Few things I would do differently, granted I've never struggled to the level the author has latest Linux Mint and a new XPS 15. 1. Always wipe the disk/trash a

Few things I would do differently, granted I've never struggled to the level the author has latest Linux Mint and a new XPS 15. 1. Always wipe the disk/trash all partitions and install Windows 10 fresh after you rip out the keys. OEMs ship crapware city with some nasty nasty things sometimes. You will also get back a decent amount of extra GBs from recovery partitons. 2. Linux distros all come with Gparted, use it for resizing. 3. The nVidia drivers are ready to go in additional drivers, don't know why he was installing ppas ( picked wrong release? ) As a golden rule if you have brand spanking new hardware and things are not working, upgrading your kernel to bleeding latest will usually solve things. ( 60% of the time it works evertime! But no seriously, you may need to roll up your sleeves and compile RCs with custom patches ) 4. OSX like gestures work out of the box very nicely on Cinnamon. It's a shame he couldn't get it going, might be worth spending a little more effort on getting it running. Forcing it or xorg to reconfigure might work if something screwed up with the driver switching?