http://www.linuxmint.com
Installed on SSD with bootable USB.
http://www.pendrivelinux.com/universal- ... -as-1-2-3/
The first few weeks was a pain, getting printing, and brightness/contrast settings working on Gateway laptop NV55C (Acer). Finally liking it now.
So far so good with Scrivener. Color me impressed.
I just learned of Scrivener for the first time, and stoked that I could immediately download and try it on my primary machine, Linux Mint.
I found out about it from this article. LOL.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2465125,00.asp