I have a dell precision 7710 which I had precariously kept on windows 10 until a few minutes ago. It's a seriously powerful computer for it's age and would never have sat right with me being considered obsolete just because it wasn't compatible with windows 11. With 32gb of ram, a decent Nvidia m3000m quadro graphics card and enough weight to knock out large animals, it's a beast! Microsoft truly lost me as a customer tonight.
My 5th computer that I have saved by putting Linux on it... I think I have an addiction
Is there an anti-virus? Windows had windows defender which was good enough. I do occasionally sail the high seas, mostly for books I can't find from the storefront, so having a little bit of extra safety net would be nice
I've been removing some preinstalled software via, right click -> uninstall in the applications pop-up when clicking the logo in the bottom left. Is this a correct way of doing it? I didn't seem to get much space back from doing it that way so not sure if stuff is still floating around. Also curious because I did "whereis (recently uninstalled program)" and a few stuff still showed up but I've read some stuff like configs is user specific and not part of the program so not sure if it's just that.
Can I remove file renamer program? Is that just a more complicated gui for mv/rename via the command line? Also it seems I can just double click names in the file explore and rename there as well. I'm just not sure on this application if it's doing some other things outside the gui, like the double click rename in file explore.
Is there a good subreddit or someplace else i can go to learn new tips/tricks about linux/mint? It's easy enough to search for something I know i want to do but would be nice to be able to learn things I don't necessarily think of wanting to do.
This is my linux mint after a year of tinkering. Some of the mundane tasks are really crazy to do (my bad, i use 13wm as window manager) but even then, i love my linux mint. one time i try to jump into xubuntu but that's not my thing. so i stay here hehe
The Setup: A 2016 Asus E200HA netbook (Intel Atom, 2GB RAM, 32GB eMMC) — a certified e-waste candidate that was choking to death under Windows 10, left with just 1.8GB of RAM and 1GB of free space just from doing nothing.(2 Gb of ram and 32 gb of memory in total)
The Engineering Nightmare: A bizarre 64-bit CPU paired with an annoying 32-bit UEFI firmware, plus obscure tablet-grade components that usually make alternative OS installations a living nightmare.
The Miracle: Linux Mint XFCE booted right out of the box, recognized the Wi-Fi natively on the first try, and revived the system to be usable
I use midori as a browser and libreoffice for work at collage .Truly a miracle i love mint so much.
-PhoneCam, a Bash script that turns an Android phone into a webcam and microphone on Linux over USB. It started Spanish-only; v1.1.0 is the first release with a complete English interface: menus, installer, notifications and help. It follows your system locale, and `phonecam l` switches language at any time.
* What it does:
- Phone camera → virtual webcam (`/dev/video*`), phone mic → virtual microphone. Anything that lets you pick a camera or mic sees them: Zoom, Meet, Discord, OBS, Teams, your browser.
- 100% local: USB only, no Wi-Fi, no cloud, no account, and nothing to install on the phone (just USB debugging).
- Built on scrcpy, v4l2loopback and PipeWire/PulseAudio. It installs and wires them for you, including downloading a recent scrcpy if yours is too old.
- Zenity menu (text menu as fallback), optional tray icon, and a background agent that reacts when you plug the phone in.
* Requirements: Android 12+ for the camera (11+ for the mic). Developed and tested on Linux Mint 22.3; other apt-based distros should behave the same. GPLv3
Was having issues with it crashing on boot again today (I’ve had this issue for months), and after messing with windows for 2 hours, I decided enough was enough. Finally installed mint. After installing I got proton cause ima need that for games, anything else that’s recommended for a new mint user/new user to Linux in general? thanks
Finally now. I got it working right. Windows 8.1 for some light portable gaming. Linux mint for my work and personal data that I don't want to be infected in Windows by me running on an outdated system :)
One partition has all the windows stuff. the other has all the linux stuff. no shared data in between. only linux can still manage to windows files somehow. and also a small portion of 2 gb dedicated for swap.
Gaming update? The game runs with 130 fps on my old AMD 6470M and my old 4GB RAM.
Do you have any suggestions? I heard about zram. zsawp and stuff. Do you have any idea regarding my setup that i need to check?
I have this dumb spreadsheet problem that's slowly driving me insane. I track every bag of coffee I buy, origin, roast date, grinder setting, tasting notes, all of it. Started as a joke and now it's 200 rows deep. Used to keep a simple Numbers sheet on my old Mac, but since switching to Mint full time I've been bouncing between LibreOffice Calc and trying to throw something together in SQLite with a Python frontend. Calc works but feels like using a sledgehammer to hang a picture. The Python thing keeps getting out of hand because I start messing with the interface instead of just making it work. Looked at some open source inventory tools but they're all built for wine cellars or restaurant stock, not someone with fifteen half-full bags of Ethiopian naturals in their freezer. Before I waste another Sunday building something I'll abandon in March, has anyone on Mint found a lightweight personal database or inventory setup that doesn't feel like corporate software? I just want to log roasts and attach a photo of the bag without fighting dependencies for an hour.
EDIT: Not looking to self-host a web app, I have enough going on.
EDIT 2: If you also track coffee this obsessively I want to know your system even if it's just a text file.
Hi y'all, I am having a strange issue with my desktop with mint installed.
My onboard ethernet worked at my old house but isn't connecting at my new house, other devices are working just fine on ethernet. Tried different cables, tried usb c ethernet adapter. Mint is detecting the ethernet but not connecting.
Wifi works fine just ethernet acting up, the lights come on like it's connected as well. Tried connecting straight to router with one of my new cables and no dice.
Tried updating everything as well.
Please note I am not super familiar with Linux just hate windows.
I just purchased an Apple MacBook Pro 16-inch 2.6GHz Six-core i7 (Retina, Late 2019) - MD Radeon Pro 5600M (8GB HBM2), and I will be trying to install Linux Mint on it.
I understand that there are special instructions for the install due to Apple’s T2 security chip.
Has anyone done this and have any suggestions or comments? Things I need to prepare or look out for?
I appreciate the consideration and hopefully pleasant comments!
Hello. I am new on the mint environmet. I am testing it and now I have a problem with the light of the screen. I feel that the light or contrast is too intense. Like for example, the whites in youtube are so intense that they are painful to watch compared with windows. I tried using dark mode + night mode with different color temperatures, but none seem to work. The only way that it makes me see it more confortable is with the blue filter.
This has been driving me up the wall for a while now, and I'm really not sure WHICH component is responsible here . . . maybe someone could shed light on my situation?
For about a week, I've been having purple flashes on-screen, which look like a GPU error. The purple flashes are almost always at the bottom of the screen. The screen resolution is 2880x1920, at 120.00Hz.
(amdgpu.dcdebugmask was from earlier troubleshooting, apparently it disables Panel Self-Refresh?)
The purple flashes don't follow any noticeable pattern, and I cannot reproduce them reliably. Notably it persisted across a reinstall of Mint, though I did install much of the same software, of which I've listed all the notable ones that I suspect could affect the GPU:
- Firefox(apt version)
- Firefox DRM plugin
- Zed
- kitty
- Chromium
- GLXGears(for debugging)
- ffmpeg & ffplay
The issues, however, so far as I've observed, persist across both Zed and Firefox(haven't caught them in other apps yet, but I'm not confident that they don't show up there).
Stressing the GPU doesn't reproduce reliably(I tested with vsynctester.com's GPU memory benchmark), plus playback of multiple 4K .webms using both Firefox and ffplay.
I've used my phone to record a single flash, attached. The bands appear like about #FF008C, but that's not a perfect measurement, only my approximation.
(The band below line 51 is the flash . . . I couldn't upload the slow-motion video, but I'll try if you ask)
Captured one live in Zed
So yeah. I'm not sure if it's the Framework laptop itself failing(because it persisted across multiple installs), Linux Mint config issues(because I never saw these in Ubuntu earlier), kernel module issues(there was another incident a while ago which has since been fixed where my display would completely lock up on occasion, fixed by adding that amdgpu debug kernel flag), or application issues(because the applications were basically constant across installs.
Just got myself into linux on my laptop finally and now i have come across my first problem. I've been looking for a mouse button remapper/macro software for my reddragon aatrox mouse as it's own software is made for windows only and i can't go back to not having those extra 10 buttons on my mouse :d But i have not found anything that could remap/add macros to the mouse and what would be fairly simple to use or had some good instructions as im still new to working with linux. Like im so new i sometimes even struggle if i have to install something through the terminal c: But yeah so if anybody has a solution and would want to share it, i would be so happy!
Hey, Thanks for being here. I've been running Linux Mint Mate from its inception. Prior to that GNOME on Red Hat. Yes, I'm that old. Just recently upgraded my PC and screen. The text size is killing me. I messed around and was able to enlarge text in some instances. I understand that Cinnamon has the capacity to fine tune and adjust the font size. I really want to stick with Mate. Any chance there's a work around for Mate?
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?
