64-bit Mint 16 Xfce LiveUSB first impressions

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Having spent a little more time with Mint 16 Xfce, my previous complaints
boil down to the following:

Restatement of minor difficulties:
1. Need to obtain proprietary firmware for for Broadcom wifi.
2. Need to add tzdata and to use it to tweak desktop time not UTC.
3. Need to tweak touchpad parameters not to interfere with typing.
4. Graphics interference is an unexpected roll-up of current graphic frame contents
activated by mouse scroll wheel.

In other words,
1. The occasional graphics blip is a feature, not a bug.
Mouse scroll wheel on (any) panel top causes roll-up or roll-down. Clever.
2. Log-off is contained in the Whisker menu's upper right corner. Insidious.

This little OS has a lot to like in it. Also, I find
mint@mint ~ $ ls -l /dev/loop* gives...
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 0 Feb 17 05:04 /dev/loop0
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 1 Feb 17 05:04 /dev/loop1
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 2 Feb 17 05:04 /dev/loop2
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 3 Feb 17 05:04 /dev/loop3
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 4 Feb 17 05:04 /dev/loop4
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 5 Feb 17 05:04 /dev/loop5
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 6 Feb 17 05:04 /dev/loop6
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 7 Feb 17 05:04 /dev/loop7
crw------- 1 root root 10, 237 Feb 17 05:04 /dev/loop-control

This looks a lot like Knoppix, wherein one may stack successive loop devices and
have them joined in a unionfs. One needs to examine Mint's initramfs to see if it
tells how loop0, Mint's rofs and loop1, its rwfs are joined in a unionfs. If it is.