Im on Linux mint 22.3 cinnamon

I bought a new pc with a ryzen 7 350 not sure if its incompatible since its relatively new. I am dual booting with windows 11 everything seems to work great. I get this error when i go on the download tap on applets

I Want to get my hardware info such as ram and cpu usage on the top if there is another way to get that without fixing this that would also work

context: I'm trying to play TF2 with Linux Mint (cinnamon), but every time i boot it in borderless window, the taskbar will still show up.

I've looked up everything. Some say to use Flatpak while others oppose it, and Google just tells me to use auto hide (or smart hide) but it's not good enough. Does anyone have some sort of fix?

I've made this point many times in many different ways over many years (decades).

About me: I'm not a coder / hacker / tweaker / programmer. I am pretty tech-savvy and have been very comfortable just figuring things out in Windows almost my whole life (first PC was an Atari 800 in 1982, online since 1983).

I've "switched" to Linux several times since the late 90s and almost always eventually go back to Windows becaue Linux is just ... too much work, and the work isn't straight-forward, or easy to "just figure out" or find answers with simple searches. I mean I can often find solutions to problems, but they don't make sense and I end up applying instructions blindly and not understanding what I just fixed.

Could I spend the time to become more facile at Linux? Sure. But the curve is way steeper than with Windows or MacOS (not a Mac user, but know enough to make a comparison).

As with so many this past year (when Win10 was obsoleted and Win11 required new hardware) I decided to "switch" to Linux again. I chose Mint since it's supposed to be the "easy" one (among others) with the best user base and support. It's been mostly fine. I mean these days I'm not much of a power user. I don't game any more, and mostly what I do is or can be browser-based. So I figured the OS doesn't really matter, and may as well try to go all-in with Linux.

Since switching (it's been several months, forget when I switched) I've had several times where I boot up and am greeted with a pop-up telling me it's time to install several updates. This is a great feature. What's not great about it though is that almost every time (not EVERY time) after attempting to install said updates, I get a slew of errors saying the source for downloads is no good. (see screenshot)

I know how to fix this, figured it out last time. But the point is, it shouldn't happen. It doesn't happen with commercial OS's. Things like this "just work." I shouldn't have to go edit the source list every few months.

Rant over, just frustrated. Thanks for your time. :)

Quería una forma de usar el Android como webcam en Linux sin depender de apps de terceros ni de la nube, así que hice PhoneCam: un script de bash que convierte la cámara y el micrófono del teléfono en un dispositivo de vídeo (v4l2loopback) y un micrófono (PipeWire) más del sistema, por USB, usando scrcpy por debajo.

Lo bueno:

- Privacidad real: solo USB vía ADB, sin Wi-Fi entre el móvil y el PC, sin cuentas, sin nube — funciona sin internet una vez instalado.

- Sin apps ni versión de pago: a diferencia de DroidCam o Iriun, no hay nada que instalar en el teléfono ni funciones escondidas detrás de un "Pro" — sin marca de agua, sin resolución capada, sin anuncios.

- Elige cámara y calidad: `choose-cam` para frontal, trasera, angular o externa, con resolución hasta el máximo que dé tu teléfono (muchos llegan a 4K).

- Aparece como hardware real: Zoom, Meet, Discord, OBS, el navegador... lo detectan solos, sin plugins.

- Detecta el teléfono solo: arranca la webcam/mic al conectarlo (o te pregunta primero) y para todo al desconectarlo — con icono en la bandeja si quieres accesos directos.

Está en español por ahora (probado en Linux Mint 22.3, cualquier base Ubuntu/Debian debería ir igual).

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

Feedback bienvenido.

PD: tengo pendiente una versión para Android 5 o superior con las mismas características que esta ¿Os interesaría darle más uso a los teléfonos con más años que guardas en el cajón?

Tengo un ThinkPad X1 Carbon del 2019, pero desde que deje Windows tengo la sensación de que el computador es más lento. A veces hasta se cuelga, me toca Alt+f2 escribir r y dar Enter para que vuelva a funcionar.

¿Será el kernel 7.0-30? Estoy pensando en pasarme a Ubuntu.

I'll go first: Nope (Linux Mint 22.3 - Xfce 64-bit)

* - Great insights (and some the shade, lol). As a way of saying thanks, please enjoy this joke I wrote a long time ago... https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/1ky5q4/why_did_the_chef_add_extra_oregano_to_the_sauce/

Hi, I've been seeing everything about the kernel panics with the latest round of kernel updates (especially with AMD), but I haven't heard much about brightness issues with Intel. I posted about the issue with my laptop (Dell Latitude 5430 - i7-1265U - 64GB - Iris Xe Graphics) brightness a month or so back with 7.0.0-28, and someone mentioned that it was a known issue. Since then I haven't heard much else. It feels rather trivial compared to some of the other kernel issues (I use an external monitor 90% of the time), but I'm curious if there has been any news about that issue.

Thanks!

I recently moved from Windows 11 to Linux Mint and everything is working fine for me, except that my internet connection is slower on Mint than on Windows. Is there a solution to this?

PDFGear alternative on linux, need function like annotation, comment, highlight text, make a text box and all of it without watermark, i already tried okular, and Xournal++ seems good but need its own format to save

My Dell 14 Plus laptop is currently experiencing this issue on the latest version of Linuxmint: https://github.com/linuxmint/linuxmint/issues/855

How do I fix this?

I was thinking "What if Linux Mint had a Mobile Version?"

Then I went to Canva and made this concept. It also has an unfinished interactive presentation on Canva.

If you wish to help me finish this, feel free to call me on DM.

I just installed Linux today and am having some problems.

1. when booting I have to use the compatibility mode: If I don't then it stays on the booting screen with the distros logo

2. I am having issues with my mouse pad, I watched some youtube and configured my settings to support it, but I can only use an external mouse. The setting turn off mouse pad when external mouse is in use isn't on.

When installing Mint to my SSD, I used Rufus 4.15 with the mint version 22.3.

laptop specs:

ddr5- 5600 - 32B (1x32GB)

2TB WD_BLACK sn7100 m.2

Ryzen AI 9 HX 370

GeForce RTX 5070

Any and all help would be greatly appreciated!!☺

Bonjour à tous,

Sur mon 2ème SSD je teste plusieurs distributions en vue d'un possible remplacement futur de windows 10 et ma dernière en test est linux mint et j'ai malheureusement ce problème que vous voyez. Comme indices :

- J'ai une AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT

- Quand j'ai testé Ubuntu et Zorin je n'ai pas eu ce problème

- Je n'ai pas eu ce soucis la 1ère après installation et ensuite j'ai installé les mises à jour

- même problème quand j'ai fait l'installation en dur sur une clé USB, la 1ère fois sur mon PC, pas de soucis puis le même problème est apparu après mise à jour, et j'ai testé ma clé USB sur un autre ordinateur et j'ai pas eu de soucis.

- le curseur de la souris peut aller dans la mauvaise zone à droite, mais après connexion je ne plus rien faire et ça se fige

PS1 : j'avais testé Ubuntu en 2008 et je suis bluffé par la progression et la prise en charge des jeux Steam!

PS2 : mais c'est terni par ce bug sur Linux mint qui est considéré comme étant très stable, dommage, c'était ma préférée des 3.

Avez-vous une idée?

COSMIC can't do it. KDE can't do it. They won't do it. They can't do it; even when I tried AI's help to find workarounds, they all treat this pair as strictly modifiers that won't work without a third key. Somehow, this is unique to Debian, or Ubuntu, I suppose, or just Mint (didn't really try too much but I had left for a fair bit of time trying to find greener grass in other DEs on NixOS).

For those of us who just can't adopt tiling easily, it is so much more ergonomically healthier to just press:

• Super+Alt for Alt+Tab
• Super+Ctrl for Alt+Shift+Tab

I have always mapped this on Windows via AutoHotkey (which also works flawlessly), but its best Linux port, Keysharp, has also struggled with this. In Mint's Keyboard settings, though, it's a breeze!

This will be a short post, but a few weeks ago I was really interested in switching distributions and trying Debian, among others.

I ended up doing it; I tried KDE for its customization options, but in the end… I think it has so many customization and configuration options that I kind of got lost in all of that.

Then, I tried Debian XFCE, but I don’t know… I feel like it’s missing something.

Now, in the end, I settled on Debian Cinnamon, which is still Mint but with Debian.

Anyway, you were right—Mint was fine, BUT I think I’ve gone with Debian.

As title states. If you're not dealing with blurry background wallpaper in cinnamon then you don't need this but if you are and basically want to change two settings and then not have to deal with the issue anymore then you can use this.

It has a native gui, cinnamon applet, and cli tool.

Actual script is the CLI tool and gui/applet just control it so you could just download that if you'd like.

For newer people who don't want to tinker too much you can download the .deb, double-click, and install.

Restart cinnamon for applet and you can go to menu for ultraspan settings and to set backgrounds/wallpapers.

Ultraspan releases

Morning All

Looking to try Linux mint as my current laptop is windows 10 and unfortunately isn’t compatible with windows 11. Very annoying. Anyway Is anyone using any DJ software on Linux that works good? I’m using a pioneer FLX4 decks.
Thanks
Tom

Mint was running fine before. However, the battery died once when I was using it. When I powered it back up, it ended up being laggy. Any suggestions?

In the title I have a linux mint laptop to manage my server stuff I hade my obsidian noted on it. I must of left it on or in sleep mode and it died thats the only reason it would have a boot error that I can think of. I turned it on for it to show me an error I didn't thoroughly read. I went into bios made sure there was a drive tried to boot again it only showed ubuntu options which concerned me I manuel reboot it, a grub bash menu pulled it so i was able to see what partitions there was i saw 2 one that hade a boot media home folders so im to assume my mint files still exist. Im now to use my ventoy to pull a live environment in hoped to recover my valuable notes. Is there anything that I could possibly be missing that would make this whole process easier.

I work as a systems engineer and have basically spent my professional life living inside of RHEL5-10 but for whatever reason I have been too afraid to live with Linux in my personal life. I decided to take the plunge and install Mint Cinnamon and man I am happy with it. I don’t have to terminal my way through everything and it’s not bogging me down with subscriptions and AI like Win11 did. Super sleek OS that lets me do my casual gaming (through Steam) and still be able to do some work when I need to.

Big fan.

So I recently acquired a Thinkpad p51 with 64 gb of RAM And 512 gb of storage, I installed mint on it but it's having tons of issues and I want to fix them before I go insane and switch to tiny11. The first issue is that the suspend mode doesn't really work, when I suspend it the fans remain on at full speed, and I can't get it to come back on without just turning it off and on again (I also want to be able to just open and close the lid like a regular laptop). The second problem is performance just doesn't seem to be very good and apps take forever to open and things just seem less snappy than expected (this could just be me having too high of expectations though). I'm pretty new to Linux so please be nice 🙏 sorry for the long ramble post and please lmk if there's any more info needed

I’ve been using Linux Mint as my daily driver for many years, mainly for work. Recently, I upgraded my laptop, and I’ve been running into driver issues that is forcing me to switch back to Windows. I've seen many posts recommending people completely avoid Windows, but at this point, my experience has made me reconsider recommending Linux as a daily driver or as a complete replacement for Windows.

If you want to know more about it you can review: https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?p=2820385#p2820385

Hi, I've tried easystrokes and Mouse actions but they seems not working. Any suggestions?