So after loading Mint onto at least 50 laptops at work, I now have it on my home
laptop, with dual boot.  :)
Now I just sort of have to get back into the swing of _using_ Linux.

I have done the following so far:

oem@oem-Inspiron-N5110 ~/Desktop $ sudo add-apt-repository
ppa:qtpovray/qtpovray[sudo] password for oem:
You are about to add the following PPA:
 qtpovray is a GUI/IDE for developing POV-Ray scenes
 More info: https://launchpad.net/~qtpovray/+archive/ubuntu/qtpovray
Press Enter to continue or Ctrl+C to cancel

Executing: /tmp/tmp.Xm1qzSUTJw/gpg.1.sh --keyserver
hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80
--recv-keys
30976367
gpg: requesting key 30976367 from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com
gpg: key 30976367: public key "Launchpad PPA for qtpovray" imported
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg:               imported: 1  (RSA: 1)
oem@oem-Inspiron-N5110 ~/Desktop $ sudo apt-get update
Ign:1 http://packages.linuxmint.com sylvia InRelease
Hit:2 http://packages.linuxmint.com sylvia Release
Hit:3 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Hit:4 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease
Hit:5 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease
Hit:6 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Get:7 http://ppa.launchpad.net/qtpovray/qtpovray/ubuntu xenial InRelease [18.0
kB]
Hit:8 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports InRelease
Get:10 http://ppa.launchpad.net/qtpovray/qtpovray/ubuntu xenial/main Sources
[688 B]
Get:11 http://ppa.launchpad.net/qtpovray/qtpovray/ubuntu xenial/main amd64
Packages [952 B]
Get:12 http://ppa.launchpad.net/qtpovray/qtpovray/ubuntu xenial/main i386
Packages [952 B]
Get:13 http://ppa.launchpad.net/qtpovray/qtpovray/ubuntu xenial/main
Translation-en [588 B]
Fetched 21.2 kB in 2s (8,942 B/s)
Reading package lists... Done



.....aaaaaand now what?

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