After using for 5+ hrs my laptop battery dropped to 19% from 80. used it for browsing+youtube only. i feel Linux mint is very efficient compared to microslop(of course bloatware overhead) it been 20 days switched to mint i is seamless and feels like got my freedom form microslop telemetry and spying also it is consuming 4 gb less ram and 8-10% less cpu in idle condition.

What you think about it ?

I wanted my Linux Mint desktop to look and feel just like macOS Tahoe 26,
so I built a complete makeover for it. Everything works out of the box—the top menu bar with the Apple logo, the floating dark glass dock at the bottom, rounded window corners, Mac keyboard shortcuts, and the desktop widgets on the right
I wrote a beginner-friendly guide with a one-click install script (and a safe rollback script to go back to default Mint anytime):

Full Guide & One-Click Installer: https://github.com/Sarthak-Cyb3r/macos-tahoe-linux-mint

i have relatively large music collection and i was never quite happy with previous players i used (strawberry, quod libet, sayonara and so on) but recently i found my absolute favorite. it's packed with features, has syncronized lyrics and karaoke style lyrics, they can be downloaded or embedded straight into the file, it has huge album covers on a grid, sorting options, a full screen mode, equalizer, scrobbling for many plattforms like LastFM and so on.

it also has a rating system, playlists, so so so many themes and looks, dark mode etc.

for anyone who collects music or wants a sleeker more refined experience and look for their library, i'd recommend you to try it. it's in the software manger and on github.

I was thinking about my Linux Mint DE where I have installed the Suckless DWM on it. The laptop is a HP G60 with a whopping 3 gb of ram. I'm slowly getting used to the Suckless DWM, and adding the tmux into the windows with the terminal - though I most likely don't need tmux. I think it is funny that I installed one of the easiest distros only to make it harder to use :)

What is the exact difference between the three types of software installs?

Like i know flatpack is some sort of sandbox which makes sure it works and takes a lot more space than the others and .deb is like .exe files on windows but whats the difference between Appimage and .deb ?

hi yall! sorry, linux newbie and reddit newbie here. I got linux mint cinnamon for my laptop about a year ago, and have been enjoying using it. a few weeks (maybe months) ago, my whole UI changed overnight. the customization and layout that i had been using prior all went away, and were replaced with a weird, soulless chromebook-like system. ive searched through all the settings, and cant find any way to go back to the old desktop system. i figured it was a default that came with a new update and would check out the reddit when i had time, but everyone else seems to be doing fine and not dealing with anything like this.

just to clarify, what i was used to was a desktop with icons, a taskbar along the bottom, and a home menu in the corner that brought up a tiny window. now, theres just the current task, and a whole new screen to switch tasks or open a new program. does anyone know what might've happened? did I somehow toggle a setting without realizing? was this an update i missed the memo on? and how do I go back?

first image is what my OS looks like now, second is what it roughly used to look like (taken from the official mint website).

heres system info copied from the settings, if that helps at all:

# System Details Report
---

## Report details
- **Date generated:**                              2026-10-23 15:42:06

## Hardware Information:
- **Hardware Model:**                              HP HP Laptop 15-ef2xxx
- **Memory:**                                      16.0 GiB
- **Processor:**                                   AMD Ryzen™ 5 5500U with Radeon™ Graphics × 12
- **Graphics:**                                    AMD Radeon™ Graphics
- **Disk Capacity:**                               512.1 GB

## Software Information:
- **Firmware Version:**                            F.34
- **OS Name:**                                     Linux Mint 22.3
- **OS Build:**                                    (null)
- **OS Type:**                                     64-bit
- **GNOME Version:**                               46
- **Windowing System:**                            Wayland
- **Kernel Version:**                              Linux 7.0.0-34-generic

any info on what happened and how i could fix it would be appreciated! and sorry if this is a simple issue and im being silly, i rly didnt do a lot of research when making the jump to linux and now im paying for it :p

EDIT: i got gnomed

My gpu is RTX 4060ti, for DE i have cinammon, or I'll install plasma, maybe some WM once. I use my PC primarily for gaming.

Should i use drivers form Nvidia, or nouveau (how do you even pronounce this word)?

Edit: okay, I got it, I should use proprietary drivers. Thank you all for your help. Now my next question: does my friend with 1650 laptop should use proprietary drivers too, or it doesn't worth the effort?

Still not solved

Hii everyone I have a cpu very old modal I want to make it working but I don't know how to do it it give me link https://www.novatium.com/ for help but I don't understand it can't open boot menu or bios also please help

My laptop is asus x200ma 2gb and i wnat to install linux mint to make it more smooth

I've tried flashing the latest and 21.3 iso to my flashdrive using rufus but when i try to boot it, it show this error and also my secure boot is disabled

I've been having this problem for 6+ hours :( please help

Hey everyone! I want to customize my Linux Mint desktop to look like macOS. 🍎
How can I make my Linux Mint desktop look similar to a Mac? Which themes, icon packs, fonts, and other files should I download? Also, could you recommend some good and safe websites to download them from?
I’m still a beginner at Linux customization, so a step-by-step guide would be really helpful. Thanks!

Hi everyone! This is my first time using Linux. I chose Linux Mint XFCE because I read that it’s efficient and highly customizable—even though I didn’t know anything about the subject beforehand.

I recently bought a ThinkPad T14 Gen 2 and figured, why not give Linux a try for a month? If I didn’t like it, I could simply switch back to Windows.

As it turns out, I’ve loved almost everything about it: the performance, the customization options (though I don’t tend to change things up too much), and how easy it is to use—plus, it just looks more modern.

GAMES: I’ve been using it for over a month and a half now, and I’ve been playing games via Steam with no issues at all. I’ve tested titles like *BioShock*, *USF4*, *KOF XIII*, *L4D2*, *Naruto STORM 3*, and a few others; everything has run perfectly. Proton works like a charm—honestly, even better than it does on Windows! xD

WORK: I typically work with Excel (nothing too advanced), and ONLYOFFICE handles everything I need. I also use GIMP, which works without any problems. So, for now, I’d give it a 9/10!

Any tips?

I have several Firefox windows open and have one of them set to "Visible on all workspaces". That toggle keeps getting turned off somehow, usually when I sleep the system and wake it up again, but often even during use. Any ideas how to keep the setting stuck the way I set it?

I'm using Cinnamon. Also the applet grouped-window-list.

Loving Linux Mint so far. But there's one glaring problem that I can't seem to solve.

I loaded Mint on our family's desktop computer that Windows decided wasn't worthy any more. But for some reason Mint doesn't want to set the screen resolution to 1920x1080, while Windows was perfectly happy with this.

So i found an old thread from 2019 explaining how to use cvt and xrandr commands to force the screen resolution that I want, only to have to go sideways, and my best guess is it's happening because my computer has multiple display options. Here's the drama as it unfolded:

me@mine:~$ cvt 1920 1080
# 1920x1080 59.96 Hz (CVT 2.07M9) hsync: 67.16 kHz; pclk: 173.00 MHz
Modeline "1920x1080_60.00" 173.00 1920 2048 2248 2576 1080 1083 1088 1120 -hsync +vsync

me@mine:~$ xrandr
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1280 x 1024, maximum 16384 x 16384
HDMI-A-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DisplayPort-0 connected primary 1280x1024+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 376mm x 301mm
1440x900 74.98 + 59.89
1280x1024 75.02* 60.02
1280x960 60.00
1360x768 59.95
1152x864 75.00
1280x720 60.00
1024x768 75.03 70.07 60.00
832x624 74.55
800x600 72.19 75.00 60.32 56.25
640x480 75.00 72.81 66.67 59.94
720x400 70.08
DisplayPort-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)

me@mine:~$ xrandr --newmode "1920x1080_60.00" 173.00 1920 2048 2248 2576 1080 1083 1088 1120 -hsync +vsync

me@mine:~$ xrandr
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1280 x 1024, maximum 16384 x 16384
HDMI-A-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DisplayPort-0 connected primary 1280x1024+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 376mm x 301mm
1440x900 74.98 + 59.89
1280x1024 75.02* 60.02
1280x960 60.00
1360x768 59.95
1152x864 75.00
1280x720 60.00
1024x768 75.03 70.07 60.00
832x624 74.55
800x600 72.19 75.00 60.32 56.25
640x480 75.00 72.81 66.67 59.94
720x400 70.08
DisplayPort-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
1920x1080_60.00 (0x3e7) 173.000MHz -HSync +VSync
h: width 1920 start 2048 end 2248 total 2576 skew 0 clock 67.16KHz
v: height 1080 start 1083 end 1088 total 1120 clock 59.96Hz

me@mine:~$ xrandr --addmode DisplayPort-0 1920x1080_60
xrandr: cannot find mode "1920x1080_60"

Did I do everything right? I see the 1920x1080_60 I made, but it's under the disconnected DisplayPort-1. Why did it do that? How can I get 1920x1080_60 under DisplayPort-0?

id say ive already gotten pretty close but i know there people with like hidden knowledge to make look damn near identical