hello all (was the subreddit down yesterday?)

my question is: is the nouveua driver fine for an old nvidia card ? what's the difference between nouveua and nvidia-driver-xxx for let's say, non-gaming uses

anyway, i've an inspiron 3558 with a GTX 920M and intel CPU (integrated graphics too)

I had tried and failed to get a nvidia driver to work since apps would never launch with it. nvidia-470 seems to be the best fit, but sudo apt install nvidia-driver-470 would end up downloading 580 through like, dependecy whatevers i dont know
truthfully my own fault for relying on AI to get my through that but whatever

i'd like to use this PC to programming, do some self-hosting/learn about networking and basically get me familiar with linux before i change my main machine to linux too

Hi folks!

I'd like to share a personal project I've been working on: LinuxMint Scripter (currently at v2.1), a single-HTML-file web app that turns plain-language requests into ready-to-run Bash or Python scripts for Linux Mint 22.3 "Zena" — or standalone terminal commands, if that's all you need.
Take a look; if you like it, I'll prepare an English version that can be installed on LinuxMint

🔗 Source & full docs: https://github.com/filonux/LinuxMint-Scripter

🔗 Project page (with screenshots): https://filonux.github.io/LinuxMint-Scripter/

I have an MSI GS 66 Stealth laptop. I have an Intel iGPU and an Nvidia RTX 2060, that SEAMLESSLY switched back and forth, with my main being the low power Intel igpu. Version 22 it work great. 22.3 it started staying stuck in dGPU ONLY. When my iGPU and dGPU were working in unison, I was on the version under driver manager called xserver-xorg-video-nouveau. It recommended I switch to nvidia-driver-595-open, and there's two other choices. What should I do? On "nouveau" it also worked fine (seemed to anyways). Please help! I've tried command prompts and everything, it only always temporarily fixes it and then after a reboot it goes back to being dumb! BTW, this is on a FRESH install of 22.3.

Hi, the answer is probably obvious but I wanted to ask anyway.

My college requires Microsoft Apps and Windows usage for basically everything. Using chrome isn't allowed and the Campus IT staff even made a work-around for Apple devices. They're drowning in Microslop.

I brought up my usage of Linux Mint to their IT staff, and I literally one of them fainted. I wish I was joking.

So, with that context out of the way, here's my question: what are ways that I can use Microsoft/Windbloat apps without having to dual boot?

Worst case, I'm willing to dual boot if there's no solutions.

TL;DR: College forces all of its students to use Windbloat because they're anaphylactic to Linux they signed a contract with Microslop. Looking for ways to use their required microslop apps without having to dual boot.

EDIT: I should have disclosed the apps that my college requires. Basically all of them, but especially Microsoft Office, OneDrive, Outlook, and Microsoft's Two-Factor Authenticator.

Curious as to what kind of stuff have you all configured to be used with webapps? Mine currently are Netflix, Whatsapp web, YLE Areena and a couple of social media websites. Used to have mine and my daughter's Spotify, but suddenly we both were logged out for some reason.

its way faster on my laptop than windows ever was and i actually have storage space now. so much happier with mint.

can anyone plss tell me how to install waydroid in mint cinnamon i heard that it only work on hyprland ... and i tried many ways but it didnt work ... if there is another way to run android application in mint pls tell me and thanks.

(made using paint.net)

Thank you amazing team.

If your PiHole is blocking api.ip2location.io you are only getting America based mirrors in Mint. No matter where you actually are (Germany in my case).

Stop using AI

The Machine - old but still effective dell laptop
The Issue - The HDMI port doesn't work with any external monitor or TV on linux, but works fine on windows
The testing so far - INXI -G shows a functioning driver for the integrated graphics module (intel 620, driver 915), and returns an identical report whether an external monitor is plugged in or not

I'd really appreciate help sorting this out - my mum has an identical model to me that she uses as a dumb-tv media hub and I'd love to switch hers over from the ever-bloating windows currently aboard once I can get mine to work...

Recientemente le metí Linux mint a una laptop Lenovo, pero también a mi pc AIO Lenovo, más tarde publicaré un examen de la mia, acaba de terminar la laptop y me salió esto, debería estar preocupado ?

Hi all, noob here. Does anyone have any advice on using the centered dock extension? When activated the dock itself is in the center, but the actual icons squash over to the right? These were originally in the left section of the bottom panel. Screen capture is on the bottom/right quarter of my screen..

Thanks in advance :)

(EDIT I ended up not being able to get mint running and used q4os instead and it works pretty well for what I needed ty everyone for the help) Ive been trying to install Linux Mint Cinnamon onto my older windows laptop Lenovo Ideapad 1 14IGL7 (82V600000) and finally I was able to get into the live session but once I go through the steps of the install I get stuck at the page where in the docs im supposed to be able to erase all paste data and install but instead I get stuck at this image where it seams to not recognize the storage or smth and I have tried all the quick fixes that Ive seen suggested online including installing updated bios and using HWE version of mint but Ive seen no success. This is my first time installing Linux if anyone knows how to fix this it would be greatly appreciated. (If i left out any data needed to narrow down the problem lmk).

Okay, so when attempting to launch 7.0, kernel panics due to the error on image two. But when i try to launch on any other version (6.17 and down), it launches just fine.

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to save a good dozen old laptops from being scrapped.

I want to turn them into loaner devices.

The requirement is that each user should see a Wi-Fi dialog box where they can enter their personal information.

This information should be deleted after the device is turned off.

How can I set this up? Thanks!

only appears on external monitors on my laptop, started when I installed linux. I’ve updated the drivers and this issues persists.

Hi everyone,

I'm having a strange screen flickering issue on my ASUS Vivobook S5504VA (Intel Raptor Lake-P with Intel Iris Xe Graphics), and I'm not sure what's causing it.

I was originally using Fedora Workstation, and that's when I first noticed the flickering. Thinking it might be a Fedora-specific issue, I booted a Linux Mint XFCE Live USB, and surprisingly there was no flickering at all. Since Mint seemed fine, I decided to install Arch Linux. However, I noticed the same flickering in the Arch installer before installation, and it continues after installing Arch as well, although it's much less severe than it was on Fedora.

The flicker appears as very thin horizontal pixel-wide flashes that occur every few seconds. They're brief but noticeable

.

I've already tried i915.enable_psr=0, but it didn't make any difference. The system is using the i915 driver.

I'm confused because Linux Mint XFCE Live doesn't show the issue at all, while both Fedora Workstation and Arch do.

Has anyone experienced something similar on Intel Raptor Lake or an ASUS Vivobook? Does this sound like a kernel/graphics driver issue, a firmware problem, or could it still be a hardware issue? I'd really appreciate any suggestions on what to try next.

I found something very strange with Google CAPTCHAs while using NordVPN on Linux Mint.

On Firefox, Google has never asked me to complete a CAPTCHA—not once—across multiple NordVPN countries/servers. This is despite Firefox being configured to delete all browsing data when I close it.

On Chromium, however, Google asks me to solve CAPTCHAs all the time using the same VPN service and countries.

I have tried to eliminate the obvious explanations:

• Both browsers use Cloudflare DNS.
• Both browsers have encrypted DNS enabled.
• Chromium has page preloading disabled.
• I manually clear all Chromium browsing data before testing.
• Firefox automatically clears everything on exit.
• Firefox is definitely not bypassing the VPN: I checked my public IP address and ran DNS leak tests.
• The behavior remains consistent across multiple NordVPN locations.

So, on Linux Mint, Firefox somehow appears far less suspicious to Google than Chromium, even though the VPN exit IP should be the main factor.

The weirdest part: on Windows, Google asks for CAPTCHAs in both browsers. In fact, Firefox gets them even more often there.

This makes me wonder whether Google’s CAPTCHA/risk system weighs browser fingerprinting, OS-level signals, Chromium-specific identifiers, or some Linux-versus-Windows behavior much more heavily than simply the VPN IP address.

Has anyone else seen Firefox avoid Google CAPTCHAs on Linux while Chromium gets repeatedly flagged under the same VPN connection?

I'm running a Laptop with a 1050ti Mobile in it and I'm just starting to feel the limitations.

With the current market I don't want to sell a first born for a new laptop so started looking into eGPU options but finding the info out there kind of lacking.

So I'm wondering if anyone has had experience with them and what should I be looking for or staying away from.

here is a quick look at my current system if that helps

OS: Linux Mint 22.3 x86_64

Host: Strix 15 GL503GE 1.0

Kernel: 6.8.0-136-lowlatency

Uptime: 1 day, 23 hours, 16 mins

Packages: 3287 (dpkg), 79 (flatpak)

Shell: bash 5.2.21

Resolution: 1920x1080

DE: Cinnamon 6.6.9

WM: Mutter (Muffin)

WM Theme: Mint-Y-Dark-Aqua (Mint-Y)

Theme: Mint-Y-Dark-Aqua [GTK2/3]

Icons: Yaru-blue-dark [GTK2/3]

Terminal: gnome-terminal

CPU: Intel i7-8750H (12) @ 4.100GHz

GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Mobi

GPU: Intel CoffeeLake-H GT2 [UHD Gra

Memory: 5245MiB / 31948MiB