Linux Mint will not run on my machine. I have tried to get the last three versions to work. They all seem to start up and then after a few minutes everything freezes. Same with Ubuntu.
Hmm, that is odd and unfortunate. As I understand it Mint comes from the same fundamental distro tree as Ubuntu (deb or Debian based). Maybe there’s something in there that doesn’t agree with your hardware. That has become increasingly rare these days but obviously not impossible as you’ve found out. If you have some spare time (yeah, what’s that?) you might want to try one of the RPM based distros. Red Hat’s Fedora Core comes to mind. I’ve run PCLinuxOS on machines here at home in the past too.