Mint tips and tricks

1. Your username in Mint is "me". Your password is "eecs182". Occasionally, you may need this, for example, when installing software within Mint.

1. Mint is a full-fledged Linux system. Mint is a variant of Ubuntu, a popular Linux system.

1. It is a good idea to back up your files that are inside Mint to a safe place. Mint can occasionally crash. Your laptop can also crash. Every semester, we have a few such cases. To start with, you can use Shared Folders in VMware to share a folder between your laptop and Mint. That way, files within Mint are actually on your laptop. Then, backup that folder to MBox, Dropbox, or to university infrastructure.