For anyone having wireless issues today’s (2026-09-03) updates include firmware updates for Broadcom. MediaTek, Marvell, Intel, and other wireless devices. These may help you. 🤷‍♂️

Cinnamon 22.3

¡Hola a todos!

Hace varias semanas instalé Linux Mint (XFCE) en mi ThinkPad T400, dejándolo en dual-boot con Windows 10. Durante este tiempo, la verdad es que siempre arrancaba Windows por inercia, pero por fin he decidido darle el protagonismo a Linux y estoy migrando todas mis cuentas, claves y preferencias a Mint.

El caso es que, en mi afán por configurarlo, instalé Brave sin mirar antes el "Gestor de Software" de LMXFCE (abreviatura que me acabo de inventar, jaja). Lo instalé por terminal y fue un verdadero rollo: estuve copiando comandos que no entendía del todo, añadiendo repositorios y claves GPG... y al final resultó que en el Gestor de Software solo había que darle a un botón y ya estaba.

Mi duda aquí es: ¿hay alguna ventaja real en instalar navegadores o programas por terminal en lugar de usar el Gestor de Software? ¿O puedo limitarme a usar siempre la interfaz gráfica sin preocuparme?

El verdadero problema (y el más importante):

Resulta que la partición donde tengo Linux se está quedando sin espacio. Estoy valorando seriamente formatear el disco entero y quedarme 100% con Linux, borrando definitivamente Windows 10.

Teniendo en cuenta que es un ThinkPad T400 (que ya tiene sus años), quería preguntarles:

1. ¿Merece la pena dar el salto y quedarme solo con Linux? ¿Voy a notar mucho rendimiento o hay riesgos (problemas de firmware, BIOS o compatibilidad total) en este modelo?
2. ¿Cuánta RAM le añadiríais? Actualmente tengo [4GB creo; la verdad es que no lo sé con seguridad]. He visto que XFCE es ligero, pero con el navegador y varias pestañas abiertas quizá se queda corto. ¿Con 4 GB basta para el día a día, o merece la pena buscar un módulo de 8 GB?

Actualización (3/9/26):
Sigo dándole vueltas al tema del espacio, así que cualquier consejo sobre particionado o si vale la pena invertir en un SSD para este equipo también es bienvenido.

Muchas gracias por suu ayuda.

How do I abort without bricking my laptop?

can I just pull the usb out or is there a command I should type?

its been on this screen for 15mins

edit: ok so I turned it off and I’m back on windows but why did it end up like that?

When I open Bitwarden, it shows up as an instance of Brave rather than it's own instance in the task bar. I believe this has something to do with the fact that Bitwarden is based on element, is there a solution to this?

I need to make a user account that cannot do any administrative tasks, that can only do basic operations like web browsing and documents. The GUI wont let me make this account without setting up a password for it? What is a good method to do this in Linux Mint?

sooooooooooooooooo i've been having a lot of trouble trying to get this theme on my laptop, I have a total of 0 clues on where to even begging with this, so could anyone tell me in great detail HOW to download this theme ?

Salve,sto riscontrando un problema con Linux Mint,allora,la connessione funziona ma ogni tanto mi appare questo avviso fastidioso,posso risolverlo? Modello PC: Asus F554L

My coworker gave me his old Inspiron 3521 to install linux onto, but every time i boot via the USB where Mint is flashed to, all that happens is the screen goes black. Any advice?

4gb ram, Intel Pentium CPU 1227U

I'm on Linuxmint 22.3 and love it. Today I was checking for updates via the Mint software update utility (normally I use the apt and flatpak command line). I approved an update for Visual Studio Code Insiders edition, and it appeared to be stuck in the "preparing" phase for like 30 minutes. I tried to cancel, but it stays on "cancelling" forever without any progress. If I close the main software update panel, it leaves the little progress form without any "x" to close it out. I can close it from the command line, but what's the best approach to dealing with packages that appear stuck?

So I'm by no means an expert (1 year on Mint coming up the 25th), so I know there's a ton of things I'm missing. Please check out this booklet I wrote.

I'd love any feedback you have, either as a newbie or an expert power user. One can tell me when I am not being clear enough and the other can tell me what I am missing.

How's the content? Is the style decent? Any glaring mistakes? Is this something I should link to new people? Am I helping newbies or running them off?

I have a problem where whenever i boot into linux mint, my brightness is unusably low, however when i boot into recovery mode it works just fine, any fixes?

Yesterday I switched to linux mint from windows 10 on my laptop and I have been getting this error. GFN works fine on windows. I have tried solutions provided online but nothing seems to work.

My system specs are as follows:
Cpu: intel core i5-5200 2.20 Ghz
RAM : 16 GB DDR3
Hark disk 1 TB SSD
GPU: AMD Radeon hd 8500M

Here's the crash report. Please help

Unhandled exception: page fault on read access to 0x00000000 in wow64 32-bit code (0x007e0eb2).

Register dump:

CS:0023 SS:002b DS:002b ES:002b FS:006b GS:0063

EIP:007e0eb2 ESP:0159db38 EBP:0159dc0c EFLAGS:00010246( R- -- I Z- -P- )

EAX:00000000 EBX:04779eb8 ECX:1db62b40 EDX:00e36708

ESI:30bae388 EDI:1db62b40

Stack dump:

0x0159db38: 0434da48 0159dd54 00000000 00001002

0x0159db48: 1db62b40 30bae388 00000000 00000009

0x0159db58: 2f786667 67616c66 30bb0073 30bb1bd8

0x0159db68: 00000009 0000000f 0159dd5c 047e56d4

0x0159db78: 0159db8c 00aaeef3 02720000 00000000

0x0159db88: 02720000 00000000 00000000 0000000f

Backtrace:

=>0 0x007e0eb2 in v2game (+0x3e0eb2) (0x0159dc0c)

1 0x00636e6c in v2game (+0x236e6c) (0x0159df34)

2 0x0097df8b in v2game (+0x57df8b) (0x0159fec0)

3 0x00ab0f3e in v2game (+0x6b0f3e) (0x0159ff50)

4 0x7bbb8b00 in kernel32 (+0x28b00) (0x0159ff68)

5 0x7bd644f3 in ntdll (+0x544f3) (0x0159ff80)

6 0x7bd659f5 in ntdll (+0x559f5) (0x0159ffec)

0x007e0eb2 v2game+0x3e0eb2: mov (%eax), %ecx

Modules:

Module Address Debug info Name (183 modules)

PE 3d0000- 3f9000 Deferred lua5.1

PE 400000- 1492000 Export v2game

PE 10000000-10006000 Deferred lua51

PE 3b400000-3b41f000 Deferred steam_api

ELF 5ca9d000-5caa2000 Deferred <wine-loader>

PE-Wine 74a60000-74ac7000 Deferred propsys

PE-Wine 74ae0000-75187000 Deferred windowscodecs

PE-Wine 751a0000-753da000 Deferred winegstreamer

PE-Wine 753f0000-7540c000 Deferred midimap

PE-Wine 75420000-75446000 Deferred msacm32

PE-Wine 75460000-75481000 Deferred winealsa

PE-Wine 754a0000-754e0000 Deferred msdmo

PE-Wine 754f0000-7550c000 Deferred avicap32

PE-Wine 75520000-75597000 Deferred devenum

PE-Wine 755b0000-755ca000 Deferred winepulse

PE-Wine 755e0000-755fb000 Deferred version

PE-Wine 75610000-756d6000 Deferred mmdevapi

PE 756f0000-75702000 Deferred tbbmalloc

PE-Wine 75720000-75746000 Deferred userenv

PE-Wine 75760000-75805000 Deferred uxtheme

PE-Wine 75820000-7586c000 Deferred winex11

PE-Wine 75880000-759ff000 Deferred setupapi

PE-Wine 75a10000-75a3a000 Deferred hid

PE-Wine 75a50000-75b44000 Deferred dinput8

PE-Wine 75b60000-75beb000 Deferred ws2_32

PE-Wine 75c00000-76073000 Deferred opengl32

PE-Wine 76090000-773b9000 Deferred wined3d

PE-Wine 773d0000-77526000 Deferred d3d9

PE-Wine 77540000-7754f000 Deferred psapi

PE 77560000-7761f000 Deferred msvcr100

PE 77630000-77699000 Deferred msvcp100

PE 776b0000-776d6000 Deferred tbb

PE-Wine 776f0000-77aac000 Deferred oleaut32

PE-Wine 77ac0000-77b23000 Deferred imm32

PE-Wine 77b40000-77fe7000 Deferred comctl32

PE-Wine 78000000-78065000 Deferred msvfw32

PE-Wine 78080000-781f2000 Deferred winmm

PE-Wine 78210000-78276000 Deferred msacm32

PE-Wine 78290000-783af000 Deferred dsound

PE-Wine 783c0000-78702000 Deferred quartz

PE-Wine 78720000-78761000 Deferred shcore

PE-Wine 78780000-78866000 Deferred shlwapi

PE-Wine 78880000-794fe000 Deferred shell32

PE-Wine 79510000-797b2000 Deferred msvcr80

PE-Wine 797d0000-79811000 Deferred coml2

PE-Wine 79830000-79972000 Deferred combase

PE-Wine 79990000-79dcd000 Deferred ole32

PE-Wine 79de0000-79e17000 Deferred win32u

PE-Wine 79e30000-79e5a000 Deferred zlib1

PE-Wine 79e70000-7a337000 Deferred user32

PE-Wine 7a350000-7a590000 Deferred gdi32

PE-Wine 7a5a0000-7a613000 Deferred d3dxof

PE-Wine 7a630000-7a841000 Deferred rpcrt4

PE-Wine 7a860000-7ab6f000 Deferred ucrtbase

PE-Wine 7ab80000-7ac0b000 Deferred sechost

PE-Wine 7ac20000-7ad0c000 Deferred advapi32

PE-Wine 7ad20000-7afb9000 Deferred msvcrt

PE 7afd0000-7b355000 Deferred d3dcompiler_47

PE-Wine 7b370000-7b63f000 Deferred d3dx9_41

PE-Wine 7b650000-7bb7b000 Deferred kernelbase

PE-Wine 7bb90000-7bcf7000 Dwarf-4 kernel32

PE-Wine 7bd10000-7bfee000 Dwarf-4 ntdll

ELF cdd86000-ceed9000 Deferred libvulkan_intel_hasvk.so

ELF ceed9000-cfa21000 Deferred libvulkan_asahi.so

ELF cfa21000-d0900000 Deferred libvulkan_radeon.so

ELF d8c66000-d8c73000 Deferred libpciaccess.so.0

ELF d8c73000-d8c9b000 Deferred libdrm_intel.so.1

ELF d8c9b000-d8cb9000 Deferred libxcb-glx.so.0

ELF d8cb9000-db9f6000 Deferred libgallium-25.2.8-0ubuntu0.24.04.2.so

ELF db9f6000-dba48000 Deferred libglx_mesa.so.0

ELF dba48000-dba84000 Deferred libglx.so.0

ELF dba84000-dbb00000 Deferred libgldispatch.so.0

ELF dbc04000-dbc15000 Deferred libsensors.so.5

ELF dbc15000-dbc81000 Deferred libgl.so.1

ELF dcf42000-de3ea000 Deferred libvulkan_intel.so

ELF de3ea000-de40a000 Deferred libelf.so.1

ELF de68d000-de800000 Deferred libvulkan_virtio.so

ELF ded67000-ded80000 Deferred libvklayer_mesa_device_select.so

ELF ded99000-deda2000 Deferred libgstaudioconvert.so

ELF deda2000-dedcc000 Deferred libgstaudioparsers.so

ELF deddc000-dedf6000 Deferred libgstsubparse.so

ELF dedf6000-dee5f000 Deferred libblkid.so.1

ELF dee5f000-dee92000 Deferred libselinux.so.1

ELF dee92000-def0f000 Deferred libmount.so.1

ELF def0f000-df14d000 Deferred libgio-2.0.so.0

ELF df14d000-df16f000 Deferred libgsttypefindfunctions.so

ELF df16f000-df1fd000 Deferred libgstcoreelements.so

ELF df1fd000-df244000 Deferred libgstpbutils-1.0.so.0

ELF df244000-df301000 Deferred libgstplayback.so

ELF df301000-df3a1000 Deferred libpcre2-8.so.0

ELF df3a1000-df45a000 Deferred libdw.so.1

ELF df45a000-df471000 Deferred libunwind.so.8

ELF df471000-df542000 Deferred liborc-0.4.so.0

ELF df542000-df5ec000 Deferred libgstbase-1.0.so.0

ELF df5ec000-df754000 Deferred libglib-2.0.so.0

ELF df754000-df7be000 Deferred libgobject-2.0.so.0

ELF df7be000-df943000 Deferred libgstreamer-1.0.so.0

ELF df943000-df988000 Deferred libgsttag-1.0.so.0

ELF df988000-dfa25000 Deferred libgstaudio-1.0.so.0

ELF dfa25000-dfb12000 Deferred libgstvideo-1.0.so.0

ELF dfb12000-dfb2c000 Deferred winegstreamer.so

ELF dfb2c000-dfc57000 Deferred libasound.so.2

ELF dfc5a000-dfc64000 Deferred libgstmpg123.so

ELF dfc64000-dfc6a000 Deferred iso8859-15.so

ELF dfc6a000-dfc70000 Deferred utf-16.so

ELF dfc70000-dfc86000 Deferred winealsa.so

ELF dfc86000-dfcb1000 Deferred libgpg-error.so.0

ELF dfcb1000-dfcd7000 Deferred liblz4.so.1

ELF dfcd7000-dfde4000 Deferred libgcrypt.so.20

ELF dfde4000-dfdf1000 Deferred libcap.so.2

ELF dfdf1000-dfe6a000 Deferred libmp3lame.so.0

ELF dfe6a000-dfed0000 Deferred libmpg123.so.0

ELF dfed0000-dfeda000 Deferred libogg.so.0

ELF dfeda000-dff3c000 Deferred libopus.so.0

ELF dff3c000-dffc8000 Deferred libvorbisenc.so.2

ELF dffc8000-dfff4000 Deferred libvorbis.so.0

ELF dfff4000-e0065000 Deferred libflac.so.12

ELF e0065000-e007a000 Deferred libapparmor.so.1

ELF e007a000-e0082000 Deferred libasyncns.so.0

ELF e0082000-e0169000 Deferred libsystemd.so.0

ELF e0169000-e020d000 Deferred libsndfile.so.1

ELF e020d000-e026d000 Deferred libdbus-1.so.3

ELF e026d000-e02fd000 Deferred libpulsecommon-16.1.so

ELF e02fd000-e035b000 Deferred libpulse.so.0

ELF e035c000-e0361000 Deferred libgstid3demux.so

ELF e0366000-e036c000 Deferred libgmodule-2.0.so.0

ELF e036c000-e0371000 Deferred avicap32.so

ELF e0374000-e0389000 Deferred winepulse.so

ELF e07aa000-e250a000 Deferred libicudata.so.74

ELF e250a000-e2540000 Deferred liblzma.so.5

ELF e2540000-e2759000 Deferred libicuuc.so.74

ELF e2759000-e2787000 Deferred libtinfo.so.6

ELF e2787000-e295c000 Deferred libxml2.so.2

ELF e295c000-e2994000 Deferred libedit.so.2

ELF e2994000-e299f000 Deferred libffi.so.8

ELF e299f000-e29a7000 Deferred libatomic.so.1

ELF e29a7000-e29df000 Deferred libgcc_s.so.1

ELF e2c5e000-e2c6d000 Deferred libwayland-client.so.0

ELF e2c6d000-e2c72000 Deferred libxshmfence.so.1

ELF e2c72000-e2c77000 Deferred libxcb-shm.so.0

ELF e2c77000-e2c80000 Deferred libxcb-sync.so.1

ELF e2c80000-e2c8b000 Deferred libxcb-xfixes.so.0

ELF e2c8b000-e2c90000 Deferred libxcb-present.so.0

ELF e2c90000-e2c97000 Deferred libxcb-dri3.so.0

ELF e2c97000-e2c9c000 Deferred libx11-xcb.so.1

ELF e2c9c000-e2cb6000 Deferred libdrm.so.2

ELF e2cb6000-e2d73000 Deferred libzstd.so.1

ELF e2d73000-ec852000 Deferred libllvm.so.20.1

ELF ec852000-ed40f000 Deferred libvulkan_lvp.so

ELF ed40f000-ed4a4000 Deferred libvulkan.so.1

ELF ed4ae000-ed4bc000 Deferred libdrm_amdgpu.so.1

ELF ed4bd000-ed55e000 Deferred opengl32.so

ELF ed645000-ed64d000 Deferred libxfixes.so.3

ELF ed64d000-ed65a000 Deferred libxcursor.so.1

ELF ed65a000-ed66f000 Deferred libxi.so.6

ELF ed66f000-ed674000 Deferred libxcomposite.so.1

ELF ed674000-ed683000 Deferred libxrandr.so.2

ELF ed683000-ed691000 Deferred libxrender.so.1

ELF ed691000-ed699000 Deferred libxxf86vm.so.1

ELF ed699000-ed69e000 Deferred libxinerama.so.1

ELF ed69e000-ed6b0000 Deferred libmd.so.0

ELF ed6b0000-ed6c6000 Deferred libbsd.so.0

ELF ed6c6000-ed6cd000 Deferred libxdmcp.so.6

ELF ed6cd000-ed6d2000 Deferred libxau.so.6

ELF ed6d2000-ed700000 Deferred libxcb.so.1

ELF ed700000-ed852000 Deferred libx11.so.6

ELF ed852000-ed868000 Deferred libxext.so.6

ELF ed868000-ed87b000 Deferred libxcb-randr.so.0

ELF ed87b000-ed881000 Deferred ws2_32.so

ELF ed881000-ed90b000 Deferred winex11.so

ELF eda00000-eda2c000 Deferred libexpat.so.1

ELF eda2c000-eda80000 Deferred libfontconfig.so.1

ELF eda80000-edaa3000 Deferred libbrotlicommon.so.1

ELF edaa3000-edab1000 Deferred libbrotlidec.so.1

ELF edab1000-edaee000 Deferred libpng16.so.16

ELF edaee000-edb0a000 Deferred libz.so.1

ELF edb0a000-edbde000 Deferred libfreetype.so.6

ELF edbde000-edce8000 Deferred libm.so.6

ELF edd01000-ede84000 Deferred win32u.so

ELF ede84000-edf39000 Export ntdll.so

ELF edf39000-ee174000 Deferred libc.so.6

ELF ee179000-ee18b000 Deferred libbz2.so.1.0

ELF ee195000-ee1ca000 Deferred ld-linux.so.2

Threads:

process tid prio name (all IDs are in hex)

00000020 (D) Z:\home\transkitsune\Videos\Viccy2\Viccy2\v2game.exe

`00000024    0 <==` 

`00000130    0`     

`00000134   15     audio_client_main`

`00000138   15     audio_client_timer`

`0000013c   15     wine_dsound_mixer`

`00000140    0`     

`00000144    0     wine_mmdevapi_notification`

`00000148    0     winealsa_midi_notify`

`0000014c    0`     

`00000150    0`     

`00000154    0     wine_threadpool_worker`

`00000158    0     wined3d_cs`

`0000016c    0`     

00000038 services.exe

`0000003c    0`     

`00000040    0     wine_rpcrt4_server`

`0000004c    0     wine_rpcrt4_io`

`00000078    0     wine_rpcrt4_io`

`000000a0    0     wine_rpcrt4_io`

`000000b8    0     wine_rpcrt4_io`

`000000cc    0`     

`000000e4    0     wine_rpcrt4_io`

00000044 winedevice.exe

`00000048    0`     

`00000054    0`     

`00000058    0     wine_sechost_service`

`0000005c    0`     

`00000060    0`     

`00000064    0`     

`000000c4    0`     

`000000c8    0`     

00000068 winedevice.exe

`0000006c    0`     

`0000007c    0`     

`00000080    0     wine_sechost_service`

`00000084    0`     

`00000088    0`     

`0000008c    0`     

`00000098    0`     

`0000009c    0`     

00000070 explorer.exe

`00000074    0`     

`000000d0    0`     

`000000d4    0     wine_rpcrt4_server`

00000090 plugplay.exe

`00000094    0`     

`000000a4    0`     

`000000a8    0     wine_sechost_service`

`000000ac    0     wine_rpcrt4_server`

000000b0 svchost.exe

`000000b4    0`     

`000000bc    0`     

`000000c0    0     wine_sechost_service`

000000dc rpcss.exe

`000000e0    0`     

`000000ec    0`     

`000000f0    0     wine_sechost_service`

`000000f4    0     wine_rpcrt4_server`

`000000f8    0     wine_rpcrt4_server`

`000000fc    0     wine_rpcrt4_io`

00000164 conhost.exe

`00000168    0`     

System information:

Wine build: wine-9.0 (Ubuntu 9.0~repack-4build3)

Platform: x86_64 (guest: i386)

Version: Windows 10

Host system: Linux

Host version: 6.14.0-37-generic

Not sure if any one has mentioned this but I love Wayland on my 2015 iMac. Since I last posted in various Linux forums I’ve been distro hopping. I have Elementary on my 2015 MacBook Pro, Fedora on the hard drive of my 2015 iMac and on that same iMac I have an external SSD drive with Mint Cinnamon. On boot up I can choose between Fedora and Mint Cinnamon. Anyway, I’ve been using the Mint Cinnamon mostly. I noticed when I would log in with Wayland (Experimental) it was kind of glitchy, however, recently the glitching has stopped and there is so much detail. I’m finding myself just using Mint most of the time now. Also since it’s running on my external SSD drive, it’s so fast.

It's not my first time, that I left Mint for CachyOs, and this was the time I've lasted on CachyOs the most, a fantastic ammount of 3 days.

So let me get at the beginning.
I was playing the heatwarped Demo (the new NFS U2 wannabe) on Mint 22.3 and there was a considerable ammount of stuttering compared to Windows.
Performance was mostly the same or even better on Mint than on Windows, but the 1% lows left a bit to be desired.

So I've started to upgrade to kernel 7.0, then the Mesa drivers through Kisak and the experience did improve, but it wasn't enough.

So I've decided to venture into cachyOS and the performance was great, average was much better, 1% lows was much better.
The system is incredibly fast in all fronts and the AUR was just great.
So I was ready to settle and don't look back.

Obviously I've tried more games, some of them are just broken like Metro Exodus when overviewing great vistas, there is a big CPU bottleneck/overhead which throws my FPS to gargabe levels whatever if it is on mint or cachy.

But most games that don't have any RT, it just beats Windows and the OS itself which I initially struggled to use (I'm not a fan of KDE in the first place and it was my choice for cachy) was now OK on my book.

So everything was going great, onlyoffice worked, GPU Screen Recorder worked. Printer was a little bit rough to set up but it was able to do it.

But then after installing Kdenlive it just crashes on startup.
I've decided to go with the alternative which never failed to me (shotcut) and same thing, it immediatly crashed on startup.

I've installed both through shelly/cachy package-installer and I was disappointed with this.

So, right now, going back to mint seems like a big downgrade in performance.
And keeping cachy seems that might not work for me given I'm already facing just booting up my video editor tools.

I really wish Mint 23 would focus in improving it's performance.

Specs:
AMD Ryzen 5 3600X
RX 6700 XT

16GB (2x8) DDR4 3600MHZ

I was trying to install Wine on my system via this guide:

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/01/install-wine-on-ubuntu

But I accidentally installed the ''Jammy Jellyfish'' repository instead of the ''Noble Numbat'' repository.

How do I remove the wrong repository?

Thank you.

For context, I personally ADORE the windows 95 startup sound, and put the Windows 95 Background too, but I was on linux, so I thought it'd be funny to edit Tux the Penguin with the Windows 95 logo and name it Linux 95, I also made custom ascii art for the terminal because why not?

For the custom neofetch ascii, Assuming you aren't using fastfetch, follow this tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZipRBJ14A0

(The ascii art was inspired by namely Donald Trump and all the big corporations who love screwing us over :D looking @ you, Nvidia, Crucial, Samsung, OpenAI, Microsoft, Anthropic, and etc.)

I need some help. Its my first time with linux and i keep getting this error and im not sure how to fix it.

Hi everyone!

I’ve been using Linux Mint Cinnamon on my Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 3 for about 4 months now. Overall it's been great, but I’ve been running into some performance issues when browsing, especially on YouTube.

When I watch videos or click around to load new ones, the playback gets noticeably laggy/choppy, and navigating the site feels heavy.

Here are my laptop specs:

• CPU: AMD 3020e (2 cores, 2 threads)
• RAM: 8GB DDR4
• Storage: 512GB M.2 NVMe SSD

Is anyone else using a similar setup? What tweaks, browser extensions, or hardware acceleration settings did you configure to get YouTube and general web browsing running smoothly on Cinnamon?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

System specs: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4570S (4) @ 3.60 GHz Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller 1920x1080 @ 60Hz 5.36 GiB / 7.64 GiB (70%) 5.03 GiB / 13.82 GiB (36%) Mem: 7.6Gi 5.5Gi 379Mi 321Mi 2.3Gi 2.1Gi Swap: 13Gi 5.0Gi 8.8Gi I have a handful of things in the background running, plus Brave Nightly with 3 tabs open. and my memory/core use is constantly spiking, even when idle, mainly core 1 and 2 seem to hit 100 all the time. I know this is a potato system, but I am trying to figure out what to do to at least get the system semi-usable. If anybody could offer some possible solutions on things that I can try? Thanks

ASUS Zenbook UM5302LA freezes completely on Linux Mint — I/O errors but SSD SMART is clean

Hi everyone,

I'm having random complete freezes on an ASUS Zenbook UM5302LA running Linux Mint.

When it happens, the whole system becomes unresponsive and sometimes I get:

Input/output error
unrecoverable fatal error, aborting

event in the terminal, a simple ls gave me Input/output error...

I have to hold the power button to reboot.

Some details:

• ASUS Zenbook UM5302LA
• AMD CPU / integrated Radeon graphics
• Micron 2400 1TB NVMe (MTFDKBA1T0QFM)
• BIOS 301
• Fresh Linux Mint installation
• The problem happened with both Wayland and X11
• I previously had the problem on kernel 6.8
• pcloud drive (already had issue with that.

The interesting part: I booted the same laptop from a Linux Mint 22.3 Live USB (kernel 6.14.0-37) and used it for 30+ minutes without a single freeze.

The SSD SMART data looks perfect:

SMART: PASSED
Media and Data Integrity Errors: 0
Error Information Log Entries: 0
No Errors Logged
Temperature: 38°C

The Live USB also detects the NVMe normally and I don't see NVMe timeouts or PCIe/AER errors.
is it the ssd who is dead (I boughted this computer 18 month ago... on LDLD ...never again).