I switched to Linux 14 months ago . I was over my Brothers yesterday ,he was updating/upgrading his win 10 ,it took all day ,LOL
I installed Cinnamon 19 beta on a 60Gb ssd. The install was very easy. I customized it with the software I use: gtkterm, hardinfo, filezilla, bleachbit, google-earth-stable, dosbox, kpat, crunch, ksnap, kate, seamonkey, gparted. First thing I noticed is that there is no swap file partition like with 18.3. I run some old MS Windows software and need WINE. The wine 3.0.1 was not working like the old wine 1.8 on Cinnamon 18.3. I was able to copy over the .thunderbird and .mozilla files and volia! my email and firefox looks just like on my Base Cinnimon 18.3 computer. So far, except for wine, t he new Cinnamon 19 beta running kernel 4.16.14 is GREAT
Good Hunting... from Varmint Al