don't know what all of those things mean then you'll be fine without them; just treat Mint like a foolproof Windows and it's hard to go wrong. Said the man writing his reply from a Mac Pro tower