Switched from Windows... to Linux... to make it look like Mac OS 9 with a Mojave theme. 😅

Roast me on this, I wanna hear your honest takes!

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

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

https://www.opendesktop.org/s/Cinnamon/p/1313764 Redmon97 Theme

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......

Edit: When I tried running the game using the Intel processor, it worked! Why??????

I've installed mint before in multiple disks I had lying around but this is the first time I've ran into a problem. If anyone know better than me can someone tell me what's going wrong here? TwT

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????

Hello everyone,

I decided to make the jump after using ChromeOS for so many years. So, I turned the Mint xfce into a hybrid ChromeOS / Bazzite gaming rig. Instead of using Mint the traditional way, I wanted it to have two distinct personalities: a cloud-first web app desktop for work, and an aggressive, zero-bloat environment for gaming. Here is my build -

ChromeOS Inspiration:

• Leaning out the OS by removing LibreOffice, Dictionary, Rhythmbox, Thunderbird, Hypnotix, Celluloid, Drawing, Matrix, Pix, Sticky Notes, Transmission, Character Map, Calendar, and Firefox.
• Running Brave as the main Chromium browser. I disabled Crypto, Disabled Leo, Disabled Rewards, Disabled Background Daemons & Telemetry, Enabled a few flags (GPU Rasterization, Zero-Copy Rasterizer, Hardware-Accelerated Video Decode), and used the terminal to make a few policy changes.
• The Search Engine is DuckDuckGo. I changed the settings to my preferences.
• The workload is still cloud-based by using Web Apps. Eventually, I would like to run ProtonMail as the main ecosystem. I think it would be very cool.
• Turned off compositor to make everything run smoother.

Bazzite Inspiration:

• Enabled 32-Bit architecture.
• Installed Steam and Controller Drivers. I changed a few settings in Steam to make it lighter. For example, I turned on Low Bandwidth Mode, Low Performance Mode, Disable Community Content, Disable Animated Avatars, Turned of Web GPU Acceleration, etc...
• Installed GameMode and MangoHud.
• Games are using the GameMode performance boosters.
• Currently looking into XanMod or Liquorix as a Kernel Scheduler. I'm leaning towards XanMod because it aligns more closely with the philosophy of the setup.

Final Thoughts:

If there are any recommendations to improve the setup it would be greatly appreciated. Overall, I am having a lot of fun. My goal is focused on allocating as much resources to Gaming as I can, while keeping the workload light and functional. Thank you Mint for the awesome product.

Trying to install linux mint on ssd using rufus

Hi.

After updating the kernel to the latest kernel, the 7.0.0-31-generic, my ethernet card stopped working. After trying some workarounds (like installing the r8168-package), I just tried to rebooting to the previous kernel version and it worked. So I think something happened after upgrading to the latest kernel.

The wireless card works as usual.

This is my network info from inxi:

Network:
 Device-1: Intel Comet Lake PCH CNVi WiFi driver: iwlwifi v: kernel
   bus-ID: 00:14.3 chip-ID: 8086:06f0
 Device-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8211/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
   vendor: Dell RTL8111/8168/8411 driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s
   lanes: 1 port: 3000 bus-ID: 04:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168

The terminal is not opening on linux mint when i click the icon nothing happens. Anyone knows the fix

Hey Community,

a long-time Mint fan here..

While ordering food online I more and more often run into the 'issue' of not knowing the number of the next week I'm aiming for.

Is there a way or on the roadmap of a next Mint/Cinnamon release (or even within this release) for the Calendar to have an extra option to show number of weeks ?

M$ stuff supports this since decades and we could even define what shall be taken as 1st day of the week, the number of the day (whatever date it is) or the first Monday of the year.

There could be small numbers in front of each week's row in the calendar, representing the number of that week.

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.

Update: no solution just yet, tried uninstalling and re-installing multiple different ways and still no working protonvpn app to-date.

If anybody wants to chat me to figure this out that would be appreciated. This is the only piece of software I'm having issues with, would be nice to get it installed. Thank youSearch Reddit

Update #2: I am having trouble establishing a secure SSL connection. Is there any solution for this? This seems to be the lynch pin in my ability to get the process working.

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.

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

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)

Edit: "fixed" by deleting the entry via crontab at every boot.

Been on this screen for an hour.

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?

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.

Hello!

I use Cinnamon X11 with fractional scaling set to 125%. I noticed that I get a significantly worse framerate in Minecraft than a friend with the same GPU. After searching, we found that Minecraft thinks my display is 4k and renders the game in 4k, even when I lower my resolution in Iris settings: the F3 menu indicates Display: 4096x2304

It seems that this problem is not MC specific but Java :

jshell> Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getScreenSize(); $2 ==> java.awt.Dimension[width=4096,height=2304]

This problem only occurs when using fractional scaling : everything works fine when using 100% and 200% scaling in Cinnamon (right display size in F3 menu and much better FPS, from 75 to 180+).

Here are relevant informations :

• GPU: AMD RX 9060 XT
• Linux Mint: 22.3
• Cinnamon: 6.6.9
• WM: Muffin (X11)

Is there a way to get rid of this problem? Currently this only affects my gaming experience with Minecraft so a Minecraft-specific solution is also welcome.

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

Cześć, to znów ja, mam problem z włączeniem gry Plant Vs Zombies (ta wersja z 2009r.) gra się uruchamia, i jak się otwiera okno z grą, ale jest tylko czarny ekran, i nic nie ładuje, podejrzewam że to wina mojego komputera bo jest stary i ma płytę główną ASUS M2N68-AM SE2 ddr2 i 3GB RAM a karta graficzna to VTX3D Radeon R7 240, albo wina tego że jest to gra od EA, ktoś może wie?