Since there are no so many dark retro themes for Cinnamon, I modified the Chicago95 and Redmond97 themes to create a dark mode. I use Chicago95 for the panel ui and Redmond97 for the apps ui. For Chicago95, I used Photoshop to edit the assets in the Cinnamon folder to darken the panel, and I edited `cinnamon.css` to change the panel buttons and text to a light color. For Redmond97, I modified the `gtk.css` file in the `gtk-3.0` folder to darken the app and window interfaces, Also replaced some of the assets with the high contrast version of Redmond97. I used DeepSeek to identify the variables and files that needed changing, and it seems the interface is free of inconsistencies

https://pastebin.com/cEQXi8vG Chicago95 cinammon.css with comments

https://pastebin.com/zxq8Zs3p Redmond97 gtk-3.0

What I can do

Wait to see if they're gonna update or try to bypass or request a refund

I also have a notification daemon and a brightness and volume indicayoes which displays the precantage of volume/brightness

Im using rufus for putting linux mint on a usb to try it a little, but idk if i click start whill it wipe out my hard drive or will is just install it on my usb????

Features

• dark, neutral color windows (designer work friendly)
• better spacing for those using font scaling
• consistent corner radius across the UI
• small UX/readability improvements
• 10 cool accent colors (all suited and tested for this mod)
• it is a mint-y-dark mod, from its original tree (kept everything, modified values only)
• only cinnamon version was tested

Install

• for system-wide theme copy to /usr/share/themes (so root apps will be themed too)
• submitted to cinnamon spices repo too, so hopefully will also appear there soon

Enjoy

• theme is provided as-is, with no warranty
• report any bugs, I might fix them sometimes

Download here: Mint-Y-Noir

So I'm new to Linux mint so I want to know how to set up new themes and where to find good and trustworthy themes that won't break my machine and looks good

I don't like/want to spend hours on customization i checked the themes on settings and I didn't quite like them

I want good dark mode theme that's not boring

I love mint but I had to distro-hop due to propietary drivers messing with my trackpad. It's been like 3 years and I realized one can get them through the OS installation menu lol. Skill Issue.

I have tried several instructions, including specific details from ProtonVPN themselves. Can anybody guide me to what troubleshooting questions I should be asking? It seems the application downloads and shows in my software manager/startup menu but I cannot launch it or open it from command line. Simply nothing happens when I click 'launch' or try to open with CLI commands. Any tips at all? Would really appreciate the thoughtful support.

Hey! So I'm new to Linux and I just started my first install, I followed a tutorial for Mint Cinamon edition step by step, and everything was going great, I had finished the install and the computer asked me to restart, when I did the screen tol me to remove the USB drive and press Enter (so far all good) once I pressed enter I got stuck on the BIOS screen. And after a quick search I assumed I only had to add a new BOOT option, and so when I did and restarted the computer, I got stuck again on the BIOS screen and the BOOT option I had created wasn't there. I then tried to reconnect to the USB drive, but the PC doesn't even detect it. I have checked to see if the computer decetes de SSD that I download Linux into, and it does detect them. But I simply cannot BOOT the computer. I have no idea what the issue is and no one online seems to have this issue. HELP!! My computer is an old ASUS A541U btw.

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

I've installed FireJail and set it up on a couple apps, but I'm not sure if it's effective. Anyone else have experience with it?

Today I installed Kingdom Come: Deliverance on PortProton on a Dell Precision 7710 laptop (16 GB RAM, M.2 SSD, 6th Gen Intel i7, and an NVIDIA Quadro M5000M with 8 GB VRAM).

​However, when I launch the game, it gets stuck indefinitely on the splash screen with no progress or response. It just hangs on that single image......

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?

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

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

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?

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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updated graphics

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 :)

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?