By default, Linux Mint already comes with several pre-installed programs for different tasks. Below, you know a little more than what already comes in the system and also what other ways to get more apps and even games. Look:
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Preinstalled applications
Soon after opening the main menu of Mint, you already give a series of categories with some programs for each of them. To help you know a little more about them, check out this list:
LibreOffice - Alternative to Microsoft Office, the program brings options of applications for editing texts, spreadsheets, slides, and others.
GIMP - Free alternative to Photoshop for editing images;
Pix - an Image viewer.
Transmission - Client to download torrent files from the internet;
Firefox - Mozilla's traditional browser is the system's default browser;
Thunderbird - Another Mozilla program, but this one is an email client, being a powerful option for the place of Outlook;
Rhythmbox - Music player;
VLC - A traditional music and video player with support for several codecs.
The app store
The easiest way to add new programs to the system is through the app store that comes with it. Just as Microsoft has the Windows Store, Linux Mint has its own option called "Application Manager."
In it, you can find the most famous applications like Spotify, Filezilla, Google Earth, and other options. When installing a program through the store, you will not have any configuration work, since the process is as automated as possible, is the ideal way for beginners to add what they are looking for in the system.
In addition to the applications, the official Mint store has a generous collection of games to install. Among them, of course, you could not miss the Steam client, which has been improving Linux support and has more games for the system.
Download programs via internet
An important point to know about Linux Mint to download applications and other options through websites are that it is based on a Debian distribution. This way, whenever the DEB and RPM package options appear, you must choose the DEB and choose the version corresponding to the one you installed from Mint for 32- or 64-bit processors.
When opening the DEB file on the system, the installation is somewhat similar to what happens in Windows with the process being automated. Although some errors with this method can occur, regarding incompatible dependencies, it has been improved and, today, application installations in Linux are much more fluid and easy to perform.
More shopping and app options
In addition to the above-mentioned methods for obtaining programs on Linux, developers have been actively working to make life easier for those who are starting the system. Thus, they have created some stores that are universal, that is, the programs that are in them should run on any Linux, regardless of the distribution or platform that are installed.
Here are the top stores in this category:
Snapcraft - With the support of Canonical, the owner of Ubuntu, the store has applications from developers such as Mozilla, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and others;
Flathub - Using the Flatpak program makes it easy to get packages that choose this method to be installed.
Easy way to install
Debian is the predecessor of several Linux distributions, including Ubuntu, Mint and virtually all of its derived distros use the Apt package manager. On these systems, just use the command below:
[sudo apt install packagename]
Replacing the last parameter with the package name (in this case, gimp) would look like this:
[sudo apt install gimp]
Ready! Now you know how to install the programs for the most varied tasks you need to perform on your computer. In the next part of this series, you'll learn how to change the look of Linux Mint with Cinnamon in a deeper way, and see how to install other graphics environments.
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