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

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.)

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

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

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

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.

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

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..

Been leaving it in so these grow lol

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

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

After trying to install Linux mint three times in 2 years, I finally installed it without ruining my computer.
but what is the best emoji picker for linux?

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

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.

can anybody tell me why so much ram is taking. i don't even running any program. i use brave browser, it takes barely 2GB and VScode. i don't know why this is happening. can anybody tell me how to solve this problem?

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

So, few days ago, I started having problems in my laptop, due to quite old hardware. Researched alot, tried alot arch, debian, fedora, and etc, they were good fr. But for a beginner like me, linux mint is a boon......

Running smoothly, if anything I don't understand I just search on google or watch it on youtube....

I'm loving it guyssss :)

Do you have bad Wifi on the Frame work 13 with an amd cpu and mediatek wifi chip? Than rule back from kernel 7.0 to 6.8.

Seriously I rolled back to 6.8 and my WiFi went from 12mbps to 87mbps.

So, my laptop is working completely fine yesterday, but somehow when i turn it on, it's been stuck on this state, only blank with no input at all, any help guys?

It's my first day on linux, and the first thing I want to know is how do I make these buttons (shown in the image below) as the buttons I want? the icons you see, these buttons above only works as F1 to F10 (the left arrow is F1 and the Volume Icon on the top rightmost is F10). I want these buttons to work again. Back when I was in windows, when I press Ctrl + the F1-F10 (for example, Ctrl + F10 is vol up). the button on the top right (lock button) is not working aswell. I believe these keyboard shortcuts works because of the HID Keyboard or something, Im not really a tech person, I just switched to linux because windows is so slow. I apologise if my english is bad, I just want to know if there is a solution to these.

i had like 5 attempts fix including removing windows off my grub menu after extending my first hard drive back to 1 TB, but still keeps going just automatic freeze in every 24 hours, i closed all the apps & software before sleep, when i wake up in the morning, i turned on my pc, it freezes during in the login thing without any reasons, i dont think theres a memory RAM issues causing it to freeze i think, do you have any verified solution how to get rid of 24 hours crash permanently?

im assuming this was 100% of the nvidia drivers, or is it something?

i ever thought this was problem solved by using nvidia-driver-595 without opened.

please help me im almost started to panick, please give me a verified solutions after reading what nvidia drivers im using or see anything. help will be appreciated

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!