Getting to know Mint
Explore the freshest of fresh installs and tweak it to perfection.
Hopefully the machine reboots effortlessly to the Mint login screen (Lightdm) and after a flourish of credentials, you’ll be back at the Cinnamon desktop. The first thing you’ll see is a Welcome screen. As well as being a friendly greeting, this is actually quite useful because it guides you to all sorts of things you might want to set up, now that Mint is officially up and running. So useful that it pops up every time you log in until you tick the box (bottomright) telling it not to. We’ll cover a couple of things from the First Steps section, and leave you to follow through with the rest.
Any modern operating system needs to be updated, and we’ve already mentioned that Mint is no different. And that its update process is much less disruptive than you might find elsewhere. Be that as it may, sometimes an update goes wrong or contains a bug, and you wish you’d never applied it. In that case, you’d have to try to fix things manually, or wait for a new update to fix it. But with Timeshift (Mint’s system snapshot tool), rolling back a rogue update becomes effortless. Timeshift is all about system packages, so it’s not really for backing up your personal documents (although with some effort, you can make it do so).