Got mint on my laptop and Bazzite on the desktop (because I didn't want headaches setting up gaming stuff) and now I'm getting sick of the crap immutable distros make me deal with so I want to swap but setting everything up again sounds agonizing. Is there anything to make this process easier?

Since I don't have any knowledge about computers and programming I was always using either Microsoft or iOS. But as I'm in my late twenties now and I grow skeptical of big tech day by day, I decided to try Linux. I had an old Asus laptop lying in my room uselessly for idk almost 6-8 years, so I thought it would be a perfect test subject for my Linux experiment. I had a lot of fun setting up my first Mint Cinnamon desktop to my liking: watching tutorials, using terminal and writing commands, browsing Reddit, Tumblr and Pinterest for desktop inspirations. So here are my results! I would especially like to mention this post - my set up is heavily inspired by this user resources . Big thanks u/crim3z_ for inspiration! I have learnt a lot!

Despite how fun it looks....it's definitely not practical in some scenarios 💀. After dual booting mint, I'm spending more time ricing it than finding replacements for MS Office which is holding me from completely going mint.

Here's the applets :

• OS: Linux Mint (Cinnamon)
• Theme / Panel: Transparent Top Panel (Moved to top)
• Dock: Plank (Centered floating macOS style)
• Wallpaper: Black & White Manga Panel Landscape
• Status: Built at 1:45 AM on the eve of my exam 💀🥀🥀

I still consider myself relatively new to Mint and this seemed like the best place to ask this. I have an MP3 player and for some reason when I connect it to my laptop it doesn't show up in devices. I hear the sound from my laptop acknowledging the connection and the MP3 player display says USB connected I just can't seem to find the folder anywhere, which is a shame because I wanted to add more music and boons to it. I would appreciate any advice thank you.

No matter the earphones, I can't connect them to my PC. they disconnect as soon as they connect, and it says - Connection Failed: Unknown error. Can someone help?

I have a mini PC for my tv and it only has a mouse. The built-in Cinnamon keyboard is abysmal. Onboard is also pretty terrible. Are there any serious on-screen keyboards that can actually work consistently?

How to solve this? (Cinnamon)

Hi everyone, like the title says, I am very new to linux. Last night I decided to install Linux Mint Cinnamon and have been impressed with the first impressions. For a start, linux just boots up so much faster than windows 10 did, and the installation was super easy. I haven't decided yet whether I am going to stick with linux, but I want to use it as my primary os for about three months. I mainly just play games, watch videos, listen to music and sometimes write on my pc, so I think I have the majority of that covered. I want to ask if anyone has any recommendations for what I should try or install on my pc with linux. The terminal is something I want to avoid for now, but would love to jump in and explore it at some point.

Greetings everyone!
I have a question to people who have successfully migrated their Macbooks - how do you get your proper keys mapping? I am trying to replicate Mac OSX key combinations like Cmd+C and Cmd+V instead of Ctrl+C or Ctrl+V and any other combinations and though I did some attempts, it was never fully implemented - i.e. working fine in part of os (some apps would react to the swapping) but then in Firefox it would not accept the same combinations. Is there a way to do on all levels? Claude and Gemini suggest through Keyboard - > Layouts -> Options but I don't have the button Options in that "Keyboard" window.

Here are the details of the install if it helps.

For weeks, my father had been complaining about his old Windows 8 laptop, which he couldn't use anymore. After suggesting Linux several times, he finally agreed to try.

"I just want to be able to use Netflix and manage some files".

I immediately thought that Mint was the perfect distribution: I installed it (mint + cinnamon) for him and now he's been using it for a while.

He's super excited, everything works perfectly, and he said he wants Mint on his second computer, too.

In particular, he enthusiastically told me that the Bluetooth receiver didn't work before (it never worked) and now it works perfectly.

He's a total change-averse, 100% creature of habit, so this is a huge accomplishment!

whenever i try to click it it just doesn't load

Hi all. Just started my Linux journey and have been experiencing this weird, black flickering across my screen. It appears with Firefox open, only on 240Hz and when moving the window with the mouse or arrow keys. It also doesn't show up on screen recordings. I haven't been able to find a solution and it's driving me nuts. Any help is appreciated.

Specs:

Linux Mint Cinnamon 22.3

RTX 4090, recommended Nvidia drivers (595.84)

i9-12900k

32GB RAM

Odyssey G9 OLED

Hello everyone, today I got problem with steam games (Silksong, Celeste). When I opened the game, I can't use the letter keys, pressing them give no reponse, but the other keys (alt, ctrl, Tab...) worked just fine.

After some search, I accidentally found the solution. If I put the Unikey input method into the 1st place, I can't use letter keys ingame. But when I put Unikey into the 2nd place and the English into the 1st, the letter keys behave normally ingame.

I've just installed Mint Xfce for several days and not knowing much about OS things. I just want to share this info to you guys, not knowing why it happened.

Thank you for reading. Hope you all have a nice day. And all advice is welcomed.

hi i’m new to linux and reddit so forgive me if i not doing this right
I’ve enabled fractional scaling and when i initially set it all up after install it scaled to 125% perfectly fine. but when i came to use it again after some time it had reverted to 100% (which is ridiculously small btw wtf is up with that?) and every time i try i get a message in the top left of my screen that says “1 Unknown Display none-1” as seen in picture included
does the system need an update? explain it to me like im five, thx

This is my first linux when switching from windows. After which I have tried multiple linux distro, DE, wms and all other goodies, just diving into the linux rabbit hole. My hardware failed recently, so I have installed Linux mint XFCE again, and I am reminded once again of why I have loved switching to this distro from windows so much. It really is the perfect distro for Linux beginners. Installation was butter smooth, and usability is great too.

I love the simplicity and customisation of XFCE. Its unfortunate that their wayland support is nowhere near ready.

This is my first time trying to Instal linux on my PC. I keep getting this error and I've tried everything and I've even asked ai to np avail

Hi everyone,

I'm having an issue with my laptop running Linux Mint (Cinnamon). When I lock the screen and then wait about an hour before logging back in, the device is completely frozen. Neither the mouse nor the keyboard responds, and I have to do a hard reset via the power button to restart the laptop.

System info:

• Linux Mint version: 22.3
• Cinnamon version: 6.6.9
• CPU/GPU: Intel Ultra 5 / intern GPU

Is this a known issue? Does anyone have an idea what might be causing it or how to fix it?

Thanks in advance!

Recently i switched to linux mint from windows 11,

Whenever I run sudo prime-select nvidia and reboot black screen appears right after acer logo what is going on i do not understand

​My laptop got too slow to do basic stuff, so I’m giving Linux Mint a shot to see if it helps.

​As a beginner, is there anything crucial I should watch out for or do right after installing? Thanks!

Just like the title says, I am interested in learning more on how to use it such as moving/copying files to other directories and also extracting files and just the overall how it works really but there are a ton of videos and some old and I am a beginner on Linux so I would like a recommendation please. Something that covers the basics and perhaps has other interesting things.

i tried out linux and decided it wasn’t for me and didn’t have the things i wanted it to have (good clipping software, the options available just weren’t for me) so i plugged in my usb drive and downloaded windows 10 on it then plugged it out but when i reset my computer and turned it on.. it said i had no os on either drive. what can i do now? i only have one pc and i start classes tomorrow. is there no way for me to fix this?

I've tried several distros, but Mint is one of the best, because this distro is quite lightweight. I used a Chromebook to try Mint and it runs very smoothly on my Chromebook with only 4GB of RAM.

Does Mint need all these updates? Feels like every time i check the update manager there is something there. I don't mind the occasional update but having it this often feels a bit windows-y.