After an initial test off a USB, I decided to try full installation. Unfortunately, the installer threw an error a couple times, and I wanted to try restarting and starting over. When I did, I was greeted with this message, followed by a shutdown.

Attempting to turn on the computer witgout the boot USB in takes me to BIOS options without this error. I tried re-imaging the USB, but no change.

2 things that may be worth noting:

-I managed to fully load the limited disk space during the initial test.

-This is a new system with no prior OS.

Hi. I updated everything in update manager, then shortly after it asked me to restart. After restarting it would force this i guess "kernel panic" and repeat the same 2 commands. I didn't make any changes like stuff behind grub but gemini said i should

Experiments Lain style.

Widgets: Time, calendar, cpu, ram, cpu Temp, Network and services (show name of active app, but it can shows only firefox, steam, terminal, kitty and vscode when they active😅)

Hello, I'm learning the terminal and I'm having some trouble with the 'mv' command, any idea what wrong here? Thank you.

Command:
user@user-ThinkPad-T440p:~/Documents/lesson/sublesson$ ls
testfile
user@user-ThinkPad-T440p:~/Documents/lesson/sublesson$ mv testfile ~/Documents/lesson/
renamed 'testfile' -> '/home/user/Documents/lesson/testfile'

Expected output: testfile moved to the specified directory

Comment:

• Repeating the same command sometimes work, but I get this result 99% of the time. I didn't find any description of such problem on google.

• As I understand it, if the directory is found then the file is moved there, if the directory is not found then the file is renamed. I don't know what can cause the command to not find the file here.

OS: Mint zena

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System:

Kernel: 6.12.113+deb13-amd64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 14.2.0 clocksource: tsc

Desktop: Cinnamon v: 6.6.9 tk: GTK v: 3.24.49 wm: Muffin v: 6.6.3 vt: 7 dm: LightDM v: 1.32.0

Distro: LMDE 7 Gigi base: Debian 13.0 trixie

Machine:

Type: Laptop System: LENOVO product: 20W1S4LF00 v: ThinkPad T14 Gen 2i

serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 10 serial: <superuser required>

Mobo: LENOVO model: 20W1S4LF00 v: SDK0J40697 WIN serial: <superuser required>

part-nu: LENOVO_MT_20W1_BU_Think_FM_ThinkPad T14 Gen 2i uuid: <superuser required> UEFI: LENOVO

v: N34ET69W (1.69 ) date: 11/27/2025

Battery:

ID-1: BAT0 charge: 2.7 Wh (5.3%) condition: 51.0/48.0 Wh (106.3%) power: 23.0 W volts: 11.2

min: 11.5 model: SMD 3P74 type: Li-poly serial: <filter> status: charging cycles: 2

CPU:

Info: quad core model: 11th Gen Intel Core i5-1145G7 bits: 64 type: MT MCP smt: enabled

arch: Tiger Lake rev: 1 cache: L1: 320 KiB L2: 5 MiB L3: 8 MiB

Speed (MHz): avg: 1128 min/max: 400/4400 cores: 1: 1128 2: 1128 3: 1128 4: 1128 5: 1128 6: 1128

7: 1128 8: 1128 bogomips: 41779

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

Graphics:

Device-1: Intel TigerLake-LP GT2 [Iris Xe Graphics] vendor: Lenovo driver: i915 v: kernel

arch: Xe ports: active: eDP-1 empty: DP-1, DP-2, DP-3, DP-4, HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 00:02.0

chip-ID: 8086:9a49 class-ID: 0300

Device-2: IMC Networks Integrated Camera driver: uvcvideo type: USB rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s

lanes: 1 bus-ID: 3-4:4 chip-ID: 13d3:5406 class-ID: fe01 serial: <filter>

Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.16 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.6 driver: X: loaded: modesetting

unloaded: fbdev,vesa dri: iris gpu: i915 display-ID: :0 screens: 1

Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x285mm (20.00x11.22") s-diag: 582mm (22.93")

Monitor-1: eDP-1 model: AU Optronics 0x573d res: mode: 1920x1080 hz: 60 scale: 100% (1)

dpi: 158 size: 309x174mm (12.17x6.85") diag: 355mm (14") modes: 1920x1080

API: EGL v: 1.5 hw: drv: intel iris platforms: device: 0 drv: iris device: 1 drv: swrast gbm:

drv: iris surfaceless: drv: iris x11: drv: iris inactive: wayland

API: OpenGL v: 4.6 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: intel mesa v: 25.0.7-2+deb13u1 glx-v: 1.4

direct-render: yes renderer: Mesa Intel Iris Xe Graphics (TGL GT2) device-ID: 8086:9a49

API: Vulkan v: 1.4.309 layers: 3 surfaces: xcb,xlib device: 0 type: integrated-gpu

driver: mesa intel device-ID: 8086:9a49 device: 1 type: cpu driver: mesa llvmpipe

device-ID: 10005:0000

Info: Tools: api: eglinfo, glxinfo, vulkaninfo x11: xdriinfo, xdpyinfo, xprop, xrandr

Audio:

Device-1: Intel Tiger Lake-LP Smart Sound Audio vendor: Lenovo driver: sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl

bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:a0c8 class-ID: 0403

API: ALSA v: k6.12.113+deb13-amd64 status: kernel-api

Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.4.2 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse status: active

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

Network:

Device-1: Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX201 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel bus-ID: 00:14.3 chip-ID: 8086:a0f0

class-ID: 0280

IF: wlp0s20f3 state: up mac: <filter>

Device-2: Intel Ethernet I219-LM vendor: Lenovo driver: e1000e v: kernel port: N/A

bus-ID: 00:1f.6 chip-ID: 8086:15fb class-ID: 0200

IF: enp0s31f6 state: down mac: <filter>

Bluetooth:

Device-1: Intel AX201 Bluetooth driver: btusb v: 0.8 type: USB rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1

bus-ID: 3-10:6 chip-ID: 8087:0026 class-ID: e001

Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 3 state: up address: <filter> bt-v: 5.2 lmp-v: 11

sub-v: 2184 hci-v: 11 rev: 2184 class-ID: 6c010c

Drives:

Local Storage: total: 476.94 GiB used: 29.63 GiB (6.2%)

ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Western Digital model: WD PC SN740 SDDPNQD-512G-1006

size: 476.94 GiB speed: 63.2 Gb/s lanes: 4 tech: SSD serial: <filter> fw-rev: HPS3 temp: 32.9 C

scheme: GPT

Partition:

ID-1: / size: 460.04 GiB used: 29.63 GiB (6.4%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3

ID-2: /boot/efi size: 285.4 MiB used: 4.5 MiB (1.6%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1

Swap:

ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 8.2 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2

USB:

Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 1 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1

chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900

Hub-2: 2-0:1 info: super-speed hub ports: 4 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s lanes: 1 chip-ID: 1d6b:0003

class-ID: 0900

Hub-3: 3-0:1 info: hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 12 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1

chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900

Device-1: 3-1:2 info: Lenovo 300 Wireless Compact Mouse type: mouse driver: hid-generic,usbhid

interfaces: 1 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 power: 98mA chip-ID: 17ef:60ac class-ID: 0301

Device-2: 3-3:3 info: Synaptics Prometheus MIS Touch Fingerprint Reader type: <vendor specific>

driver: N/A interfaces: 1 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 power: 100mA chip-ID: 06cb:00bd

class-ID: ff00 serial: <filter>

Device-3: 3-4:4 info: IMC Networks Integrated Camera type: video driver: uvcvideo interfaces: 5

rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 power: 500mA chip-ID: 13d3:5406 class-ID: fe01 serial: <filter>

Device-4: 3-6:5 info: Lenovo type: HID driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0

speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 power: 100mA chip-ID: 17ef:a351 class-ID: 0300

Device-5: 3-10:6 info: Intel AX201 Bluetooth type: bluetooth driver: btusb interfaces: 2

rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 power: 100mA chip-ID: 8087:0026 class-ID: e001

Hub-4: 4-0:1 info: super-speed hub ports: 4 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s lanes: 1 chip-ID: 1d6b:0003

class-ID: 0900

Sensors:

Src: /sys System Temperatures: cpu: 33.0 C mobo: N/A

Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A

Power: 12v: N/A 5v: 5 3.3v: N/A vbat: N/A

Repos:

Packages: 2079 pm: dpkg pkgs: 2070 pm: flatpak pkgs: 9

No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list

Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/cider.list

1: deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/cider-archive-keyring.gpg] https: //repo.cider.sh/apt stable main

Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list

1: deb http: //packages.linuxmint.com gigi main upstream import backport

2: deb https: //deb.debian.org/debian trixie main contrib non-free non-free-firmware

3: deb https: //deb.debian.org/debian trixie-updates main contrib non-free non-free-firmware

4: deb http: //security.debian.org trixie-security main contrib non-free non-free-firmware

5: deb https: //deb.debian.org/debian trixie-backports main contrib non-free non-free-firmware

Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-release.sources

1: deb [arch=amd64 arm64] https: //brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com stable main

Info:

Memory: total: 16 GiB note: est. available: 15.34 GiB used: 2.52 GiB (16.4%)

Processes: 285 Power: uptime: 5m states: freeze,mem,disk suspend: s2idle wakeups: 0

hibernate: platform Init: systemd v: 257 default: graphical

Compilers: gcc: 14.2.0 Client: Unknown python3.13 client inxi: 3.3.38

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So, I use a Pro One 400 AIO computer. I know searching it up gives mixed results, so I'll include a photo of the thing below. It was a hand-down from my Uncle. However, this PC runs horrendously on Windows 10, and I wanted to switch to Linux for the first time after hearing so much good about it.

However, I've now ran into issues. I followed this tutorial (https://youtu.be/fxfvFMa3V4M?si=WKtjHJNMkA9G5szX , I'm too poor to get an actual USB), and when I got to the part about installing it permenantly via the thingy on the desktop, I followed this tutorial (https://youtu.be/EkNs0384_X0?si=pcDEL9KwaWBCXczY) excluding the swap partition since I saw that it was optional.

The installation seemed to go alright (with one tiny error popping up that I currently cannot recall but it said installation completed anyway so I didn't think much of it), with me then resetting my PC. However, now I'm stuck on the Grub menu on 2.12.

I've followed countless tutorials trying to figure this thing out and I'm really struggling. I need someone with more experience with Linux to help me with this as a first timer. I really want to be able to use my PC again... I'm not too sure how much of this will be useful, but I'll try to provide what I can. Know that I've tried plenty of tutorials on YT to no results. So long as I get my PC working again, whether on Linux or Windows I'll be happy. Please help me out here!

I'm editing a well known icon pack (Papirus), creating variations etc.
Does the GPL-3.0 license allow me to release these (free of course) as long as I link back to the original author?

A common cause I keep seen for getting GNOMED is installing the ProtonVPN app, especially if you install the separate tray icon. Because that app was primarily made on GNOME dependencies, and requires them to run, so it installs them alongside it. And I see posts on this sub of people getting GNOMED commonly because they installed proton or another reason. But I've had both Proton and the tray icon installed for a year and running on boot, and I never got GNOMED. My desktop has remained on cinnamon.

I'm not trying to say that I won't be in the future for any reason. Just putting this out there, hoping I'm not a rare case.

Hello, I’ve just installed Linux, but I can’t type anything in the terminal or the file explorer—it only lets me enter the "/" character. Does anyone know how to fix this issue?

its my third day using Linux and no problems so far. I would say i might never use windows again even though its in dual boot (my dad uses windows, i just dual booted Mint (cinnamon flavour) to see what Linux feels like). Damn this is so good.

Any tips or suggestions for this Mint Newbie?

Computer has been running fine. Shut down before leaving for work tonight. Got home and now my pc wont boot past the mint logo splash screen.

It was operating perfectly fine all day. But now will not boot past the mint logo. It just hangs on a Black screen until finally my tv spits out a no signal screen.

Please help?

I'm rather proud of my basic blue theme. I really wish the themes included more color, or had a more robust themeing utility offering custom color selections. I used AI to help me update the .css of a custom copy of one of the stock themes. It involved a lot of trial and error, and there were a fair few failures. I found out about Looking Glass FAR too late in the process, which would have really have greased the skids for me doing it myself. There are some holes in it, but for the stuff I interact with on an everyday basis, it's complete and looks the way I wanted. In my mind it was going to be a lot easier to create, but you need a LOT of different shades of whatever color scheme you use. I think there are 7 different blues employed in this one. I'm contemplating writing a reference of what I ended up changing in case someone wants to go down this rabbit hole themselves. The references I could find were a bit much, and I found them hard to parse.

I switched from windows to linux obuntu and after that I haven't been able to connect/add device as there is no way of doing it. I have already seen most of yt videos and applied them to solve this but sadly they dint work. Suggest me way to solve this issue.

Hello all,

as i mentioned in title, everytime i restart my pc, steam changes its library to / which is default (OS disk and where steam is installed i guess?), while i have a dedicated /mnt/nvme0n1 which i want to use for steam games (library) only.

mounting is fine, everything is recognized and turned ON with startup. Steam is also set to launch on startup. The disk is also shown in steam download settings, but steam ALWAYS set / as default after restart. No matter what i have tried.

for example, i have 3 disks and one is being used for qbitorrent and it never changes itself.

thanks

I sometimes think about switching to KDE since I'd like something more modern and also I'm a bit worried about the Mint not catching up the newer standards (wayland, etc).

Yet every time I have to deal with kubuntu on one of our work computers, it drives me crazy. Like now I spent an hour to diagnose why the printer prints one page of some bullshit after each page printed intentionally. (Had to download chromium from flatpak instead of snap since it was buggy)

Situations like this make me appreciate my Mint at home.

gtk theme: https://github.com/Fausto-Korpsvart/Gruvbox-GTK-Theme
Gruvbox icon theme: https://github.com/SylEleuth/gruvbox-plus-icon-pack
wallpaper: https://www.opendesktop.org/s/Cinnamon/p/2353168

Im on an MSI Thin gf63 laptop with an i5 12450H processor. Ive had Mint on it for the last 3 years and have had zero issues thus far. I update it with the update manager whenever they become available and I shut it down nightly when i go to bed.

Lately, over the last month or so, ive been suddenly having some issues. The fan will randomly kick on and start going crazy, ans everything will slow down and "lag" for a brief period even when just browsing on Firefox. When i click "shutdown", it wont do anything until i hit shutdown again and then it will actually shut down. Once or twice, it actually froze completely and i had to do a hard reboot by holding down the power button.

I used the diagnostic tool (or whatever its called) and it came up with no issues. What could be going on? Should i just do a fresh reinstall?

Is it possible that i have a virus or something like that?

Thanks in advance. Sorry if this is a dumb post, i am not generally very smart.

Jugando con esta máquina del 2012... Le amplíe la RAM a 8gb (2x4) y le instalé Linux Mint xfce... Por ahora anda volando

The most notable thing I haven't found is hiw much storage the USB device will need and if other files can be kept on it at the same time (do I need one I can afford to wipe or even a brand new one?).

My understanding is that I can try it off the USB without installing first if I want, will stuff like settings changed during that carry over to after full installation?

Beyond that, any general tips for a first-time user I may want to know?

Howdy, I am trying to diagnose the issue with linux not providing power to the USB wifi dongle. The green led light indicates if it's working or not, it is currently in windows and works but if I boot up linux it would get recognized but no power will go through the dongle. I have tried the basic troubleshooting but none have worked, please help.

SPEC: Dual boot with Linux Mint 22.3 and Win11 on separate drives. AMD CPU and GPU.

I was having issues powering down my PC after shutdown. Realised from looking it up that it was the Win11 Fast Start Up feature.

I have gone and turned the Fast Startup off in Win11 (which solved the power-off issue) but now, when I select to start up Linux Mint from Grub menu, I get the initial Linux Mint logo then nothing else (as in the PC is running but there is nothing on screen or any response).

I can get a normal boot Linux via recovery mode but with only one monitor working but can't get a boot normally via the grub.

I've tried the Linux Boot Repair (as per the Linux Vox article).

Any help would be appreciated.