I've installed Anaconda3 on previous Linux Mint systems usingAnaconda's docs for installing on Linux and it worked okay but I think that it might have screwed up those previous installations by letting Anaconda make Python 3 the default python on the path. Every now and when I would try to install basic applications through apt-get install they would fail and Python was sometimes be mentioned in the error messages. Also I've read that you can break the system by installing python 3 as path; here is one example.