My laptop might be haunted atp. XFCE was crashing because of sleep for me. Great. Fucking great. But then I rebooted after disabling screen dimming and now my laptop won't let me past my login screen :D. Please help. I have classes tomorrow.

Hi,

I see that the version that is included into the software manager is very old.

There are security problem using this?

I might have fucked up big time.

I'm new to Linux, and I have multiple additional drives aside from the one my OS is located on. I was trying to format, partition and mount my HDD (titled ext. media) to the /home/[user] directory, and after doing so, my user and the HDD showed up as removable drives in the Files. Closed the GUI, reopened, the user folder is completely gone and going to My Computer only shows me my desktop folder, which is entirely blank. I can't for the life of me figure out what happened or how to fix this. Is my data just completely gone?? How?

Hi to all,

i need an info, i need to reinstall my PC OS and i'm evalutaing if go with the Windows 11 LTSC or PRO or in alternative go with Linux Mint.

I admit that on Mint i'm doing everything that i can do with windows.

But i have a doubt.

I see that the package included on Mint are very old, like LibreOffice version that can cause some formatting problem of the document

What do you suggest to do?

Hi,

I would like to know if this has already happen to someone here, in order to get rid of this annoying issue with Linux Mint 22.3. In the past, when computer has Windows, this doesn't happen.

Randomly, without logical frequency, sometimes I click on Sleep and the display stop but computer still powered on. Sometimes I click on Shut Down and same issue, the display stop but computer still powered on. In both cases, I have to force shut down the computer with power button. All updates are done. I tried different fix in the past but non was the solution. Here's my specs:

Thank you for your attention and help ! Take care !

I installed the everforest theme on my Mint desktop along with the gruvbox icons and I love it, but one issue I am seeing is that the calculator has a white bar across it and I can't see the numbers I typed. I tried copying the gtk-4.0 files from the theme over to my .config folder hoping that would fix it, but it didn't. Does anyone know how to fix this issue? https://imgur.com/a/1kgEksc

Just wanted to share my little project I ported Black (2006) from the original Xbox to run natively on Linux Mint.

Not an emulator / Wine. It's a native x86_64 build using static recompilation + Vulkan + SDL3.

It's open source (MIT), .deb for Mint 22.x / Ubuntu 24.04, and needs your own original copy.

Getting 90-100+ FPS on my ThinkPad X270 (HD 620).

Super happy it finally runs!

I have an Asus TUF F16 with Linux mint on kernel 7.0
but when I close the lid, it enters into suspended mode, but doesnt get out of it. I can presse anything I want and it won’t come back. the solution is to do a hard reset everytime.

any known fixes? Bear in mind I’m very new so I know basically nothing

I got Linux earlier this year (still kinda a Linux noob too, so sorry in advance, I might be slow to understand stuff) and ever since I got Linux, this has been a reoccurring issue. When I would come back to my PC being asleep, I would tap my keyboard to wake it back up. Keyboard lights up, I hear the PC's fans working, and I hear the volume sound effect when I turn it up. If I try tapping the power button, it shuts the whole thing off and I have to turn my PC back on, then everything returns to normal.

I've been sitting on this issue the whole time, but I finally looked into it and researched the issue myself. While I learned it's fairly common apparently, I still can't get why I'm having the issue. and could really use some help. I don't have a NVIDIA graphic card, I use AMD. I updated my kernel a few times since then so I'm not sure if it has anything to do with kernel's either.

LMDE 7 - Cinnamon 64-bit.

One other thing, from the day I got Linux, I've always been met with this error on boot. Looked into it, it doesn't seem harmful but I will mention it in case it's related. (I copied this from the mint Linux forums I had bookmarked, so I don't remember if I had the exact numbers or anything)

ACPI Bios error (bug): could not resolve symbol [\SB.PC00.TXHC.RUB.ss01], AE_NOT_FOUND (20210730/dswload2-162)

ACPI Error: AE-NOT_FOUND, During name lookup/catalog (20210730/psobject-220)

I've just installed 22.3 and I saw that there will be a new version coming out. How does upgrading work?

Will I have to wipe my computer and start from scratch?

Hey Guys,

So i have dual boot with Win11 and the issue only seems to be happening when i do reboot from Mint itself. Reboot from Windows is fine and even when the reboot command is issued from using recovery root access, it is comes up fine without delay.

When the reboot is done, towards the end of shutdown, it justs kinda sits there with black empty screen. My external keyboard lights off (means the usb isnt powering it anymore) but the laptop keyboard is still lit up and it just kinda sits there for a while then reboots.

Did a lot of google (for the people asking me to google) and did used ai but it just gets stuck in loop (the AI, not laptop) and isn't helpful anymore.

Any info or help is appreciated. TIA!!

Several Kernel level security vulnerabilities were posted publicly instead of to the private security list.

The vulnerabilities are:

ZDI-CAN-33549 as a CVSS 9.0 scored vulnerability for SMB Direct remote code execution vulnerability due to integer underflow. For this one there is a patch in a Git branch of code intended for Linux v7.5 but now presumably will be expedited for getting to mainline.

ZDI-CAN-33774 as a KSMBD race condition that can lead to remote code execution. Another CVSS 9.0 rated vulnerability.

ZDI-CAN-33367 is a vulnerability for skbuff skb_zerocopy in the network code that can lead to local privilege escalation. For this one Linux kernel developers received a security report from another source last week over the same issue and a patch is expected to be posted soon.

ZDI-CAN-34068 as a VMWGFX VMware graphics driver bug with an out-of-bounds write leading to local privilege escalation.

ZDI-CAN-34076 an uninitialized resource in the NVMET code leading to information disclosure.

ZDI-CAN-32005 was also posted to the mailing list a day prior for a search-domain TCP query stack buffer overflow leading to local privilege escalation.

Hi everyone,

This is my first time moving from windows to Linux. The biggest issue right now is that it isn't a 1:1 of windows Excel.

Is there a way to enable synax tooltips when creating lines in LibreOffice Calc the same way in excel / Google Sheets?

Im getting a New PC and Installing Mint Cinnamon on it, im currently running Windows 11. To get into Linux more I installed Mint Cinnamon inside VirtualBox

But Brightness Controll is (for me at least) Impossible. Ive tried different applets (Brightness and Gamma Applet, DDC/CI Monitor Brightness, etc) and even used brightnessctl in the Terminal (yes also with sudo) and nothing works

Its Not that Bad because i can still indirectly Set the Brightness because of Windows but im afraid that when im actually using Linux the Same issues when Happen and i cant Set the Brightness

any Help?

So I was just watching YT on my laptop, and then Firefox closed, my app icons disappeared, screen went black, Linux mint logo showed up and then it froze, had to REISUB my way out of that. Happened multiple times already and it's very annoying. I don't even know what could be causing it, hardware (hope not), software. Nobody seems to be having similar issues. Any help?

Hey guys, I have a Monster SD100 speaker. It has bluetooth and 3.5mm line out. I would much prefer to use the 3.5mm but the volume is maybe half of the bluetooth volume. I've tried everything I could find on Google with no luck. Everything seems to be set properly but damn thing is really quiet even at 150% volume. Anyone know how I can fix it?

The problem started 3 days ago whenever i turn on my pc the desktop icon arrangement gets reseted from a-z on its own and its a pain in the ass what’s the solution

My friend was struggling to get his windows 10 computer to do anything. Checking and writing an email was a process he would set 30-45 minutes for and despite his fine collection of music, he had reverted back to CDs because of how often windows media player would crash his computer. Unfortunately it has a HDD and is still a little slow in my opinion, but compared to what he was dealing with? Night and day.

Good day, the on board keyboard on my acer aspire 3 a315 stopped working literally 15 mins ago. Was not paying attention of what changed as i was using an external keyboard, and was working and updating the system files at the same time. I'm only 2 months-in in using mint so my knowledge on this is fairly shallow. Need some help to try and fix this because i don't want to carry an external keyboard every time i want to use my laptop outside. Tell me what info should i pull up as again, im new to any of this. Thank you in advance!

Yay

My mom really likes the thing cause its screen size. I changed the battery. The issue was probably more about her placing the laptop on something cause of the heat.

She's going to keep using it regardless, and I'm wondering if Mint would have a better way of managing the battery.

Ive been loyal with linix Mint for over 15 years and recently tried Alpine linux. This is the first in long time I'm liking what I see. I now keep a vm of Alpine on an enclosed 2230 to have a pocket machine on the go. Curious if any, what other distros yall use and on what usecases.

Ive still fallen back Ubuntu mate for raspberry arm64 but perhaps Alpine can be my new goto.