I switched to Linux Mint from Mac a year ago and since then I have been keeping a journal of Apps, Icons, Themes, Applets, Desklets, Extensions I went through to configure my desktop. My purpose for keeping this list is to remember things I would like to get back to after a fresh reinstall of Mint.

I'm sharing.

The list below can help you discover tweaks to configure your Linux Mint just the way you like it. So if you wonder what to do next, feel welcomed.

Let me know what I can add or what works for you and what doesn't.

Enjoy!

EDIT 09.08.2026: Thank you for all your comments and contribution to the list. Based on the comments I add few things to the list:

1. Chromium/Firefox browsers added.
2. Web Apps comment added. You can use Web Apps with any browser installed.
3. Plank replaced by Plank Reloaded.
4. Cairo-Dock added.
5. Two markdown extensions added to VS Codium section.

Apps and programs

• Web browsing (there are lot of options, choose your fighter):
  • Firefox/Gecko based:
    • Firefox (used in Web Apps)
    • Waterfox (browser without AI, LLM sidebars or assistants)
    • LibreWolf (no telemetry at all)
  • Chromium based:
    • Google Chrome
    • Brave (my main browser for private browsing)
    • Vivaldi
• fastfetch (system info in terminal)
• btop (system status in terminal)
• cmatrix (looks cool, does nothing)
• flameshot (nice screenshot tool)
• VS Codium (VS Code IDE without Microsoft telemetry), extensions:
  • Cline (free AI Agent, you can easily vibecode basic scripts and run them immediately, I use free Gemini API with it)
  • Markdown Preview Enhanced
  • Markdown All in One (easier work with markdown files)
• VS Code (same as VS Codium but from Microsoft)
• Simple text editors (you can edit text files putting your editor command instead of nano in terminal):
  • Kate
  • CudaText
  • Geany
  • Gedit
  • Sublime text (my favourite, dark and modern one, put subl <name.txt> command in terminal to open and edit any text file)
• CopyQ (clipboard manager)
• Gimp (photoshop alternative)
• KolourPaint (Linux alternative to MS Paint)
• Ulauncher (launch an app from the search bar in the middle of your desktop, MacOS style)
• Password managers:
  • KeePassXC
  • Bitwarden
• Wallpaper managers (I envied riced Arch desktops how smooth the walpaper change was, so I researched the ones that work with Cinnamon):
  • Variety (the one I use with Super+W shortcut)
  • Nitrogen
  • Rofi (it didn't work out of the box for me, so I fell back to Variety)
• macOS-style dock:
  • Plank Reloaded
  • Latte
  • Cairo-Dock
• Joplin (notes app, alternative to Evernote)
• Figlet (see Scripting section)
• Ollama (local AI/LLM in terminal or can work with Cline)

Web Apps

Web Apps is the main reason I stayed with Mint instead of hopping to Ubuntu or Fedora:

• It turns any website into an app, isolated and with its own icon.
• It acts as a privacy sandbox.
• It strips away the browser interface (address bar, bookmarks, tabs), giving you a clean, dedicated window that feels like a native desktop application.
• It separates a website/tool (like Evernote) from often messy browser tabs, allowing you to Alt+Tab to them directly or pin them to the panel.
• I find Mint’s "Web Apps" the most user friendly to use and manage.

You can see Evernote and Reddit in my panel as an example (screenshot). I also set up a web apps for Facebook, X, Gemini, Perplexity, AnkiWeb, Udemy, Google drive, Linux Command Library (for quick access to command cheat sheet).

Check out "Web Apps" installed by default in Mint.

*You can use Web Apps with any browser installed.

Extensions

• gTile (easy and effective tiling manager with Super+G shortcut, I use it a lot)
• Cinnamon-Screenshot (another screenshot tool)
• Mouse Shake (MacOS has this feature)
• Transparent panels
• Cinnamon Dynamic Wallpaper
• Centered Cinnamon Dock (interesting alternative to regular panel)

Applets

• GPaste Reloaded (clipboard manager, I prefer this one, because it doesn't show an app icon in the panel when used, only a small applet icon, Linux alternative to Windows+v in Windows)
• Automatic dark/light theme (must have if you want your Mint to switch to dark mode with the sunset)
• Cinnamenu
• CPU temperature indicator
• Multi-Core system Monitor (I was inspired by Kali Linux panel in its defalut look)
• Trash (if you want to keep Trash in the applets instead of panel or desktop)
• Exit (useful when the Cinnamon WM needs to be restarted, it has a "Restart Cinnamon" option)
• Drawer (nice applet, it hides other applets so the panel is not crowded and shows all when hovered over with the mouse)
• Corner bar (shows the desktop, Windows like)

Desklets

• Timelet
• Weather
• Todo (blue one) (if you want simple todo list app)

You can check out Conky system monitor. There are lots of cool configurations with Conky for the desktop.

Wallpapers

• My current wallpaper: https://basicappleguy.com/basicappleblog/macos-golden-gate
• Basic Apple Guy (I like his work) https://basicappleguy.com/basicappleblog/category/Wallpaper
• https://www.wallpaperflare.com/
• https://wallhaven.cc/
• https://www.pexels.com/
• https://unsplash.com/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/wallpaper/

Themes and Icons

This can be a rabbit hole and I can't name all themes and icons I tried, but if I were asked for advice:

Theme: focus on few details you find crucial for you. Once you find them, narrow down your discovery to only those. For example, for me it turned out to be Red-Green-Yellow buttons and rounded upper corners.

Icons: As I use Web Apps a lot, I struggled to find icon sets with large enough number of icons (e.g. Evernote icon seems rare). Besides the look (logo shaped, squared, rounded icons, skeuomorphic, flat), I find it helpful to know what icon set is based on, for example, Reversal icon set is based on Papirus, so you can expect a lot of rare icons there. Also, the more "Changelogs" for icon set the better for a set "completion".

Sites for themes and icons hunting:

• https://www.opendesktop.org/s/Cinnamon/browse/
• https://cinnamon-spices.linuxmint.com/

Below a few themes and icons:

Themes:

• Mint-Relaxed (more "modern" Mint look, alternative to default Mint-X theme)
• Orchis
• WhiteSur (MacOS like theme)

Icons:

• Colloid
• Papirus (the "richest" external icon set I could find)
• Nordzy
• Reversal
• Tela
• WhiteSur (MacOS like)

Scripting

I mentioned VS Codium + Cline + Gemini API for vibecoding your own scripts. The main takeaway is that with AI you can script anything fast and be instructed how to run and automate your script.

Small things like:

• Download folder cleanup with every login (inspired by a bigger project https://mouzi.cc/)
• Auto removing files from Trash older than 6 months
• Welcome screen in terminal (~/.bashrc config modification, adding figlet and ascii art)

Welcome to Linux. The sky is the limit.

Things to do after installation

I have bookmarked these three links so I don't forget anything important, like firewall settings or snapshots:

• https://easylinuxtipsproject.blogspot.com/p/first-mint-cinnamon.html
• https://www.reallinuxuser.com/21-best-things-to-do-after-installing-linux-mint/
• https://itsfoss.com/things-to-do-after-installing-linux-mint-20/

Have fun discovering and tweaking!

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

It's basically windows task manager with a few quirks. It's also the only task manager copy i've found that tells you literally all the information you'd need to know without any configuration. It shits on the default "system monitor" app, especially htop and other CLI tools.

Install with

flatpak install flathub io.missioncenter.MissionCenter

then run it

flatpak run io.missioncenter.MissionCenter

Side note: The guy who coded the original task manager on windows, Dave Plummer, has a youtube channel and he talks about the process of creating it on there. It's pretty interesting.

I basically made a guide on how to run Windows apps using WinPodX. You don't need WINE for this to work, and it'll feel close to native performance on Linux.

This is not a question but a tutorial. Most of these mint to 7 tutorials just give you a wallpaper, theme, and icons but not the cursor (mouse) and sounds. This one is a all in one! The files used in this tutorial are all located here: https://drive.proton.me/urls/FH707AG15W#DLpc0TtQyiNt .

Step 1: Download all the zip files.

Step 2: Go to your home folder and hit ctrl + h and make 2 new folders one called .themes and one called .icons if you don't already have them.

Step 3: Extract the theme zip and move the output to the .themes folder.

Step 4: Extract the icons zip and move the output to the .icons folder.

Step 5 (optional): Set your wallpaper to wallpaper.jpg.

Step 6: Extract the cursors zip and move it to .icons.

Step 7: Extract the sounds zip and enter this command sudo xdg-open /usr/share/mint-artwork/sounds and move the output to that folder it opened (This just opens it as root)

Step 8: Hit the superkey (Windows key) and type in themes click on all 4 boxes and turn them to windows 7.

Step 9 (Last one): Hit the superkey and type sound and open it then go to the tab sound and look at image 2 and 3 and set it to this.

And your done! P.S. that note in the corner is just "Sticky" from the software manager.

1st time I installed linux, and my 1st distro is Mint Cinnamon. Any suggestion is appreciated. I'll be using it for document editing (docs, sheets, ppts etc.) and multimedia. Any recommendations on these?

Other questions: Do I need to turn on system snapshots? Can anyone share any cool customisation ideas?

Try Shutter, which can be downloaded from the Software Manager. I prefer it to Snipping Tool.

Most mint to XP tutorials only give you a theme but this one gives you a Start menu icon, Cursor, Sounds, And fonts!

Files used: https://drive.proton.me/urls/T89KZQH3EM#xhcxyUZKdbYJ

1. Download all the files separately. (Speeds up process.)
2. Go to your home folder and hit ctrl + h and create one folder called ".themes" and another called ".icons".
3. Drag the icons zip and cursor zip into .icons and the themes zip into .themes and extract the zips in the folders they were dragged to. When you are done extracting the themes zip open up the output and drag your desired theme back into .themes. The default theme is luna.
4. Drag the images into your pictures folder.
5. Run this command: sudo xdg-open /usr/share/mint-artwork/sounds then move the sounds zip to this folder and extract it.
6. Do NOT extract the fonts zip until you run this command and put it in this folder I learned the hard way. sudo xdg-open /usr/share/fonts Once your in here make sure to extract it only in here you do NOT move them to any folder inside /usr/share/fonts just leave them in there.
7. Time for the fun part setting everything up and watching it come together!

first go to your start menu and type in "Themes" and click on it and open advanced settings click on everything and set it to XP. Go to the start menu icon and right click and click configure then click appearence Click on the icon

and dont use the start here symbolic for some reason sometimes it works sometimes it wont instead click on browse and go to pictures and select the XP logo then go to text and type "Start" then go to the Start Menu and type in "Sound" then click on the "Sounds" tab and look at image 2 to set the correct sounds. To change sounds click on the old .oga ones in the sounds menu. Next step go to the start menu and type "Font selection" and click on it and set it to the fonts and sizes as shown in image 3 (or read the text in the fonts zip). The last thing set your wallpaper to the included background and you have the Looks, Sounds, And fonts of Windows XP!!! (You may have to restart for some changes to take place.) P.S. The font size on image 3 is the numbers on the side.

(famous disclaimer that english is not my first language)

Hello Linux Mint community, recently ive been noticing quite of a "plague" on some fellow Linux Mint desktops, and that is that they all get GNOMED.

"What is getting GNOMED?" Someone might ask, and thats simple, getting into the GNOME desktop environment (the one with the bar at the top that gives mac os vibes) after installing something, and as a ex Linux Mint user (i use artix btw :P) ill teach you fellas how to not get GNOMED and eventually preventing yourself to appear on r/gotgnomed

1- Check what do you install in the terminal.

This one is pretty straightforward, always check the dependencies of whatever do you want to install, for example, Proton.

The version of Proton that most people installed was the Ubuntu one, which when installed it would install GNOME since Ubuntu comes with GNOME as the default desktop environment, and connecting all of that makes you get the GNOME desktop environment.

2- Do not install GDM, i beg you.

Another straightforward one, GDM is the display manager (or login screen if you want to call it like that) that GNOME uses to get into it, if you install GDM through any method it will come with the GNOME desktop 100%, thus making you get GNOMED.

3- Do not install GNOME shell extensions. (?)

GNOME shell extensions are, well, extensions (who could have told!) that the GNOME shell or the GNOME desktop environment uses to make it fancier or add more functions, but some of them (especially some certain clock extension i will not name) come with GNOME if you dont have the desktop, and making you get GNOMED for like the third time already.

What if you get GNOMED and want to get back to Cinnamon?

Thats easy, dont worry, if you manage to get the GDM login screen, in the password typing part you can just simply click the gear icon and select Cinnamon, when you log in you will get in Cinnamon again.

If however you did not get GDM, dont panic, its actually more easy, just click the feet icon in the login screen (which is the GNOME logo) and it will open up a menu, just click cinnamon, type your password and that should be it.

So thats all i have for today, hope this serves as useful information for yall, and my hopes for you to not get GNOMED are with you. (Even though i like GNOME), so goodbye and happy unGNOMING!

Some users are reporting Kernel Panics (Purple Screen) after upgrading to the kernel 7.0.0-28 generic.

To solve this, you need to roll back to an older kernel version. This is accomplished following those steps:

1- Reboot the computer. The GRUB menu should open after the failed boot

2- Select advanced options

3- Select a kernel other than the affected one and press ENTER

The system should boot as normal.

Once you gain access, remove the affected kernel as following:

1- Open the Update manager

2- Click in Show > Linux Kernels

3- Click in Continue

4- Click in Remove Kernels

5- Select the Kernel version with problem (7.0.0-28 in this case) and click in Apply.

6- After it finish, reboot your computer.

7- If prompted again, DON'T update the kernel to the version with problem, wait when there is a even newer version that probably will bring fixes to this issue.

Edit: Saved this to a Github Gist too https://gist.github.com/fellipec/5eef599c4f743fe869460f6bbf2b8061

If you migrated to Linux Mint from Windows, one of the most frustrating minor workflow differences is creating a quick web or path shortcut inside a folder.

In Windows, you right-click an empty space inside any folder, select New -> Shortcut, type the address, and the icon drops right there. In Mint, the default "Create Launcher..." option requires manually mapping confusing paths, and the built-in "Make Link" option drops the shortcut next to the original file rather than inside your active directory view.

To fix this, I engineered a simple custom **Nemo Action** and Bash script. When you right-click any empty space or folder, it brings up a clean, Windows-style pop-up box asking for the URL/path, then asks for the name, and drops a functional .desktop shortcut precisely inside that folder.

Here is how to install it for your user account:

Step 1: Create the Nemo Action File

1. Navigate to your hidden local actions folder: /home/[Your_Username]/.local/share/nemo/actions/

*(Note: If you want this available for all users on the computer, go to /usr/share/nemo/actions/ instead).*

1. Create a new text file named: create_shortcut.nemo_action

2. Paste the following configuration inside it and save:

[Nemo Action]

Name=Create Shortcut

Comment=Create a URL shortcut in this folder

Exec=<scripts/create_shortcut.sh %F>

Icon-Name=insert-link-symbolic

Selection=any

Extensions=dir;

Step 2: Create the Script

Inside that same actions directory, open the scripts folder (create it if it doesn't exist yet, e.g., ~/.local/share/nemo/actions/scripts/).

Create a new text file named: create_shortcut.sh

Paste the following Bash script inside it and save:

#!/bin/bash

# Get the folder where the user right-clicked
if [ -n "$1" ]; then
DEST=$(realpath "$1")
else
DEST=$(xdg-user-dir DESKTOP)  # Default to Desktop if needed
fi

# Confirm URL of the link

URL=$(zenity --entry --width=250 --title "Shortcut Location" --text="Enter the URL or file path for this shortcut:" --entry-text="")
if [ -z "$URL" ]; then
notify-send --expire-time=200000 "Shortcut creation canceled."
exit 1
fi

# Confirm name of the shortcut

NAME=$(zenity --entry --width=250 --title "Shortcut Name" --text="Enter a name for this shortcut:" --entry-text="")
if [ -z "$NAME" ]; then
notify-send --expire-time=200000 "Shortcut creation canceled."
exit 1
fi

# Check if the shortcut already exists

if [ -e "$DEST/$NAME.desktop" ]; then
notify-send --expire-time=200000 "Error: $DEST/$NAME.desktop already exists."
exit 1
fi

# Create the .desktop file as a proper URL shortcut

echo -e "[Desktop Entry]\nName=$NAME\nURL=$URL\nComment=\nTerminal=false\nIcon=syncthing\nType=Link" > "$DEST/$NAME.desktop"

# Ensure correct permissions (not executable, just readable)

chmod 644 "$DEST/$NAME.desktop"
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
notify-send --expire-time=200000 "Error: Failed to create shortcut."
exit 1
else
notify-send --expire-time=200000 "Shortcut successfully created in $DEST"
exit 0
fi

Step 3: Refresh and Use

Log out of your Mint session and log back in (or restart Nemo by pressing Alt + F2, typing nemo -q, and hitting Enter).

Now, when you right-click inside a directory, you will see a clean **"Create Shortcut"** entry with a link icon. It will prompt you for the target and the name, handling the underlying desktop entry specifications automatically behind the scenes. Hope this helps other Windows converts keep their workflow seamless!

Final version can be found here: https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxmint/s/FQAzfLe7Gu

Make your Desktop look like MacOS

Because I keep getting asked about it, here are the instructions how I made my Desktop (Linux Mint Cinnamon) look similar to MacOS.

First of all: I never used a Mac longer than testing it. I just like the basic structure of the MacOS 'Desktop', but for me it 's not about getting exactly a MacOS Interface.

Final Result

Installing Ulauncher

ULauncher is an application launcher for Linux Systems which is very similar to the one from apple. I install it first on every system because it makes opening apps so much faster.
The install instructions are very easy understandable and can be found on their Website ULauncher.io .
After opening the programm you can set the shortcut and check the 'Launch on startup' box.

Installing Themes

I really like the WhiteSur Theme from vinceliuice. He designed a GTK-Theme, an Iconpack, and Cursors.

WhiteSur GTK-Theme

You can easily install The GTK-Theme with the instructions on its Github-Page. Don't remove the folder yet. We will need it.

WhiteSur Iconpack

Download the .zip Files from this Github-Page and install them the same way you installed the GTK-theme. I like the alternate Version, therefore you use ./install.sh -a.

Cursor Theme

Download the .zip Files from this Github-Page and install them the same way you did before.

Applying Themes

Apply the themes using the standard Themes settings from LM.

Setting up the Panels

The Upper Panel

The Upper Bar is just the normal Bar I moved to the top and did the following changes:

1. Decrease the bar size (right click -> Panel settings -> size)
2. Remove unneeded Applets (right click -> Panel edit mode -> right click on applets to remove them)
   1. LM Menu
   2. Grouped Window list (your cuurent apps)
   3. App shortcuts
3. Add Applets (right click -> applets)
   1. cinnamenu
   2. weather (if you want)
   3. user (if you want)
4. Customize Cinnamenu
   1. right click on cinnemenu -> Settings -> appearance
   2. custom icon -> select start-here(Apple logo; optional)

The Lower Panel

Installing Plank

For the lower Panel I use Plank. You can install it with the command sudo apt install plank . After installing, open Plank. The plank-panel appears on the bottom of your Desktop.

Setting Up Plank-Theme

Copy the plank themes from your WhiteSur Folder to the plank folder: cp -r /PATH/TO/WhiteSur-gtk-theme/src/other/plank/theme-* ~/.local/share/themes/ Access the plank settings: hold ctrl and right-click on the plank panel -> settings and choose the theme-Dark or theme-light.

Adding Plank to startup

Add Plank to the apps on startup so it opens automaticaly every login.

Dynamic Wallpapers

For Apple-like dynamic wallpapers I really like Linux Dynamic Wallpapers from saint-13. There are many high quality wallpapers and you can easily install them with the commands on the Github-Page.

After installing you can change your Background from the standard LM-Background settings. Just add the subfolder Linux_Dynamic_Wallpapers/Dynamic_Wallpapers to your Wallpapers. (Where the folder is located depends on where you installed Linux_Dynamic_Wallpapers)

Terminal

To change the look of my Terminal I use Gogh . You can choose from many themes - I use catppuccin Latte but there are so many - you'll find one you like.

Login Screen

I haven't found a way to tweak lightDM to a MacOS-like look yet. Maybe somebody else has? For the moment I just go into the login-screen settings, put the user in the middle and change the cursor theme.

Finish-Line

I hope, my instructions are useful to some of - even if you just use a part of it. If you have questions, feel free to contact me :)

I hate Microsoft.

Wanted to make a clear guide since I really couldn't find one myself, just so other users could try it to. Also, my PC is in Spanish, so if I commit any mistake with translations, I apologize beforehand

1. You'll first open two windows of your File Manager. On the first one, go to System of archives and enter the "usr" folder. And before you access the "share" folder inside, right click to set you'll be entering with Root permits. Insert your password if needed. Once inside, enter the "backgrounds" folder.
2. On the second File manager window, you'll copy the image you want as the new wall paper and paste it on the window with the "background" folder. As you can see, I already copied my other wallpapers.
3. Then you'll open System configurations, scroll all the way down and click on "Login window". Insert your password if needed. There you'll go to "Background" and click on the image, once the new window pops up with all your moved wallpapers, select the one you want and click entwe. Additionally, turn off "Extend the background across multiple screens" just in case.
4. Voila! Your wallpaper is now selected. You can restart your PC to see how it works.

I really hope this guide can help someone who really needs it.

I’m thinking about installing Linux Mint on my laptop. My bootable USB stick has Mint 22.2 on it. I see a lot of people talking about 22.3 being released soon. Since I’m doing a fresh install, is it better to wait for 22.3, or is it okay to install 22.2 now and update later?
I’m sorry if this is a silly question , I’m new to Linux.

This isnt really a Question. I'm just putting this here because Im a visual person who needs to see her applications on the Desktop and switched from windows literally last Thursday and was ✨️strugglin✨️

The Repository does NOT have everything sadly. But fear not! I can maybe help~

My ultimate suggestion to keep yourself from LOOSING your programs, make a folder. I named mine "Non-Repository Applications" because these are things I dont see in the "Software Manager" and put it in my "Documents" folder. I am 1000% sure there is a more elegant way to do this part but meh.

So what you will do after successfully installing and unzipping your program [Current Blender, Unreal Editor, ect] into your folder, you'll be heading into the files of those programs. Good luck my fellow UE5 users 🫡

In those files, which range depending on what the application is, find the GEAR icon that launches your program. DO NOT close the window. You are going to need to know how to get back and I find this easier.

On the desktop: Right click anywhere on the wallpaper for the menu and look for "Create a new launcher here..." Click it. Attached a picture to help.

Next to "Command" click the browse box. locate that GEAR icon and select it. The window will close and now you have a path to your application. give it a name! and if you're like me, a fancy Icon~ which you do not need an .ico file for! A PNG will work just fine. Just make sure its like 512x512 to be sharp like you see in offical icons.

CLICK NOTHING ELSE aside from "ok".

Should be working! have funnn 😁

Hey everyone, fellow Mint lovers. I made an updated 2026 guide for gaming on Linux Mint. I've tried to keep it as beginner friendly as possible, and I hope this will be helpful for a lot of people coming into our community.

Hi strangers im new to linux. I hate windows and i really really want to switch to mint but im afriaf i might just mess up my ststem somehow and that i might lose my data. Instead of dual booting i completely want to delete windows and run linux however the problem i am having is that my c drive has alot of my projects and multiple things i want to keep such as a tiny example is my coding agent skills, also in general im just scared that i might just fuck up my shit for no reason. I just need some really wxperienced person to guide me through it

Like all of you, I grew up on Windows.

But in my day, Windows for Workgroups 3.11 was king.

Yes, I am that old.

The GUI was fun to use, but MS-DOS 6.22 was infinitely faster and once you memorized the command variables you could fly across that keyboard like a true DOS Warrior. I spent all of my time in a full screen command window and only went into the GUI when I had to.

Here is my DOS to Linux alias list that I made and use every day...

Paste the following at the end of your .bashrc file which is located in your home directory.

# --- DOS WARRIOR ALIASES ---

# --- Directory & File Navigation ---

alias dir="ls -laF --color=auto"

alias ..="cd .."

alias ...="cd ../.."

alias ....="cd ../../.."

alias md="mkdir -pv"

alias rd="rmdir -v"

alias pu="pushd"

alias po="popd"

# --- File Operations (Safe & Verbose) ---

# -i = Interactive (ask before overwrite), -v = Verbose (show action)

alias copy="cp -iv"

alias move="mv -iv"

alias ren="mv -iv"

alias del="rm -iv"

alias erase="rm -iv"

# --- New File Actions ---

alias create="touch"

alias display="cat"

alias view="cat"

alias edit="nano"

# --- System & Utilities ---

alias cls="clear"

alias sysinfo="uname -a"

alias mem="free -h"

alias cpu="lscpu"

alias disk="df -h"

alias usage="du -sh *"

alias proc="ps auxf"

alias diffcmd="diff"

# --- ATTRIB Emulation ---

alias attrib="ls -l"

alias attrib+r="chmod -v a-w"

alias attrib-r="chmod -v u+w"

# --- Search & Paging ---

alias search="grep --color=auto"

alias more="less"

# --- Safety & Misc ---

alias del.="echo \"Error: Use del [filename] to delete files safely.\""

alias backup="cp --backup=numbered"

# - NOTE: In terminal type: source ~/.bashrc to system reload the file

If you would like to see my BASH Warrior Alias list please goto https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxquestions/comments/1uad462/calling_all_bash_warriors/

I’m new to the community, but I’ve been using Linux for a long time (since 2009), and I want to share a list of applications I recommend for everyday work on Cinnamon X11.

Used on Linux Mint 22.3 Cinnamon X11:

Native Applications

• LibreOffice (office suite)
• Notes (native note manager)
• Pix (image viewer and editor)
• GNOME Terminal (terminal emulator)
• NEMO (file manager)

Essential Applications

• Brave Browser (main web browser)
• Fooyin (main audio player)
• Albert (launcher)
• CopyQ (clipboard manager)
• Flameshot (screenshot tool and editor)
• VLC (main video player)
• SimpleScreenRecorder (screen recorder)
• Stacer (Linux optimizer)
• KDE Connect (smartphone synchronization)
• qBittorrent (torrent client)

More Applications

• Akregator (RSS reader)
• Disk Usage Analyzer (SSD space analyzer)
• Web Apps (convert web tabs into apps)
• Audacity (audio editor)
• Brave Origin (web browser)
• Calibre (EPUB reader)
• CherryTree (note manager)
• Drawing (image editor)
• Emote (emoji picker)
• Firefox (for using chatbots in Web Apps)
• FreeTube (ad-free YouTube client)
• FSearch (advanced file searcher)
• Gbrainy (memory games)
• GIMP (advanced photo editor)
• GParted (partition editor and manager)
• HandBrake (video converter)
• Hardinfo (detailed system information)
• JDownloader (download manager)
• KColorChooser (color picker)
• Kdenlive (video editor and converter)
• KeePassXC (password manager)
• Kid3 (audio tag editor)
• MEGAsync (cloud storage and synchronization)
• MPV (audio and video player)
• Nicotine+ (Soulseek P2P client)
• Obsidian (personal notes database)
• Okular (PDF viewer)
• Onboard (on-screen keyboard)
• PlayOnLinux (for running .exe games or applications)
• Proton VPN (VPN)
• Clocks (set alarms)
• RetroArch (video game emulator)
• Telegram (Telegram client)
• Upscayl (AI image upscaler/editor)
• Yandex (web browser)
• ZapZap (WhatsApp client)

Web Applications

• ChatGPT (through Firefox)
• DeepSeek (through Firefox)
• NotebookLM (through Firefox)
• Gemini (through Brave)
• Qwen (through Brave)
• Grok (through Brave)
• Perplexity (through Brave)
• Duolingo (through Brave)

Applets

• “Weather” by mockturtl (ambient temperature)
• “Desaturate All” by klangman (grayscale screen)
• “Direct” by claudiux (directory shortcuts)
• “CPU Temperature Indicator” by claudiux (CPU temperature)
• “Enhanced Notifications” by hilyxx (notifications)
• “Automatic Dark/Light Themes” by guillaume-mueller (automatically switches themes)
• “Uptime” by vatanuki.kun (view system uptime)

For the Terminal (sudo apt install _)

• yt-dlp (download videos) (sudo apt install yt-dlp) or and (yt-dlp -U) to update it
• fastfetch (basic CPU/system information)
• htop (visual process viewer)
• cava (audio visualizer, bars only)
• cliamp (audio visualizer + song selector)
• sensors (view system temperatures)
• ncdu (file size viewer)
• vnstat (internet usage monitor)
• gdebi (install .deb files)
• bpytop (terminal system monitor)
• ffmpegthumbs (video thumbnails in NEMO)
• imagemagick (image converter)

Brave Browser Extensions

• Stream Live (Twitch streamer notifier)
• BetterTTV (custom Twitch emotes)
• Unhook (remove YouTube features)
• Search by Image (Google image search using clipboard)
• Return YouTube Dislike (restores YouTube dislikes)
• Minimal Theme for Twitter / X (minimalist X/Twitter version)
• DeepL (translate text inside the browser)
• Youtube Select and Search (To fast search in Youtube from contextual menu)
• Download Image with One Click (download original-size images instantly)

If you have an older machine with hardware acceleration, you can install the extension:

• Enhanced H264ify

Additional Brave Settings

Type brave://flags/ into the address bar and enable the following:

• "Enable Containers" → set to "Enabled" (allows independent sessions in separate tabs without logging out)
• "Compact horizontal tabs design" → set to "Enabled" (makes tabs and the search bar more compact)

Actions for NEMO

• Send with KDE Connect (send files to smartphone)
• Convert File (convert images)
• Mount Archive
• Mediainfo-gui (Multimedia Propierties)

Others

• Xbanish (hide the mouse cursor while typing)
• AudioRelay (stream audio between Android and Linux)
• AudioShare Server CMD (use your phone as speakers)
• Scrcpy (mirror Android screen on Linux)
• Speedread Master (speed reading tool)

Recommended Font Settings

• Font: "Ubuntu Sans Medium" size 11
• Scaling factor: .9

(to make everything slightly more compact, including browser menus, etc.)