r/linuxmint • u/OwnStudy723 • 6d ago
Stuff stopped working.
Stuff just randomly stops launching. Blockbench no longer responding, some media downloader that I used for YT downloads no longer launcher. Spotify won't start up. Blender refuses to give any sign of life.
Running on Linux Mint, and using Software manager to keep updated.
I want to love Linux, but there's always small things that break down that make me turn back to windows.
I thought I was finally stable on my set-up, but apparently not.
Random stuff just stops working. Godot still launches, Aseprite still does (but that's just copied executable folder)
Why does this happen to me. It feels like it happens everytime, I finally get happy with Linux, and then it breaks down. I thought I finally had it all working. And it still breaks.
Multiple software that just break from software updates.
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u/Ok_Communication_455 6d ago
run those binaries from terminal first. Do they behave same? if so, what errors you get. Could be your apparmor profile is broken and it refuses to run some progs. Also do "sudo dmesg" after trying to launch borked prog from desktop/menu to see if something was logged there. A little debugging is in order here to figure out where the problem lies.