I've installed Mint Mate on my pc, so for a change, hopefully less terminal usage. It has its own software- and driver manager, making installing of software like Nvidia driver and Wine rather simple and straightforward.
Downsides of using software manager in Mint Mate:
- it has a limited selection of 'curated' list of apps
- when selecting "show installed applications", it shows only the ones the user has installed.
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When rebooting/shutting down, there is 10 seconds or longer delay - like some app or process was hanging on the background. It's not just my system; some other Mint users have this issue as well. One solution works in some cases, another works, again in some other cases and so on.
Quick and dirty (although not necessarily convenient) way to circumvent that is to add 'custom application launcher' button to panel, having command 'reboot'. It doesn't hesitate, it reboots immediately. Same procedure can be used to add also a shutdown button, if needed.
