Programs

You can find many programs in the "Applications" menu of the Cinnamon desktop. Try poking around a bit. Try out some of games, in the "Games" sub-menu of the "Applications." menu. "AisleRiot Solitaire" offers a wide selection of solitaire card games.

More seriously, the Gimp is an image processing program in almost the same class as the commercial Photoshop. (To see most of its menus, right-click an image-editing window.) Inkscape is a less-well-developed program for vector graphic drawing. Eclipse is a sophisticated Java programing environment.

For browsing the Web, the Firefox web browser is installed. There should be a Firefox icon in the panel at the bottom of the screen. You can also find it in the Application menu.

In Lansing 310 (but not Rosenberg 009), you'll find three major mathematics programs -- Mathematics, Maple, and MatLab.

And there is a full set of "office" applications in the "Office" submenu, including the word-processing program LibreOffice Writer, which is similar in power to the word processor in Microsoft Office and can open documents created with that program. And LibreOffice Calc is a spreadsheet program similar to Microsoft Excel, and it can open Excel documents.

Note: In previous years, OpenOffice was installed instead of LibreOffice. LibreOffice is really the same program under a different name.