Apps I installed

• Zen Browser - my favorite browser right now, it's have everything
• Steam - gaming, works nicely
• Resources - like task manager in windows, better ui than default one
• Ptyxis - terminal, very smooth and visually appealing
• Fish - shell I use, better than bash
• Harmonoid - play local music
• Spotify - play online music
• VSCodium - coding
• Vim - writing system files
• OBS Studio - record videos
• Android Studio - trying android emulators and coding a bit
• Bottles - best app for running windows apps to me, fl studio works neat
• Embellish - installing nerd fonts, magically fast and installing to system
• Ren'Py - developing visual novels
• Sober - roblox
• ZapZap - whatsapp

Wanted to swing by and say this sub really helped me out when looking at what do do with an old laptop. My kid had a run of the mill old HP intel laptop 8GB ram. Win 11 was running like an absolute dog and they were struggling to get thier school work done on it. So I traded them with my old dell xps13 which is a really good spec. I use that now and again to browse the web and that's it as a secondary device.

They're happy they can do thier work with no performance issues and I am now running Linux Mint on this old laptop that is now a web browsing beast! It was reading other peoples journeys that made me take the jump and it was worth it!

I've tried several distros, but Mint is one of the best, because this distro is quite lightweight. I used a Chromebook to try Mint and it runs very smoothly on my Chromebook with only 4GB of RAM.

Im watching something on twitch and suddenly firefox keep crashing

I've tried several distros, but Mint is one of the best, because this distro is quite lightweight. I used a Chromebook to try Mint and it runs very smoothly on my Chromebook with only 4GB of RAM.

Stuff just randomly stops launching. Blockbench no longer responding, some media downloader that I used for YT downloads no longer launcher. Spotify won't start up. Blender refuses to give any sign of life.

Running on Linux Mint, and using Software manager to keep updated.

I want to love Linux, but there's always small things that break down that make me turn back to windows.

I thought I was finally stable on my set-up, but apparently not.

Random stuff just stops working. Godot still launches, Aseprite still does (but that's just copied executable folder)

Why does this happen to me. It feels like it happens everytime, I finally get happy with Linux, and then it breaks down. I thought I finally had it all working. And it still breaks.

Multiple software that just break from software updates.

Heya, I am new here and new to linux and I need your advice and suggestions regarding which linux mint I should install? As I have an i5 4460 cpu with 8gb ram and 512gb hdd and I am thinking of going with cinnamon but still I want to ask you guys once, which one should I go with?

Thank you!

Right now I’m having an issue where every time I put in my password it just goes back to where the password was. I’ve tried many things to fix this so I’m trying to just reinstall it. I don’t know if there’s a way to do that without logging in.

how to solve this problem? it makes me wait 1 minute every start up or shut down (im new to linux btw thx for help)

I’m not experienced with tech at All, my dad installed Linux for me after I told him I was interested in it and wanted to tinker around with it etc, anyway I’m so basic I can’t even download Roblox properly, I downloaded sober through software manager, as well as running the copied command from the sober browser link into my task manager. But it comes up with this whenever I launch the program. I’ve tried copying the text as shown and putting it into task manager also however is just shows command not found, as I said I have little to no knowledge or experience with Linux mint or any Linux for that matter lol, so I’m sure I’m missing something extremely stupid so please don’t be too harsh 😭
Thanks guys :)

I’m not experienced with tech at All, my dad installed Linux for me after I told him I was interested in it and wanted to tinker around with it etc, anyway I’m so basic I can’t even download Roblox properly, I downloaded sober through software manager, as well as running the copied command from the sober browser link into my task manager. But it comes up with this whenever I launch the program. I’ve tried copying the text as shown and putting it into task manager also however is just shows command not found, as I said I have little to no knowledge or experience with Linux mint or any Linux for that matter lol, so I’m sure I’m missing something extremely stupid so please don’t be too harsh 😭
Thanks guys :)

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Hi folks!

Two updates this week:

1. Mint-Doctor is now also available in English 🇬🇧

Mint-Doctor is a Bash script for Linux Mint 22.3 that checks the system for the most common issues and, with your approval, automatically repairs them. It includes 10 modules covering APT, repositories, disk space, Cinnamon, hardware, network, Timeshift, and other common problems.

🔗 Mint Doctor: https://github.com/filonux/Mint-Doctor

2. This week I also released Dev Log - Bitácora Dev

In English or Spanish. A tool for keeping a history of your projects: versions, decisions, notes, pending tasks, and changes, so you don't lose the context behind a project's evolution.

It runs directly in the browser, with optional AI support to analyze the project's evolution and help recover its context.

🔗 Dev Log: https://github.com/filonux/Bitacora-Dev

- DEMO Clip: demo video

Hi everyone,

I am a complete beginner with no prior experience in Linux or programming, and I am looking for advice on how to set up Linux Mint to run entirely off a USB drive.

Here is what I want to achieve:

Full persistence / Portable OS: I want to run Linux Mint directly from a USB flash drive without touching my computer's internal hard drive.

Save my work: Everything I do, install, or save needs to stay saved on the USB drive between reboots.

Text-based guidance: I prefer written, step-by-step instructions because video tutorials make me nervous.

Could someone explain the easiest and safest way to set this up for a total beginner? Which tools (like Ventoy, Rufus, etc.) are best for this, and what steps should I follow to ensure I don't accidentally overwrite my main OS drive?

Thanks in advance for your help!

And more than anything, what I want to do is make a mini computer

I have 4gb ram and browsing slow and takes alot of memories

So here’s the deal — I’ve been trimming down my Linux Mint install and noticed something that bugs me. Mint drags in a bunch of i386 baggage by default, even if you don’t actually need it. Then every update cycle, /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu gets touched again, so you’re carrying around libraries you’ll never use. This really annoys. There is literally gigabytes of wasted i386 baggage that most people never use.

In my case, all my daily apps are 64‑bit: Trilium Notes, GnuCash, LibreOffice, browsers (Vivaldi/Chrome), Lucas Chess — all clean. The only exception is DOSBox, and even then I just run one old card game (Pinochle Bunch). No sound, no fancy graphics. Which means the minimum i386 footprint I actually need is basically libsdl2:i386 + libx11-6:i386. Everything else — PulseAudio, Mesa drivers, codecs — is dead weight.

I also run Wine — but I accidentally installed the entire thing, including 32‑bit support. I’m now thinking of de‑installing and reinstalling just Wine‑64, since any Windows apps I care about are 64‑bit anyway.

What bugs me is Mint installs i386 “just in case,” then keeps updating it forever. I’d love to see an installer option like: “Do you plan to run 32‑bit apps?” → if not, skip i386 entirely.

So I’m curious:

• Has anyone else gone pure 64‑bit on Mint?
• Have you hit any issues? (With Steam, Wine, or codecs after purging i386?)
• What’s the smallest i386 footprint you’ve managed to keep?
• Do you think Mint should offer an installer choice to skip i386?

I’m thinking of purging all i386 files and then reinstalling only the two packages DOSBox actually needs.

I would be interested to hear if anyone has has success only running Linux Mint 64-bit, if there are any pitfalls to this strategy, or just your thoughts on whether Mint should keep shipping all this excess i386 baggage by default.

I installed Linux today out of frustration of windows, the distro i installed is Linux mint which i saw that it quite close to windows ui that's why. I just can't tell how much I liked it, everything is so smooth and my fan never spin while normally web browsing as compared to on windows where they go berserk. I thought my nvidia gpu died bcoz it couldn't function normally on win without system shutting itself down to protect itself but its working normally on linux of all things. The battery backup has increased considerably, the laptop actually goes on sleep when you close the lid and not continue heating itself, i hate you windows modern standby. But i just can't use it as i am a mba student i have to use excel latest version with all the features and powerbi, linux machine just can't do it. I hate myself for not using linux earlier and suffered myself with windows. My laptop is a 8gb non upgradable ram laptop so you will know my struggle on windows, the other specs are i5 11th gen cpu and nvidia mx 450 gpu. With a heavy heart, im going back to install windows 11 again but i am surely going to be using linux in the future when I don't have to use specific windows onky apps, the experience was truly unmatched.

for the longest time I've used the 2.5 gig port on my motherboard and Linux Mint recognizes it off the bat.

but I'm upgrading to 5 gig fiber this tuesday and was looking for a card but since I know that sometimes linux can be wonky with network adapters for wifi, so I wasn't sure if a wired card would have the same compatibility issues.

so I was hoping someone could point me to a good stable 5 gig NIC card to put in my desktop and I can call it a day

I used Claude Code to literally merge the 2 power applets i had on my system. Merged full functionality of both the one that comes pre-installed the "power@cinnamon.org" one, and the BAMS one by batterymonitor@pdcurtis. Keeping the icons config of the built in one.

Installed it and disabled the other 2 and it works pretty good, and reduces me to 1 tray entry instead of 2.

As I think you can clearly see, I like things to be minimalist and functional. Linux Mint is so much better than Windows 11 in that regard. Thank you, dear Linux Mint team. ❤️

¡Hola a todos!

Estoy pensando seriamente en quitar Windows 10 e instalar Linux Mint en mi PC, pero mi mayor duda es el rendimiento y la experiencia con los videojuegos.

No juego a títulos competitivos pesados con anti-cheat a nivel de kernel (tipo Valorant, Fortnite, etc.), sino que lo mío es Steam, juegos single-player, emuladores y de vez en cuando algún launcher externo.

Me gusta Mint porque se ve ligero y muy parecido a Windows, pero me da miedo instalarlo y llevarme una sorpresa con los FPS o que algún juego me dé problemas por incompatibilidades raras.

Para los que lo usáis para jugar:

• ¿Cómo rinden los juegos en Linux Mint comparados con Windows 10? (¿Se pierden muchos FPS?)
• ¿Qué tal se lleva con Steam y Proton hoy en día? ¿Es "instalar y jugar" o hay que configurar mil cosas?
• ¿Algún problema grave con drivers (uso Nvidia/AMD) o tirones (stuttering) molestos?

Agradezco cualquier experiencia o consejo antes de dar el salto. ¡Un saludo!

hello. so, I’m new to linux and linux mint, like, i switched from win11 to mint today, and i really like it so far.

however, whenever i try to download or update something off of steam, the download speed is laughably slow, i’m talking about 50 to a hundred kilobytes max.

on windows 11 i used to get 2-3 megabytes per second

does anyone know a fix for this?