Linux Mint’s greatest strength is its aesthetically coherent GUI whose layout makes it ideal for those who find themselves arriving from a Windows environment. Mint was the distribution on which I first rode into desktop Linux full time, and had been my first choice for no-nonsense deployments to new devices. Especially to those of relatives who had solicited me for guidance. But this usually hassle-free distribution has lately found itself the source of some support woes. Linux Mint is a d...