nor is berating someone because of their lack of knowledge,
frustration at the volume of unfinnished works, and general
instability which is the pride of out chosen platform. Try stick to
solutions and consise (not vague from newbies pov) answers, in the
same way they are provided to you
You didn't get my point (or my English is too poor ;-) -- I open to help any newbie with problems like "how should I fix my xxxMiNT install in case I screw it up" and it's natural no one knows everything. I replied to Peter's let's say less then neutral notes about how Alan's initiative is pointless because it's another distro and WE ALL KNOW how incredible hard is to (re)install new system -- this statement is simply not true and that was my point. Alan's initiative is OK because if you decide to install his work, there is couple of experienced people who are able to help if something goes wrong and whole procedure may be question of a few minutes (or hours, depending on your computer :).
That's all.