When using Linux Mint / Ubuntu or any *nix based system, it is quicker and actually efficient to get tasks done directly using the Terminal instead of the point and click stuff. Here is a simple command that will show you who has logged into the current system plus when the system was last booted [...]
Using the Terminal in Linux Mint is much much more frequent than using the command prompt in Windows. Here is a simple way to set the given Terminal session as root till the time it is exited. To switch from the existing logged on user in Mint Terminal to root, just open the Terminal and [...]