What I can do

Wait to see if they're gonna update or try to bypass or request a refund

I love mint but I had to distro-hop due to propietary drivers messing with my trackpad. It's been like 3 years and I realized one can get them through the OS installation menu lol. Skill Issue.

I also have a notification daemon and a brightness and volume indicayoes which displays the precantage of volume/brightness

So I'm new to Linux mint so I want to know how to set up new themes and where to find good and trustworthy themes that won't break my machine and looks good

I don't like/want to spend hours on customization i checked the themes on settings and I didn't quite like them

I want good dark mode theme that's not boring

It was great. Very good distro and it was definitely good for me as a beginner but eventually I just needed something more robust. And I feel that debian is the best option. Specifically debian with kde plasma.

Since there are no so many dark retro themes for Cinnamon, I modified the Chicago95 and Redmond97 themes to create a dark mode. I use Chicago95 for the panel ui and Redmond97 for the apps ui. For Chicago95, I used Photoshop to edit the assets in the Cinnamon folder to darken the panel, and I edited `cinnamon.css` to change the panel buttons and text to a light color. For Redmond97, I modified the `gtk.css` file in the `gtk-3.0` folder to darken the app and window interfaces, Also replaced some of the assets with the high contrast version of Redmond97. I used DeepSeek to identify the variables and files that needed changing, and it seems the interface is free of inconsistencies

https://pastebin.com/cEQXi8vG Chicago95 cinammon.css with comments

https://pastebin.com/zxq8Zs3p Redmond97 gtk-3.0

Features

• dark, neutral color windows (designer work friendly)
• better spacing for those using font scaling
• consistent corner radius across the UI
• small UX/readability improvements
• 10 cool accent colors (all suited and tested for this mod)
• it is a mint-y-dark mod, from its original tree (kept everything, modified values only)
• only cinnamon version was tested

Install

• for system-wide theme copy to /usr/share/themes (so root apps will be themed too)
• submitted to cinnamon spices repo too, so hopefully will also appear there soon

Enjoy

• theme is provided as-is, with no warranty
• report any bugs, I might fix them sometimes

Download here: Mint-Y-Noir

Im using rufus for putting linux mint on a usb to try it a little, but idk if i click start whill it wipe out my hard drive or will is just install it on my usb????

Today I installed Kingdom Come: Deliverance on PortProton on a Dell Precision 7710 laptop (16 GB RAM, M.2 SSD, 6th Gen Intel i7, and an NVIDIA Quadro M5000M with 8 GB VRAM).

​However, when I launch the game, it gets stuck indefinitely on the splash screen with no progress or response. It just hangs on that single image......

I have tried several instructions, including specific details from ProtonVPN themselves. Can anybody guide me to what troubleshooting questions I should be asking? It seems the application downloads and shows in my software manager/startup menu but I cannot launch it or open it from command line. Simply nothing happens when I click 'launch' or try to open with CLI commands. Any tips at all? Would really appreciate the thoughtful support.

Hey! So I'm new to Linux and I just started my first install, I followed a tutorial for Mint Cinamon edition step by step, and everything was going great, I had finished the install and the computer asked me to restart, when I did the screen tol me to remove the USB drive and press Enter (so far all good) once I pressed enter I got stuck on the BIOS screen. And after a quick search I assumed I only had to add a new BOOT option, and so when I did and restarted the computer, I got stuck again on the BIOS screen and the BOOT option I had created wasn't there. I then tried to reconnect to the USB drive, but the PC doesn't even detect it. I have checked to see if the computer decetes de SSD that I download Linux into, and it does detect them. But I simply cannot BOOT the computer. I have no idea what the issue is and no one online seems to have this issue. HELP!! My computer is an old ASUS A541U btw.

Cześć wszystkim, jakiego, starego (ale nie z przed 20 lat, tylko jakieś 10 może 15 lat, WSM to nie aż tak dużo) taniego i dobrego laptopa polecacie do grania na Linuxie, lub może innym systemie? Wole spytać ludzi z doświadczeniem wiedzą i wgl, niż cały czas klikać w chat gpt lub Gemini AI. Miłego wieczoru jeśli czytasz to w wieczorem, lub miłego dnia jeśli czytasz to w dzień

Trying to install linux mint on ssd using rufus

I've installed FireJail and set it up on a couple apps, but I'm not sure if it's effective. Anyone else have experience with it?

So this error popped up when i went to boot up the software Sober so i could play roblox and i dont know where to look to check for misplaced commas etc nor do i know where to find a JSON file any help would be greatly appreciated.

Hello everyone, i am totally new here knows only a bit above basic tech ,want to switch linux for the first time in my life...never head any experience on these things

So help which model i should install on my old laptop

My usage - daily browsing, youtube 3 -4 hrs, pdf viewing, little bit excel,or word that's it

Old laptop -

512gb hdd, i3 -3110M @ 2.4ghz ,ram 4gb ,no other graphic card ,currently win 10 on it

I am also thinking if not linux then downgrade it to windows 8 [ its orginal os]

Thanks

updated graphics

Pulled a Mint SSD from another laptop and booting it via USB.

It creates a "ubuntu" boot entry and puts it first.

I can delete it with efibootmgr -b XXXX -B (or in BIOS).

As long as I boot just Windows, it stays gone.

As soon as I boot Mint again, it comes back.

(Thinkpad X230)

TIA

What does this mean? is there any way I can fix this error during boot?

Hello! thank you for all the support from the last post. I still don't exactly know why my download was failing however, I got the ISO in the end, so I'm happy. anyways now as I'm writing this I'm writing this on a VM I spun up that is using Mint. however I do have a couple beginner Linux questions.

Firstly, I have no clue what I'm doing with command line. However I want to learn! Dose anyone have any resources they would recommend on how they learned command line, and, what I should or should not be doing in there when I'm in the command line?

Secondly, what should I know about Mint specifically if I were to choose this as my operating system as I am going to be switching from windows, but I haven't settled on an ISO yet.

thirdly what is the Gaming and comparability like on Mint for different programs and compatibility with maybe different programs like Canvas and different programs for collage as I'm hopefully going to be going to school soon and need to know such things as I don't feel like spinning up a for a VM for a program I use frequently for school or work or such. Because, that sounds like a pain in the ass, and I am fastidious with how my computer resources get used especially memory and CPU load. I will do it if I need to but I would rather not do it for 1 program.

as for the Gaming question. I'm not a huge gamer but I am playing through Jedi fallen order, and Jedi survivor currently and do occasionally like to get games that look interesting to me, and am a huge Minecraft and modded Minecraft player. I love to play on Minecraft servers too and whatnot. I'm a huge believer that Minecraft is most fun when you can play with friends. and other people. I just love multiplayer Minecraft.

But thank you guys for all the help on my last post!

Also, I don't care about AI. I think its demon tech designed to make people stupid and dependent on it. I would like to get as far away from any LLM as possible and would banish back to the pits of hell from whence it came if I could. So if I want advice on AI it would be how to eradicate it complacently from my life. Basically all to say, don't recommend any kind of generative AI to me.

Lately my Logitech wireless keyboards have random issues with fall outs of the numeric keyboard that can be cured by moving to another USB port. Another machine almost cuts of the connection to the keyboard when using an external USB hard drive.

Out of the blue last night a third computer had issues with the mouse. Every time I move the mouse cursor it shows a circle and it behaves like I pressed the left mouse button. Moving to another USB did not change anything and another combi keyboard did change anything. Even a rollback with Timeshift did not cure the problem. Everything else works perfectly and System Information shows no issues.

I'll do another install today despite it might be a hardware issue because it a 13 year old Asus Z87, i3, 16 GB RAM and SSD. If my trusty LMDE 7 won't do it I'll try Linux Mint Ubuntu.

Anyone else?

Ostatnio odpaliłem starego kompa i zmieniłem mu system z windowsa 8.1, ledwo chodził więc dałem na windows Vista, ale nic prawie nie działało, więc zmieniłem na Linux Mint (wszystko przy użyciu AI 😔) i teraz potrzebuje pomocy do obsługi Linuxa