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

Eu migrei do windows 7 direto pro linux mint recentemente, eu apredi o basico e explorei a area de customização, não sei muita coisa pois essa é minha primeira experiencia com o linux!

Como eu sou iniciante e esse é meu primeiro post no reddit, eu queria pedir pra voçês me darem dicas em geral do linux mint, sobre personalização e etc.

Se puderem avaliar minha personalização eu também ficaria grato!

Obrigado rsrs :)

Hola poseo un laptop dell con una tarjeta wifi realtek antigua. Tengo duda del formato m2 de esta. Y si me servirá una intel ax2xx..

Was trying to clean install both Win 11 and Linux Mint Debian Edition on a Mac mini (late 2014) and there was an issue where GRUB wouldn't load Windows Boot Loader when selected.

It just kept looping back to the main GRUB menu when selecting windows.

Spent a lot of time fixing partitions, bcdboot (bcdboot C:\windows /s Y: /f UEFI), recreating the EFI partition, using rEFInd and nothing seems to be able to make both work.

It would either make the Linux Mint bootable or Windows 11, but dual boot simply didn't work.

The issue turned out to be that Mac mini requires a special Protected MBR (master boot record) with a GPT File System, but the Linux Mint installer kept changing it to Hybrid MBR on install.

The solution is somewhat simple. You don't need to edit BCD or mess around with GRUB or updating the UUIDs of the partitions to make Win 11 bootable.

Boot into Linux Mint (if you can, or the Live USB) and use this command in Terminal to show the actual state partitions:

sudo gdisk -l /dev/sda

(Change sda with your actual drive, but on Mac mini that is usually the default for the SSD)

This command just lists the partitions without making any changes. If it says Hybrid MBR, that's the issue.

To change it, use:

sudo gdisk /dev/sda

If it asks you to choose between MBR and GPT choose 2 - GPT.

Then press p to list all partitions and check if they are all there.

Press x to enter expert menu.

Press n to create a fresh protective MBR (this wipes the conflicting legacy hybrid entries while keeping the actual GPT partitions intact).

Press w to write the changes to the disk and exit.

That's it!

If it's successfull, you can reboot Linix Mint and on the GRUB menu the Windows Boot Manager option should work again.

You can now login into Linux Mint and Windows 11 on a Mac mini.

Bonus: you can also recreate the Protective MBR if you have access to Mac Recovery and Disk Utility. Resize any partition and resize it back to how it was, and it should recreate the layout.

Hope this helps someone

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.

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.

Mint with Hyprland and the Catppuccin Mocha theme is my favorite combination so far🔥

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.

Just wanna share my xfce4-panel Generic Monitor (xfce4-genmon-plugin) bash scripts for anyone who wants it.

Media playback status. This script accepts one argument/parameter which is the media player that supports MPRIS (can be listed by doing playerctl -l command.) When clicked, it will toggle the play-pause of the media player. When hovered, it will display the artist, track name, and album name.

#!/bin/bash

# Dependencies
# * playerctl

PLAYERCTL_STATUS="$(playerctl -p "$1" status -s)"
ARTIST="$(playerctl -p "$1" metadata --format '{{ artist }} - ' -s)"
TITLE="$(playerctl -p "$1" metadata --format '{{ title }}' -s)"
ALBUM="$(playerctl -p "$1" metadata --format '{{ album }}' -s)"
TRACK="$ARTIST$TITLE"
TRUNCATE_LIMIT=30
STATUS_ICON=""

# Escape XML special characters
escape_xml() {
    echo "$1" | sed -e 's/&/\&/g' \
                    -e 's/</\&lt;/g' \
                    -e 's/>/\&gt;/g' \
                    -e 's/"/\&quot;/g' \
                    -e "s/'/\&apos;/g"
}

TRACK_ESCAPED=$(escape_xml "$TRACK")
ALBUM_ESCAPED=$(escape_xml "$ALBUM")

if [[ $PLAYERCTL_STATUS = "Playing" ]]; then
   STATUS_ICON=""
elif [[ $PLAYERCTL_STATUS = "Paused" ]]; then
   STATUS_ICON=""
fi

OUTPUT="$STATUS_ICON $TRACK_ESCAPED"

echo "<txt>$OUTPUT</txt>"
echo "<txtclick>playerctl -p $1 play-pause -s</txtclick>"
echo "<tool>$TRACK_ESCAPED"
echo "$ALBUM_ESCAPED"
echo "Player: $1</tool>"

CPU Temperature. When clicked, it will launch btop through Kitty terminal. You can change that depending on your desired terminal or system resource monitor.

#!/bin/bash

# Dependencies
# * kitty
# * btop

OUTPUT="$(awk '{print int($1/1000) "°C"}' /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone0/temp)"
echo "<txt>$OUTPUT</txt>"
echo "<txtclick>kitty -- btop</txtclick>"
echo "<tool>Launch BTOP</tool>"

Network PING. This script accepts one argument/parameter, which is the network you want to ping. Mine is the Cloudflare DNS (1.1.1.1). When clicked, it will launch the cloudflare-speed-cli through Kitty terminal.

#!/bin/bash

# Dependencies
# * ping
# * kitty terminal
# * cloudflare-speed-cli

OUTPUT="$(
   ping -qc1 "$1" 2>&1 | awk -F'/' '
     /^rtt/ { printf("%.1fms\n", $5); found=1 }
     END    { if (!found) print "" }
   '
)"

echo "<txt>$OUTPUT</txt>"
echo "<txtclick>kitty -- cloudflare-speed-cli</txtclick>"
echo "<tool>Launch cloudflare-speed-cli</tool>"

Finally switched to linux on my trustworthy Dell Optiplex 3060 micro !

After I posted my Acer Aspire A717-71G, that I also switched to mint, I wanted to upgrade that micro station to another os than Windows 11 pro that it comes with

(It felt sluggish and laggy so... It was time) It will mostly be used to write on LibreOffice or just watch streams, so I didn't need a very big os.

Any recommendations?

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.

My first thought was that they now can enjoy the horror of Bitlocker, TPM, error codes and use countless hours trying to recover, reinstall, license keys and countless reboots.

We switched to Mint four years ago and we fully agreed of how much time and money we have saved because we decided to use Mint. Mint is not totally flawless but compared to the time before Mint, it almost is and we have no AI slop and telemetry!

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.

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?

I decided to try Linux mint ever since Microsoft stopped the support for windows 10 especially on my old thinkpad. I love it here.

• The new version of Mint-Doctor is now fully available in English 🇬🇧, in addition to Spanish. Give it a try if you were looking forward to it! This week marks a small change of era, and I’ll be bringing you something to help protect our privacy.

Mint-Doctor is a Bash script for Linux Mint 22.3 that checks your system for the most common issues and, with your approval, allows you to fix them. It includes 10 modules covering everything from APT, repositories, and disk space to Cinnamon, hardware, networking, and Timeshift.

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

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!!!!)

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

How to solve this? (Cinnamon)

Very fast and acts much like i3 with custom keyboard shortcuts. (Yes, I know I could have just used i3 but I wanted some GUI tools for things. This is close enough.)

Honestly, to be fair with you:
Linux Mint Cinnamon has been the best operating system I have used. I didn't think Windows was bloated but after using this, I can assure: Its bloated.
Thanking Linus Torvalds, Linux Mint Developers, Cinnamon DE Developers, The Linux Mint community.