[ducttape45]

Thanks for all of the input. I had to install Mint 18.3 before anything worked. A lot of thing didn't worked in 19.2; Samba and the printer being chief amongst the offenders.

When I installed 18.3, I had a network already in place, I could see my Windows network, networked PCs, the extra hard drive plugged into my router, everything. When I installed the printer driver, the thing actually printed!

So I don't know what it is about 19.2 that broke Mint, but I wouldn't recommend ANYONE use it until someone gets the kinks ironed out.

Again, thanks for all the input, and if anyone knows where the regular text editor is (something similar to Notepad), and how I can configure my multiple monitor setup to give me different backgrounds, I'm all ears.

[Pollard]

Hmmm, which version? Mate, cinnamon or Xfce?

I’m running Mint 18.2 KDE edition it didn’t even have Samba installed.

[Nateman]

A GUI text editor is called Gedit. Simple and it works. By

[blogOps]

You can go to the lower left LinuxMint toggle button to Preference;Display - for monitor settings.

But I’ve not had multiple monitors with different bg images - they’re all the same image. The Nvidia drivers are somewhat quirky btw.

Text editor is in the Accessories menu of the lower left LinuxMint toggle button.

Or you can go download gedit; or be brave and go vi within commandline.

Enjoy =)