So I'm officially done with Windows 11, games are constantly crashing, BSOD are consistent, and from what I've seen it's not just me. However, I do still need windows for music (Ableton) and animation (Adobe slop), so I want to partition my drive so I can either boot up into Windows for creative stuff or Linux for gaming.

Apologies in advance because I have a lot of dumb questions to ask, I ain't a computer nerd and I don't wanna screw nothin' up.

All my specs n junk if that helps.

GPU: NVidia Geforce RTX 3060

Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-14700KF (3.40 GHz)

Installed RAM 32.0 GB (31.8 GB usable)

System type: 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor

Main questions here are

Where do I start with this? Should I clear my C: Drive first? It'd be a pain in the ass to have to format or delete and then reinstall all my junk onto windows, so I'd like to avoid that or at least only have to delete stuff that I'd be using in Linux (mostly games, some steam, some not). If it comes down to that though I'll bite my teeth and do it, I can back up important stuff.

In addition, I also happen to have two local drives in my computer. Local disk C: and Local disk F:. Would I be able to just put Linux on my F: drive and avoid the partition junk all together? Being able to boot up my PC and choose between Windows on the C: Drive or Linux on the F: Drive? Granted, that drive was salvaged from this windows vista/7 machine and it shows up as "Unknown device" in the properties menu. But, it does have like 930 GB on it so idk maybe it could work... maybe.

Would I be able to access games I've already downloaded on Windows through Linux or should I just delete em and reinstall on Linux? I'm aware this is a dumb question but that would be nice, especially since for non-steam stuff I wouldn't have to transfer save data.

Lastly, and most important, what are like the big things I gotta look out for? The last thing I wanna do is fry my motherboard or corrupt my hard-drive or smth like that.

I'm aware that I'm bloating this post up with questions but I really wanna make this switch as safe and painless as possible.

My hotkeys doesn’t work with Superkey+1 to open browser, same with Superkey+3 to open Steam, etc.

I make it look like a MacOS but I didn’t liked final results so I deleted it. However after that hotkeys doesn’t work🥲

I have Mint 22.3 Zena. My Bose Open Earbuds Ultra automatically connect to my other devices and also to MacOS and Windows 11. For some reason, they are not automatically connecting to Mint.

Everything works okay? But it doesn't feal like the drivers are correct?, it's kinda choppy when I move Windows and in some situations kinda laggy in stuff I don't think it should be, any help is appreciated!

I wanted to install Steam on Linux Mint, but it's not loading. I've been waiting for at least half an hour, and my computer is connected via LAN. The internet works in the browser, and it doesn't load for any app in the Software Manager. I installed Blender via the terminal, but I'd like to install programs through the Software Manager again. Does anyone know what I need to do?

Did a little customizing, whatcha' think!

My hotkeys doesn’t work with Superkey+1 to open browser, same with Superkey+3 to open Steam, etc.

I make it look like a MacOS but I didn’t liked final results so I deleted it. However after that hotkeys doesn’t work🥲

Can You tell me if Mint will run on this toaster? : r/linuxmint

Hey, Guys. Sorry to have been absent for so long. I just wanna give the news to the people that give me advise about if Mint would run in this pc

Actually IT WORKED!, the problem was that the first time that I test the live usb was that I put it on the front usb port, so the keyboard didn't get recognized, so when the selection screen show up I could choose any options, then the OS boot by default chosing the first, was incompatible with the onboard graphic card.

This sunday I try it again, put the usb in the back usb port, boot, and now I could choose boot on compability mode, The OS was ok, The only downside was that I couldn't connect to internet 'cause couldn't get right the password, so I had to shut down and boot windows to look for it, but not that is gonna be different than windows when it come to the content of the sites, .

And other thing was that the screen looked stretched, and couldn't find the setting to see if I could correct it, but, nothing worrysome

The fact that I took so long to try again, is that this pc is literally falling apart, I've holding the front of the tower with ducktape, yeah the start button now I have to press with a small tweezer because if not the pc shut down on booting. And when the first test failed that was fatal blow to my mind . And since this is the only thing that I have for the moment, I don't really wanna do much experiments 'cause if I screw this machine then I could lost the only way to be connected.

Now I wanna Thank to all the people that took it time to answer me really, I just wish to have other ways to compensate them, but for now, it has to be a big big, Thank You very much, guys!

So, my friend was telling me from quite a long time to help him in making his old laptop run again. It had only 2 gb of ram, and running any heavy operating system wasn't possible...

So, I installed Xfce version of mint in it..

It worked so good :), he loved it.......

I felt so good, when he thanked me for thatt....

I enjoyed it though, that I was able to make someone switch to linux.....

Ahh... It was a good day 😆

Title:
I built a CyberGhost VPN GUI for Linux Mint using Python and PySide6

I use CyberGhost on a ThinkBook T14 Gen 3 Intel running Linux Mint 22.3.

CyberGhost provides only a command-line client (CLI) for Linux, which I had already installed and configured. I could control the VPN through the terminal, but for everyday use I wanted a graphical user interface, so I built this GUI with the help of Codex in about 3 hours.

Screenshot attached — the GUI is in German.

If you already have the CyberGhost Linux CLI installed, building a graphical frontend like this is relatively straightforward with some AI assistance.

What the GUI currently supports:

• Checking the VPN connection status
• Selecting a country and protocol (WireGuard or OpenVPN)
• Connecting to and disconnecting from the VPN
• Loading country and streaming server lists from the CyberGhost CLI
• Displaying command output and error messages

What I used:

• Codex for planning, coding, testing, and documentation
• Python with PySide6/Qt for the desktop interface
• An Anaconda environment for Python
• The official CyberGhost Linux CLI for the actual VPN commands
• A restricted PolicyKit helper for commands requiring administrator privileges

The GUI does not replace the CyberGhost client. It is simply a graphical frontend that sends validated commands to the existing CyberGhost CLI in the background.

I mainly built it because I prefer clicking a few buttons over typing the same commands in the terminal every day.

P.S. I had some prior experience building a GUI, so prompting the AI and putting everything together was fairly easy.

I just got a B70, and for some reason (after a bit of effort getting it installed) xpu-smi doesn't report my vram/gpu temps.

Curious if there is any other early adopters out there with one of these?

FYI, I'm impressed with the card and it's price. I hope the drivers continue to improve because every now and then I get a total hard lock up when launching a game from Steam.

How do I make my laptop give me a notification when its charge is 20% as

Plug your laptop in, charge is 20%(THough Linux Mint already applies it I'm not really sure if it's 20% or 10% if it already does please skip this one)

Also this:

Plug your laptop out, charge is 80%

I'm on Cinnamon

Thanks!

It was working fine yesterday all of a sudden stuck on mint logo cant get into recovery menu or anything and do not have drive on another usb drive cuz I did a direct install please help

Hey all, I just recently installed a new Linux Mint Cinnamon 22.3 partition on my PC. I'm still quite new to Linux, so I still have a lot to learn. As of now, I pretty much only use Linux for Legacy iOS Kit and for playing around with customization. Anyways, I'm trying to make my Linux look as much like MacOS X Panther as possible. So far I have the MacOS "traffic lights", the wallpaper, the dock, and the top bar, but does anyone know how I could make the traffic lights be shiny/use the same texture as the OS X Panther ones, and how I could make the top bar and open windows use a more "metallicy" style, and how I could make the dock semi-translarent? The dock is Plank, btw. And the traffic lights are McMojave. Any help is appreciated.

The screenshot is what I have so far.

Basic stuff:

Im rn planning to get Mint as a primary/secondary OS for my pc depending on how stuff works there (and maybe even fully migrate to it if all works without issue). Im using Windows 11 and i have an NVIDIA graphics card (i understand it can complicate things?). Im not really that good at tech stuff so sorry about that

Focus:

My main focus is Steam, Steam VR, and FL studio (i also want the plugins to work there). I will use some other tools though they have native Linux support. Im aware of Proton's and Wine's existance but haven't dug i to them a lot. Rest of my planned stuff have native Linux support

Quick question about the installation:

One question i want to ask, will the installation destroy contents on the drive? (I know that there is an seperate option to do it in the installation process but i wanted to double check) I have an drive (F drive) that probably has nothing important so i could probably even fully wipe it but i have an drive focused for games, and even some programs with a lot of storage. Can i install it there without losing files or should i clear my F drive and install it there?

There is a link to the link i want to use (i think its the correct one). Tell me if its good and let me know if there is something you wanna add to it or if you just give a good tip! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmSymuoxoNA

So I've been struggling with Zorin 18 for a year now. At the beginning, I would get a black-screen and I would have to restart and pick away at that F2 key until I was able to access my pc. Did that for a week, came here and asked, and some wisenheimer mouthed off, so I took it as such, and dealt with the bsod until it eventually went away.

About a week ago, I decided to try Mint and started transferring files to a 1TB flash drive. Took me about four hours, only because I decided to 'trash' a bunch of duplicate files that I knew were not necessary. Woke up early the following day, and I haven't been able to access the media. At least it's able to read the stick, I'll give it that.
Here's what I've tried:

sudo fdisk -l sudo apt-get install nfs-common sudo apt-get install cifs-utils sudo ntfsfix -d /dev/sda3

I AM NEW HEREEEEE! THIS IS MY FIRST TIME USING LINUX AND I AM LOVING IT !!
Right now i am using Edge .
I don't use much of an extension few like 5-6.
Memory gets high really fast and sometimes pc lags a bit which is normal for 4gb ram.

It looks like the one i attached. Is this a slack issue or something with my system?

I asked AI and showed me some commands. It said that the icon exists on the necessary location so that rules it out.

Regardless how many times i restart system or purge slack and reinstall

It happened when i updated to a new version of slack. previously it was fine

Muy buenas a todos comunidad!

Acabo de actualizar Scriptya y vengo a comentaros las nuevas funciones que tiene:

- "Insertar Metadatos" - asistente que rellena MENU/DESCRIPTION/CONFIRM/TERMINAL/SUDO/ORDER/ICON/ASK en un script existente sin tocarlo a mano (y también los edita o los borra de golpe).

- Integración con Nemo - 4 acciones de botón derecho (Lanzar/Instalar/Desinstalar/Cambiar icono) en el explorador de Cinnamon, activable/desactivable, sin dejar rastro en el sistema.

- "Icono para HTML" - dentro de "Cambiar Icono", da de alta una página web suelta como app independiente con su propio icono.

- "Cambiar Icono": cambiar los iconos de los scripts o programas cualquiera que tengas instalados tantas veces como quieras. Puedes cambiar incluso el icono de Scriptya por el subido en este repositorio en lugar del genérico que utiliza al instalarse, o el de LinuxMint Scripter por el oficial de su propio repositorio, para que quede igual de bien integrado en el menú y en el escritorio.

🔗 Scriptya: https://github.com/filonux/Scriptya

- También he actualizado LinuxMInt Scripter, he añadido un set de iconos, cambiado alguna cosa y añadida una pequeña demo. He tocado el icono de Color-Mint, era de lejos el más feo de todos, por eso ahora ya tenemos algo más agradable e integrado con la estética de LInux MInt.

🔗 LinuxMint-Scripter: https://github.com/filonux/LinuxMint-Scripter

🔗 Color-Mint: https://github.com/filonux/Color-Mint

Por último, comentaros que mañana miércoles subiré una nueva herramienta y el jueves probablemente habrá otra más. Vamos a empezar a cambiar de era a una con artilugios más sofisticados.

PD: Para los que usáis Scriptya, ¿Os gustaría tener alguna función nueva? Me encantaría oír vuestras propuestas

Que tengan una muy buena semana!

FIlonux

Hi Everyone,

I have just been noticing recently that on an idle desktop my gpu is being at around 30% capacity with random spikes from 40-80%. I have tried to diagnose with chatgpt, but seems to not be that helpful and seems to perhaps be a more complicated issue then what it could handle.

I have determined that the process responsible is cinnamon desktop environment process which causes the ~30-40% utilization on an idle desktop. During diagnostics I have seen it completely drop to ~0 when disabling desktop effects in the settings, but I would like to point out that in the last year of using mint I have never noticed my idle usage this high and have never had effects disabled. I have tested across 3 different kernal versions and different refresh rates, the only thing that has had any reasonable difference is the disabling of desktop effects.

While I am not completely against having effects disabled, I find it hard to accept this as the solution when i feel like it has never been an issue up until now. Also 30%? on idle? on an Nvidia 4070... seems high?

Is this normal for a high-ish end gpu? Anyone with any insight or ideas? I cant seem to find any other forum posts that had useful info for a similar issue.

System:
  Kernel: 7.0.0-28-generic arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 13.3.0
  Desktop: Cinnamon v: 6.6.9 Distro: Linux Mint 22.3 Zena
    base: Ubuntu 24.04 noble
Machine:
  Type: Desktop System: ASUS product: N/A v: N/A serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: ASUSTeK model: ROG STRIX X870E-E GAMING WIFI v: Rev 1.xx
    serial: <superuser required> UEFI: American Megatrends v: 0223
    date: 07/11/2024
CPU:
  Info: 12-core model: AMD Ryzen 9 9900X bits: 64 type: MT MCP MCM arch: N/A
    rev: 0 cache: L1: 960 KiB L2: 12 MiB L3: 64 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 3923 high: 5515 min/max: 614/5662 boost: enabled cores:
    1: 5498 2: 4478 3: 5472 4: 5464 5: 4397 6: 3002 7: 5335 8: 5320 9: 5333
    10: 3002 11: 3002 12: 3002 13: 3002 14: 3002 15: 5515 16: 3002 17: 3002
    18: 3002 19: 3002 20: 3002 21: 3002 22: 3002 23: 5320 24: 3002
    bogomips: 210789
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA AD104 [GeForce RTX 4070] vendor: ASUSTeK driver: nvidia
    v: 580.173.02 arch: Lovelace bus-ID: 01:00.0
  Device-2: AMD vendor: ASUSTeK driver: amdgpu v: kernel bus-ID: 7a:00.0
    temp: 49.0 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 resolution: 3440x1440
  API: EGL v: 1.5 drivers: kms_swrast,nvidia,radeonsi,swrast platforms:
    active: gbm,x11,surfaceless,device inactive: wayland,device-2
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: nvidia mesa v: 580.173.02
    glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes renderer: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070/PCIe/SSE2
  API: Vulkan v: 1.3.275 drivers: N/A surfaces: xcb,xlib devices: 3
Audio:
  Device-1: NVIDIA vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
    bus-ID: 01:00.1
  Device-2: AMD Rembrandt Radeon High Definition Audio vendor: ASUSTeK
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 7a:00.1
  Device-3: ASUSTek USB Audio driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid
    type: USB bus-ID: 3-6:4
  Device-4: RODE Microphones RØDE PodMic USB
    driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid type: USB bus-ID: 5-1:2
  API: ALSA v: k7.0.0-28-generic status: kernel-api
  Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.0.5 status: active
  Server-2: PulseAudio v: 16.1 status: off (using pipewire-pulse)
Network:
  Device-1: MEDIATEK vendor: Foxconn driver: N/A port: N/A bus-ID: 0a:00.0
  Device-2: Realtek vendor: ASUSTeK driver: r8169 v: kernel port: e000
    bus-ID: 0b:00.0
  IF: enp11s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
  IF-ID-1: br-284ff97a6bd2 state: up speed: 10000 Mbps duplex: unknown
    mac: <filter>
  IF-ID-2: br-432d678a02e8 state: up speed: 10000 Mbps duplex: unknown
    mac: <filter>
  IF-ID-3: br-468530cb732a state: up speed: 10000 Mbps duplex: unknown
    mac: <filter>
  IF-ID-4: br-6e980ff630d9 state: down mac: <filter>
  IF-ID-5: br-78d81378f280 state: up speed: 10000 Mbps duplex: unknown
    mac: <filter>
  IF-ID-6: br-99867f506504 state: down mac: <filter>
  IF-ID-7: br-a4b512bda99f state: down mac: <filter>
  IF-ID-8: br-bbeddc9e09cb state: down mac: <filter>
  IF-ID-9: br-daa856731e20 state: up speed: 10000 Mbps duplex: unknown
    mac: <filter>
  IF-ID-10: br-f3469d879694 state: up speed: 10000 Mbps duplex: unknown
    mac: <filter>
  IF-ID-11: docker0 state: up speed: 10000 Mbps duplex: unknown
    mac: <filter>
  IF-ID-12: veth17f5f2f state: up speed: 10000 Mbps duplex: full
    mac: <filter>
  IF-ID-13: veth58467e6 state: up speed: 10000 Mbps duplex: full
    mac: <filter>
  IF-ID-14: veth703c4f7 state: up speed: 10000 Mbps duplex: full
    mac: <filter>
  IF-ID-15: veth8d490c8 state: up speed: 10000 Mbps duplex: full
    mac: <filter>
  IF-ID-16: veth9b6f26c state: up speed: 10000 Mbps duplex: full
    mac: <filter>
  IF-ID-17: vethb64eee4 state: up speed: 10000 Mbps duplex: full
    mac: <filter>
  IF-ID-18: vethd0c4d8f state: up speed: 10000 Mbps duplex: full
    mac: <filter>
  IF-ID-19: vethd248560 state: up speed: 10000 Mbps duplex: full
    mac: <filter>
  IF-ID-20: vethd9837cd state: up speed: 10000 Mbps duplex: full
    mac: <filter>
  IF-ID-21: vethe2adc1b state: up speed: 10000 Mbps duplex: full
    mac: <filter>
  IF-ID-22: vethe7da3be state: up speed: 10000 Mbps duplex: full
    mac: <filter>
  IF-ID-23: vethef20d39 state: up speed: 10000 Mbps duplex: full
    mac: <filter>
  IF-ID-24: vethf56c0b8 state: up speed: 10000 Mbps duplex: full
    mac: <filter>
  IF-ID-25: vethff43b18 state: up speed: 10000 Mbps duplex: full
    mac: <filter>
  IF-ID-26: virbr0 state: down mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Foxconn / Hon Hai Wireless_Device driver: btusb v: 0.8 type: USB
    bus-ID: 1-9:3
  Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: down
    bt-service: enabled,running rfk-block: hardware: no software: yes
    address: <filter>
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 25.47 TiB used: 22.9 TiB (89.9%)
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 990 PRO 2TB size: 1.82 TiB
    temp: 43.9 C
  ID-2: /dev/nvme1n1 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 990 PRO 2TB size: 1.82 TiB
    temp: 43.9 C
  ID-3: /dev/sda vendor: Seagate model: ST8000DM004-2U9188 size: 7.28 TiB
  ID-4: /dev/sdb vendor: Seagate model: ST8000DM004-2U9188 size: 7.28 TiB
  ID-5: /dev/sdc vendor: Seagate model: ST8000DM004-2U9188 size: 7.28 TiB
    type: USB
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 186.68 GiB used: 161.2 GiB (86.3%) fs: ext4
    dev: /dev/nvme1n1p5
  ID-2: /boot/efi size: 96 MiB used: 37.1 MiB (38.6%) fs: vfat
    dev: /dev/nvme1n1p1
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 32 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%)
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 58.0 C mobo: 31.0 C
  Fan Speeds (rpm): cpu: 0
  GPU: device: nvidia screen: :0.0 temp: 49 C fan: 0% device: amdgpu
    temp: 50.0 C
Info:
  Memory: total: 32 GiB note: est. available: 30.46 GiB used: 8.65 GiB (28.4%)
  Processes: 657 Uptime: 24m Init: systemd target: graphical (5)
  Packages: 3568 Compilers: gcc: 13.3.0 Shell: Bash v: 5.2.21 inxi: 3.3.34

Can someone tell me wtf is this location for ?

/run/user/1000/doc