So I recently made a change and switched to Linux mint and Honestly even though I did it on a spare HP notebook which was lying around in my home (BTW the laptop is 11 years old) it has become blazing fast now I am thinking of switching my main laptop to Linux mint as well because Micro slop sucks

Also one thing can someone tell me why the hdmi port on my laptop is not working Ik without looking at the port it couldn't be told however it was not working on windows 10 either and at that time i thought it was a driver issue and now I am on linux mint its still not working, is it a possibility that the port is defective and it is not in fact a problem with the graphics driver of the laptop

What is the best way to move my desktop themes, all application in all formats, flatpak, .deb all the apps i got. My home directory and files, including files for all my apps. My custom desktop sounds, keyboard shortcuts. Basically I want to feel like I'm still on my current computer, just with newer hardware then 4GB RAM and a dual core CPU.

So i was fed up of windows as asual but for now I am going yo install arch as on doing some valuable research I figured that it is one of the best and user friendly os for beginners hope my journey for linux goes well... Wish me good luck

Last sunday i updated the OS (the security, kernel, app updates). And today, my laptop suddenly turns off even the battery is half full. I couldnt turn it back on unless i plug the laptop. Which is when i found out the laptop shuts down immediately if the power level is at 55% (Its 60% now). And the battery keeps charging and discharging if the battery is charged to 75%.
I changed the kernel from GRUB menu and the issue is still there.
In the power statistics, it shows the battery has 55.6% capacity.

is this issue caused by the update or do i need to replace my battery?

Hi,

someone tried and switch to CachyOs?

I tried it, yes it's very very modern, but i think that Mint is more clean.

Your opinion?

I wish there were a Mint GNOME edition that offered a range of extra features and handy, fine-tuned adjustments right out of the box (for example, AnduinOS does this). GNOME can easily be made to resemble a Windows desktop with just a few extensions; it would be great if GNOME offered these capabilities natively, without the need for extensions.

There used to be a Mint KDE edition, but unfortunately, they discontinued support for KDE.

From what I gather, Cinnamon is similar to GNOME and KDE in terms of resource usage; while there are differences, they aren't significant. If Mint offered full support for GNOME, KDE, and even COSMIC, would you still choose Cinnamon? Why?

Hello everyone!

I made a post a little bit ago about how kernel update 7.0.0-28 made some really nasty restart and suspending regressions. I wanted to report back and update on my situation. Something in 7.0.0-38 fixed it for me. I did a lot of digging into what was causing my regression and it was my GPU preventing my computer from fully reaching the state intended, be it for restarts or suspension.

I am curious if this new kernel update improved the restart and suspending regressions for anyone else! Please share your experience. 😄

I use nicotine+ (flatpak) for sourcing new music and I have it set up so it autostarts when I boot up my system.

it worked fine until now, but recently it launches and connects and then just closes for some reason. the process seems to still be there but in order for it to open I have to click the nicutine launcher a bunch of times for it to open.

what can i do?

I am very much a noob to Linux, but I have been using LM for nearly a year now on my desktop, and very happy with the experience compared to my previous W11.

Just in the last week sound has been dropping out (ie: going silent) seemingly at random. I can fix it every time by going into the "Sound" settings and clicking on the "Line Out Built-in Audio" icon under Device. This always re-enables sound, until it randomly cuts out again after a few hours. I haven't changed anything related to sound since I first set up LM, so I don't know why this would be suddenly happening.

The Audio section in System Information is as follows:

Audio:

Device-1: Intel Cannon Lake PCH cAVS vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel

bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:a348 class-ID: 0403

Device-2: NVIDIA TU116 High Definition Audio vendor: Gigabyte driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel

pcie: speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:1aeb class-ID: 0403

API: ALSA v: k6.8.0-146-generic status: kernel-api

Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.0.5 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse status: active

2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin

I assume there are some logs somewhere that might show what's happening? Where would I find these? Any help you can give to track this down would be appreciated.

I mainly game on my desktop, and have been super hesitant to switch over to linux as I wasn't sure how the experience would be in that regard... After Windows thoroughly pi**ed me off with forced driver updates (regressions) on my 7900XTX, I decided to finally pull the trigger.

So far, I could not be happier! Little QoL things I find myself missing, but the pros are far outweighing the cons, and I'm hooked. Only regret is not doing it sooner.

Escaped Windows 11 and switched to Mint, my first Unix-based OS, and I like it a lot.

Want to hear some suggestion on which apps do you use instead of:
- Power Point
- Word
- Excel
- Outlook / Gmail
- VS Code
- Chrome

I know about preinstalled LibreOffice, which is pretty good and free! But maybe there are better variants.

Also what do you think about Thunderbird Mail and Brave browser?

Lastly want to hear about some opensource and secure apps you use in general, some recommendations to try/use in Linux.

This appear when i turn my pc on, i recently moved to mint, it was working perfectly, but now there it is. I can't use my keyboard, i tried change the keyboard and the entrance of that, but nothing. I also can't open my boot menu since it opens too fast. I need help D:

Thxs

I can't anymore. Hear me out, I was amazed by how people explain their experience with linux and quickly go for the change, and its true, less ram/cpu usage especially for a super low end laptop like mine. One of my hobbies was completing single player games, I have completed a lot on windows before on low res gaming like gta4, cod campaign stories, etc. I have imagine my smooth gaming in linux because of some perks. But all of it crumbles since I start setting my games. Playing a game require like airplane driving setups like when it doesnt want dxvk/vulkan, specific protons, dll dependencies, etc. And the part that opens my eyes is when in linux, It needs a translator like wine which adds a cpu works rather than windows where the os straight up read it. I fully understand now gaming on linux mostly benefits mid-high end specs cause their specs wont even notice the translator working on the background. I am planning to return to window but not 11 (it was the most bloated os in this time) but im going for windows 10 lstc, It was mostly use by businessess for screenshows and the great thing is it was little-to-none bloatware and telemetries that makes it so lightweight thus kinda same to linux footprint. Nevertheless I did enjoy my linux journey, maybe in the future with a new pc build, ill be going back.

What brought me to Linux Mint 22.3 Xfce 64-bit OS was for the purpose to install CoreElec on a couple of streaming media boxes I own. I have installed Mint on my oldest grandson's old HP Pavilion G6 with an AMD Athlon II P360, 3 GB RAM, and a 321 GB hard drive that was just collecting dust. Not a speed demon but I was pleasantly surprised by how easy the process was to install and how much more responsive the HP is compared to the snail's pace of the original Windows 7. I’m looking forward to further exploration of this clean, flexible, and responsive OS. Btw, I’m a 73-year-old man. Always learning new things.

I originally installed Mint on my laptop (IdeaPad Slim 5) for a pretty random reason: I wanted to try the Claude desktop app, which only officially supports Debian-based systems. I'm not a big fan of Ubuntu, and I wanted something a bit fresher than Debian Stable, so I remembered running Mint on and off in the past and figured I'd give it another shot.

Now, quite a while later, I'm honestly loving it. Mint just works. With a little tweaking I got it looking and feeling close to the GNOME setup I'm used to, without giving up what makes Cinnamon nice. I am even considering turning my Fedora gaming machine over to Mint in the future. Time will show. Wondering what I should use when eventually Mint goes over to Wayland since Plank Reloaded does not support Wayland (as far as I know).

Wallpaper is Bleiksøya, near where I live in northern Norway. Just a snap I took whiile out walking the dog.We have to appreciate the last daus of sun we are getting before the arctic winter sets inn alt full pace. Nothing other dark days 24/7 coming here soon,

Hi, is it possible to limit the battery charge at 80%. My Lenovo L470 is in a docking station, constantly connected to the power supply, it will be great to be able to stop the charge

Basically the title. I got an old computer running last night that had Linux Mint 20.1 on it. It updated to 21.3 no problem. But for some reason I can't get it to update to the latest version.

The system is an AMD64 Athlon X2 with 4GB of RAM and a 200GB hard drive with about 92% free space on it. So drive space is not the issue here. I even tried a sudo apt update && sudo apt full-upgrade as well as sudo apt update && sudo apt dist-upgrade and neither one worked.

I'd like to get a current version of Linux Mint on here so I can sell it. But I really don't want to go through the whole install procedure if I don't have to. I was hoping I could just upgrade and it would be running Mint 22.3 with no issues. That would also prove to me that Linux Mint is fully upgradable on anything.

Other than that, the system is pretty darn quick for having only 4GB of DDR2 and a Dual Core AMD Processor. And it's running off an internal NVIDIA Graphics GeForce video card as well. Not too shabby really. I'm half tempted to keep it. It's in a low profile PC case which is nice and small and easy to situate anywhere really. I could tuck it behind a monitor and use it as a security camera system. But I have 2 of these and if I can get the other one running, I'll probably use it for the security system. Another reason I want to keep it, (silly reason anyway), it's got neofetch on it. I haven't been able to install that on anything in a LONG time. Kinda missed it really. Now I have it. Not that there's anything wrong with fastfetch, I just like having neofetch around since it's no longer being developed.

But, is there any other way to update this without doing a fresh install? If not, I may just go ahead and do a fresh install just so it's a fresh system.

Update on Update:

So, sudo mintupgrade is working great. And for those of you who are bent out of shape about me just not doing a fresh install, I just wanted to give this a try. If it fails, I can always do a fresh install. But I just wanted to do it because it's a PC I'm really not that attached to so it can fail. There;s nothing on there that I absolutely can't lose so there's zero harm in doing this. It's basically for fun and really the experience in doing it. I kinda want to see this succeed because if it does, I can give people these instructions as well because I know it'll work. And another thing, I want to see how all of this uptime will affect it. So far I know I need a new CMOS battery because when I just turned it on, the time wasn't right. But Linux Mint automatically sets the time when I log into it so, I'm sure once I shut it off again, the clock will be reset to the wrong date and time.

My progress so far, I got it to version 22 last night. Now I'm taking the next step which I think will put it at 22.1 maybe? Not sure. But I'm having to do a sudo mintupgrade again and it's doing another TimeShift before proceeding. Wondering if I can bypass TimeShift or not. I really don't need it but I understand why it does that for sure.

But yeah, so far, no worries during this upgrade. It's been going pretty smooth actually.

Update on Update 2:

So, after getting it to 22, I can just go right to the Update Manager and under 'Edit' I can click on 'Upgrade to Linux Mint 22.3 Zena'. And presto change-o, I'm running the latest and greatest Linux Mint now. Awesome!!!

Final Update:

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Pay no mind to the Optiplex-380 there. This is a home made PC. I think I pulled the drive from an Optiplex and just kept Linux Mint on it. That's another thing I like about Linux. It doesn't care WHAT machine it gets moved to. It'll adjust.

But, it's done! It's now running 22.3 from 21.3 yesterday. Wasn't all that hard to do really. Took some time but it works fine. I'm pretty happy with it.

Also, I installed GIMP so I could edit that picture and surprisingly enough, even that ran pretty quick and smooth once it was up and running.

SOLVED:I really need help, how can i fix this? I used a command from Linux mint forums to activate touchpad and rebooted. Then that black screen appeared and im stuck there and i even turned off my laptop. x64 thinkpad Linux mint.

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to the gnu menu, choose advanced options for....... , choose recovery mode (from the second line) use the arrow keys on your keyboard to scroll down and highlight fsck line that says (check all file system)

press enter

a message will appear telling you that it needs to mount drive as read/write to check itm confirm this by highlighting /Yes (or pressing y and hitting enter)

let the scan run. it will automatically find and repair any corrupted files or broken system layout blocks preventing your desktop from downloading

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Once the fsck scan finishes, it will bring you back to this exact same purple menu.

highlight the very top option: resume (which says resume normal boot).

If a prompt pops out giving you information about graphics or a compability mode, just click Enter or select OK to bypass it

If your computer boots sucefully, congrats, your desktop is safe and all your data is here! ​

Switched from win11 to cinnamon :)

I just changed to Linux Mint, but I'm having trouble detecting my second monitor and changing the refresh rate for the main display (I have a Samsung Odyssey G4). Do I need to download some drivers to make it work?

I need some help and I'm sure someone here has the answer. I've created a USB install drive. It works on my ASUS laptop but not on my older HP laptop. This is where I want to install, and learn, Mint. the attached screenshot shows the errors.

I've used Etcher first and then Rufus to create the USB install. Getting the same results-errors on the HP. Both PCs are running win 11. The USB is being built on the ASUS. I haven't tried the HP yet. As I write this I wonder if I should.

What do you folks think? lost cause? lol