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Linux Mint Essentials
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
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Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
Chapter 1. Meet Linux Mint
Why choose Linux?
What is a distribution?
Is Linux hard to learn?
What Mint does differently
Releases and support
Mint-specific tools
Interacting with the Linux Mint community
Creating community and forum accounts
Meet the community
Summary
Chapter 2. Creating Boot Media and Installing Linux Mint
Which version to download
The different methods of installing Linux Mint
Creating a bootable DVD
Creating a bootable USB flash drive
Testing your live media
Planning your partitioning scheme
The installation process
To encrypt or not to encrypt
Chapter 3. Getting Acquainted with Cinnamon
Getting familiar with Cinnamon
Logging in to Cinnamon
Launching programs
Monitoring tasks
Utilizing workspaces
Notifications
Creating launchers
Bundled applications
File management with Nemo
Configuring the settings of Cinnamon
Changing the default search engine in Firefox
Changing themes
Chapter 4. An Introduction to the Terminal
Why should we use the terminal?
Accessing the shell
Executing commands
Navigating the filesystem
Managing files
The nano text editor
Reading manual pages with the man command
Searching for files
Using the watch command
Introduction to scripting
Chapter 5. Utilizing Storage and Media
Accessing removable media
Formatting flash drives
Mounting and unmounting volumes
Automatically mounting volumes at boot time
Analyzing disk usage
Understanding gibibytes versus gigabytes and mebibytes versus megabytes
Burning CDs and DVDs
Using the USB Image Writer
Understanding how Universally Unique Identifiers work
Chapter 6. Installing and Removing Software
Managing packages in Linux Mint
Using the Mint Software Manager
Installing new applications
Removing applications
Using the Synaptic Package Manager
Configuring software sources
Advanced package management
Keeping your system up to date
Chapter 7. Enjoying Multimedia on Mint
Understanding issues concerning codecs
Playing music files
Ripping an audio CD
Editing MP3 tags
Playing video files
Playing a DVD
Viewing photos
Editing photos with GIMP
Accessing your webcam
Recording your desktop
Chapter 8. Managing Users and Permissions
Creating new users
Changing passwords
Revoking access temporarily
Removing user accounts
Running commands or programs as other users
