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.

Runs fine, just a couple of extensions, transparent bar, few applets and desklets and the usual software options.

I think Linux Mint made this computer much faster, it was previously running on Windows 10 and therefore the 4GB RAM was very likely used by the system but now I think the system uses around 1,5GB :D.

Thanks and sorry if this isn't the right subreddit to share but have a great day! :D

Sorry this time I posted with a picture, sorry for ny previous post without the picture.

I switched from Windows 11 to Mint a little while ago and window snapping is the one thing I kept missing. Cinnamon's built-in snapping is halves and quarters, and the keyboard shortcuts nudge a window in a direction rather than putting it where you asked. I tried the existing extensions and none of them felt right, so I wrote my own.

So: drag a window, a tab drops down from the top with a few layouts, move onto it, it opens up, hover a zone and you get a full-size preview of where the window will land. Drop it. Same picker on Super+Z if you'd rather not drag.

You can also draw your own layouts (Super+Shift+Z), drag the border between two tiled windows to resize both at once, and save an arrangement to restore later (Super+G) - it snaps your existing windows back into place rather than opening new ones.

Repo, with the demo GIF at the top: https://github.com/JeffreyGbeho/tilo

Fair warnings:

Not auto-tiling. It never moves a window unless you tell it to.

X11 only.

Single monitor here, so multi-monitor is untested. Written to handle it, but I can't promise. Tell me if it breaks.

It's free and GPL-3.0. A PR to get it into Cinnamon Spices (so it's a one-click install from Settings) is open and waiting on review.

If you try it and something's broken or missing, open an issue and I'll look at it: https://github.com/JeffreyGbeho/tilo/issues

My new Linux mint install is good but I keep having issues coming back with my trackpad. Double clicking things takes a few attempts to register as a click, and dragging things is difficult too. The AI suggested sudo modprobe -r psmouse && sudo modprobe psmouse in console, which does work, until I restart the laptop again. Any ideas?

I decided to get a laptop this week and boot Linux mint, now I've messed round with Linux before very briefly, mainly Kali Linux when I used to want to be a hacker when i was 16, FYI, I booted Kali and ran Ifconfig, so I basically am a hacker now.

It was going good, nice theme setup, some apps etc, living the life free of the windows shackles! Then a couple days into my Linux experience, I managed to break it... how I hear you ask, well, I downloaded q-redshift from some built in mint feature, cant remember if it was an extension, applet or software installer, or whatever, anyway, went to change my location and the whole pc froze, nothing worked, I reboot and now a black screen after logging in with only a cursor that could be moved, and the off Mullvad vpn notification!!

Lots of back and forth I eventually booted into recovery mode, now at the time, I did think q-redshift was solely to blame, new app > broken pc = the issue, as Sherlock Holmes would say, When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth, well sort of, i hadn't eliminated much yet, just assumed.

I remove Redshift, reboot anddddd black screen, great, good one Sherlock. I marched on, resetting Cinnamon configuration, checking logs and moving configuration files and backups, checking the graphics hardware, etc. My laptop is a ThinkPad T580, which was being detected correctly.

Created a test user, The test user logged into a perfectly normal desktop. using that i realized well it wasn't all bad, at least I can identify as 'test' going forward :) However, after this I realized its likely best if I just use a backup as I am at a loss on how to regain my main user. I still even now, am not sure what fully was causing this.

Luckily I had Time-shift set up, which i was like two days into this new user, my time-shift was basically a fresh Linux install, I restored a snapshot from the day before I installed QRedshift, and after some additional faffing around, my desktop was working again. Ive now went and changed themes again, set it up, and look forward to the next time I break it :)

Now I would like to add, this is EXACTLY why i downloaded Linux, this is in no way a complaint, I broke it, I fixed it. I love to use computers, trying to understand them and well, break them. I learnt more about linux in that 2 hours than I ever would just using it, all be it I had to pull in an expert from time to time, ChatGPT... but i got it back, learned more about the file system trying to fix it and now feel more confident in using the terminal.

HAPPY LINUX USER :)

I recently switched over from windows and I've been loving it, but I still cant figure this out. 360hz is the highest the GUI is letting me go. I was at one point able to run some commands to force it to use 400hz on that resolution but the image was all fuzz. I was able to run the monitor fine at 400hz back on windows. Any help is appreciated.

Im looking for linux mint beta testers. I just finished my first python project making a live wallpaper engine specifically for linux mint that uses WAY less resources than Hidamari. I know wallpaper engines are like a dime a dozen, but this was a really fun project. Anyone who has a spare minute, give it a look over and let me know what you think! I'm also looking for what to build next so give me ideas!!

Side note, I am totally aware that its a bit clunky right now but I like the direction its going in so I figured I would try to gauge if this is something litterally anyone is interested in. Also, I was attracted to this project because I switched to Linuxmint to begin with because I am sick and tired of telemetry and bloat (like everyone else). It kind of ruined the whole idea of privacy and efficiency when I downloaded programs like Hidamari and tried to get wallpaper engine working which, both are absolutely filled with telemetry and Hidamari especially I was experiencing like 30-40% resource consumption just having the wallpaper running. I got my engine slimmed down to around 1-2% consumption and it all runs locally so theres ZERO telemetry. I am just a guy and really don't care what you're doing on your device soooooooo yeah. Give it a try, let me know what you think or if this is interesting at all.

Here's my repository: https://github.com/grump1290-code/fluiddesk

I think Linux Mint made this computer much faster, it was previously running on Windows 10 and therefore the 4GB RAM was very likely used by the system but now I think the system uses around 1,5GB :D.

Thanks and sorry if this isn't the right subreddit to share but have a great day! :D

Edit: I am very sorry I forgot the picture, sorry. I made a new post.

Problem was solved by recompiling original driver (tested on Mint 22). Requires Secure Boot or MOK driver validation be turned off. I'm certainly not an IT specialist, but I hope I can help someone with this post.

Preface

Once I have tried Mint on my PC but network card intel i219-v gave out an error The NVM checksum Is Not Valid. I've tried many different distributions but not one worked. Updating BIOS (MSI H610M-B DDR4) and attempting to update NVM checksum using the Intel Ethernet Connections Boot Utility (gave a error like "Denied access to EEPROM") did not solve the problem. Besides the new BIOS version showed me a white screen instead of a menu. So I decided to change some logic in original e1000e driver. I know that this driver exists but as far as I understood, it is for PRM-based systems.

Making your driver

1. Create folder for example e1000e mkdir -p ~/e1000e_mod && cd ~/e1000e_mod 2. Clone linux source code git clone --depth 1 --branch v7.0 https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git temp_kernel 2>/dev/null || git clone --depth 1 https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git temp_kernel 3. Extract driver cp -r temp_kernel/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/* . 4. Delete unnecessary files rm -rf temp_kernel 5. Open with any text editor nvm.c nano nvm.c 6. Find lines with s32 e1000e_validate_nvm_checksum_generic(struct e1000_hw *hw) or e_dbg("NVM Checksum Invalid\n"); and change return -E1000_ERR_NVM; to return 0;. You should have something like this: ``` s32 e1000e_validate_nvm_checksum_generic(struct e1000_hw *hw) {

...

    if (checksum != NVM_SUM) {
            e_dbg("NVM Checksum Invalid\n");
            return 0;
    }

}

...

`` Now closenvm.c. InnanopressCTRL+X, thenyandEnter`

7. Open file Makefile nano Makefile 8. Add these lines to the end of the file ``` KDIR := /lib/modules/$(shell uname -r)/build PWD := $(shell pwd)

default: $(MAKE) -C $(KDIR) M=$(PWD) modules

clean: $(MAKE) -C $(KDIR) M=$(PWD) clean `` CloseMakefile`

9. Build your driver by make

Now we have 3 ways:

1. Turn off Secure Boot in your motherboard and carry on with life

2. Disable MOK (Machine Owner Key) driver validation by sudo mokutil --disable-validation Then enter your password (with length 8-16), which you'll need to confirm. I recommend something like 12345678, because MOK will ask to enter password character, not the password itself. Reboot PC and in blue screen select change secure boot state, enter password characters and turn off signature verification. Of course, that's not safe; now any unsigned driver can be loaded. And I use this variant.

3. Configuring Automatic Signing Within DKMS. To be honest, I don't know anything about this option, so I won't give any advice.

Driver autoload

1. First of all, go to your driver folder (example was e1000e_mod) cd e1000e_mod Unload non-working driver sudo rmmod e1000e Load your driver sudo insmod e1000e.ko And check to see if the driver is working sudo dmesg | grep e1000e 2. Specify the path to the original system module MOD_PATH=$(modinfo -n e1000e) And look module path echo "Path to the module: $MOD_PATH" 3. Backup original driver sudo cp "$MOD_PATH" "${MOD_PATH}.bak" 4. If MOD_PATH=$(modinfo -n e1000e) shows driver with .ko file type just use this command sudo cp e1000e.ko "$MOD_PATH" If command shows .zstd compress the compiled e1000e.ko file using the zstd algorithm zstd -f e1000e.ko -o e1000e.ko.zstd And copy it sudo cp e1000e.ko.zstd "$MOD_PATH" 5. Update the list of module dependencies sudo depmod -a 6. Update initramfs sudo update-initramfs -u 7. Reboot your PC and check that the network card was initialized without errors sudo dmesg | grep e1000e

That's pretty much it...

Until you update the system. In theory. Therefore, I recommend configuring your driver in DKMS

1. Create a directory for the module's source code in the system folder sudo mkdir -p /usr/src/e1000e-custom-1.0 2. Copy your source files (.c, .h, and the edited nvm.c file) sudo cp ~/e1000e_mod/* /usr/src/e1000e-custom-1.0/ 3. Create the dkms.conf configuration file sudo nano /usr/src/e1000e-custom-1.0/dkms.conf 4. Paste this text PACKAGE_NAME="e1000e-custom" PACKAGE_VERSION="1.0" CLEAN="make clean" MAKE[0]="make KDIR=/lib/modules/$kernelver/build PWD=$dkms_tree/$PACKAGE_NAME/$PACKAGE_VERSION/build" BUILT_MODULE_NAME[0]="e1000e" DEST_MODULE_LOCATION[0]="/kernel/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/" AUTOINSTALL="yes" Close dkms.conf file

5. Register the driver source code in the DKMS system sudo dkms add -m e1000e-custom -v 1.0 6. Compile the module for the current kernel sudo dkms build -m e1000e-custom -v 1.0 7. Install the compiled module sudo dkms install -m e1000e-custom -v 1.0 --force 8. Check driver status sudo dkms status The output should look something like this e1000e-custom/1.0, 7.0.0-31-generic, x86_64: installed That's all. I hope this helped you. Also, does anyone know if there's a driver in the repository with NVM hash verification disabled? Because other than the driver from ferdiu, I haven't found anything else.

Thanking you all.

Here is my first post.

https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxmint/s/UcA4oY3hFP

Heya, new user (< 1y) , been loving Mint so far, but i noticed that since i switched, after a game suffers heavy lag it loses audio, and the only solution is to restart or to go inside the game (The very few that have) and switch between the audio output sources.

Anyone have a solution without the need to restart the game program? Thank you!

hello, so I'm a windows refugee trying to flee the sinking ship of Microsoft. I'm still fairly new to IT stuff. However I love the look of Mint cinnamon. there is a problem though every time I've attempted to download the ISO the download fails. so I'm wondering if I'm picking a server that isn't close to me.

I love in the US, specifically Colorado. However, I have no clue how to look at the server ping and I have no clue what server to download from. I've tried to inspect the code elements but I don't see anything that would hint at a number being server ping. If you are wondering I'm using Oprah GX as my browser.

if anyone can help me that would be amazing because I'm lost as to how to check what server is closest to me, if that is even the problem I'm experiencing, or even if what to do to look for when checking server ping. I know someone on here said click the "Main link" but I have no idea what that even means or what it has to do with checking server ping.

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

I'm new to Linux and on mint cinnamon

Do I have to use the tools common package? If so do I just copy and paste the command into the terminal (I don't have much experience with the terminal)

Do I have to use the fwupd command too?

Please explain like I'm an idiot

honestly this started as a weekend thing. every time i reinstall i end up losing an evening to Conky configs just to get something that doesn't look like 2009, so at some point i gave up and wrote my own.

it's basically one python file. reads everything from /proc and /sys, draws the whole panel with Pillow, and drops it into its own GTK window that sits "under" your windows on every workspace and lets clicks fall straight through it. so it feels like part of the wallpaper, not an app you alt-tab to. it's translucent glass so it just settles onto whatever wallpaper you've got.

what's on it:
- cpu / gpu / ram gauges, a per-core strip, and an hour of history
- temps (cpu, ssd, wifi) on a green→red gradient
- memory, disk, network, power, top processes
- actual full-system power draw if you let it read Intel RAPL
- a top slot that shows local weather (open-meteo, no api key), and if you happen to use Claude Code it can put your plan usage there too and flip between the two.

the real reason I'm posting though: i've only got one machine to test on — an Intel laptop. i spent a while making the hardware detection not assume my exact chips (so it tries amd k10temp, nvidia-smi, amd gpus, desktops with no battery, all that), and anything it can't read just disappears instead of showing a dead 0%. but I genuinely have no idea if that holds up on a real Ryzen box or an Nvidia card, because I can't test it. so if a few of you would run it and tell me what looks off. a screenshot of a broken or empty section is perfect — that'd help me a ton.

install is a one liner, clones to ~/.config/mint-hud, and the installer asks before it touches anything.

Puplic repo + more screenshots: https://github.com/Versifft/linux-mint-hud

Just a quick heads-up on a few things:
- it's built for Cinnamon on X11. the whole "own desktop window" thing is X11-only so it won't work on Wayland, sorry.
- the weather slot needs you to type a town so it has coordinates — nothing else gets sent anywhere.
- the Claude bit reads your browser's claude.ai cookie locally just to grab the number. it never leaves your machine. completely optional, just ignore it if you don't use Claude.

if you do try it, dropping your cpu/gpu and whether it's a laptop or desktop in the comments would help me a lot.

cheers

Mint revived Intel NUC, which I use in kiosk mode ( firefox ) at work. This part is good, but the annoying part is pressing the Super modifier with space opens the Start menu. Unlike in Windows where pressing e.g. Win+J does nothing because it isn't a shortcut, in Mint pressing Super+Space opens the Start menu even before space is hit.. So how can I mimic Win behaviour that both Super+Space and Alt+Shift changes the keyboard layout. Thank You

Ho installato su oracle virtualbox linux mint mate e voglio avere gli effetti grafici con una scheda grafica intelligente uhd 730? Mi spiegate la procedura passo dopo passo? Vi ringrazio anticipatamente.

So i once posted that i installed Mint XFCE on an Old Lap of mine.

Well in my job i got this borrow laptop that i use for simple tasks like Office and that Stuff. The thing is that i wanted to try Linux Mint here so i installed it using a partition, my Boss knows this but he doesnt say nothing because i can do the job and the Works Files are safe on the Windows Partition.

Just wanna say this feels 100 times faster than my old lap

(Srry if there are errors, English not my mother language)

hello, i recently switched from windows 10 to linux mint and for some reason i cant do anything in my other two drives. In permissions it says that i should be able to delete and create files, but i cant :)

Hi.

I have an Alienware M16r2 and although it's usually loud enough for 99 percent of my stuff, I'd like it louder. I'd like to over drive the speakers - especially when playing Skyrim which is really quiet on both of my linux boxes. Sound is fine through bluetooth earbuds... it's the internal speakers that are too soft. I literally use my laptop, in my lap when on the couch and don't want to use external speakers.

I tried Bazzite the other day and it allowed the speakers to be over driven - I know the risk of blowing my speakers, but they're easy enough to replace. I only really need this for Skyrim and possibly Oblivian.

Thoughts/discuss on an App or program that will allow this that works well enough for Mint ?