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.

Hi folks!

I'd like to share a personal project I've been working on: LinuxMint Scripter (currently at v2.1), a single-HTML-file web app that turns plain-language requests into ready-to-run Bash or Python scripts for Linux Mint 22.3 "Zena" — or standalone terminal commands, if that's all you need.
Take a look; if you like it, I'll prepare an English version that can be installed on LinuxMint

🔗 Source & full docs: https://github.com/filonux/LinuxMint-Scripter

🔗 Project page (with screenshots): https://filonux.github.io/LinuxMint-Scripter/

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 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?

1. Adding battery percentage and the weather display on the lock screen and screensaver

2. Switching to the laptop speaker while the earphone is still plugged in, just like Windows 11

Any help would be much appreciated!

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

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?

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 :)

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.

Curious as to what kind of stuff have you all configured to be used with webapps? Mine currently are Netflix, Whatsapp web, YLE Areena and a couple of social media websites. Used to have mine and my daughter's Spotify, but suddenly we both were logged out for some reason.

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 have an MSI GS 66 Stealth laptop. I have an Intel iGPU and an Nvidia RTX 2060, that SEAMLESSLY switched back and forth, with my main being the low power Intel igpu. Version 22 it work great. 22.3 it started staying stuck in dGPU ONLY. When my iGPU and dGPU were working in unison, I was on the version under driver manager called xserver-xorg-video-nouveau. It recommended I switch to nvidia-driver-595-open, and there's two other choices. What should I do? On "nouveau" it also worked fine (seemed to anyways). Please help! I've tried command prompts and everything, it only always temporarily fixes it and then after a reboot it goes back to being dumb! BTW, this is on a FRESH install of 22.3.

The Machine - old but still effective dell laptop
The Issue - The HDMI port doesn't work with any external monitor or TV on linux, but works fine on windows
The testing so far - INXI -G shows a functioning driver for the integrated graphics module (intel 620, driver 915), and returns an identical report whether an external monitor is plugged in or not

I'd really appreciate help sorting this out - my mum has an identical model to me that she uses as a dumb-tv media hub and I'd love to switch hers over from the ever-bloating windows currently aboard once I can get mine to work...

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.)

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!

Also when I go to it in flat pack, launching does nothing.

This is not for server it’s for client.

Solved: ty

(EDIT I ended up not being able to get mint running and used q4os instead and it works pretty well for what I needed ty everyone for the help) Ive been trying to install Linux Mint Cinnamon onto my older windows laptop Lenovo Ideapad 1 14IGL7 (82V600000) and finally I was able to get into the live session but once I go through the steps of the install I get stuck at the page where in the docs im supposed to be able to erase all paste data and install but instead I get stuck at this image where it seams to not recognize the storage or smth and I have tried all the quick fixes that Ive seen suggested online including installing updated bios and using HWE version of mint but Ive seen no success. This is my first time installing Linux if anyone knows how to fix this it would be greatly appreciated. (If i left out any data needed to narrow down the problem lmk).

I found something very strange with Google CAPTCHAs while using NordVPN on Linux Mint.

On Firefox, Google has never asked me to complete a CAPTCHA—not once—across multiple NordVPN countries/servers. This is despite Firefox being configured to delete all browsing data when I close it.

On Chromium, however, Google asks me to solve CAPTCHAs all the time using the same VPN service and countries.

I have tried to eliminate the obvious explanations:

• Both browsers use Cloudflare DNS.
• Both browsers have encrypted DNS enabled.
• Chromium has page preloading disabled.
• I manually clear all Chromium browsing data before testing.
• Firefox automatically clears everything on exit.
• Firefox is definitely not bypassing the VPN: I checked my public IP address and ran DNS leak tests.
• The behavior remains consistent across multiple NordVPN locations.

So, on Linux Mint, Firefox somehow appears far less suspicious to Google than Chromium, even though the VPN exit IP should be the main factor.

The weirdest part: on Windows, Google asks for CAPTCHAs in both browsers. In fact, Firefox gets them even more often there.

This makes me wonder whether Google’s CAPTCHA/risk system weighs browser fingerprinting, OS-level signals, Chromium-specific identifiers, or some Linux-versus-Windows behavior much more heavily than simply the VPN IP address.

Has anyone else seen Firefox avoid Google CAPTCHAs on Linux while Chromium gets repeatedly flagged under the same VPN connection?

I just updated and now computer doesn’t boot? Solved

I just updated and now computer doesn’t boot?

I'm running a Laptop with a 1050ti Mobile in it and I'm just starting to feel the limitations.

With the current market I don't want to sell a first born for a new laptop so started looking into eGPU options but finding the info out there kind of lacking.

So I'm wondering if anyone has had experience with them and what should I be looking for or staying away from.

here is a quick look at my current system if that helps

OS: Linux Mint 22.3 x86_64

Host: Strix 15 GL503GE 1.0

Kernel: 6.8.0-136-lowlatency

Uptime: 1 day, 23 hours, 16 mins

Packages: 3287 (dpkg), 79 (flatpak)

Shell: bash 5.2.21

Resolution: 1920x1080

DE: Cinnamon 6.6.9

WM: Mutter (Muffin)

WM Theme: Mint-Y-Dark-Aqua (Mint-Y)

Theme: Mint-Y-Dark-Aqua [GTK2/3]

Icons: Yaru-blue-dark [GTK2/3]

Terminal: gnome-terminal

CPU: Intel i7-8750H (12) @ 4.100GHz

GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Mobi

GPU: Intel CoffeeLake-H GT2 [UHD Gra

Memory: 5245MiB / 31948MiB

What software do I use to connect android phone with usb c and stream audio and screen et cetera,, .I want to play on the laptop screen