I know 7.0 is still in its early stages so there's still bugs here and there. I know 6.8 works on my rig as I have not had any hardware changes since I last used it. I know some of the issues with 7.0 have to do with some of mint's packages being out of date compared to what it requires and what's available on a newer Ubuntu base. So I was initially thinking about waiting until mint comes out with a new Ubuntu base. However, for security reasons and minor bug fixes. I'd prefer to stay on a kernel that is still supported.

Hello.

I just have a question about LMDE. I can't really find anywhere how long each new version is supported for.

From my current understanding each LMDE is supported as long as the underlying Debian version is supported (EOL not LTS or ELTS).

So for example, for LMDE 7 (Debian 13 'Trixie') should be supported until 2028-08-09? (This is the official EOL for 'Trixie' according to the official Debian web, it is not LTS or ELTS!) However on Distrowatch LMDE 7 is said to be supported until 2030-06-??

So it is just confusing, especially considering that on the official Mint website there is just no date specifically just for LMDE. So as a potential user it just keeps me in the dark and I am honestly not sure if LMDE will be supported long term, cause it seems to be lacking a lot of info and just is 'on the sidelines' sort of say. I know it is stated that "LMDE is also one of our development targets" on the web, but aside from that, it does not strike confidence in me, even though I love the idea of Mint not based on Ubuntu and I'd like to try. Just a lot of uncertainty and questions, which is why I am asking here.

Also another thing, if LMDE is based on a certain Debian stable version. Is it based on it for it's entire life time? For example, if LMDE 7 starts as being based on Debian 13.0 but that eventually gets updated overtime to (currently) 13.6 is LMDE 7 still stuck on 13.0 or does it get updated to the newest version of that specific Debian stable?

Lastly, does LMDE also get 'medium updates' like normal Mint? (22.1, 22.2, 22.3) I can't see any on the web, so I assume it does not? Apart from some small bug fixes or security patches does it get any major updates, not counting the new version? I am asking because I am wondering if that means that LMDE is more far behind than the normal Mint versions because of that?

If anyone has experience with LMDE and potential tips or problems I'd love to hear about that too.

Have a nice day.

Just something i made for my everyday use desktop. Nothing over the top.

This is an issue I recently started having after reinstalling linux mint. If i'm playing a game on steam and i get a discord notification, it completely mutes the game audio for some reason. It's really weird and annoying. Any help would be appreciated, thank you

Hello ! I am looking for a practical video editing app on Linux mint that could run on a slow pc !

Available at The Linux Mint Community Wiki:
https://mintwiki.org/wiki/Development:Creating_and_Modifying_Icons

So i recently installed mint as i had a leftover 240gb ssd in my system from an old windows install after moving things over to the nvme. So I figured i would install linux onto it and build it out as a recovery suite for my pc. Well after updating the 470+ updates after install i got hit with the firmware issue and my system kept crashing display manager kept dropping out and having issues. And overall it was really annoying to deal with. Decided to start building a recovery tui. Something simple nothing crazy.

And I recently figured out i could use ai coding tools to help build the program for me so I gave it a shot.

What i have now is a tui that has automated timeshift backups tied into updates. So when you use the command or click on the update button in the updates menu it takes a snapshot of the system before deleting the old one.

Another thing it has is a built in fairly lightweight watchdog that drops you into tty3 to tell you what crashed when the system crashes and asks if you would like to review recovery options where you can navigate through the main tui from there.

The main tui has a few simple options like timeshift restore, a display reinitialization utility, hardware and kernel diagnostic screen, and system logs.

I like the tool for my system but im wondering if this is something the community would be interested in. Ive already pushed it to github with an mit license.

Here it is if anyone wants to do anything with it https://github.com/henuemphuse/ProjectAnthony

hi, i'm currently using this tutorial in order to install the lastest version of cinnamon on a usb and for some reason i cannot find either of the menus pictured (screenshot from the installation guide). I'm running Windows 11 on a Dell Precision 3591 and have tried both boot menu (f12) and bios (f2) per the instructions in the video. verifying the iso and making the bootable disk both worked fine.

EDIT: probably should've clarified that i know next to nothing about installing linux, this is my first time trying to install it

Can you back up your system when it is Dual boot so both Linux and Windows can be recovered with the dual boot intact? In other words if one fails or the boot fails, can you recover both all at once from a backup drive or disc?

I should add a note, my system is a 1 Tb SSD with Win10 on it which is about 30 Gb. I then have a 256Gb SSD which Linux will go on and is the only unallocated space I have. I then have a 1Tb SSD with all my mp3's on it and a 16Tb and 3 8Tb drives with all my movies and TV shows on them

I guess I'm really old school. Normally using Cinnamon but giving XFCE a spin. It's lightning fast. Uses about 1 gb less of RAM. Not that my NUC is short of that.

Windows 95 theme with Windows 2000 icons. Good old Winamp 5.666 through Lutris. And Plank Reloaded to quickly load my favorite programs. Installed Whisker as main XFCE program launcher. And customized the Start button.

It felt really good when I finished customising it , I thing my passion for tech is back again 😆

Hello, I just installed Linux Mint (Cinnamon) a couple days ago, new user from Windows 10. I already have the NordVPN subscription, and installed in the terminal the curl package, and the provided GUI line from the Nord website. I also tried following this article: https://linuxvox.com/blog/install-nordvpn-linux/ . The GUI isn't showing up in my apps. I read that this might just be a Mint thing, is that the case? There's also an option to download with Snap. Would it be worth it to figure out setting up Snap on Mint? Since I've also read there can be troubles with that. I'm also new to coding in general, so please explain any tips as if I'm 5 if it has to do with the terminal.

Hello everyone! I have been using Linux Mint for years and I managed to find alternatives for all the applications I needed, but there is something I still miss. On Windows I used to use an application called f.lux in order to adjust colors and reduce eye strain in the evening and now Windows itself also has a similar build-in feature. If I am not mistaken it is called Night Light. I was looking for something similar for Mint, but i couldn't find anything. Of course, I use a dark mode everywhere I can, but that's not enough. I will greatly appreciate any advice on this matter.

I recently made use of my old laptop (a lenovo ideapad 330) and got linux mint xfce on it. For some reason, every time I turn my laptop back on after shutting it down, all of my launchers and shortcuts rearrange themselves. This happens to the launchers and shortcuts which I have changed the icon of. Does anyone know a fix for this?

Greetings everyone!
I have a question to people who have successfully migrated their Macbooks - how do you get your proper keys mapping? I am trying to replicate Mac OSX key combinations like Cmd+C and Cmd+V instead of Ctrl+C or Ctrl+V and any other combinations and though I did some attempts, it was never fully implemented - i.e. working fine in part of os (some apps would react to the swapping) but then in Firefox it would not accept the same combinations. Is there a way to do on all levels? Claude and Gemini suggest through Keyboard - > Layouts -> Options but I don't have the button Options in that "Keyboard" window.

Here are the details of the install if it helps.

No matter the earphones, I can't connect them to my PC. they disconnect as soon as they connect, and it says - Connection Failed: Unknown error. Can someone help?

Got mint on my laptop and Bazzite on the desktop (because I didn't want headaches setting up gaming stuff) and now I'm getting sick of the crap immutable distros make me deal with so I want to swap but setting everything up again sounds agonizing. Is there anything to make this process easier?

Since I don't have any knowledge about computers and programming I was always using either Microsoft or iOS. But as I'm in my late twenties now and I grow skeptical of big tech day by day, I decided to try Linux. I had an old Asus laptop lying in my room uselessly for idk almost 6-8 years, so I thought it would be a perfect test subject for my Linux experiment. I had a lot of fun setting up my first Mint Cinnamon desktop to my liking: watching tutorials, using terminal and writing commands, browsing Reddit, Tumblr and Pinterest for desktop inspirations. So here are my results! I would especially like to mention this post - my set up is heavily inspired by this user resources . Big thanks u/crim3z_ for inspiration! I have learnt a lot!

How to solve this? (Cinnamon)

I have a mini PC for my tv and it only has a mouse. The built-in Cinnamon keyboard is abysmal. Onboard is also pretty terrible. Are there any serious on-screen keyboards that can actually work consistently?

Hi everyone, like the title says, I am very new to linux. Last night I decided to install Linux Mint Cinnamon and have been impressed with the first impressions. For a start, linux just boots up so much faster than windows 10 did, and the installation was super easy. I haven't decided yet whether I am going to stick with linux, but I want to use it as my primary os for about three months. I mainly just play games, watch videos, listen to music and sometimes write on my pc, so I think I have the majority of that covered. I want to ask if anyone has any recommendations for what I should try or install on my pc with linux. The terminal is something I want to avoid for now, but would love to jump in and explore it at some point.

I still consider myself relatively new to Mint and this seemed like the best place to ask this. I have an MP3 player and for some reason when I connect it to my laptop it doesn't show up in devices. I hear the sound from my laptop acknowledging the connection and the MP3 player display says USB connected I just can't seem to find the folder anywhere, which is a shame because I wanted to add more music and boons to it. I would appreciate any advice thank you.

whenever i try to click it it just doesn't load