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! 
Install everything as a flatpak, it is the future. Anything else will be outdated or can lead to headache (dependency issues).
Here’s a simple GUI video downloader.
Here are elegant, easy to use apps that cover many different needs.
EDIT: Tell me where I’m wrong