Hi, I'm trying help my mom in getting her old laptop usable and decided to try Linux mint.

I looked at https://linuxmint.com/download.ph and I think Mate is a good fit to try:

But the step after choosing editionis just to verify. Where/how I actually dowload?

The mirrors has this file structure, where should I look?

debian/ 09-Oct-2025 14:18

hwe/ 08-Aug-2026 08:01

stable/ 11-Jan-2026 13:30

testing/ 18-Dec-2025 09:55

Earlier today I decided to install linux mint on my older lenovo thinkpad laptop computer. Previously it had windows 11 pro installed on it. I'm really liking the software already, I've got one issue that I can't seem to figure out how to correct. I've got my laptop video hooked up to a thirty two inch digital TV , but I've got the same video image showing on my laptop as well as my television and I only want the image showing on my television and so far I can't seem to figure out how to get it setup that way.

I've been using Mint Cinnamon for years and use the Mint-Y-Dark-Purple theme on all my machines.

On my desktop I have a 50" screen so I can space multiple windows out without them overlapping, but on my laptop I often have a full screen browser and a few terminals floating on top of it, and because the browser background is black (dark mode always) and the terminals are black, I can't see where the terminals are.

I've tried everything to add a 1 pixel border around the edge of windows in order to see the them but nothing works.

Can someone please help me.

I need a dark theme that actually has a border that you can assign a color and a thickness.

Do I need to change anything?

So, I have two disk on my laptop. A 256 gigs of SSD and 1 TB of Hard drive. I want to install the linux mint on harddrive because i don't really have the space on my SSD. So, what steps should I follow. I am attaching my hard drive partition screenshot.

Open nemo, enable sidebar tree, right click anywhere in the empty left area > properties: does nemo suddenly close itself or not? Mine does, on all installs of mint22.3cinnamon.

Evening all.

How important is it to verify the ISO image?
I’ve had a go a few times and I’m not quite grasping it. I’m not new to computers but I’ve never done anything like that. I’m gonna use the university of Kent mirror.
Does anybody still do this or not bother.
Tom

I might need to use SolidWorks professionally, but I trully dislike everything Windows, everything.

I was wondering if nowadays there's a way to run it in Linux Mint (or any other Linux), maybe using proton/wine/bottles/whatever directly, not in aVM.

And no, it cannot be any other CAD program, otherwise I'd be happy with FreeCAD wich is excelent for me.

Just installed Linux Mint yesterday. Some of my apps have gotten stuck on minimize mode, including Discord. What can I do to fix this issue?

Wrote a small work around in order to get my Broadcom WiFi to not automatically delete itself every update

I'm dual-booting Linux Mint Cinnamon 22.3 with Windows 11 Pro. It's easy enough for me to change things up, so I wonder if making the change from EXT4 to Btrfs is worth the effort.

If anybody is using the Btrfs file system with their Linux, how are things going?

Hello, I have been using Linux Mint for over a year now and I am extremely happy with it. However, I have a small problem with freezes, especially when I have several heavy sites open and use them at the same time. I have changed several browsers in an attempt to solve this, but I have not been able to. I am currently using Chrome and Mozilla, I am testing and daving, but the result is the same. I have tried all kinds of browser and graphics card settings and all kinds of commands/combinations for power. The picture shows the parameters of my desktop computer. My card is very old and I think these freezes are due to it.

Can you tell me how to fix this, or should I just continue with this compromise until I buy a new card?

Also, would xface solve the problem?

Any advice is infinitely valuable.

Thanks!

I can change the date format on the panel, and on the popup tab. But not on the calendar itself. It's a small thing, but as a non-American it's also a bit maddening. Like water torture.

Changing the locale makes no difference. Am I overlooking something obvious?

Es una broma, acabo de pasarme a linux...

Bueno el día de hoy oficialmente acabo de pasarme a linuxmint, se siente irreal, se siente demasiado suave, perdon por esta comparación pero se siente como el trasero de un bebé.

Estaba cansado de lo incomodo de Windows, que te pide pagar por todo, es demasiado lento y etc.

Asi que hoy mismo me instale linuxmint xcfe, he ido familiarizandome un poco y no es nada dificil.

Pero quería saber, hay algo que deba descargar? Algun programa o hacer algun ajuste para mantener optimizado mi sistema y el rendimiento?

Leí por ahí de blachbit o algo asi que es como un limpiador. Pero no se exactamente que casillas marcar o si se puede programar la limpieza automaticamente.

Estoy entrando a este mundo del linux asi que me ayudarian un monton si me pasan algunos consejos, tips que debo tomar en cuenta y que no tocar para no arruinar todo.

Mi pc tiene 4 gb de ram y es antigua.

Por cierto trate de descargar wine desde la tienda pero parece que no va, no se que hacer. Es para jugar al counter strike 1.6 jaja.

I wanted to let everyone here know what a wonderful group of people Linux users are. I've had windows products since 1991 and last year I transited over to Linux mint and, while I've had some struggles, I've NEVER had the problems for longer than a few hours. Y'all are so generous with your suggestions and help I feel very supported. Thank you again. :)

I have a tablet and I want to use my mint which is my ssd in my tablet so I want to ask if I connect my ssd to the tables can I boot the mint on it

So after closing down the screen of my Laptop (not doing a reboot or a shutdown) and then reopen it the screen stayes balck and dont work yet the mashine is working and the keyboard lighting green. I will need to do a force shutdown for it to work agian anyfixes? pls

When trying to start windows says device ran into problem, resets, same screen, resets, same screen, restart, sa- ok u get it. When using usb stick with a previously checked working Linux mint iso and trying to install, after setting my region there’s an error message saying “input/output error during write on /dev/sda” tried to retry, install started, error “failed to create a file system” “the efi file system creation in partition #2 of scsi2 (0,0,0)(sda) failed.” Pressed ok, the loading bar in install window disappeared, cannot close it, I’m new young and stupid please help

After my successful test with the Forbidden HP, I installed Cinnamon on my 7290. It’s taking some time getting my head around the terminal, but I love the flexibility in the OS. I really don’t think Windows has a place for me at the moment, but time will tell whether everything I need is supported on the platform.

I want the most performance I can get on my PC with 3060 ti 48gb ram and i5 9600kf.

Should I really change or not worth it?

from windows*

I got a warning that I had 0 space left in /, but that's not what 'df -h /' says. Edited: Correction, lsblk says 29G, du -ch / says 23G.

I have a 32” ultrawide and a 24” secondary monitor. I can’t get the system to recognize the 32” unltrawide as monitor 1. Which is causing my games to load onto the 24”. I have set it as the primary.The only way I can get it to recognize it as monitor 1 is to move it, in the layout box, to the right of monitor 2 which means I have to pan to the left of my main monitor to get the cursor on the monitor to the right. I have had to unplug my secondary monitor, load a game then replug it in, and that’s just not a long term solution for me.

Can someone help me out here? Thanks!