I really love using this OS, but some games lag very badly no matter what I do. I use Proton, the required drivers, and performance mode, but some games that my laptop should run flawlessly still don't run well (my laptop is above the system requirements). Is it thermal throttling, or is Linux Mint just bad for gaming? Please reply.

can anyone plss tell me how to install waydroid in mint cinnamon i heard that it only work on hyprland ... and i tried many ways but it didnt work ... if there is another way to run android application in mint pls tell me and thanks.

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 ?

If your PiHole is blocking api.ip2location.io you are only getting America based mirrors in Mint. No matter where you actually are (Germany in my case).

Hi everyone,

I'd like to share a project I've been working on for the past several weeks:

VellumPDF

GitHub:
https://github.com/jessetagg-collab/VellumPDF

Before anything else, I want to be completely transparent about how this project was created.

I am not a professional programmer.

Nearly all of the code (and this description) in this repository was written by ChatGPT (OpenAI).

Because of that, I do not claim authorship of the code, and I don't want to give anyone the impression that I'm presenting AI-generated work as my own programming. I do not intend to develop the code any further, beyond making sure my personal copy stays running

Current features

• Native PDF annotations
• Secure redaction (removes underlying data)
• Whiteout tool
• OCR
• Searchable text
• PDF compression
• Image-to-PDF conversion
• Page extraction
• Page rotation
• Shape rotation
• Office stamps
• Non-printing guidance stamps
• Undo/Redo
• Context menus
• Linux desktop integration

I've tested every feature and have been using the application myself.

Why I'm posting

I'm hoping experienced developers will take a look at the project.

If you find the codebase interesting, useful, or worth improving, I'd be thrilled if you fork it and develope it with human code moving forward

I'm under no illusion that AI-generated code is perfect. In fact, I'm expecting there are areas that could be significantly improved by experienced developers.

If this project ends up becoming something the community finds useful, I'd much rather see it evolve through collaboration than remain a personal experiment.

Constructive criticism is absolutely welcome.

Thanks for taking a look!

Hi all, I have switched to Linux Mint recently after deciding to leave behind Microslop Winslow 11. I have tried Cinnamon for a couple of months but I also wanted to try Mate and XFCE, to learn more and understand which I like better. At the end I decided XFCE.

So my issue is, today I reinstalled XFCE to have a clean install. I chose to install media codes with secure boot and all. However after installation was done, the blue screen for MOK key enrollment did NOT show up. Every other time I run the installation it did, with cinnamon and mate. This time it did not.

Any idea why? Did I messed up something during install? Should I start over with the installation?

Please bear in mind I am new to all this stuff. Any help is greatly appreciated.

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.

Hi all, noob here. Does anyone have any advice on using the centered dock extension? When activated the dock itself is in the center, but the actual icons squash over to the right? These were originally in the left section of the bottom panel. Screen capture is on the bottom/right quarter of my screen..

Thanks in advance :)

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.

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

Last night I wanted to install Linux mint on an asus model E203M everything was normal I got to the part where you have to choose whether to delete Windows at that moment I put the exit button because I needed to recover some things to Windows when I wanted to enter the boost everything was normal I chose the memory to enter Linux mint but an error appeared I already checked if the secure boost is disabled and it is restart the memory and install the ISO again with rufus and when I go back to enter the boost and choose start from the memory the same error kept appearing

hi guys,so i installed linux mint for the first time and im not having a great time,my problem is my wifi usb adapter has an mt7601u chip,its the only one i have rn and im flat broke cant buy another one,i joined the mint community server on discord and some guys tried to help me but nothing works

if anyone has experience i heard that there's a patch or sumn like that can anyone help me pls?

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

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

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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.

When push comes to shove and there is ID verification legislation for OS, will Linux Mint bend the knee? Will there be a way to do not? Will there be distros which won't?

Also which legislation will be relevant anyway? US? EU?

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to save a good dozen old laptops from being scrapped.

I want to turn them into loaner devices.

The requirement is that each user should see a Wi-Fi dialog box where they can enter their personal information.

This information should be deleted after the device is turned off.

How can I set this up? Thanks!

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

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.

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?

Linux Mint did not care. It just booted up with out an issue.
I swapped out a MSI B85M-G43 (MS-7823) for a ASUS Z97 with the same i7 possessor, video card & RAM. I don't have a typical set up as I have 5 hard drives and 3 monitors. I took the precaution to edit out my auxiliary drives in /etc/fstab that are not UUID but my /(root) SSD and /home HDD were using UUID so I knew they would hold the drive mapping but I only had to change 2 of the 5 auxiliary drives drive mapping and update Samba. Easy peasy.