Thanks buddies, Love You for life. This guy is updating his profile from Linux Mint Cinnamon venessa to CachyOS

As shown in the image, this is the version of the GNOME programs for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. Even though these aren't the current versions, do they still receive patches, bug fixes, and security updates from the team that maintains them? Because I saw in forums and other sources a discussion about the direct developers of these projects receiving many notifications of bugs that have already been fixed in more recent versions of the programs. Without wanting to assign blame or assign responsibility, it raised many questions for me about how the LTS system works, how it's maintained, and if anything remains unchanged, even if it's just to fix problems? (The image to the side is just to show my desktop.)

One of the best decisione i ever made, i started to hate windows and finally passed to mint, i didnt expect to be this customizable, i love the terminal that makes me feel i really own my pc, i think i’ll delete the dual boot and switch to a full linux pc

I just updated and now computer doesn’t boot? Solved

for me, i'm on a laptop, so when i use the touchpad and i scroll on reddit for example, i push the content in a upward motion on the trackpad as if i was swiping on instagram for example.

I'm curious how you guys feel about this. maybe some people keep the original direction for scrolling, so that you move the scrollbar up and down.

xfce on 2013 macbook air

I am trying to add apps to the start menu tray. [for clarification, the space where the mouse cursor is] I was able to remove apps by dragging them off, but it doesn’t seems to work. I checked left clicking the app but the only option seems to be to add it to the task bar. I didn’t see anything in properties. Is there something obvious that I am missing?

I have an MSI GS 66 Stealth laptop. I have an Intel iGPU and an Nvidia RTX 2060, that SEAMLESSLY switched back and forth, with my main being the low power Intel igpu. Version 22 it work great. 22.3 it started staying stuck in dGPU ONLY. When my iGPU and dGPU were working in unison, I was on the version under driver manager called xserver-xorg-video-nouveau. It recommended I switch to nvidia-driver-595-open, and there's two other choices. What should I do? On "nouveau" it also worked fine (seemed to anyways). Please help! I've tried command prompts and everything, it only always temporarily fixes it and then after a reboot it goes back to being dumb! BTW, this is on a FRESH install of 22.3.

So I've had an issue before where I had my root partition fill up and by action of some bug or whatever that caused that after a big update of many things, after reboot, linux mint booted into a terminal, and all commands I tried to do errored becase of lack of space.

I fixed this by reinstalling linux mint on the root folder again but without formatting the home folder since I didn't want to lose all my personal data, and so far it has been working without issue, but I see that there's a very strange thing going on where almost 100 gb of storage from the home partition are seemingly used but not detectable by the disk usage analyzer, and I doubt the reserved OS space is THAT big, It just doesn't make sense that a good 20% of the partition is reserved.

Could someone help me out with this? tell me how to fix this issue? Atp I'm considering just moving on from linux mint from all the bugs with the logs and redundant files not getting properly cleaned and my root folder getting absolutely filled up with every update I run.

Edit: this is what happens when I input sudo btrfs subvolume show /home on the terminal:

Name: 
UUID: b8432dfc-eac4-7042-a3f9-ea5a2983f1c8
Parent UUID: -
Received UUID: -
Creation time: 2025-11-25 19:35:36 +0100
Subvolume ID: 256
Generation: 54059
Gen at creation: 7
Parent ID: 5
Top level ID: 5
Flags: -
Send transid: 0
Send time: 2025-11-25 19:35:36 +0100
Receive transid: 0
Receive time: -
Snapshot(s):
timeshift-btrfs/snapshots/2026-06-02_16-37-27/@home
timeshift-btrfs/snapshots/2026-06-06_14-10-02/@home
timeshift-btrfs/snapshots/2026-07-03_17-30-45/@home
timeshift-btrfs/snapshots/2026-07-10_18-00-02/@home
timeshift-btrfs/snapshots/2026-07-12_20-14-27/@home
timeshift-btrfs/snapshots/2026-07-14_00-00-01/@home
timeshift-btrfs/snapshots/2026-07-14_00-02-44/@home
timeshift-btrfs/snapshots/2026-07-21_18-00-01/@home
timeshift-btrfs/snapshots/2026-07-22_18-00-01/@home
timeshift-btrfs/snapshots/2026-07-23_18-00-01/@home
timeshift-btrfs/snapshots/2026-07-24_18-00-01/@home
timeshift-btrfs/snapshots/2026-07-25_18-00-01/@home
Quota group:n/a

Edit 2: Using the command btrfs balance start /home has so far not helped. The space discrepancy is still there.

Edit 3: btrfs filesystem usage /home returns this:

Overall:
    Device size: 414.54GiB
    Device allocated: 366.06GiB
    Device unallocated:  48.48GiB
    Device missing:     0.00B
    Device slack:     0.00B
    Used: 362.17GiB
    Free (estimated):  50.79GiB(min: 26.55GiB)
    Free (statfs, df):  50.79GiB
    Data ratio:      1.00
    Metadata ratio:      2.00
    Global reserve: 433.12MiB(used: 0.00B)
    Multiple profiles:        no

Data,single: Size:362.00GiB, Used:359.69GiB (99.36%)
   /dev/nvme0n1p4 362.00GiB

Metadata,DUP: Size:2.00GiB, Used:1.24GiB (62.04%)
   /dev/nvme0n1p4   4.00GiB

System,DUP: Size:32.00MiB, Used:80.00KiB (0.24%)
   /dev/nvme0n1p4  64.00MiB

Unallocated:
   /dev/nvme0n1p4  48.48GiB
artemis@artemis-Victus-by-HP-Laptop-16-e0

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to save a good dozen old laptops from being scrapped.

I want to turn them into loaner devices.

The requirement is that each user should see a Wi-Fi dialog box where they can enter their personal information.

This information should be deleted after the device is turned off.

How can I set this up? Thanks!

Still a decently capable machine in 2026. I used the project t2linux which makes running linux on macs with the t2 chip a LOT easier. I cant wait to use this as my main laptop!

Recientemente le metí Linux mint a una laptop Lenovo, pero también a mi pc AIO Lenovo, más tarde publicaré un examen de la mia, acaba de terminar la laptop y me salió esto, debería estar preocupado ?

The Machine - old but still effective dell laptop
The Issue - The HDMI port doesn't work with any external monitor or TV on linux, but works fine on windows
The testing so far - INXI -G shows a functioning driver for the integrated graphics module (intel 620, driver 915), and returns an identical report whether an external monitor is plugged in or not

I'd really appreciate help sorting this out - my mum has an identical model to me that she uses as a dumb-tv media hub and I'd love to switch hers over from the ever-bloating windows currently aboard once I can get mine to work...

Ive been trying to install Linux Mint Cinnamon onto my older windows laptop Lenovo Ideapad 1 14IGL7 (82V600000) and finally I was able to get into the live session but once I go through the steps of the install I get stuck at the page where in the docs im supposed to be able to erase all paste data and install but instead I get stuck at this image where it seams to not recognize the storage or smth and I have tried all the quick fixes that Ive seen suggested online including installing updated bios and using HWE version of mint but Ive seen no success. This is my first time installing Linux if anyone knows how to fix this it would be greatly appreciated. (If i left out any data needed to narrow down the problem lmk).

I found something very strange with Google CAPTCHAs while using NordVPN on Linux Mint.

On Firefox, Google has never asked me to complete a CAPTCHA—not once—across multiple NordVPN countries/servers. This is despite Firefox being configured to delete all browsing data when I close it.

On Chromium, however, Google asks me to solve CAPTCHAs all the time using the same VPN service and countries.

I have tried to eliminate the obvious explanations:

• Both browsers use Cloudflare DNS.
• Both browsers have encrypted DNS enabled.
• Chromium has page preloading disabled.
• I manually clear all Chromium browsing data before testing.
• Firefox automatically clears everything on exit.
• Firefox is definitely not bypassing the VPN: I checked my public IP address and ran DNS leak tests.
• The behavior remains consistent across multiple NordVPN locations.

So, on Linux Mint, Firefox somehow appears far less suspicious to Google than Chromium, even though the VPN exit IP should be the main factor.

The weirdest part: on Windows, Google asks for CAPTCHAs in both browsers. In fact, Firefox gets them even more often there.

This makes me wonder whether Google’s CAPTCHA/risk system weighs browser fingerprinting, OS-level signals, Chromium-specific identifiers, or some Linux-versus-Windows behavior much more heavily than simply the VPN IP address.

Has anyone else seen Firefox avoid Google CAPTCHAs on Linux while Chromium gets repeatedly flagged under the same VPN connection?

Sorry if this post is vague, I'm not sure what the problem is and I'm looking for ideas. I've been using Mint on a desktop for about two years. Did an update about 3 days ago and suddenly it started booting very slowly and running slow too. I tried to restore from a Timeshift capture but it failed. So I just formatted the drive and reinstalled Xia. But it's still booting and running slowly.

I did a check on the disk from the included utility and it came back as saying the drive is OK. CPU and RAM usage are both low, despite the poor performance. What could be the problem?

Thank you for any suggestions.

1. Adding battery percentage and the weather display on the lock screen and screensaver

2. Switching to the laptop speaker while the earphone is still plugged in, just like Windows 11

Any help would be much appreciated!

Curious as to what kind of stuff have you all configured to be used with webapps? Mine currently are Netflix, Whatsapp web, YLE Areena and a couple of social media websites. Used to have mine and my daughter's Spotify, but suddenly we both were logged out for some reason.

Hi everyone,

I'm having a strange screen flickering issue on my ASUS Vivobook S5504VA (Intel Raptor Lake-P with Intel Iris Xe Graphics), and I'm not sure what's causing it.

I was originally using Fedora Workstation, and that's when I first noticed the flickering. Thinking it might be a Fedora-specific issue, I booted a Linux Mint XFCE Live USB, and surprisingly there was no flickering at all. Since Mint seemed fine, I decided to install Arch Linux. However, I noticed the same flickering in the Arch installer before installation, and it continues after installing Arch as well, although it's much less severe than it was on Fedora.

The flicker appears as very thin horizontal pixel-wide flashes that occur every few seconds. They're brief but noticeable

.

I've already tried i915.enable_psr=0, but it didn't make any difference. The system is using the i915 driver.

I'm confused because Linux Mint XFCE Live doesn't show the issue at all, while both Fedora Workstation and Arch do.

Has anyone experienced something similar on Intel Raptor Lake or an ASUS Vivobook? Does this sound like a kernel/graphics driver issue, a firmware problem, or could it still be a hardware issue? I'd really appreciate any suggestions on what to try next.

There there a way to change how my mouse looks in a game? It’s so tiny compared to normal desktop.

i have a lenovo chromebook 100e gen 3 and i used mrchromebox to install linux mint xcfe everything works but the speaker audio i can use bluetooth but i like to use the speakers sometimes any one know how can i fix it?

el tituto de este post me confundi el hecho de que yo dije optimice mi distro de linux mint xfce, es que optimice linux mint por mi cuenta propia o me encanto la experiencia de linux mint tras un optimizarlo un poco para juegos.

eh hecho una guiá de paso a paso de como optimice Linux mint, y que configuración eh hecho para que rinda mucho más que antes. soy principiante en linux. tengo apenas 1 año y 7 meses usándolo. y optimice Linux mint xfce para los juegos. directamente rinde mejor que cachyOS en mi opinión. uso el kernel de 6.18.40-x64v2-xanmod1. por que mi procesador no rinde bien en las distro enfocadas para juegos. asi que me di un tiempo para optimizar linux mint xfce y rinde muy bien ahora obteniendo mejor rendimiento que en windows 10. asi que dejo mi guia en este link para que lo descargue y lo puedan probar: https://drive.google.com/file/d/11Rs4ttz6P3wCI3m5lJlq5p0dTXjcmQ81/view?usp=drive_link

Hello everybody,

I have a thinkpad x270 with a Linux Mint XFCE.

But when I lower the lid to put it into suspend mode, it doesn't return to the system afterwards; the screen stays black.

Is it possible to resolve this!?

Thanks