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Originally Posted by id10t
Boot with a Linux Mint LiveDVD adn make sure all hardware works. If it does, you are good to go -click the install button 
If it doesn't, then consider running VirtualBox under your Windows system, and run Linux as a VM |
Mint is great. I used for quite a while. It actually does way more than I need. One can also install linux to a flash drive and just run it from that. Thats how I ran several different distros before I found the one I prefer.