‘Linux Mint‘ is considered the simplest and dearest Linux distro. It has comparatively very simple installation procedure(Non-intimidating), very simple configuration setup and damn good procedure to download new packages/codecs and update repositories. You will finish installation in about 20 minutes. Seconds after installation you can play MP3s and videos without installing any extra codecs using tiring complex steps. Almost all formats are supported by its Media players.
Images are the substantial part of the present day data stream. The best way to preserve our memories is to take snapshots of that very moments of your life. To store these beautiful time shots you need some software which can store , arrange and manipulate them easily according to your instructions. Here is a list of some of the best open source softwares available:
1) GIMP:
GIMP stands for GNU Image Manipulation Program.
It is a free software for photo retouching, image composition and authoring. It can act as a simple paint application and at the same time expert quality photo retouching software.
It can do anything with plug-ins and extensions.
GIMP is the biggest source of confrontation ahead very costly Adobe Photoshop. It has all the features that are essential for head to head comparison with Photoshop.
It has all painting tools including Brush, Pencil, Airbrush, Clone, etc. It has very powerful gradient editor and blend tool with support of custom brushes and patterns.
It has also Advanced Manipulation options like full alpha channel support, layers and channels(You must’ve known that if you have used Photoshop),Undo/Redo options,text layers, transformation tools like rotate, scale, shear and flip, selection tools like rectangle, rounded rectangle, ellipse, free, fuzzy.
Now something which is unusual in Photoshop, it contains GIMP animation package which consists of hell lot of options.
Don’t you think that these endless features are enough to prompt you to try this once. Also due to open source backup team numbers of new features are added to this time by time.
GIMP is distributed with almost all Linux packages, also it has support over Windows and MAC.
You all must know that heart of every Linux distro is terminal (counterpart of CMD of Windows in Linux). It is much much powerful than its counterpart CMD in windows. You can master any distro by having a good grip over terminal. GUI is different for different distros but same UNIX terminal lies in core all of them.
For having a good grip over terminal you need to know all basic terminal commands. I am gonna tell you 20 most important commands of Linux.
(1) su
su stands for superuser. Linux has limited user access that is why it is considered and de facto is secure. It asks for administrative password at every gateway.
Switching user to administrator is a lot simple than windows.
Type su in terminal window and it’ll ask for password.
su
This is true. You will have a unique working experience with everyone of it. Every Linux OS has its own peculiarities which can be mysterious as well as intuitive, can be advantageous too. Due to the wide availability and with its specific editions Linux have been on the charts and have been best choices for various platforms.
This post is just a brief intro to major Linux distros out there. It will give you a good preset in your mind if you are gonna install a new Linux distro in future.
So here we start with:
If you have just switched over to Linux from Windows, 
this is the right choice for you. Working environment is very identical to Windows, and software packages are also easily available because of its Debian backup. Adding and removing any application is also quite simple. Synaptic manager is the name of utility. Well codecs is not very much the issue. You can play mp3s seconds after installation. Codecs are also easily available for downloads.
Well the negative side is that Gnomeis the only desktop environment available.
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It is very important to know the media players of Linux. Because there are not many of them pre installed.
Generally people don’t have essential know-how that which one is best based on features and user-experience. Every release has its own new entry in to league, but its worthily to know which of ‘em are there amiable. So here are some I can recommend from my experience.
Totem is movie player for the Gnome desktop based on xine and . It plays any Xine or GStreamer supported file. It 
support 4.0, 4.1, 5.0, 5.1, stereo and AC3 pass-through audio output.
From user-experience it can be easily rated as best place to play your media even when there are plenty of players available. make it as a default player. It is definitely better audio player as audio is much more pronounced and clear and lastly detailed.
Download Totem Media player
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