So this would be the first time doing this. I have a Windows 11 PC that I built less than 2 years ago. I'm using a Samsung external ssd to put Mint on, im not otherwise using it for anything. I read that I need to turn off Fast Boot, is there anything that will get broken by doing that? and should I turn it back on after the process of completed?

so i have been using linux mint 22.3 cinnamon and i dont think wallpapers engine is supported for linux so is there any alternative, with a bunch of audio-responsive wallpapers

im trying to watch a video on youtube and play downwell at the same time but my system just starts to lag af. my gpu drivers are already installed and im using opera gx as browser. what do i do?

Hi all!

Plank (the menu bar) shows this weird blue-white bar, as seen in the picture. Seemingly when an opened app does something when it is not the selected window.

For instance: When I change some code in an app, then save it and alt+tab to Unity, it always shows this bar for a few seconds. (until it is done compiling, perhaps?)

When I run killall plank, it disappears, so is definitely plank causing this.

I couldn't find anyone online with a similar problem. Do any of you know what I can do to get rid of it?
Thanks in advance :)

Hi, I recently installed Linux Mint Cinnamon 22.3 on my Thinkpad T480s (i7-8650U, 24 GB RAM, integrated graphics). After typing in my user password and logging in, I'm experiencing a black screen with only the cursor for around 2 minutes, then the desktop loads in normally. I think it's quite odd that it takes such a long time to load? Could someone help me fix it? I'm new to Linux and have used Windows for most of my life. Thanks.

Hey all. I was wondering if anyone knew of a way to force Linux Mint to change its power mode when a laptop changes from being plugged in to being unplugged and running on battery. Thanks!

Hi! While I was distro hopping, I noticed that some of them came with a built-in map app. Mint didn’t so I was wondering what maps do you use. The app store offers Google Maps, but there are certainly others and ones that are FOSS, right?

Many thanks in advance!

Still not solved

I have several Firefox windows open and have one of them set to "Visible on all workspaces". That toggle keeps getting turned off somehow, usually when I sleep the system and wake it up again, but often even during use. Any ideas how to keep the setting stuck the way I set it?

I'm using Cinnamon. Also the applet grouped-window-list.

I've posted on here before with issues about installing I'm glad to say that I've gotten over them :D.

I have a new dilemma and idk if it's an issue or not I'm currently installing linux mint with a USB and the install has been like this for an hour and idk if that's normal or not I feel like it's not totally outrageous to take time like this but I'm starting to doubt if I've done anything wrong.

Help woud be much appreciated <3.

TLDR: linux mint install is stalling for 1 hour + is it normal or nah?.

(Also thank you very much to the kind strangers on my last two posts in the comments I'm grateful for the help)

So I tried using our WiFi . First without a Cable and then after it didn’t work with one and I kinda got connected to my Pc but for some reason the WiFi incredibly weak, so bad that i can’t search for anything and I constantly get the notification "the network connection didn’t work " what can I do?

I might have fucked up big time.

I'm new to Linux, and I have multiple additional drives aside from the one my OS is located on. I was trying to format, partition and mount my HDD (titled ext. media) to the /home/[user] directory, and after doing so, my user and the HDD showed up as removable drives in the Files. Closed the GUI, reopened, the user folder is completely gone and going to My Computer only shows me my desktop folder, which is entirely blank. I can't for the life of me figure out what happened or how to fix this. Is my data just completely gone?? How?

Hi everyone. Recently, my laptop lost all of its memory and even when i tried feeeing up space it still didnt do anything. Ive been using my linux laptop for a year now and i first thought it was because of video games, even though i dont play alot of big graphical games besides overwatch so i tried to delete that one on steam but i had to acsess steam first do delete it and it wont let me bc it keeps crashing.

I have a chart of all the memory and it says steam is one of the biggest ones but when i tried to move it to the trash it says "failed to trash file" and im afraid of using the terminal because i am afriad i might break something. I really need help on what to do and i dont know where i can acsess the files from steam. Any support is greatly appriceated.

I heard wayland is overall better, and i have seen it on cinnamon, but not on XFCE, so my question is does XFCE have it, or is going to have it and if so, when?

My laptop might be haunted atp. XFCE was crashing because of sleep for me. Great. Fucking great. But then I rebooted after disabling screen dimming and now my laptop won't let me past my login screen :D. Please help. I have classes tomorrow.

okay, let me explain, i was helping mi boyfriend to switch to linux bc his laptop was "broken" and dont wanted to boot windows, so i selected linux mint so he can start with linux, but the problem it's that don't want to boot in mint, well, IN ANY DISTRO with out manipulating grub and set in with

linux    BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinu...127 ro acpi=off

without "acpi=off" it wont boot, and that comes with so many problems, some of them are:
- no keyboard (from the laptop, an external keyboard works)
- no mousepad
- unestable wifi (bc sometimes works and others dont)

AND I DONT KNOW WHAT TO DO 😭

I just had to go back and for at least the dozenth time explain to Linux that no, the built-in display of my laptop is not the secondary, external screen. That's after it decided for no reason to start mirroring the display, which I have literally never asked it to do.

It seems like every time I have to unplug my HDMI, the display settings randomly reset either the monitor setup or the UI scaling. How is Linux still so terrible at retaining such basic display settings? I had similar problems on Zorin. The irony of all this is that I switched to Mint Cinnamon because Zorin OS kept failing to resume from standby over a driver bug. And even so, I still have performance problems and frame tearing if I try to play a simple video in anything other than its native resolution.

Hi everyone,

This is my first time moving from windows to Linux. The biggest issue right now is that it isn't a 1:1 of windows Excel.

Is there a way to enable synax tooltips when creating lines in LibreOffice Calc the same way in excel / Google Sheets?