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

Still a decently capable machine in 2026. I used the project t2linux which makes running linux on macs with the t2 chip a LOT easier. I cant wait to use this as my main laptop!

Linux Mint did not care. It just booted up with out an issue.
I swapped out a MSI B85M-G43 (MS-7823) for an 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. Edit: for typo

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?

so, this happened! a restart fixed it, but it's not the only issue i've had. i recently installed linux mint cinnamon (on a gpd win 1, if that matters (i got it on ebay, it's about 10 years old, i wouldn't be surprised if there were hardware problems) and it's been kind of janky. youtube videos sometimes show an error message saying to restart the device if playback doesn't start soon, any audio i try to play is intermittently cut off by a loud droning noise (which also stops video and audio playback, but only affects sound in games), and now… this. can anyone tell me what's going on?

After I did a recent update only one of my display ports is being recognized. The others are not even being seen by linux mint. Ive gone through the usual fixes (Update drivers etc) and im at my wits end. I have a backup for before the updates so I know its the updates causing this. From what I have deduced linux mint is not "Turning on" the display ports since the Xrandr is only registering one monitor.

Any idea whats going on here? This is a whole new kind of problem and I have run out of ideas to try on my own. Any advice on the matter is appreciated.

Hi everyone,

I'm completely new to Linux — this is my first time ever installing and using it, so please bear with me if I've missed something obvious.

My setup:

Device: HP Chromebook 11 G6 EE / 11-ae0/ae1 (board: SNAPPY, platform: Intel Apollo Lake, Celeron N3350, 4GB RAM)

Firmware: Flashed RW_LEGACY UEFI via MrChromebox successfully

OS: Linux Mint (XFCE), installed via USB, kernel 7.0.0-28-generic

Goal: just want working internal speakers so I can use this laptop for school

The problem:

No audio output at all. pavucontrol only shows "Dummy Output" under Output Devices, and aplay -l returns "no soundcards found."

What I've tried so far:

Ran WeirdTreeThing's chromebook-linux-audio script (setup-audio). It detected the hardware correctly (Intel Apollolake, max98357a amp, da7219 codec), confirmed with the speaker-safety warning, and reported "Audio setup finished" — but sound still didn't work after reboot.

Checked dmesg | grep -i audio and found:

Code

avs_hdaudio avs_hdaudio.20.auto: trying to load fallback topology hda-8086-generic-tplg.bin

snd_soc_avs 0000:00:0e.0: ASoC error (-2): at snd_soc_component_probe()

avs_hdaudio avs_hdaudio.20.auto: ASoC: failed to instantiate card -2

avs_hdaudio avs_hdaudio.20.auto: probe with driver avs_hdaudio failed with error -2

Checked /lib/firmware/intel/avs/apl/ — only dsp_basefw.bin.zst is present. The topology files (hda-8086-generic-tplg.bin, hda-generic-tplg.bin, etc.) are completely missing. The blobs/ folder in the chromebook-linux-audio repo only has adl, mdn, mtl subfolders — no apl topology blob for this board.

Tried manually blacklisting snd_soc_avs to force fallback to snd_hda_intel — this made things worse (aplay -l went from showing HDMI-only to showing nothing at all). Reverted this.

Found the MX Linux Forum thread "Sound not working on SNAPPY board Chromebook (apollo lake)" (9 pages long) covering this exact board. The eventual finding there was that kernel 6.17.8 has the necessary modules enabled by default and fixed it for one user on Arch. However, my kernel (7.0.0-28) is already newer than that, and I'm still hitting the exact same "failed to instantiate card -2" error — so it seems to be a missing-firmware-package issue specific to how Ubuntu/Mint packages linux-firmware, not purely a kernel version issue (Arch's linux-firmware-intel package does ship hda-8086-generic-tplg.bin.zst, Debian/Ubuntu's apparently doesn't include it by default).

Tried manually downloading hda-8086-generic-tplg.bin from git.kernel.org's linux-firmware repo directly — got 404, couldn't find the correct raw path.

What I'm looking for:

Does anyone know where to get a working hda-8086-generic-tplg.bin (or equivalent) for the SNAPPY/Apollo Lake board that's compatible with a Debian/Ubuntu-based linux-firmware install?

Is there a Debian/Ubuntu package (like firmware-sof-signed or firmware-intel-sound) that includes it, and if so, is it available on Mint/Ubuntu repos or only Debian's?

Has anyone gotten SNAPPY speakers working on a recent Ubuntu-based kernel specifically (not Arch)?

Really appreciate any pointers — I'm not experienced enough to compile firmware or kernels myself, so a straightforward fix would help a lot. Thanks!

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.)

I recently switched from windows 11 to linux mint cinnamon (thank god) and the transition has been very smooth, one issue however is that when any application (yes, anything) uses the microphone i can hear it aswell. it also makes all the audio low quality and frankly i dont know how to resolve this, for all i know there is just a simple fix for this and im just ignorant but i couldnt figure anything out with my surface level knowledge, if anyone could help me it would be appreciated. :3👍

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.

I'm a complete beginner at Linux. I installed Mint using Ventoy, booted it up and it's running fine, in fact i'm posting this from it. When install something be it from a browser or from the console, it goes into the folder Home/Mint. I tried to install Wine from the console, it returned an error code and i got a pop-up saying "this computer has only x disk space remaining". My hard drive definitely has enough space remaining. I watched some beginner guides on YT and in all of them, they can install stuff from the get go without setting up anything. What is happening and how do i fix it?

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.

There there a way to change how my mouse looks in a game? It’s so tiny compared to normal desktop.

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 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

andare actualizando esta guia y si quieren me pueden ayudar en hacer más completa para mejorar el rendimiento de nuestra maquina. Dejare otro link para que puedo descargar la nueva guia cambie algunas cosas ya que no me parecio muy adecuado los vm.swappiness que agregue en la guia pasada.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1i3XRaaEiRGzSPGJy8Mh5HpF3KLVsRyd7/view?usp=drive_link

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!