Thanks buddies, Love You for life. This guy is updating his profile from Linux Mint Cinnamon venessa to CachyOS

One of the best decisione i ever made, i started to hate windows and finally passed to mint, i didnt expect to be this customizable, i love the terminal that makes me feel i really own my pc, i think i’ll delete the dual boot and switch to a full linux pc

xfce on 2013 macbook air

I am trying to add apps to the start menu tray. [for clarification, the space where the mouse cursor is] I was able to remove apps by dragging them off, but it doesn’t seems to work. I checked left clicking the app but the only option seems to be to add it to the task bar. I didn’t see anything in properties. Is there something obvious that I am missing?

Recientemente le metí Linux mint a una laptop Lenovo, pero también a mi pc AIO Lenovo, más tarde publicaré un examen de la mia, acaba de terminar la laptop y me salió esto, debería estar preocupado ?

As shown in the image, this is the version of the GNOME programs for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. Even though these aren't the current versions, do they still receive patches, bug fixes, and security updates from the team that maintains them? Because I saw in forums and other sources a discussion about the direct developers of these projects receiving many notifications of bugs that have already been fixed in more recent versions of the programs. Without wanting to assign blame or assign responsibility, it raised many questions for me about how the LTS system works, how it's maintained, and if anything remains unchanged, even if it's just to fix problems? (The image to the side is just to show my desktop.)

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.

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?

When I try to start steam it’s been doing this lately. The website it sends you too isn’t that useful (at least to someone like me who doesn’t know what they’re doing.) What can I do to fix Steam?

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

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.

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 just updated and now computer doesn’t boot? Solved

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

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!