Just a FYI. From the web site.
" We now know that Linux Mint 19.3 will ship with three new apps and feature a revamped set of artwork that, Mint say, “…makes 19.3 feel really fresh”.
We know at least 2 of those 3 new apps already: Celluloid (a user-friendly front to MPV) and Gnote , which replaces Tomboy. The third is Drawing , a Microsoft paint analog."
i was having a conversation just the other day about how for all of the powerful options gimp provides, sometimes i do still wish i had a simpler option like microsoft paint to do easy things quickly instead of having to wade through all kinds of unfamiliar menus to get a red text box to appear around the text i want to highlight in a picture. i will have to give drawing a look-see 
Have been looking for this for a very long time. Then I found Greenshot and now I need an analog to its picture editing part. Actually, I need the entire software ported onto Linux, not an analog. Greenshot is one of the most perfect software I ever used in my life.
Somehow, many years ago I sometimes tried to use Gimp and failed. Later I tried to flatten my problems by adjusting the software. Still failed. I never liked Gimp, but I really really tried using it. Conclusion: to me personally, Gimp is absolutely useless, literally.
Love Mint. Can’t wait to try it out. 
Been testing it out in a VM for a while today. Ooooo, I like it. I like it a lot! 
Even in beta form, it runs more stable and smoothly than some other distros run fully installed. Very impressed thus far.
I would recommend Pinta. It is basically a Linux version of Pain .NET. I don’t think it has been updated in a while, but it is still very useful.
cordx-Take a try of “Kolour Paint”. A good, simple program to get easy jobs done in Linux. For other, more complex work, such as making greeting cards, I use LO Draw. It handles my needs very well.
you were not wrong in the least. that is as close to a paint clone as i could have imagined. just being able to resize the canvas with a quick drag and drop is so appreciated. thanks for the recommendation
Went ahead and installed on my daily. It ran so well in a VM, I had little concern there would be any issues. And as no surprise, it’s rock-solid. Everything “just works” as intended.
Yesterday, coincidentally my friend was showing something on his desktop and just picked the first random program that seemed like a Paint analog. gPaint did quite good and it is definitely worth trying out, if you are looking for a valid alternative.
Just install Mint 19.3 thru the ‘Update Manager’ and all went well. There are about 16 patches that are ready to apply including a Kernel update. I did not apply all the patches, but did include all the security ones.
Testing out Mint 19.3 now and it feels good.
About 2 weeks with it and zero issues.
@MikeREM, I might have a small problem. Last night I also upgraded my desktop to Mint 19.3 Cinnamon. So now, my laptop & desktop is running Mint 19.3.
The problem I noticed is that on my laptop under Update Manager, it shows a kernel patch / update to 4.15.0-72.81 which sounds right.
On my desktop under Update Manager is also show a kernel patch / update, but to level 5.0.0-32. Under view kernel, it shows all levels of 5.0 to be superseded.
i just updated my vm to 19.3 today. in my kernel viewer, it showed all 5.0.0 kernels were superseded except -37 (supported until feb 2020) even as i was given the option to update to -32 by the update manager. i decided to try the -32 update just to see. as soon as i rebooted, i was given the option to update to -37 which is what my vm is using now.
i realize for those of you using mint daily, it makes sense to check for stability. i just thought i would add that my vm seems to be ok on 5.0.0-37.
Yeah, all machines I have running mint, were on 4.15 with 19.2. When I updated them all to 19.3, they also prompted to update the kernel to 5.0.0-37 and so that’s what I did. No issues thus far. I always use which ever kernel is recommended and prompted by the update manager. Hasn’t failed me yet.
!! Surprise !!
Tonight I went to document the difference between my laptop & desktop about the kernel update.
The kernel update on the desktop to kernel 5.0.0 disappear, it’s gone!
I went ahead and apply ALL the updates to both the laptop & the desktop and now both systems are completely up-to-date and shows kernel 14.15.0-72 as active and there are no updates pending.
After the update to 19.3 on Linux Cinnamon …
I am getting ‘System Reports’ - Detected Problems.
Anyone else getting these messages. BTW, I have a root password.
i got both of those in my vm as well. looks like ‘system reports’ is new in 19.3. i accepted and installed the first and installed them because it seemed harmless. i have yet to set up the root password since i don’t use the vm for much. my understanding is that it is asking the user to set a password for the root account which is different from my password that i use for sudo on my own account.
