>>The best feature of Linux is that if anything goes wrong, it's very easy to find a fix - most often it's just one or two lines that you copy from a webpage and paste into a terminal session (aka command prompt window). There's no advertising, and no hundreds of sales pitch articles with things being called the same but meaning something else, as is common with M$ stuff. Usually the solution is on page 1 of the search (and I'm using StartPage, not straight google, so it filters out most of the crap - but even before that, it behaved the same).
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>Thanks. Have been playing with Mint but perhaps Ubuntu would be the better for me. Cheers.

I haven't played much with Mint - I have it on the small laptop, which I use for just reading, watching videos and editing small text files, so it wasn't really tested for anything serious and surely not for any work.