https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/raspberry-pi-zero/

...actually works out more like $6 here

I recently installed Mint Cinnamon over Windows 10.

The biggest thing I needed to learn about were the file formats. When you make your partitions, they have to be formatted in ext3 or ext4.

This is a useful read: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LinuxFilesystemsExplained

Keep asking questions. These guys got me running and I'll be happy to help where I can, too!

what is the average flight speed of a swallow?

Laden or unladen?

Laden with a coconut!

An African or European swallow?

Eurasian.

0___o

Yarp!

Although the exact answer depends largely on the attributes of the operating environment, being an open-source implementation of compiler which allows on-the-fly manipulation, we could agree that [url=https://github.com/lexchou/swallow]Swallow is mostly swift.

...plus any adapters or cables you might need in order to connect anything, like micro-USB-B-to-USB-A and mini-HDMI-to-HDMI. And storage. The more expensive packages include at least the cables as far as I've understood, while the $5 package is just the Raspberry.

they arent that much more expensive really - all things considered - but you're correct that the base package doesn't include them.

I think it might be due to graphical issues. Go to the drivers or additional drivers or whatever it's called in MInt and check if you can install privative ones.

SEARCH SPECIFIC INFORMATION BEFORE, because it might fuck up your graphical system and it's hard to fix if you are new to Linux. For example, if I don't execute nvidia -xconfig, my X doesn't boot and you must do terminal stuff. So yes, read about the drivers, but be cautious please!

Many of those kinds of problems can be solved with Compiz.
Since Mint comes with Compiz already by now, it should be somewhere in your preferences menu.
If the options there are greyed out, there's just one thing to click:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/197838/compiz-settings-are-grayed-out

You can activate some fancy desktop effects there too.