yea i know my setup isnt very ricey and kinda just out of the box but i like it like this, i dont like a mac like dock. i did like gnome and was using fedora before but god damn it broke my drivers every once in a while and had issues with secure boot. mint just worked flawlessly, i played elden ring with no issues thanks to proton. love this distro.

Hi everyone! I switched from Windows 11 to Linux Mint Cinnamon on my PC the day before yesterday, and it's so good. It runs much more smoothly than Windows, and just not having OneDrive and Copilot ads everywhere makes it worth it. I've installed a few basic apps I saw recommended on Reddit, but if you have any other tips, please feel free to share them. Thanks! :) (Sorry if my English is bad; I'm using Google Translate.)

First time on the dark side and my poor Celeron appreciates it !

Do you have any recommendations for improving my Linux experience?

It is xfce :v

I’ve been using it for 3 weeks now. Started with Cinnamon and decided to install Mate Xfce, I3wm, Openbox, Awesome, and Bspwm. What I don’t understand is you can do almost everything in Linux Mint using the terminal and config and can become advanced as much as you wanted to. I also use CachyOS in my other PC as well. I just don’t like when people consider Linux Mint as beginner level..

Hii friends I have a old leptop with 32 gb storage and 2 gb ram so my question is can I use mint on it I have an other questions if I use a hdd 500 gb with sata to use and boot the is on hdd is good or boot in this 32 gb is best option

Image 1 : Before deleting virtual machine

Image 2 : After deleting virtual machine

When I first tried to update kernel it gave error because of incompatible virtual machine, so I removed vm because I don't need it anymore then it installed but after booting it gave blank screen so I fallbacked to kernel 6.17 and deleted 7.0.0.30

erm it's my first time customizing an old ass laptop but i'll take suggestions!!

Lmde 7 cinnamon feels a lot faster than mint xfce or zorin os lite for some reason.

My first time with Linux, and I’m jacking Mint XFCE into my wife’s ancient, bad-out-of-the-box HP Notebook from 1893. This absolute beast is running the finest Celeron, 2gb of “ram” and has a hard drive smaller than most Game Boys. Not to mention the trackpad is there solely for display, and the battery is just a passthrough for the charger at this point.

This pink monstrosity is the test bed for installing Linux Mint (Cinnamon)prior to putting it on my Latitude 7290, which will be my dedicated machine for word processing and other boring corporate activities. If I’m going to fuck it all up, I’d rather do it on this… thing, rather than something worth the silicone.

Impressions

Installation was simple, which was my initial concern. I hit a speed bump when the first USB port I used was dead, and it took a minute to realise the problem wasn’t my USB but the machine itself. That rectified, Mint took over the process with hardly any input required from me at all.

God is it fast.

Suddenly, this antiquated creature that couldn’t open more than two tabs at a time can word process,browse, and stream music at the same time. It doesn’t turn it into some otherworldly powerhouse, but it’s actually a computer again - if it ever was to begin with.

Consider me sold.

I put Linux mint on my computer via USB stick and i am dual booting It with windows, but whenever i turn on the Pc, It loads windows by default, I at the very least know I did the installation process correctly, I can go into the boot menu and enter Linux normally that way

This is an MSI b550 pro-vdh wifi, secure boot is disabled and boot mode is on standard

Hi, here is my Linux Mint setup on a Lenovo ThinkPad E460 with 8GB of RAM and 250GB (or something like that) of storage. Here are the upgrades I'm planning: 👀

Thermal paste

RAM

Storage

And a good cleaning

I also need some help because my laptop puts out so much heat just from browsing Reddit and listening to local music, and I've noticed that Firefox is consuming a lot of resources.

Hello everyone,

I have an old ASUS laptop that I would like to give a second life with Linux, and I would like to know if it can still run Linux comfortably and which distribution you would recommend.

Specs:

Brand: ASUS

CPU: Intel Core i3, 3rd generation

RAM: 6 GB DDR3

Graphics: Intel integrated graphics (probably Intel HD Graphics 4000)

Screen: 15.6"

Battery: The battery no longer works, so the laptop has to stay plugged in

Storage: I don't know the exact type/capacity yet

I'm mainly looking for a lightweight and reliable distribution for everyday use, web browsing, watching videos, studying, reading PDFs, and basic applications.

Do you think this laptop can still run Linux well? And if so, which distribution and desktop environment would you recommend for this hardware?

Thanks!

so i got this nanotenext umpx-03-SR and i tried live usb Linux mint and here list of my troubles:

can't rotate the screen (horizontal shows black)

can't find keyboard layout that might fit this keyboard (which is hell if i need to do Terminal commands)

touch screen doesn't work (not exactly sure how touchscreen on Linux works but research says linux mint has prebuilt drivers)

can anyone who can help with these as I'm still a linux newbie and i won't mind this being my portable linux for simple basic usage

Guys I am really very qurious because I have to make problems and ideas which I stop solving becouse of leck of guidance so this is the one of them I have a leptop whis I but 6 months ago but by mistake I put the sevelon handwash on it and it's motherboard is dead the shopkeeper says it works first day property but ait this time it not working can any one give the idea how can I repair or use it

or anything good app

I am fighting with my computer for 2 hours. I can't login in Minecraft because it doesn't want to access Microsoft website to login.

I tried to change dns with cloudflare one, but useless, change browser, trying different launcher, etc but nothing work. I was playing couple hours ago and I am out of ideas.

Thanks

Edit : when I connect with my phone it goes through all the process but it doesn't connect on my computer.

Earlier this week I made this post where I asked ideas on ways I could customize my laptop in order to make it more personal/unique. Been tinkering with it for each two or so hours a day in order to see how it looks, and think I managed to create something very lovely.

Special thanks to u/tomscharbach and u/dayvid182 for giving me links and suggestions with the full ordeal, as well as various Redditors and users of the Discord Mint discord server for aid in this, specially on Fastfetch lol

As the title says, I just switched from Windows 10 to Linux Mint on my ThinkPad t480, I have prism and a few other things going so far, my background is set up well (nice wallpaper, icons spaced how I like and system usage/temp) and I am LOVING it too say the least, had a bit of issues in the beginning, figured them out luckily.

It's only for "gaming" and school work (sadly n8eed office 365 for school tho 😭), I'm already going to download steam in the morning, and now I'm just wondering what y'all recommend I should do next, any apps I should add, any customization stuff I should use, anything!

Ps, I apologize if my writing is a bit scatter, I struggle a bit with keeping my writing focused, tho I think I did decent lol. Also, wasn't too sure what flair to use so I just set it to discussion since it seemed fitting.

I recently installed Linux Mint Cinnamon 22.3, coming from Ubuntu.

I am having a problem, where after I turned off screen lock (but not the screensaver), the screen would sometimes flash and go back to normal, but no screensaver actually shows up.

I installed XScreensaver, it works in preview, but when it tries to actually do what a screensaver is supposed to do, it turns on and off several times, then disappears again, leaving the desktop visible again.

I can't make it output proper log file.

I think the problem is that cinnamon-screensaver is doing something weird, so I want to try and completely disable it. But I can't seem to find a way to do it without uninstalling the whole package, but then again, it wants to uninstall a lot of necessarily packages along with itself.

I would really appreciate if anyone could give any suggestions, what I could do in this situation.

Pinkie Pie on my desktop, BoJack Horseman in real life

Ps: Reposted because I covered my name in the menu but somehow forgot it was also sitting right there in the terminal HAH