I ran my last PC with dual boot along side Win 7, it was great to be booted in linux yet still have the ability to go grab files as needed out of the windows partition also.
Here’s a tip for you, I like to use the “synaptic” that is included with cinnamon also. It will go grab the more recent versions of the apps available than the software manager does. I go do a “is there a whatever for linux?” net search to see if there is such an app I need for linux and then go type the name into synaptic.
Synaptic is a search engine it’s self for all linux stuff, which is not just limited to mint or linux, it will look for and grab the most recent version from all sources available. Then if there are any added dependencies needed it will go grab and install those at the same time also in one operation.
MS cannot touch this very cool ability to self check for dependencies when downloading an app and add them in the one time combined install process. :)
[[Here’s a tip for you, I like to use the “synaptic” that is included with cinnamon also.]]
I get too confused about which files are needed when trying to install from stynaptic- it seems there’s a bunch of versions or something- or needed extra files, dependencies etc- and I’m never sure which ones are actually needed and which ones belong to a different version of the program IO’m looking at-
I really should learn how to install from synamptic though because like you said- it’s more recent on many things-
I’m sure it’s probably a lot simpler than I think it is- but it just seems confusing to me-