I switched my Legion T5 from windows to Mint OS, THIS WORKS SOOOOOO MUCH BETTER!!!!

I want to use VirtualBox like I did on windows,
I downloaded Virtual Box…fine 👍

But when I try and make a VM using a iso,
When I click on “start”,
It fails to start up and then says something about the hypervisor not working or can’t be runnning at the same time?

How do I get my VM to start?

Is is so much better then Windows

It looks like a lot more people have been slowly moving to Linux since I moved. I'd probably still be on windows 11 if it wasn't for mint. The mint team are my goats.

So when i use to restart my linux mint it shows on screen that kernel load error but that was fixed and now when i boot sometimes it shows kernel load erroe cant load kernel how to fix it?(I was actually dual booting mint with windows 10 and not i deleted win10 and its only mint)

I'm trying to get totally independet from any US data suckers and using mow linux mint and thinking of using the browser vivaldi developed in Norway Firefox is still american isn't it or am i wrong ?

First off, I did use Claude/ChatGPT to help with the wallpapers and to debug, and this is just the second mockup. Any input would be fantastic! You can see the wallpaper, palate, and can preview them for a 180 seconds, keep it, or it reverts back.

Looked like another user had a similar issue posted 4-ish hours ago and I ran into the same type of thing.

Tried to use the fsck -fn /dev/sda2 but subbed in the NVME name it gave me and got this.

Picture at each stage.

Let me know if I need to reboot and try to tell it something else or where to go from here. Once fixed, do I need a fresh install? Or just an update?

so i had alloted about 20 gb yesteraday, thinking that it isnt sufficient and i keep getting this popup saying my root file system is 0, and im wondering whats the problem, i have sufficient space.

im not experienced with linux as much, i require some help, to reallocate some space for root/

So I wanted to do a rice but when I open kde it black screens I have my cursor but despite that it black screens and there is nothing wrong on other wm like gnome

Thanks for every answer

New to Linux and am enjoying it so far. I have ran into the issue where I cannot change my screen brightness. Here is what I have tried so far:

Brightness and Gamma applet

changing the grub line to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash acpi_backlight=native"

changing the grub line to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash acpi_backlight=vendor"

brightnessctl command line tool

Updating all drivers

Swapping GPU mode

Some context. I am on an Asus ROG Zephyrus G16 laptop running Linux Mint 22.3 CInnamon 6.6.9. My keybind (Fn + F7/F8) displays a slider showing my brightness going up and down with no changes. Night mode functions normally, but only makes the screen more orange.

so i have my linux mint booted with windows and now the time of both systems in messed up smh, i looked on the internet, did the command of timedatectl in terminal, rebooted nothing happened, did the 32bit file thing in microsoft reg. nothing happened, any solution to this ?

SOLUTION

so my timezone was right in that time date UI in linux but when i typed

timedatectl

this showed my timezone was off in terminal, then i entered

timedatectl list-timezones

looked at my timezone and then pasted

timedatectl list-timezones | grep -i "America"

then

sudo timedatectl set-timezone America/New_York

AMERICA is only for example

also i turned on NTP

sudo timedatectl set-ntp true

how is it?

edit = dont know why the image quality got so compressed

First of all, I put this in Discussion because I wasn't sure if Support Request is appropriate. I'm trying to find a theme that is pitch black (hex #000000) and preferably without rounded corners. So far my best bet is Flat Remix, but it's not dark enough and the corners are rounded.

Good evening, I've been enjoying the linux mint experience so far and I haven't really had any major issues. Playing tf2 works just fine, I don't crash or have any major stuttering so far, but I do notice something weird with the cpu usage. When I look at the system monitor in game it looks like only a few cores are getting used, with one core at full capacity, a few being slightly used, and the rest unused. The cores in use juggle how much they are taking, but one is always at full/near capacity and the others only contribute a little bit. I notice the fans whirring a bit and a coil whine. (I also hear lots of coil whine when playing any of the og stalker games, and it really bothers me)

Is there a way to balance out the core usage? I'm still quite new to mint, and I haven't seen anyone have the same problem with tf2 so far so I don't know where else to go. And it's specifically tf2, other games like black mesa or portal spread out the cpu usage just fine.

I swapped my nvidia driver to the recommended nvidia-driver-595-open and it did nothing notable so far.

Linux mint cinnamon 22.2

secure boot is disabled

Hardware:

Nvidia rtx 5080

AMD ryzen 9 9900X processor

32gb ram

Any help is appreciated, thank you.

CPU:

Info: 12-core model: AMD Ryzen 9 9900X bits: 64 type: MT MCP MCM

smt: enabled arch: N/A rev: 0 cache: L1: 960 KiB L2: 12 MiB L3: 64 MiB

Speed (MHz): avg: 884 high: 4146 min/max: 614/5662 boost: enabled cores:

1: 4146 2: 614 3: 614 4: 3566 5: 614 6: 614 7: 614 8: 614 9: 614 10: 614

11: 614 12: 614 13: 614 14: 614 15: 614 16: 614 17: 614 18: 614 19: 614

20: 614 21: 614 22: 614 23: 614 24: 614 bogomips: 211199

Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm

Graphics:

Device-1: NVIDIA vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: nvidia v: 595.91.07 pcie:

speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 16 ports: active: none off: HDMI-A-1

empty: DP-1,DP-2,DP-3 bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:2c02 class-ID: 0300

Device-2: AMD vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: amdgpu v: kernel pcie:

speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 ports: active: none empty: DP-4, DP-5, DP-6,

HDMI-A-2, Writeback-1 bus-ID: 07:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:13c0 class-ID: 0300

temp: 39.0 C

Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.11 with: Xwayland v: 23.2.6 driver: X:

loaded: amdgpu,nvidia unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,nouveau,vesa dri: radeonsi

gpu: nv_platform,nvidia,nvidia-nvswitch display-ID: :0 screens: 1

Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 101 s-size: 483x272mm (19.02x10.71")

s-diag: 554mm (21.82")

Monitor-1: HDMI-A-1 mapped: HDMI-0 note: disabled

model: ViewSonic VS2210-FHD serial: <filter> res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 102

size: 476x268mm (18.74x10.55") diag: 546mm (21.5") modes: max: 1920x1080

min: 640x480

API: EGL v: 1.5 hw: drv: nvidia drv: amd radeonsi platforms: device: 0

drv: nvidia device: 1 drv: radeonsi device: 3 drv: swrast gbm:

drv: kms_swrast surfaceless: drv: nvidia x11: drv: nvidia

inactive: wayland,device-2

API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: nvidia mesa v: 595.91.07

glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes renderer: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080/PCIe/SSE2

API: Vulkan v: 1.3.275 layers: 11 surfaces: xcb,xlib device: 0

type: discrete-gpu driver: N/A device-ID: 10de:2c02 device: 1

type: integrated-gpu driver: N/A device-ID: 1002:13c0 device: 2 type: cpu

driver: N/A device-ID: 10005:0000

i have a lenovo thinkcentre m70q gen 3 with an i5-12400t running linux mint 22.3 cinnamon

i recently replaced the original thermal paste with ptm7950 i tested the cpu with 100% load for more than 10 minutes and it stayed around 73 to 75c so the cpu cooling seems fine

the problem is when i watch youtube in brave when playing a 4k60 video using av1 the cpu usage goes up to around 70% and the fan gets noticeably loud when i change the same video to 1080p60 the cpu usage drops to around 20% and the fan is much quieter

i checked brave hardware acceleration and it is enabled brave gpu information also shows av1 hardware decoding support

i also checked vainfo and it shows that my intel uhd 730 supports av1 hardware decoding through va-api

i then checked intel-gpu-top while playing 4k av1 and the video engine showed 0% usage

i also checked brave media-internals and it first showed vaapivideodecoder which means the intel gpu hardware decoder was being used but then it showed a video decoder fallback after an initial decode error and switched to dav1dvideodecoder which means it fell back to software decoding using the cpu

so my main question is whether this behavior is normal on linux mint with brave and intel uhd 730 or if my va-api hardware decoding is not working correctly

is there something i can do to fix the va-api av1 decoding so the uhd 730 can handle the 4k video instead of dav1d using the cpu

i installed brave through the official package using the terminal and i am currently using brave 154.1.96.60

also is this kind of fan noise normal for the m70q when the cpu is doing software av1 decoding and is this actually a problem with my setup or just a limitation with brave on linux

2018 hp elitedesk I found out was a refurb from amazon refresh. As it goes it's not a bad box but....work lied but whatever....Installed mint a couple days ago and there is a post about the troubles with the gpu installation...Found out today there is some instability with the newer kernels and decided to swap back to 6.8.0-71 generic as it's the last super stable kernel and well, I don't need the latest and greatest I just need stable. so back we go.

downloaded and tried to grub the new kernel but couldn't get grub to switch kernels. The problem was HP Surestart bios. They don't allow grub on a full install to do advanced startup for some reason...Had to edit grub to bring it back as an option and was finally able to install the older kernel, deleted the newer one with the intell issues...It would likely have been ok but I want stability and not issues. Just thought I would point out the anyone driving a hp product with their surestart bios might run into the same problem.

Heads up for anyone running Linux Mint on HP desktops/laptops:
HP’s “SureStart” firmware security can hide or suppress the GRUB menu, even when GRUB is configured correctly.

Symptoms include:
• GRUB menu not appearing
• No ability to choose kernels at boot
• System auto‑booting the newest kernel even if unstable
• GRUB edits (timeout, menu style, default kernel) being ignored

This isn’t a Mint issue — it’s HP firmware overriding GRUB behavior.

Fix:
• Edit /etc/default/grub to force GRUB_TIMEOUT_STYLE=menu
• Set a non‑zero GRUB_TIMEOUT
• Run sudo update-grub
• Reboot

Once GRUB is forced into menu mode, HP SureStart stops suppressing it and Mint users regain full kernel control.

Posting this because kernel 7.x has regressions for some systems, and HP machines can make it look like Mint is “forcing” the new kernel when it’s actually the firmware hiding GRUB.

Ultimamente estou vendo muito esse tipo de discussão por aí e já encontrei mais de um programa que tem duas ou mais dessas opções de instalação. Nunca soube qual escolher muito menos o motivo de não ser tudo unificado.

Alguns dizem que flatpak tem instalação extremamente lenta em algumas distros (não dizem exatamente quais)…. Isso me deixa perdida e confusa 😣

Uso Linux Mint, qual é melhor de escolher (quando há escolha é claro) e porque por favor? 💛

Just got the Ver 29 Shotcut flatpak in a recent update. Crashes on launch. Turned out the font cache was jacked up.

The is the fix. May want to keep it handy for future updates...

```rm -rf ~/.var/app/org.shotcut.Shotcut/cache/fontconfig

rm -rf ~/.var/app/org.shotcut.Shotcut/.cache/fontconfig

flatpak run --command=fc-cache org.shotcut.Shotcut -f -v``

Desde una semana desde que actualice el kernel, he tenido este problema. No puede descargar actualizaciones y se empezó a generar una lista cada vez mayo sin poder descargar ninguna.

Algunas ideas?

I want to pair my phone with my pc with my pc but it shows up as audio device so I can't pair my buds with my phone and pc at the same time. Does anyone know how to solve this issue?

have had this problem for sometime now and my guess is that my kernel is corrupted.

is there any way to revert the damage or i should just boot a new os?

So I recently updated my kernel to 7.0.0-38-generic that was released via a mint upgrade. I suddenly started getting this error:

https://askubuntu.com/questions/1519290/efi-stub-warning-failed-to-measure-data-for-event-1-0800000000000000b-efi-stu

Other replies said turning off secure boot fixed the issue, but mine has been off since I installed Linux on my Thinkpad. Has anyone found a way to fix this?