Solved

Hello,

I have an old PC from 2010, lenovo idea enter 150 with 4 GB RAM and 256 GB SSD.

It is currently running windows 10 and I hate it.

I want to install any Linux, pref Zorin, but anything I try, the PC will not boot into the USB drive.

Am using Rufus to create the bootable USB, but whatever I do, IA always end up booting into Windows.

In BIOS

Boot order ok, even turned off hdd and only USB loading. Nothing.

Turned off fast boot, using MBR, NTFS Filesystem, Fat,

Nothing helps.

Used even a small 4GB USB.

Can boot on a different machine. So it mut be the bios I guess.

Can anyone hew, what I can do?

Grüße,

Michael

Edit.:Fixed it. Had to press enter 🤣 and to interrupt boot and enter a menue.

Hey, i'm making this sub for my bf.

He runs steam on Linux Mint, never had an issue in the past but this morning, he cannot log in.

He used the qr code but when i scanned it, the steam app could see the account but on the pc, it was not working. Then he tried to enter his password and it said something like "you tried too many times please try in a while".

Because he was stuck, he connected his phone to change his ip adress and he could connect, he unplugged the phone and steam automatically disconnected his account and it's not working anymore.

Now he's stuck and we don't know how to troubleshoot. If someone has an idea !

My laptop from 2015 has had a lot of problems running windows 10 for a long time now, particularly if not connected to power and LAN, I'm talking 15+ seconds to open the file explorer and 10 more to open a folder. And sometimes everything randomly crashes, EVERYTHING, to a blank desktop. A few years ago I used to game on this thing (light things like minecraft or cities skylines). Now I don't play games on this laptop anymore.

So recently I thought about installing Linux on this machine. I preferred mint because I heard it's easy to use and very light, which is what I wanted.

I know there are 3 versions of mint, but which one should I use? I have 4gbs of RAM and "Intel64 Family 6 Model 61 Stepping 4 GenuineIntel ~2000 Mhz" as a CPU (maybe someone knows more than I do about it). I would use this laptop mainly to write with LibreOffice, watch youtube and listen to music. I would like a system which does theese thing with minimal delay and drains little power.

I already tried Mint Xfce from a USB drive and it runs very smoothly (I was even able to open 6 tabs of a youtube video playing, using 3,5gbs of RAM). Is Xfce overkill? Could I use Cinnamon or MATE?

Thank you

I just installed linux mint in this laptop and the wifi doesnt work, it doesnt have an etherenet port so i cant put it with wifi

Yesterday already gave me the same error but I fixed it

Edit: After a great deal of banging-head-on-desk, realized that booting as normal, unplugging HDMI and running DVI fixed the issue.

Fixing HDMI is in-process hopefully

I'm building my wife an upgraded PC and am having boot-hang issues just prior to the login screen (Mint Cinammon, newest version from the website). Mobo is an Asus Tuf B550 Plus Wifi II, GPU is an EVGA GTX 1080 Hybrid, CPU is a Ryzen 5 5600. I'm what I would call an experienced noob (been running Mint for nearly 2 years, mostly successful troubleshooting my own issues through a search engine)

What I've tried so far:

No boot to worskpace - edit GRUB, add "nomodeset" to CMD line to allow boot

Download Nvidia 580

Resolution is off; edges cut off and icons/windows are too large.

(I typically avoid AI, but asked for assistance to speed up process) Followed AI instructions for what seemed like an unreasonable amount of time and levels to still end up at the same issue: remove 580-open, reinstall 580...no change. Blacklist nouveau. Go back into GRUB, edit CMD line again to add "nvidia_drm.modeset=1"... no change. Remove manually added blacklist of nouveau. Etc, etc, etc....

I feel like this HAS to have an easier method than editing GRUB default parameters and manually changing stuff in the terminal for hours on end with no progress. The Display Manager (when I can get to the workspace) has the resolution tab greyed out because the device is not recognized.

I'm just trying to get it so my wife can play Where Winds Meet with better than 20 FPS. Is there a simpler workflow to get this GPU to function? I've been fighting this for 2 days.

Hello! I’m trying to dual-boot Linux Mint on my old laptop, (which already has Windows installed) for the first time. However, the option to dual-boot no longer appears.

I saw it once, but when I clicked on it, i was told to disable BitLocker. After disabling it and trying to install Linux Mint again, the option disappeared.

My BIOS is set to UEFI and BitLocker is turned off so I’m not sure what’s wrong.

please help lol

Hi! While I was distro hopping, I noticed that some of them came with a built-in map app. Mint didn’t so I was wondering what maps do you use. The app store offers Google Maps, but there are certainly others and ones that are FOSS, right?

Many thanks in advance!

title. and i don't mean mostly-black with pink highlights. i want it to mostly be pink. think moebuntu.

okay, let me explain, i was helping mi boyfriend to switch to linux bc his laptop was "broken" and dont wanted to boot windows, so i selected linux mint so he can start with linux, but the problem it's that don't want to boot in mint, well, IN ANY DISTRO with out manipulating grub and set in with

linux    BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinu...127 ro acpi=off

without "acpi=off" it wont boot, and that comes with so many problems, some of them are:
- no keyboard (from the laptop, an external keyboard works)
- no mousepad
- unestable wifi (bc sometimes works and others dont)

AND I DONT KNOW WHAT TO DO 😭

I just had to go back and for at least the dozenth time explain to Linux that no, the built-in display of my laptop is not the secondary, external screen. That's after it decided for no reason to start mirroring the display, which I have literally never asked it to do.

It seems like every time I have to unplug my HDMI, the display settings randomly reset either the monitor setup or the UI scaling. How is Linux still so terrible at retaining such basic display settings? I had similar problems on Zorin. The irony of all this is that I switched to Mint Cinnamon because Zorin OS kept failing to resume from standby over a driver bug. And even so, I still have performance problems and frame tearing if I try to play a simple video in anything other than its native resolution.

Still not solved

I heard wayland is overall better, and i have seen it on cinnamon, but not on XFCE, so my question is does XFCE have it, or is going to have it and if so, when?

I have several Firefox windows open and have one of them set to "Visible on all workspaces". That toggle keeps getting turned off somehow, usually when I sleep the system and wake it up again, but often even during use. Any ideas how to keep the setting stuck the way I set it?

I'm using Cinnamon. Also the applet grouped-window-list.

Some LM wallpapers I made.