That’s assuming that half of the gut biomes of all humans was just left floating around. No, it’s more likely that the biomes were snapped out of existence with their hosts.
I almost never share an entire screen, but rather single application windows; when I absolutely must share visual information from multiple applications simultaneously, I create a separate virtual desktop for presenting. Is this not possible?
As another commenter mentioned, it’s rather silly to use a USB stick to transfer files from one HDD partition to another. However, there’s absolutely no need to use a Live USB session, and their description of how to access files on block devices was … wrong.
There are programs you can find for Windows to access Linux filesystems, but those tend to be flaky; NTFS support for Linux is mature enough to accomplish what you need. You should be able to install NTFS support with apt and access the Windows partition like any other drive - I’ve done this. Googling “Linux Mint NTFS” should find you what you need.