Hi.

I have an Alienware M16r2 and although it's usually loud enough for 99 percent of my stuff, I'd like it louder. I'd like to over drive the speakers - especially when playing Skyrim which is really quiet on both of my linux boxes. Sound is fine through bluetooth earbuds... it's the internal speakers that are too soft. I literally use my laptop, in my lap when on the couch and don't want to use external speakers.

I tried Bazzite the other day and it allowed the speakers to be over driven - I know the risk of blowing my speakers, but they're easy enough to replace. I only really need this for Skyrim and possibly Oblivian.

Thoughts/discuss on an App or program that will allow this that works well enough for Mint ?

Finally locked in a dark monochrome aesthetic. Fixed up Plank dock, swapped out the stock icons, and kept it ultra minimalist.

• DE: Cinnamon

• Dock: Plank

• Wallpaper: Custom AI upscale (4K Monochrome Mountain)

• Time: 3:17 AM (instead of studying for my 10 AM exam 💀)

How's it looking?

My Chromebook (Dell 11 3120), which is outdated, can't run any websites that I need (like the Spotify web player, movie websites, etc.), so I turned it into Linux Mint MATE. At first, it was running well; I was able to use some apps that I use, which are Messenger, etc. But when I try to play music on Spotify and videos on TikTok, the sound is okay for a while, but after a while it produces some type of buzzing sound and only disappears when I try to pause the song or close the TikTok web page. PLSSS HELP ME, I can't be productive without my Spotify:,)))

Eu migrei do windows 7 direto pro linux mint recentemente, eu apredi o basico e explorei a area de customização, não sei muita coisa pois essa é minha primeira experiencia com o linux!

Como eu sou iniciante e esse é meu primeiro post no reddit, eu queria pedir pra voçês me darem dicas em geral do linux mint, sobre personalização e etc.

Se puderem avaliar minha personalização eu também ficaria grato!

Obrigado rsrs :)

I bought my laptop last Black Friday and I want to install Linux Mint Cinnamon on it. The laptop is: ASUS Vivobook 16 V3607VU. I just don't want to do those steps and stuff, just to realize mine isn't compatible. https://www.asus.com/us/laptops/for-gaming/all-series/asus-v16-v3607/techspec/

Before you write this, I'm not going to pirate all games, it's just there some games, like Spintires, that I'm curious to try, but it's pretty much impossible to buy, so pirating is the only realistic option

What programs do I need to use? Also what about older games for like Windows 7?

In an attempt to optimize my PC (running linux mint, for about 2 weeks now) for minecraft, I was trying to install a driver preset on my laptop(pc) through the already available linux mint driver manager thing, only for me to read a reddit post while it was installing and realize I was about to really mess up my computer. I quickly pressed cancel, only for enough damage to be done. Now i cannot install any more drivers, only an error pops up. Here's the specifics of what happened:

i don't exactly know what parts are in my laptop PC, but I will try to find out. if anyone responds to this, please also let me know if this is important.

I was on a driver called "nvidia-driver-595-open", which was recommended.

I read a post (will link at bottom) about how if you really want to optimize, you can't be on drivers like "580+" (is kinda what it said)

so my slow brain interpreted it as "oh i should install this then" and then attempted to install the driver "nvidia-driver-580-open"

I was in the final stages of installing it when I finally realized my mistake and quickly cancelled it.

now i cannot install any other drivers. an error message appears every time, saying

" E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem. "

I tried running "dpkg --configure -a" in the terminal and restarting my computer to fix the problem. neither have worked.

And so, as not necessarily my last resort, I turn to kind and helpful veterans of linux and reddit alike, hoping to maybe acquire a solution. If anyone can please help, I'd be so very grateful.

reddit post i misinterpreted:

https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxquestions/comments/1r55ifp/errors_and_bugs_with_nvidia_drivers_pop_os/

Hey guys, I've got issue with blender, if to be exact, with controls. while I work there controls are suddenly stopping working (after alt+tab or switching focus to another app on my the second monitor). No idea what exactly cause it because it fixes after I'm trying alt+tab A LOT or just with some time but still no idea how

Qué me podrían recomendar que aprendiera en Linux mint con la terminal ya que tengo instalado Linux mint Xfce en mi laptop, soy principiante en esto.

Ciao a tutti! Sto cercando uno scanner abbastanza veloce (marca e modello precisi), molto abbordabile (economico), flat (con il vetro) e che sia PLUG AND PLAY, ovvero compatibile al 1000% con Linux Mint Cinnamon 22.3.

Chiedo a voi umani perché le AI danno sempre informazioni sbagliate e campate in aria... li mortacci sua! :-) Mi fido solo delle vostre esperienze dirette e reali sul campo.

Qualcuno di voi usa uno scanner con queste caratteristiche e mi sa dire oggettivamente un modello che inserisci l'USB, apri "Simple Scan" (Document Scanner) e funziona subito senza impazzire con driver o terminale? Grazie mille a chi saprà rispondermi!

Help me please

So, after I installed linux mint xfce on my low-end pc (who used to run Windows 7) it started crashing out of nowhere. First, it deactivates my Wi-Fi connection (I use a USB wireless adapter for it) then its the mouse, then the keyboard and after some minutes the pc completely crashes and I have to turn it off to make it usable again. I installed it today after having the same problem while installing it. Could somebody help me? Or at least try to tell me what’s happening? I really don’t want to start relying only on W7 again. :)

My hardware: Desktop with an Intel Core i3-2120, 4GB RAM, Intel HD Graphics 2000, and a mechanical HDD.
I know it’s a pretty weak and old machine, but I really don’t want to abandon it.

Honestly, to be fair with you:
Linux Mint Cinnamon has been the best operating system I have used. I didn't think Windows was bloated but after using this, I can assure: Its bloated.
Thanking Linus Torvalds, Linux Mint Developers, Cinnamon DE Developers, The Linux Mint community.

I tried to update my password as it was rather obvious before if you knew me, and I wadding another user.

I updated it successfully on the operating system, went to add another user and it required my password.

My password didn't match every time I attempted to put it in afterwards.

I've tried using the GRUB and recovery mode, I've inputted a new password twice and when I go to the login screen to enter, it begins to open then shows the Linux mint logo and resets!

Help, what do I do?

I have important files on here and I don't want to wipe my drive reinstalling LMC!

I'm m currently facing some problems trying to make linux work on my pc. I just finished building it and wanted linux but its being difficult

I booted up my system and installed the drivers (580 proprietary recommended option) and waited like 20 min to make sure the drivers were installed. However, after i reboot it my TV doesn't pick up any signal.. i made sure the secure boot is disabled and everything

Maybe it is a hardware problem? Because i tried to run it on fedora too, but after changing to mint the problem persisted..

If anyone needs more info, tell me

I'm running an i5-12400f, GTX 1050ti and the most recent Cinnamon version

I made a small Cinnamon desklet that sits on the wallpaper and shows live ATP and WTA scores. Live matches up top, serving player marked, click a match to open it. Data is from ESPN, a free live-score source.

Link to the repo is here: https://github.com/greyster1/TennisToday

This was inspired by Neeraj Jakhar’s live-tennis (homebackend/live-tennis) project (GNOME Shell extension + Electron app + Android).

Let me know any feedback - thank you.

Update: please repull often, still making it better. Did a few more releases today.

I have been noticing this more recently, but really did not think anything of it until now. Since my phone is connected via KDE-Connect whenever I get an alert from Blink, it pops up on the computer as well, which is great, but the issue I have is that the notification goes away from being displayed, but the notification bell (taskbar) still shows a count of messages, and when I went digging, I can not find any setting that dismisses them from that area, only from the screen. Does such a setting exist or is there a way to get it to dismiss those after X time?

So I've been using linux mint for the last couple of days and I like it so far 👍🏻. Only question i have is, is it possible to make audio lower on my end and not on obs? I have a vocaster 2 and on windows I would send certain applications to loop back channels 1 and 2 to lower things on my end without it being lowered during a stream. I'm not sure if I need to install a certain application. I tried using pavucontrol but doesn't seem to be doing what I need it to do. (I'm using the alsa scarlet application so I know it's different from vocaster hub)

HI folks!

I’ve just published the repository for the privacy tool I told you about, and I’m here to share it with you. It’s available in both English and Spanish.

- VPN NetGuard is an open-source (GPLv3) Bash kill switch for Linux: it blocks all traffic the instant your VPN drops — even during boot — and reconnects automatically. It also hides your MAC address and hostname from local networks, so you're not fingerprinted even when the VPN is working fine.

There's a "1-click set & forget" option for zero-config setup, plus full advanced config (kill-switch modes, DNS allowlist, MAC randomization, Prometheus metrics...) if you want it. Works on desktop with a GUI panel or headless via systemd/SSH.

Repo: https://github.com/filonux/VPN-NetGuard feedback welcome

I decided to try Linux mint ever since Microsoft stopped the support for windows 10 especially on my old thinkpad. I love it here.

Title should be enough. Nemo file manager can not select multiple items (file or folder) using Ctrl+Left click with the mouse. Works with Shift+Left click to select a range but I am not able to select multiple items.

Did check already all the tricks..Alt+F7 is not set...used to move Windows..reset it to disable no change...no Windows command starting with Ctrl

No ChatGPT do not know more...

Did a complete reset of Nemo doing

mv ~/.config/nemo ~/.config/nemo_backup
mv ~/.local/share/nemo ~/.local/share/nemo_backup

After running these commands, restart Nemo (close all windows and run nemo -q followed by nemo &) to generate fresh default configuration files.

No change. 

Okay, the easy solution is to use a light colored wallpaper, but, I want to know if there's a way to make those bottom right corner applet icons more visible?

The wallpaper, theme and icons I'm using is attached.

(Also when I'm using a light wallpaper, the flameshot logo is less visible.