Honestly, to be fair with you:
Linux Mint Cinnamon has been the best operating system I have used. I didn't think Windows was bloated but after using this, I can assure: Its bloated.
Thanking Linus Torvalds, Linux Mint Developers, Cinnamon DE Developers, The Linux Mint community.

Does anyone know what this is? It doesn't usually appear like this; it pops up when I press a key on the keyboard.

I decided to try Linux mint ever since Microsoft stopped the support for windows 10 especially on my old thinkpad. I love it here.

Very fast and acts much like i3 with custom keyboard shortcuts. (Yes, I know I could have just used i3 but I wanted some GUI tools for things. This is close enough.)

I was watching a YouTube video regarding a hacker in that video something came to my attention that the hacker encrypted his os it was dabien based linux distro and feds were not able to decrypt that system so how can I achieve the same thing i mean as a every day user i do have my personal stuff in my system like pics documents etc. I just want to feel safe about my stuff. Is it possible for someone like me to achieve same thing in linux mint btw i just moved from windows to linux a week ago.

I was just checking the software manager randomly and I saw that steam cannot be uninstalled... Like at all? From the store at least. I'm not trying to uninstall it but does anyone know what's up?

Edit: 40 minutes later, It randomly fixed itself

My first thought was that they now can enjoy the horror of Bitlocker, TPM, error codes and use countless hours trying to recover, reinstall, license keys and countless reboots.

We switched to Mint four years ago and we fully agreed of how much time and money we have saved because we decided to use Mint. Mint is not totally flawless but compared to the time before Mint, it almost is and we have no AI slop and telemetry!

Its crazy to think how an os like Linux Mint can save an old ass laptop. I have my big gaming laptop that i carry for hard stuff, but i needed something small and easy to carry for quick browsing and use it for trading. I came across one macbook air 2015 with 8gb ram for super cheap and very little used. Got it and installed Mint on it. Its crazy how good it works, it was crazy good out of box. I use it now daily for trading simple charting, its amazing battery keeps up and its super fast. I think I'll go full Linux mode on big laptop too because i dont use it much for gaming. 🐧🐧🐧

So im going to try to explain what is going on. I have tried installing about 7 times already, the issue is that the first time I booted linux mint cinnamon it loaded perfectly and let me try it, then i realized i hadnt turned bitlocker off so i closed the trial to go back to windows and turn bitlocker off. I turned bitlocker off and came back to booting mint again from the same usb and it gave me an error code (its on the image below) i have tried everything to try booting mint on again, using balena etcher, turning off secure boot (its already off), changing from gpt to the other one, but it just doesnt boot linux mint cinammon back 😭😭😭 (i’ve been struggling for hours please help me!!!!)

Installed mullvad today and all of a sudden I needed it connected in order to use anything that requires a connection because the numbskulls at Mullvad require a Killswitch to be on at all times. I read that uninstalling mullvad resolves this issue. Instead the issue persists and now that mullvad is gone I can't connect to the internet at all. Is there anything I can do at this point or am I cooked?

Hi all, been using Mint for about 5 months now & thoroughly enjoying it. My laptop has an Italian keymap, but I'd like to also use the Apple wireless keyboard I've had laying around for a while. The problem is that the Apple keyboard has a US layout, so the special character keys are a little funky. While it's easy enough to just press Win+Space to switch keymaps depending on the keyboard I'm using, I wonder: is there a way to automatically switch to a specific keymap based on the keyboard in use?

I am considering getting a keyboard and mouse from 8bitdo. Does anyone know if they (and the giant buttons that come with the keyboard) can be configured in Mint? Asking 8bitdo did... Not return useful answers.

It's getting time to move my technology averse wife off of win10. But she's got habits and routines that litter her windows desktop as icons and shortcuts. I have her system dual booting now. Is there a way to simply take the desktop contents on the windows side (under user) and dump it into her desktop folder on the linux side, or (as i suspect) do i have to laboriously build the new desktop from what I know the old desktop entries refer to?

So i recently installed mint as i had a leftover 240gb ssd in my system from an old windows install after moving things over to the nvme. So I figured i would install linux onto it and build it out as a recovery suite for my pc. Well after updating the 470+ updates after install i got hit with the firmware issue and my system kept crashing display manager kept dropping out and having issues. And overall it was really annoying to deal with. Decided to start building a recovery tui. Something simple nothing crazy.

And I recently figured out i could use ai coding tools to help build the program for me so I gave it a shot.

What i have now is a tui that has automated timeshift backups tied into updates. So when you use the command or click on the update button in the updates menu it takes a snapshot of the system before deleting the old one.

Another thing it has is a built in fairly lightweight watchdog that drops you into tty3 to tell you what crashed when the system crashes and asks if you would like to review recovery options where you can navigate through the main tui from there.

The main tui has a few simple options like timeshift restore, a display reinitialization utility, hardware and kernel diagnostic screen, and system logs.

I like the tool for my system but im wondering if this is something the community would be interested in. Ive already pushed it to github with an mit license.

Here it is if anyone wants to do anything with it https://github.com/henuemphuse/ProjectAnthony

is it the open source driver or the real official driver that works better for gaming ?

Between Linux Mint XFCE and Linux Mint MATE, what are the use cases for each, compared to the other?

They're both recommended for low spec computers.

But it seems that, for some reason, Mint XFCE is more often recommended and even more often used, than Mint MATE. Is there a reason for that?

Its been ~3 months since ive installed mint on my anv15-41. my main issue with it is that for some reason, my laptop freezes. It freezes when im just browsing or coding. I never experienced it when im playing games. I dont even know where to start diagnosing the issue or error log etc.

Its not that frequent like from time to time, laptop freezes so thats why i still stick with mint but at this point, if i cant solve it, i might just go back to windows or just use different distro (maybe like fedora).

I did ask CHATGPT about it and it says something about amd. "Your system is hitting an AMDGPU Display Core/DMUB hang on the Radeon 680M, which wedges the internal eDP display pipeline and subsequently causes the desktop to appear completely frozen." based on the logs he instructed me to run. I did search it up but i cant make sense out of it.

im on kernel 6.17 btw.

• The new version of Mint-Doctor is now fully available in English 🇬🇧, in addition to Spanish. Give it a try if you were looking forward to it! This week marks a small change of era, and I’ll be bringing you something to help protect our privacy.

Mint-Doctor is a Bash script for Linux Mint 22.3 that checks your system for the most common issues and, with your approval, allows you to fix them. It includes 10 modules covering everything from APT, repositories, and disk space to Cinnamon, hardware, networking, and Timeshift.

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

Hello ! I am looking for a practical video editing app on Linux mint that could run on a slow pc !

Just something i made for my everyday use desktop. Nothing over the top.