Linux Mint - Installing from Live USB stick

Continuing from my last post...

I got tired of waiting around for this USB stick thing to do whatever it was suppose to do, so like always, I figured I did something wrong.

I put the USB stick back in to my main system and changed my options around a bit.  Instead of putting syslinux on the USB stick for the PBR, I changed it to NTLDR.  Then, I also changed my multi-partition set up, back to single partition using NTFS.

I don't plan on using this USB stick for much, other than just getting Mint installed on my resurrected system, so I didn't opt for any sort of persistent storage.
Well, fiddling with my BIOS' options, I realized I inadvertently turned off "Legacy USB storage"... which caused a foreseeable issue.  I turned that back on, and put everything back in the new old system... and bam, everything works!  I wrote this from the live loaded Linux Mint USB stick!
Let's see if this has gimp or anything else installed so that I can post a screenie.  Thankfully, firefox was already installed, so that went off without a hitch.

I ran a terminal, and did "gimp &" (to run gimp in the background), and bam, it's there, even the most up to do date version of it! (2.8.4 at the time of this writing!).

Now, how to remember to take a screenshot with it...

And there we have it.  Looks like I just need to install mint to the hard drive officially now and we'll be all set!

I will say this, Mint is pretty impressive.  If there ever comes a day and games take over the linux desktop (via Steam or whatever), then maybe this will catch on even more with the masses.  All I know is I'm not a fan of Windows 8.