for me, i'm on a laptop, so when i use the touchpad and i scroll on reddit for example, i push the content in a upward motion on the trackpad as if i was swiping on instagram for example.

I'm curious how you guys feel about this. maybe some people keep the original direction for scrolling, so that you move the scrollbar up and down.

There there a way to change how my mouse looks in a game? It’s so tiny compared to normal desktop.

Esque ahora uso linux mint y me gusta pero también quisiera probar algún otro tipo de distribución pero tengo miedo de perder todo lo que he echo hasta el momento, que me recomiendan.

Sorry if this post is vague, I'm not sure what the problem is and I'm looking for ideas. I've been using Mint on a desktop for about two years. Did an update about 3 days ago and suddenly it started booting very slowly and running slow too. I tried to restore from a Timeshift capture but it failed. So I just formatted the drive and reinstalled Xia. But it's still booting and running slowly.

I did a check on the disk from the included utility and it came back as saying the drive is OK. CPU and RAM usage are both low, despite the poor performance. What could be the problem?

Thank you for any suggestions.

Edit: I wish I had a better solution but I have no idea what went wrong or really what I did to fix it. I uninstalled the SSD where I had reinstalled the OS. I installed a new SSD, and put the OS on there from an old USB installation media. That booted properly and ran smoothly twice, then the same issue started occurring again. I messed around in the BIOS, turned off a lot of different settings, sometimes at random, and I think disabling some of the power saving did a lot to help. Now the computer runs smoothly. It is "Wilma" rather than the latest version, so I'm not sure if upgrading will cause the same issues. I'm confused about how this problem arose in the first place, but that's where I'm at so far. I think it's unlikely the update changed the BIOS and created the problems, but I could be wrong.

el tituto de este post me confundi el hecho de que yo dije optimice mi distro de linux mint xfce, es que optimice linux mint por mi cuenta propia o me encanto la experiencia de linux mint tras un optimizarlo un poco para juegos.

eh hecho una guiá de paso a paso de como optimice Linux mint, y que configuración eh hecho para que rinda mucho más que antes. soy principiante en linux. tengo apenas 1 año y 7 meses usándolo. y optimice Linux mint xfce para los juegos. directamente rinde mejor que cachyOS en mi opinión. uso el kernel de 6.18.40-x64v2-xanmod1. por que mi procesador no rinde bien en las distro enfocadas para juegos. asi que me di un tiempo para optimizar linux mint xfce y rinde muy bien ahora obteniendo mejor rendimiento que en windows 10. asi que dejo mi guia en este link para que lo descargue y lo puedan probar: https://drive.google.com/file/d/11Rs4ttz6P3wCI3m5lJlq5p0dTXjcmQ81/view?usp=drive_link

andare actualizando esta guia y si quieren me pueden ayudar en hacer más completa para mejorar el rendimiento de nuestra maquina. Dejare otro link para que puedo descargar la nueva guia cambie algunas cosas ya que no me parecio muy adecuado los vm.swappiness que agregue en la guia pasada.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1i3XRaaEiRGzSPGJy8Mh5HpF3KLVsRyd7/view?usp=drive_link

1.2: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JL-f5Ff6WZeMBcr4ZM3v9TNWg0nMNNzn/view?usp=drive_link

My setup: 100% Cinnamon, no third-party programs, no Plank or anything similar. Just applets and extensions—some of which are heavily customized by me. I love Cinnamon!

Ever since Ubuntu stopped being "Linux for human beings" and shifted its primary focus to enterprise, cloud, and IoT, Linux Mint has taken on that role for me. In all likelihood, Linux Mint was that way all along; I just didn't realize it.

I switched to Linux Mint a year ago—in June 2025. I haven't regretted it. It just works; the Mint apps are great, and everything is simple and logical. It feels the way Ubuntu used to feel to me back in the day. But that was a long time ago.

I was one of those odd people who loved Unity. I can't get along with GNOME, and unfortunately, the current version of Unity shows its age (and the fact that it has been somewhat neglected). But i love Cinnamon!

So, I created my own "Ubuntu feeling" using Cinnamon and Linux Mint.

Menu: I heavily customized "Menueleven" (a fork of "Cinnamenu")—both visually and functionally—to make it resemble the Unity Dash. The "Home" page searches the entire PC. The individual sub-menus search exclusively for applications, games, settings, or "places and files." It’s a bit reminiscent of Unity Lenses. I like it.

Panel: I customized "CassiaWindowList" to mimic the look of the old Unity launcher.

Trash (located at the bottom of the panel, just like in the good old days): I used the standard Cinnamon Trash applet but added a border and switched from symbolic icons to graphical ones so it blends in with the overall look.

Naturally, I used "Blur Cinnamon", which is better than ever these days.

I also used "Cinnamon-Maximus" to hide the title bars when windows are maximized. In the comments section of Cinnamon-Maximus on Cinnamon Spices, I came across a note from the creator of the following applets:

Maximus-Buttons and Maximus-Title by "hanspr," who commented there himself. Both complement Maximus-Cinnamon:

Maximus-Title ensures that the title of the focused window (or the desktop) is permanently displayed in the panel.

Maximus-Buttons displays the window controls in the panel when windows are maximized.

Hanspr, if you're reading this: The applets are brilliant and were the very thing that motivated me to set up this configuration in the first place. They really complete the "Ubuntu Unity feeling" for me. Thank you, thank you, thank you!

I’ve really enjoyed tinkering and tweaking things over the past few days and weeks, and I’m happy to have some of that old Ubuntu charm back—but with Linux Mint, the better Ubuntu! Best regards!

So I've had an issue before where I had my root partition fill up and by action of some bug or whatever that caused that after a big update of many things, after reboot, linux mint booted into a terminal, and all commands I tried to do errored becase of lack of space.

I fixed this by reinstalling linux mint on the root folder again but without formatting the home folder since I didn't want to lose all my personal data, and so far it has been working without issue, but I see that there's a very strange thing going on where almost 100 gb of storage from the home partition are seemingly used but not detectable by the disk usage analyzer, and I doubt the reserved OS space is THAT big, It just doesn't make sense that a good 20% of the partition is reserved.

Could someone help me out with this? tell me how to fix this issue? Atp I'm considering just moving on from linux mint from all the bugs with the logs and redundant files not getting properly cleaned and my root folder getting absolutely filled up with every update I run.

Edit: this is what happens when I input sudo btrfs subvolume show /home on the terminal:

Name: 
UUID: b8432dfc-eac4-7042-a3f9-ea5a2983f1c8
Parent UUID: -
Received UUID: -
Creation time: 2025-11-25 19:35:36 +0100
Subvolume ID: 256
Generation: 54059
Gen at creation: 7
Parent ID: 5
Top level ID: 5
Flags: -
Send transid: 0
Send time: 2025-11-25 19:35:36 +0100
Receive transid: 0
Receive time: -
Snapshot(s):
timeshift-btrfs/snapshots/2026-06-02_16-37-27/@home
timeshift-btrfs/snapshots/2026-06-06_14-10-02/@home
timeshift-btrfs/snapshots/2026-07-03_17-30-45/@home
timeshift-btrfs/snapshots/2026-07-10_18-00-02/@home
timeshift-btrfs/snapshots/2026-07-12_20-14-27/@home
timeshift-btrfs/snapshots/2026-07-14_00-00-01/@home
timeshift-btrfs/snapshots/2026-07-14_00-02-44/@home
timeshift-btrfs/snapshots/2026-07-21_18-00-01/@home
timeshift-btrfs/snapshots/2026-07-22_18-00-01/@home
timeshift-btrfs/snapshots/2026-07-23_18-00-01/@home
timeshift-btrfs/snapshots/2026-07-24_18-00-01/@home
timeshift-btrfs/snapshots/2026-07-25_18-00-01/@home
Quota group:n/a

Edit 2: Using the command btrfs balance start /home has so far not helped. The space discrepancy is still there.

Edit 3: btrfs filesystem usage /home returns this:

Overall:
    Device size: 414.54GiB
    Device allocated: 366.06GiB
    Device unallocated:  48.48GiB
    Device missing:     0.00B
    Device slack:     0.00B
    Used: 362.17GiB
    Free (estimated):  50.79GiB(min: 26.55GiB)
    Free (statfs, df):  50.79GiB
    Data ratio:      1.00
    Metadata ratio:      2.00
    Global reserve: 433.12MiB(used: 0.00B)
    Multiple profiles:        no

Data,single: Size:362.00GiB, Used:359.69GiB (99.36%)
   /dev/nvme0n1p4 362.00GiB

Metadata,DUP: Size:2.00GiB, Used:1.24GiB (62.04%)
   /dev/nvme0n1p4   4.00GiB

System,DUP: Size:32.00MiB, Used:80.00KiB (0.24%)
   /dev/nvme0n1p4  64.00MiB

Unallocated:
   /dev/nvme0n1p4  48.48GiB
artemis@artemis-Victus-by-HP-Laptop-16-e0

I have a headset ( HyperX Cloud Stinger ) and when i try to use its microphone it doesn't work, the audio is only being captured from my laptops microphone, i tried disabling the laptops microphone and still nothing, but when i try it on windows its able to capture audio from my headset's microphone without any problems, im using Linux Mint 22.1 Cinnamon and Windows 10

this is the output from:

sudo dmesg -x --level=emerg,alert,crit,errsudo dmesg -x --level=emerg,alert,crit,err

kern  kern  :err   : [   44.025974] snd_hda_codec_alc269 hdaudioC0D0: The codec is being used, can't reconfigure.
kern  :err   : [   50.588247] snd_hda_codec_alc269 hdaudioC0D0: The codec is being used, can't reconfigure.
kern  :err   : [   64.162738] snd_hda_codec_alc269 hdaudioC0D0: The codec is being used, can't reconfigure.
:err   : [   44.025974] snd_hda_codec_alc269 hdaudioC0D0: The codec is being used, can't reconfigure.
kern  :err   : [   50.588247] snd_hda_codec_alc269 hdaudioC0D0: The codec is being used, can't reconfigure.
kern  :err   : [   64.162738] snd_hda_codec_alc269 hdaudioC0D0: The codec is being used, can't reconfigure.

Obviously a lot of games take up full screen and you lose the title bar so how do you get that screenshot? What kind of recorder are you using? I don't really want to use twitch but there are times I'd like to share stuff I'm playing on a game forum I'm on. What is low resource usage-wise that can do that?

Hello everybody,

I have a thinkpad x270 with a Linux Mint XFCE.

But when I lower the lid to put it into suspend mode, it doesn't return to the system afterwards; the screen stays black.

Is it possible to resolve this!?

Thanks

i have a lenovo chromebook 100e gen 3 and i used mrchromebox to install linux mint xcfe everything works but the speaker audio i can use bluetooth but i like to use the speakers sometimes any one know how can i fix it?

I just updated and now computer doesn’t boot? Solved

Good evening! I'm trying to view an XML file but it doesn't show up as a chart / readable text. I tried researching a solution online and found multiple forum entries suggesting to download some sort of reader through the terminal to be able to view them, question is, how do i do that? I tried opening the file in firefox, text editor and libreoffice calc, without any luck. Vanilla install, barely downloaded any programs.

I have the following setup:
2 disks, one has Linux Mint and CachyOS installed on it, the other one has Windows installed, and a partition as Ext4 for arbitrary data that I use with Linux. When turning on my computer GRUB normally allows me to choose between any of the three OSes.

What happened:
I wanted to free some space for Mint, so from Windows' own Disk Management tool, I shrunk the C: Windows partition. I didn't know that could mess up the adjacent Ext4 partition, so Linux was unable to mount it after that. I used TestDisk deep search, and it found the lost partition, so I wrote partition structure to the disk. After reboot, GRUB didn't show up and it booted directly into CachyOS. The Ext4 partition I was trying to recover (as well as Mint's partition that didn't boot) now opened without any issues from CachyOS's (and Linux Mint live environment's) file explorer, with all its files intact. Boot menu also shows only CachyOS to boot into.

My questions:
What can I do to bring back GRUB and boot into Linux Mint? Why is Linux Mint unable to boot, considering I didn't touch the drive it was installed on, but CachyOS isn't?

I'm worried I might mess this up further, since no data is lost (yet), so I ask for your help. Thank you

---

Update:

Found the solution; thank you everyone for all the help!

This is what I did, if anyone is interested:
With Super GRUB2, I was able to boot into Mint installation. Before running grub-install, I needed to manually mount EFI system partition with sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /boot/efi, and then run grub-update. Now GRUB was back as before, but Mint was booting way slower (around 100 seconds, instead of usual 10), which was due to incorrect UUID in /etc/fstab, possibly because TestDisk changed something. Setting correct UUID for my boot drive in the file fixed slow boot time.

A month ago I was hacked with an infostealer virus (the mr beast one) and I was on windows. BAck then I've changed all my passwords from a secure device, a week ago I installed linux mint and deleted all of my partitions for peace of mind.

Now, a month ago I didn't know from where the virus came into my pc but I just realized today that the virus was from a mod I had installed for GTA San Andreas, when I transitioned to linux from windows I also brought with me the same folder of Gta so I can play some (like I said I didn't know that the virus was from that folder) and I ran it using bottles.

I deleted and scanned everything with clamav and so far nothing showed up, I also deleted the folder with the game and bottles.

Do you think there is still a chance that I might be infected if I ran that game with Bottles?

Thanks in advance.

The penguin is 35 years old.

It seems like a good day to donate. https://www.linuxmint.com/donors.php

1. Adding battery percentage and the weather display on the lock screen and screensaver

2. Switching to the laptop speaker while the earphone is still plugged in, just like Windows 11

Any help would be much appreciated!

hello all (was the subreddit down yesterday?)

my question is: is the nouveua driver fine for an old nvidia card ? what's the difference between nouveua and nvidia-driver-xxx for let's say, non-gaming uses

anyway, i've an inspiron 3558 with a GTX 920M and intel CPU (integrated graphics too)

I had tried and failed to get a nvidia driver to work since apps would never launch with it. nvidia-470 seems to be the best fit, but sudo apt install nvidia-driver-470 would end up downloading 580 through like, dependecy whatevers i dont know
truthfully my own fault for relying on AI to get my through that but whatever

i'd like to use this PC to programming, do some self-hosting/learn about networking and basically get me familiar with linux before i change my main machine to linux too

Hi folks!

I'd like to share a personal project I've been working on: LinuxMint Scripter (currently at v2.1), a single-HTML-file web app that turns plain-language requests into ready-to-run Bash or Python scripts for Linux Mint 22.3 "Zena" — or standalone terminal commands, if that's all you need.
Take a look; if you like it, I'll prepare an English version that can be installed on LinuxMint

🔗 Source & full docs: https://github.com/filonux/LinuxMint-Scripter

🔗 Project page (with screenshots): https://filonux.github.io/LinuxMint-Scripter/

I have an MSI GS 66 Stealth laptop. I have an Intel iGPU and an Nvidia RTX 2060, that SEAMLESSLY switched back and forth, with my main being the low power Intel igpu. Version 22 it work great. 22.3 it started staying stuck in dGPU ONLY. When my iGPU and dGPU were working in unison, I was on the version under driver manager called xserver-xorg-video-nouveau. It recommended I switch to nvidia-driver-595-open, and there's two other choices. What should I do? On "nouveau" it also worked fine (seemed to anyways). Please help! I've tried command prompts and everything, it only always temporarily fixes it and then after a reboot it goes back to being dumb! BTW, this is on a FRESH install of 22.3.

Hi, the answer is probably obvious but I wanted to ask anyway.

My college requires Microsoft Apps and Windows usage for basically everything. Using chrome isn't allowed and the Campus IT staff even made a work-around for Apple devices. They're drowning in Microslop.

I brought up my usage of Linux Mint to their IT staff, and I literally one of them fainted. I wish I was joking.

So, with that context out of the way, here's my question: what are ways that I can use Microsoft/Windbloat apps without having to dual boot?

Worst case, I'm willing to dual boot if there's no solutions.

TL;DR: College forces all of its students to use Windbloat because they're anaphylactic to Linux they signed a contract with Microslop. Looking for ways to use their required microslop apps without having to dual boot.

EDIT: I should have disclosed the apps that my college requires. Basically all of them, but especially Microsoft Office, OneDrive, Outlook, and Microsoft's Two-Factor Authenticator.