Now that you’re up and running in Mint, you’ll be wanting to start making productive use of it. That naturally involves running applications and utilities. Start by taking an inventory of the programs you use in Windows and checking the website for each to see if a Linux build is available. If there isn’t one, don’t panic – you’ll find the vast majority of Windows applications have an equivalent version for Linux. Better still, many of these are both free and open source, so you won’t need to splash out to use them, but do of course donate to them.
The most obvious place to start is your office suite. When it comes to replacing your word processor, spreadsheet, database and presentation tool, you’ll find everything you need is already…