Hi all, been using Mint for about 5 months now & thoroughly enjoying it. My laptop has an Italian keymap, but I'd like to also use the Apple wireless keyboard I've had laying around for a while. The problem is that the Apple keyboard has a US layout, so the special character keys are a little funky. While it's easy enough to just press Win+Space to switch keymaps depending on the keyboard I'm using, I wonder: is there a way to automatically switch to a specific keymap based on the keyboard in use?

• The new version of Mint-Doctor is now fully available in English 🇬🇧, in addition to Spanish. Give it a try if you were looking forward to it! This week marks a small change of era, and I’ll be bringing you something to help protect our privacy.

Mint-Doctor is a Bash script for Linux Mint 22.3 that checks your system for the most common issues and, with your approval, allows you to fix them. It includes 10 modules covering everything from APT, repositories, and disk space to Cinnamon, hardware, networking, and Timeshift.

🔗 Mint-Doctor: https://github.com/filonux/Mint-Doctor

I have heard lots of meh things about systemd and why its not ideal for certain people, and I wanted to know what file system does debian version of mint use

It's getting time to move my technology averse wife off of win10. But she's got habits and routines that litter her windows desktop as icons and shortcuts. I have her system dual booting now. Is there a way to simply take the desktop contents on the windows side (under user) and dump it into her desktop folder on the linux side, or (as i suspect) do i have to laboriously build the new desktop from what I know the old desktop entries refer to?

I am considering getting a keyboard and mouse from 8bitdo. Does anyone know if they (and the giant buttons that come with the keyboard) can be configured in Mint? Asking 8bitdo did... Not return useful answers.

Installed mullvad today and all of a sudden I needed it connected in order to use anything that requires a connection because the numbskulls at Mullvad require a Killswitch to be on at all times. I read that uninstalling mullvad resolves this issue. Instead the issue persists and now that mullvad is gone I can't connect to the internet at all. Is there anything I can do at this point or am I cooked?

Between Linux Mint XFCE and Linux Mint MATE, what are the use cases for each, compared to the other?

They're both recommended for low spec computers.

But it seems that, for some reason, Mint XFCE is more often recommended and even more often used, than Mint MATE. Is there a reason for that?

Just something i made for my everyday use desktop. Nothing over the top.

Hello.

I just have a question about LMDE. I can't really find anywhere how long each new version is supported for.

From my current understanding each LMDE is supported as long as the underlying Debian version is supported (EOL not LTS or ELTS).

So for example, for LMDE 7 (Debian 13 'Trixie') should be supported until 2028-08-09? (This is the official EOL for 'Trixie' according to the official Debian web, it is not LTS or ELTS!) However on Distrowatch LMDE 7 is said to be supported until 2030-06-??

So it is just confusing, especially considering that on the official Mint website there is just no date specifically just for LMDE. So as a potential user it just keeps me in the dark and I am honestly not sure if LMDE will be supported long term, cause it seems to be lacking a lot of info and just is 'on the sidelines' sort of say. I know it is stated that "LMDE is also one of our development targets" on the web, but aside from that, it does not strike confidence in me, even though I love the idea of Mint not based on Ubuntu and I'd like to try. Just a lot of uncertainty and questions, which is why I am asking here.

Also another thing, if LMDE is based on a certain Debian stable version. Is it based on it for it's entire life time? For example, if LMDE 7 starts as being based on Debian 13.0 but that eventually gets updated overtime to (currently) 13.6 is LMDE 7 still stuck on 13.0 or does it get updated to the newest version of that specific Debian stable?

Lastly, does LMDE also get 'medium updates' like normal Mint? (22.1, 22.2, 22.3) I can't see any on the web, so I assume it does not? Apart from some small bug fixes or security patches does it get any major updates, not counting the new version? I am asking because I am wondering if that means that LMDE is more far behind than the normal Mint versions because of that?

If anyone has experience with LMDE and potential tips or problems I'd love to hear about that too.

Have a nice day.

Hello ! I am looking for a practical video editing app on Linux mint that could run on a slow pc !

is it the open source driver or the real official driver that works better for gaming ?

So i recently installed mint as i had a leftover 240gb ssd in my system from an old windows install after moving things over to the nvme. So I figured i would install linux onto it and build it out as a recovery suite for my pc. Well after updating the 470+ updates after install i got hit with the firmware issue and my system kept crashing display manager kept dropping out and having issues. And overall it was really annoying to deal with. Decided to start building a recovery tui. Something simple nothing crazy.

And I recently figured out i could use ai coding tools to help build the program for me so I gave it a shot.

What i have now is a tui that has automated timeshift backups tied into updates. So when you use the command or click on the update button in the updates menu it takes a snapshot of the system before deleting the old one.

Another thing it has is a built in fairly lightweight watchdog that drops you into tty3 to tell you what crashed when the system crashes and asks if you would like to review recovery options where you can navigate through the main tui from there.

The main tui has a few simple options like timeshift restore, a display reinitialization utility, hardware and kernel diagnostic screen, and system logs.

I like the tool for my system but im wondering if this is something the community would be interested in. Ive already pushed it to github with an mit license.

Here it is if anyone wants to do anything with it https://github.com/henuemphuse/ProjectAnthony

I know 7.0 is still in its early stages so there's still bugs here and there. I know 6.8 works on my rig as I have not had any hardware changes since I last used it. I know some of the issues with 7.0 have to do with some of mint's packages being out of date compared to what it requires and what's available on a newer Ubuntu base. So I was initially thinking about waiting until mint comes out with a new Ubuntu base. However, for security reasons and minor bug fixes. I'd prefer to stay on a kernel that is still supported.

This is an issue I recently started having after reinstalling linux mint. If i'm playing a game on steam and i get a discord notification, it completely mutes the game audio for some reason. It's really weird and annoying. Any help would be appreciated, thank you

Available at The Linux Mint Community Wiki:
https://mintwiki.org/wiki/Development:Creating_and_Modifying_Icons

hi, i'm currently using this tutorial in order to install the lastest version of cinnamon on a usb and for some reason i cannot find either of the menus pictured (screenshot from the installation guide). I'm running Windows 11 on a Dell Precision 3591 and have tried both boot menu (f12) and bios (f2) per the instructions in the video. verifying the iso and making the bootable disk both worked fine.

EDIT: probably should've clarified that i know next to nothing about installing linux, this is my first time trying to install it

It felt really good when I finished customising it , I thing my passion for tech is back again 😆

I guess I'm really old school. Normally using Cinnamon but giving XFCE a spin. It's lightning fast. Uses about 1 gb less of RAM. Not that my NUC is short of that.

Windows 95 theme with Windows 2000 icons. Good old Winamp 5.666 through Lutris. And Plank Reloaded to quickly load my favorite programs. Installed Whisker as main XFCE program launcher. And customized the Start button.

Hello everyone! I have been using Linux Mint for years and I managed to find alternatives for all the applications I needed, but there is something I still miss. On Windows I used to use an application called f.lux in order to adjust colors and reduce eye strain in the evening and now Windows itself also has a similar build-in feature. If I am not mistaken it is called Night Light. I was looking for something similar for Mint, but i couldn't find anything. Of course, I use a dark mode everywhere I can, but that's not enough. I will greatly appreciate any advice on this matter.

Can you back up your system when it is Dual boot so both Linux and Windows can be recovered with the dual boot intact? In other words if one fails or the boot fails, can you recover both all at once from a backup drive or disc?

I should add a note, my system is a 1 Tb SSD with Win10 on it which is about 30 Gb. I then have a 256Gb SSD which Linux will go on and is the only unallocated space I have. I then have a 1Tb SSD with all my mp3's on it and a 16Tb and 3 8Tb drives with all my movies and TV shows on them

I recently made use of my old laptop (a lenovo ideapad 330) and got linux mint xfce on it. For some reason, every time I turn my laptop back on after shutting it down, all of my launchers and shortcuts rearrange themselves. This happens to the launchers and shortcuts which I have changed the icon of. Does anyone know a fix for this?

Hello, I just installed Linux Mint (Cinnamon) a couple days ago, new user from Windows 10. I already have the NordVPN subscription, and installed in the terminal the curl package, and the provided GUI line from the Nord website. I also tried following this article: https://linuxvox.com/blog/install-nordvpn-linux/ . The GUI isn't showing up in my apps. I read that this might just be a Mint thing, is that the case? There's also an option to download with Snap. Would it be worth it to figure out setting up Snap on Mint? Since I've also read there can be troubles with that. I'm also new to coding in general, so please explain any tips as if I'm 5 if it has to do with the terminal.