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! 
- Calibre - eBook manager/reader
- Gparted - disk tool
- Keepass - password manager
- VLC - the greatest video/music player
- Waydroid - run android apps