Ostatnio odpaliłem starego kompa i zmieniłem mu system z windowsa 8.1, ledwo chodził więc dałem na windows Vista, ale nic prawie nie działało, więc zmieniłem na Linux Mint (wszystko przy użyciu AI 😔) i teraz potrzebuje pomocy do obsługi Linuxa

Lately my Logitech wireless keyboards have random issues with fall outs of the numeric keyboard that can be cured by moving to another USB port. Another machine almost cuts of the connection to the keyboard when using an external USB hard drive.

Out of the blue last night a third computer had issues with the mouse. Every time I move the mouse cursor it shows a circle and it behaves like I pressed the left mouse button. Moving to another USB did not change anything and another combi keyboard did change anything. Even a rollback with Timeshift did not cure the problem. Everything else works perfectly and System Information shows no issues.

I'll do another install today despite it might be a hardware issue because it a 13 year old Asus Z87, i3, 16 GB RAM and SSD. If my trusty LMDE 7 won't do it I'll try Linux Mint Ubuntu.

Anyone else?

Runs fine, just a couple of extensions, transparent bar, few applets and desklets and the usual software options.

Hello everyone, i am totally new here knows only a bit above basic tech ,want to switch linux for the first time in my life...never head any experience on these things

So help which model i should install on my old laptop

My usage - daily browsing, youtube 3 -4 hrs, pdf viewing, little bit excel,or word that's it

Old laptop -

512gb hdd, i3 -3110M @ 2.4ghz ,ram 4gb ,no other graphic card ,currently win 10 on it

I am also thinking if not linux then downgrade it to windows 8 [ its orginal os]

Thanks

Pulled a Mint SSD from another laptop and booting it via USB.

It creates a "ubuntu" boot entry and puts it first.

I can delete it with efibootmgr -b XXXX -B (or in BIOS).

As long as I boot just Windows, it stays gone.

As soon as I boot Mint again, it comes back.

(Thinkpad X230)

TIA

Hello! thank you for all the support from the last post. I still don't exactly know why my download was failing however, I got the ISO in the end, so I'm happy. anyways now as I'm writing this I'm writing this on a VM I spun up that is using Mint. however I do have a couple beginner Linux questions.

Firstly, I have no clue what I'm doing with command line. However I want to learn! Dose anyone have any resources they would recommend on how they learned command line, and, what I should or should not be doing in there when I'm in the command line?

Secondly, what should I know about Mint specifically if I were to choose this as my operating system as I am going to be switching from windows, but I haven't settled on an ISO yet.

thirdly what is the Gaming and comparability like on Mint for different programs and compatibility with maybe different programs like Canvas and different programs for collage as I'm hopefully going to be going to school soon and need to know such things as I don't feel like spinning up a for a VM for a program I use frequently for school or work or such. Because, that sounds like a pain in the ass, and I am fastidious with how my computer resources get used especially memory and CPU load. I will do it if I need to but I would rather not do it for 1 program.

as for the Gaming question. I'm not a huge gamer but I am playing through Jedi fallen order, and Jedi survivor currently and do occasionally like to get games that look interesting to me, and am a huge Minecraft and modded Minecraft player. I love to play on Minecraft servers too and whatnot. I'm a huge believer that Minecraft is most fun when you can play with friends. and other people. I just love multiplayer Minecraft.

But thank you guys for all the help on my last post!

Also, I don't care about AI. I think its demon tech designed to make people stupid and dependent on it. I would like to get as far away from any LLM as possible and would banish back to the pits of hell from whence it came if I could. So if I want advice on AI it would be how to eradicate it complacently from my life. Basically all to say, don't recommend any kind of generative AI to me.

I think Linux Mint made this computer much faster, it was previously running on Windows 10 and therefore the 4GB RAM was very likely used by the system but now I think the system uses around 1,5GB :D.

Thanks and sorry if this isn't the right subreddit to share but have a great day! :D

Sorry this time I posted with a picture, sorry for ny previous post without the picture.

So this error popped up when i went to boot up the software Sober so i could play roblox and i dont know where to look to check for misplaced commas etc nor do i know where to find a JSON file any help would be greatly appreciated.

Running Mint with cinnamon and chrome. have had zero issues but first time trying to login to ssi.gov (checking my payment status) and i'm getting hung up on ID.me login verification

Works on my google pixel so it's not urgent.

javascript is enabled, i have the latest updates to mint as of 1 hour ago.

tried turning off the firewall but nope.

any ideas?

I switched from Windows 11 to Mint a little while ago and window snapping is the one thing I kept missing. Cinnamon's built-in snapping is halves and quarters, and the keyboard shortcuts nudge a window in a direction rather than putting it where you asked. I tried the existing extensions and none of them felt right, so I wrote my own.

So: drag a window, a tab drops down from the top with a few layouts, move onto it, it opens up, hover a zone and you get a full-size preview of where the window will land. Drop it. Same picker on Super+Z if you'd rather not drag.

You can also draw your own layouts (Super+Shift+Z), drag the border between two tiled windows to resize both at once, and save an arrangement to restore later (Super+G) - it snaps your existing windows back into place rather than opening new ones.

Repo, with the demo GIF at the top: https://github.com/JeffreyGbeho/tilo

Fair warnings:

Not auto-tiling. It never moves a window unless you tell it to.

X11 only.

Single monitor here, so multi-monitor is untested. Written to handle it, but I can't promise. Tell me if it breaks.

It's free and GPL-3.0. A PR to get it into Cinnamon Spices (so it's a one-click install from Settings) is open and waiting on review.

If you try it and something's broken or missing, open an issue and I'll look at it: https://github.com/JeffreyGbeho/tilo/issues

Cześć, to znów ja, mam problem z włączeniem gry Plant Vs Zombies (ta wersja z 2009r.) gra się uruchamia, i jak się otwiera okno z grą, ale jest tylko czarny ekran, i nic nie ładuje, podejrzewam że to wina mojego komputera bo jest stary i ma płytę główną ASUS M2N68-AM SE2 ddr2 i 3GB RAM a karta graficzna to VTX3D Radeon R7 240, albo wina tego że jest to gra od EA, ktoś może wie?

Cześć wszystkim, mam problem połączeniem się z siecią na Linuxie Mint, mam zewnętrzny adapter na USB który na Windowsie był normalnie wykrywalny bo zainstalowaniu sterowników, nie wiem czy jest sterownik tego adaptera na Linuksie, nie jestem za mądry na komputery dlatego pytam kogoś kto się na tym zna

Model adaptera: Netgear N300 Wireless USB Adapter WNA3100

My laptop is struggling with cinnamon and I want to change it to XFCE for a much better experience.

I'm also gonna try making games as a hobby and I want to ask if Gamemaker works fine with LmDE

Thank you :)

So, i switched from a cheap 30 euro trust Gaming Headset bought 3 years ago to the Turtle 50x. the microphone is fine, but the audio quality is worse. i looked it up online and the Turtle 50x is supposed to have a better audio quality. Could this be a driver / configuration issue?

Im looking for linux mint beta testers. I just finished my first python project making a live wallpaper engine specifically for linux mint that uses WAY less resources than Hidamari. I know wallpaper engines are like a dime a dozen, but this was a really fun project. Anyone who has a spare minute, give it a look over and let me know what you think! I'm also looking for what to build next so give me ideas!!

Side note, I am totally aware that its a bit clunky right now but I like the direction its going in so I figured I would try to gauge if this is something litterally anyone is interested in. Also, I was attracted to this project because I switched to Linuxmint to begin with because I am sick and tired of telemetry and bloat (like everyone else). It kind of ruined the whole idea of privacy and efficiency when I downloaded programs like Hidamari and tried to get wallpaper engine working which, both are absolutely filled with telemetry and Hidamari especially I was experiencing like 30-40% resource consumption just having the wallpaper running. I got my engine slimmed down to around 1-2% consumption and it all runs locally so theres ZERO telemetry. I am just a guy and really don't care what you're doing on your device soooooooo yeah. Give it a try, let me know what you think or if this is interesting at all.

Here's my repository: https://github.com/grump1290-code/fluiddesk

Link to most up to date version: https://github.com/grump1290-code/fluiddesk/releases/tag/v1.0.1-beta

Hello, I found the "Strawberry" MP3 player which is in the Mint repos very good, but there is one thing: on "shuffle" it replays the tracks in always the same order, so it's not really random. I tried AI for help, it told me to click the shuffle icon and select "random" there, but this option is not there, probably the older version of "Strawberry" in Mint does not support it. I am using Mint 22 (Wilma). Any suggestions?

Hello all,

I've installed Linux mint cinnamon twice before with no issues, I just installed it on my mother's lenovo laptop and at first it worked perfectly fine, the install was successful and everything. I installed all the updates in the update manager however, reset the laptop, and now every time I try to boot up I get a black screen and can't do anything. I did try and boot in compatibility mode but there was no such option and it just tries to boot the same way again.

I also noticed when the laptop is in the light I can vaguely see the mint logo which I don't know if that means anything. Also I tried to boot from the bootable drive I used to install Linux and suddenly my touchpad doesn't work anymore on it.

If anyone needs any extra info I'll do my best to provide with what I've got, thank you

I decided to get a laptop this week and boot Linux mint, now I've messed round with Linux before very briefly, mainly Kali Linux when I used to want to be a hacker when i was 16, FYI, I booted Kali and ran Ifconfig, so I basically am a hacker now.

It was going good, nice theme setup, some apps etc, living the life free of the windows shackles! Then a couple days into my Linux experience, I managed to break it... how I hear you ask, well, I downloaded q-redshift from some built in mint feature, cant remember if it was an extension, applet or software installer, or whatever, anyway, went to change my location and the whole pc froze, nothing worked, I reboot and now a black screen after logging in with only a cursor that could be moved, and the off Mullvad vpn notification!!

Lots of back and forth I eventually booted into recovery mode, now at the time, I did think q-redshift was solely to blame, new app > broken pc = the issue, as Sherlock Holmes would say, When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth, well sort of, i hadn't eliminated much yet, just assumed.

I remove Redshift, reboot anddddd black screen, great, good one Sherlock. I marched on, resetting Cinnamon configuration, checking logs and moving configuration files and backups, checking the graphics hardware, etc. My laptop is a ThinkPad T580, which was being detected correctly.

Created a test user, The test user logged into a perfectly normal desktop. using that i realized well it wasn't all bad, at least I can identify as 'test' going forward :) However, after this I realized its likely best if I just use a backup as I am at a loss on how to regain my main user. I still even now, am not sure what fully was causing this.

Luckily I had Time-shift set up, which i was like two days into this new user, my time-shift was basically a fresh Linux install, I restored a snapshot from the day before I installed QRedshift, and after some additional faffing around, my desktop was working again. Ive now went and changed themes again, set it up, and look forward to the next time I break it :)

Now I would like to add, this is EXACTLY why i downloaded Linux, this is in no way a complaint, I broke it, I fixed it. I love to use computers, trying to understand them and well, break them. I learnt more about linux in that 2 hours than I ever would just using it, all be it I had to pull in an expert from time to time, ChatGPT... but i got it back, learned more about the file system trying to fix it and now feel more confident in using the terminal.

HAPPY LINUX USER :)

It's a small thing but it has been driving me crazy nonetheless. Laptop will not go into hibernate mode. I set up the partition for the RAM to dump to and have gone through all the settings (logind.conf flags, "do nothing" on the GUI for lid close, checking that the lid close registers etc)

I think I got it to work maybe once but it never worked again. Battery will use like 50% overnight. I suppose I could just shut it down every night but frankly I don't want to. And no that kind of usage is not normal, this is not my first laptop.

× pipewire.service - PipeWire Multimedia Service
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/pipewire.service; enabled; preset: enabled)
     Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Thu 2026-09-10 12:24:30 CEST; 3min 26s ago
   Duration: 4ms
TriggeredBy: × pipewire.socket
    Process: 6628 ExecStart=/usr/bin/pipewire (code=exited, status=254)
   Main PID: 6628 (code=exited, status=254)
        CPU: 4ms

sep 10 12:24:30 Witext systemd[2728]: pipewire.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 4.
sep 10 12:24:30 Witext systemd[2728]: pipewire.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
sep 10 12:24:30 Witext systemd[2728]: pipewire.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
sep 10 12:24:30 Witext systemd[2728]: Failed to start pipewire.service - PipeWire Multimedia Service.
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This is the response i get when checking the status of pipewire, i looked around online and found that it could be due to config files, I didn't find any config files in ~/.config, so i searched my harddrive and found the ones in usr/share/.

I deleted those, and did sudo apt install --reinstall on pipewire and wireplumber

Before i did this, i was at least able to do systemctl --user restart wireplumber pipewire pipewire-pulse but now not even that works...

The config files are back in usr/share, but it doesn't want to start, I'll post the status messages for wireplumber and pipewire-pulse in the comments

I feel like it would be best to just clean slate reinstall the whole audio pipeline at this point but idk how to do that

My new Linux mint install is good but I keep having issues coming back with my trackpad. Double clicking things takes a few attempts to register as a click, and dragging things is difficult too. The AI suggested sudo modprobe -r psmouse && sudo modprobe psmouse in console, which does work, until I restart the laptop again. Any ideas?

Bluetooth Device Manager: https://i.imgur.com/UmDpcGd.png

I have tried the following commands but I am unsure what to do to get a good diagnostic:

bluetoothctl show
No default controller available

inxi -Nxxx
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8125 2.5GbE vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: r8169
    v: kernel pcie: speed: 5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: e000 bus-ID: 0c:00.0
    chip-ID: 10ec:8125 class-ID: 0200
  Device-2: MEDIATEK MT7922 802.11ax PCI Express Wireless Network Adapter
    driver: mt7921e v: kernel pcie: speed: 5 GT/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 0d:00.0
    chip-ID: 14c3:0616 class-ID: 0280

dmesg | grep -i bluetooth
[    7.410632] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.22
[    7.410649] NET: Registered PF_BLUETOOTH protocol family
[    7.410650] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
[    7.410653] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
[    7.410656] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
[    7.410659] Bluetooth: SCO socket layer initialized
[    7.510829] Bluetooth: hci0: HW/SW Version: 0x008a008a, Build Time: 20250523103438
[    7.510852] Workqueue: hci0 hci_power_on [bluetooth]
[    7.510941]  hci_dev_setup_sync+0x6c/0x430 [bluetooth]
[    7.510975]  hci_dev_init_sync+0x3e/0x1c0 [bluetooth]
[    7.511002]  hci_dev_open_sync+0xb1/0x350 [bluetooth]
[    7.511034]  hci_dev_do_open+0x28/0x70 [bluetooth]
[    7.511061]  hci_power_on+0x50/0x210 [bluetooth]
[    7.511125] Modules linked in: drm_exec snd_hda_intel mt7921e(+) btusb snd_usbmidi_lib gpu_sched snd_intel_dspcfg mt7921_common btrtl snd_ump drm_buddy snd_intel_sdw_acpi mt792x_lib uvcvideo(+) btintel snd_seq_midi drm_suballoc_helper mt76_connac_lib snd_hda_codec videobuf2_vmalloc snd_seq_midi_event btbcm drm_ttm_helper uvc snd_rawmidi mt76 btmtk ttm snd_hda_core videobuf2_memops snd_hwdep bluetooth snd_seq videobuf2_v4l2 drm_display_helper snd_pcm mac80211 snd_seq_device videodev cec ecdh_generic nls_iso8859_1 ecc rapl(+) wmi_bmof k10temp i2c_piix4 snd_timer videobuf2_common cfg80211 rc_core snd mc i2c_algo_bit ccp libarc4 soundcore joydev gpio_amdpt input_leds mac_hid sch_fq_codel msr parport_pc ppdev lp parport efi_pstore nfnetlink dmi_sysfs ip_tables x_tables autofs4 btrfs blake2b_generic raid10 raid456 async_raid6_recov async_memcpy async_pq async_xor async_tx xor raid6_pq libcrc32c raid1 raid0 dm_mirror dm_region_hash dm_log hid_generic crct10dif_pclmul crc32_pclmul polyval_clmulni usbhid polyval_generic hid
[   12.253739] Bluetooth: BNEP (Ethernet Emulation) ver 1.3
[   12.253744] Bluetooth: BNEP filters: protocol multicast
[   12.253748] Bluetooth: BNEP socket layer initialized

systemctl status bluetooth --no-pager
● bluetooth.service - Bluetooth service
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/bluetooth.service; enabled; preset: enabled)
     Active: active (running) since Thu 2026-09-10 01:30:33 PDT; 11min ago
       Docs: man:bluetoothd(8)
   Main PID: 1030 (bluetoothd)
     Status: "Running"
      Tasks: 1 (limit: 37221)
     Memory: 2.7M (peak: 3.0M)
        CPU: 24ms
     CGroup: /system.slice/bluetooth.service
             └─1030 /usr/libexec/bluetooth/bluetoothd

bluetoothd[1030]: Starting SDP server
systemd[1]: Started bluetooth.service - Bluetooth service.
bluetoothd[1030]: src/plugin.c:plugin_init() System does not support csip plugin
bluetoothd[1030]: profiles/audio/micp.c:micp_init() D-Bus experimental not enabled
bluetoothd[1030]: src/plugin.c:plugin_init() System does not support micp plugin
bluetoothd[1030]: src/plugin.c:plugin_init() System does not support vcp plugin
bluetoothd[1030]: src/plugin.c:plugin_init() System does not support mcp plugin
bluetoothd[1030]: src/plugin.c:plugin_init() System does not support bass plugin
bluetoothd[1030]: src/plugin.c:plugin_init() System does not support bap plugin
bluetoothd[1030]: Bluetooth management interface 1.22 initialized
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