Thank you so much, comrades! I am feeling pretty comfortable with linux mint, and now would like some suggestions for some absolutely necessary FOSS or free license software for the OS. So far I have the standard, Firefox, ThunderBird, LibreOffice, yada yada. Thank you again to everyone on the linux comm! 
BONUS: here’s some command-line toys that are not useful or necessary, but are just real fun to take a look at especially if you’re new to linux:
wow, neofetch is really cool! thank you!
It’s mandatory for online boasting.
You forgot the package hollywood.
Thanks for this!
fastfetch is neofetch in C instead of bash, makes it much faster.
Cmatrix,SL and neofetch work on android too through termux, I bet others would too, but I have only tested these two