--Thanks for that. I switched to Palemoon on Windows as soon as I saw the idiotic Australis look-and-feel. Firefox developers or Tone-deaf morans, you decide...
--Sorry, I know Mint is one of the most popular distros and I'm a longtime user - but if you take a proper Debian base and modify it to the point where it can't be *upgraded* properly, YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG. I stopped using RPM-based distros exactly because of the upgrade headaches a long time ago.
--I went with Xubuntu this time around and haven't noticed the difference much - altho it appears to be much more stable than the last Mint(15/Olivia) I had on this laptop.
--What, are you kidding? I can go to a CMD prompt in Win7 and type in ' ftp ' and it works. It's crappy and basic, but it's there. However, googling for " Winscp " and installing it is dead simple.
Be careful when a loop exits to the same place from side and bottom.