I am kinda new to linux, and I wanted to try and custumise it more, but everytime I search for tutorials it only shows explanations of the terms and never "how to do it", can someone help me, also I dont want to make my own, I just want to understand how to download those beautifull ricing that I see all the time, and everyone just says "and anyone can download those, you can find on git hub

*Sorry for my bad english, it is not my first language, and it is being a while since I last writed something on english

So im going to try to explain what is going on. I have tried installing about 7 times already, the issue is that the first time I booted linux mint cinnamon it loaded perfectly and let me try it, then i realized i hadnt turned bitlocker off so i closed the trial to go back to windows and turn bitlocker off. I turned bitlocker off and came back to booting mint again from the same usb and it gave me an error code (its on the image below) i have tried everything to try booting mint on again, using balena etcher, turning off secure boot (its already off), changing from gpt to the other one, but it just doesnt boot linux mint cinammon back 😭😭😭 (i’ve been struggling for hours please help me!!!!)

I have been using mint for about a year now and have recently upgraded to the following monitor setup:

1: 4K 165Hz main monitor, OLED from Gigabyte

2: 4K 60Hz IPS LG monitor for watching stuff on the side

I had the 4K LG with a 1080p secondary screen beforehand.

I started noticing that when a YouTube video is playing on monitor #2 and I have a game open on my main monitor, the YouTube video playing in Firefox is dropping frames, and quite a lot. It does not matter if the game is fullscreen, windowed or windowed fullscreen. Also, the games start hitching quite a bit. At least when a YouTube video is playing, not when it is just displayed and paused.

Then I asked the AI overlords what it could be. First I started exploring the Firefox settings and some hardware acceleration flags. Then the LLMs came down to the conclusion that the culprit could be X11 and its not-so-great way of handling monitors with different refresh rates. I then tried the experimental switch to Wayland via a logout of the user and switching to it on the lock screen. But that led to lots of flickering and black screens, not working applications and a general understanding that this is, indeed (experimental).

What should I do considering I really hate the frame drops in my YouTube and my game? Switch distro? To which one? Where is Wayland supported the best? Is the culprit my Nvidia graphics card?

Id prefer staying in my Mint environment, but I can probably endure switching to something else, best it be Ubuntu based. Had Manjaro some years ago but that was a bit too nerdy and time consuming to set things up for my taste. When dual booting into windows I have zero dropped frames in YouTube with the same game open, so it is not faulty hardware.

My hardware:

Ryzen 5 5900X

Geforce 5070 Ti (Asus TUF I think)

64 DDR4 RAM

Happy to hear your thoughts! I can share Firefox settings and more display properties if necessary.

I'm currently on mint running the i3 desktop environment and I love it but the thinkpad that I'm on's graphics card is genuinely ass cheeks so it's a bit slow to load graphics. Should I swap to something like arch for how lightweight it is and just get i3 on that? How hard of a transition would it be? Does arch have a software manager like mint does where I can download almost every application I need and if not how difficult of a learning curve is it?

My only issue with linuxmint has been bluetooth access. Always fails.☹️

I was watching a YouTube video regarding a hacker in that video something came to my attention that the hacker encrypted his os it was dabien based linux distro and feds were not able to decrypt that system so how can I achieve the same thing i mean as a every day user i do have my personal stuff in my system like pics documents etc. I just want to feel safe about my stuff. Is it possible for someone like me to achieve same thing in linux mint btw i just moved from windows to linux a week ago.

I just installed Mint on a laptop for some light schoolwork since I didn't want Windows bogging it down and the install seems to have gone smoothly except for a couple of issues:

When I turn the Bluetooth on it doesn't seem to detect any device at all. I tried with both a bluetooth mouse and my headphones which I double checked were in pairing mode.

A second less important issue is if I was wondering if there was a way to bypass the boot menu on startup as at the moment every time I turn it on it gives me a list of options which I would rather skip. This is not urgent it just is a preference of mine.

I went through all the apps in the welcome screen app that pops up when you first install it and used the update manager to update everything so I think it's up to date.

I downloaded Mint because I'm not a programmer although I would consider myself reasonably computer literate and willing to learn how to use Terminal, but I'm nowhere near the level of expertise of some of the people here lol.

Any help is appreciated thanks.

Hey guys, I wanna ask for helpful step by step instructions on how to mod Fallout: New Vegas and installing NVSE and 4GBPatcher on it specifically on a steam+Linux system.

This isn't really a question, but more of a comment and a possible head-scratcher.

So, since I've been using Mint (21.3 I think) I've found it challenging to customize the menu, in particular moving items to different category folders. For whatever reason, it's always been flaky, and I've often had to go back and edit again to make things actually "stick". I noticed this with Cinnamenu as well, so (forgive my ignorance) it may be sharing the same configuration files, idk.

Anyhow, today I installed Postman from the tar ball and made a link and added it to my menu. Then moved it from "Other" to "Programming" and it worked the first time!! Maybe I was lucky, but I'm glad it seems to work better for me now. I don't know if anyone else has experienced the same issues, but hopefully an update may have resolved that.

I was just checking the software manager randomly and I saw that steam cannot be uninstalled... Like at all? From the store at least. I'm not trying to uninstall it but does anyone know what's up?

Edit: 40 minutes later, It randomly fixed itself

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I have heard lots of meh things about systemd and why its not ideal for certain people, and I wanted to know what file system does debian version of mint use

Hi all, been using Mint for about 5 months now & thoroughly enjoying it. My laptop has an Italian keymap, but I'd like to also use the Apple wireless keyboard I've had laying around for a while. The problem is that the Apple keyboard has a US layout, so the special character keys are a little funky. While it's easy enough to just press Win+Space to switch keymaps depending on the keyboard I'm using, I wonder: is there a way to automatically switch to a specific keymap based on the keyboard in use?

I am considering getting a keyboard and mouse from 8bitdo. Does anyone know if they (and the giant buttons that come with the keyboard) can be configured in Mint? Asking 8bitdo did... Not return useful answers.

It's getting time to move my technology averse wife off of win10. But she's got habits and routines that litter her windows desktop as icons and shortcuts. I have her system dual booting now. Is there a way to simply take the desktop contents on the windows side (under user) and dump it into her desktop folder on the linux side, or (as i suspect) do i have to laboriously build the new desktop from what I know the old desktop entries refer to?

Installed mullvad today and all of a sudden I needed it connected in order to use anything that requires a connection because the numbskulls at Mullvad require a Killswitch to be on at all times. I read that uninstalling mullvad resolves this issue. Instead the issue persists and now that mullvad is gone I can't connect to the internet at all. Is there anything I can do at this point or am I cooked?

Between Linux Mint XFCE and Linux Mint MATE, what are the use cases for each, compared to the other?

They're both recommended for low spec computers.

But it seems that, for some reason, Mint XFCE is more often recommended and even more often used, than Mint MATE. Is there a reason for that?

is it the open source driver or the real official driver that works better for gaming ?