Well I am now here on Zorin 16 Pro running Cinnamon Desktop .... Thanks to Aravisian for his knowledge and patience and the following terminal commands .....
sudo apt remove --purge mintsources
sudo apt install cinnamon cinnamon-core
I have spent the morning customizing the desktop to my liking and although partly finished I have a ways to go .... I have however run into one small snag ...... how to enlarge the mouse pointer ...... I tried all the usual settings with no luck so I tried the on-line Mint DDG search .... the suggestion didn't work so I figured I better ask here ....
Anyone know how to make the mouse pointer larger in Cinnamon desktop ....
The only settings I found for mouse was under System Settings / Accessibilty / Mouse .... but no way to enlarge the cursor .... but thanks for your reply
That is where I found what I needed .... thanks .... strange they would have the mouse controls in 2 different places .... but at least I can see the cursor now ... lol