[conspire] test drive of new laptop

[Nick Moffitt]

Rick Moen:
> I have to confess I don't have a lot of experience with Linux Mint,
> but hear a lot of praise for it from users, including its 'live' mode.  

I hope they've made progress in the past couple years, then:

    https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-discuss/2013-November/014724.html

Mint was famous from the start as "Ubuntu with the most important
security updates shut off."