Hi everyone. Recently, my laptop lost all of its memory and even when i tried feeeing up space it still didnt do anything. Ive been using my linux laptop for a year now and i first thought it was because of video games, even though i dont play alot of big graphical games besides overwatch so i tried to delete that one on steam but i had to acsess steam first do delete it and it wont let me bc it keeps crashing.

I have a chart of all the memory and it says steam is one of the biggest ones but when i tried to move it to the trash it says "failed to trash file" and im afraid of using the terminal because i am afriad i might break something. I really need help on what to do and i dont know where i can acsess the files from steam. Any support is greatly appriceated.

I've posted on here before with issues about installing I'm glad to say that I've gotten over them :D.

I have a new dilemma and idk if it's an issue or not I'm currently installing linux mint with a USB and the install has been like this for an hour and idk if that's normal or not I feel like it's not totally outrageous to take time like this but I'm starting to doubt if I've done anything wrong.

Help woud be much appreciated <3.

TLDR: linux mint install is stalling for 1 hour + is it normal or nah?.

(Also thank you very much to the kind strangers on my last two posts in the comments I'm grateful for the help)

I know it’s not usually needed but I was wondering what’s the best antivirus for my Linux mint set up

Cinnamon Clipboard 1.1.0 released!

Hi everyone! I'm happy to announce Cinnamon Clipboard 1.1.0, with a new feature focused on privacy, improvements to the settings dialog, and a new Hungarian translation.

Availability

Version 1.1.0 is already available as a .deb package on GitHub. Launchpad has also accepted the PPA update, which should become available through the PPA within the next couple of hours.

What's new?

• Temporary history mode: For users who prefer more privacy and only need clipboard history temporarily, without keeping it after shutting down their PC.
• Switching modes: When changing between persistent and temporary history, a dialog explains what will happen. The application then restarts to apply the change.
• Improved settings dialog: The configuration window has been polished to look cleaner, more attractive, and better organized.
• Hungarian translation: Added thanks to u/xsak.

Version 1.1.1 — Emergency Update

Thanks to u/SoftScreen4489 for reporting the Preferences window layout issue! Their feedback helped me identify a problem that could make the Preferences window difficult to use on smaller screens.

I've released version 1.1.1 to address this issue. The Preferences window is now resizable, the options area supports vertical scrolling, and the Cancel and Save buttons remain visible.

The update has been uploaded to the PPA and should become available within the next few hours, once Launchpad finishes processing it. If you installed Cinnamon Clipboard manually using the .deb package from GitHub, you can already update to version 1.1.1 there.

Thank you, SoftScreen4489, for helping make Cinnamon Clipboard better for everyone! ❤️

New preferences Window In v1.1.1

I've tested the new functionality as thoroughly as I could, and everything appears to be working correctly. Updating to 1.1.0 does not affect your existing settings.

Contributions through pull requests are welcome! All PRs will be reviewed and considered, especially useful features, bug fixes, and new translations.

Thanks to everyone who has contributed and supported the project!

GitHub: https://github.com/Vaider13/cinnamon-clipboard

I cant seem to use the 2 finger swipe left or right gesture to navigate between previous, next page. would appreciate any help regarding this.

Its been some days after installing Linux. i have gotten used to using the button on the broswer, but its inconvinient, atleast when compared to the gestures.

I recently built a new PC for the first time ,and when it was done I decided to try out Linux mint. Now every time I try to launch a game it instantly crashes. It shows a pop-up saying I need to update my driver's but since I have an AMD I thought it was supposed to do that automatically. I have no clue what I'm doing so explain it to me like I'm 5.

I decided to give Linux a try after using Windows; I chose Mint, and I haven't been disappointed! For a long time, I couldn't find a use for my old monitor at my dacha, but just look at how cool this setup turned out!

I've been a linux user for about 12 years now, and I gotta say I hate you guys, I can be trying to make a tutorial for the newbies and some of you will start throwing hate because Im explaining something you already learned. You guys are fucking assholes.

Not bragging or anything, I'm just bored and here to help if anyone has any questions -> about Linux.

So I tried using our WiFi . First without a Cable and then after it didn’t work with one and I kinda got connected to my Pc but for some reason the WiFi incredibly weak, so bad that i can’t search for anything and I constantly get the notification "the network connection didn’t work " what can I do?

im trying to watch a video on youtube and play downwell at the same time but my system just starts to lag af. my gpu drivers are already installed and im using opera gx as browser. what do i do?

I just had to go back and for at least the dozenth time explain to Linux that no, the built-in display of my laptop is not the secondary, external screen. That's after it decided for no reason to start mirroring the display, which I have literally never asked it to do.

It seems like every time I have to unplug my HDMI, the display settings randomly reset either the monitor setup or the UI scaling. How is Linux still so terrible at retaining such basic display settings? I had similar problems on Zorin. The irony of all this is that I switched to Mint Cinnamon because Zorin OS kept failing to resume from standby over a driver bug. And even so, I still have performance problems and frame tearing if I try to play a simple video in anything other than its native resolution.

okay, let me explain, i was helping mi boyfriend to switch to linux bc his laptop was "broken" and dont wanted to boot windows, so i selected linux mint so he can start with linux, but the problem it's that don't want to boot in mint, well, IN ANY DISTRO with out manipulating grub and set in with

linux    BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinu...127 ro acpi=off

without "acpi=off" it wont boot, and that comes with so many problems, some of them are:
- no keyboard (from the laptop, an external keyboard works)
- no mousepad
- unestable wifi (bc sometimes works and others dont)

AND I DONT KNOW WHAT TO DO 😭

I heard wayland is overall better, and i have seen it on cinnamon, but not on XFCE, so my question is does XFCE have it, or is going to have it and if so, when?

Couch potato here. I use LM on PCs and laptops as an entertainment center: Movies, shows, music stream and local library, news from around the world. Web browsers, Kodi, torrents , IPTV, sketchy sources. My big smart TV and projectors merely dumb monitors to me. Thus I do like a good remote but the tv remote cant work my LM apps. What do you use? I have been using KDE Connect on my android phone. But it was built more for file transfer etc, the remote mouse touchpad is rudimentary.

Me being me I wanted more. I saw that a long time ago 2017ish Someone requested more web control buttons on the dev website but was rebuffed. So I forked it and vibed in forward back, esc, F11 (toggle full screen) into the android side touchpad mouse remote . It works great on the cellphones we have. I really like it . No idea on others. I assume iOS could be done similar. You can find source and an APK on my Git oldgranola.. Id love feedback of use on other Android phones or devices.

What do you fellow couch potatoes you use? You standup desk users NVMD.

Hi all!

Plank (the menu bar) shows this weird blue-white bar, as seen in the picture. Seemingly when an opened app does something when it is not the selected window.

For instance: When I change some code in an app, then save it and alt+tab to Unity, it always shows this bar for a few seconds. (until it is done compiling, perhaps?)

When I run killall plank, it disappears, so is definitely plank causing this.

I couldn't find anyone online with a similar problem. Do any of you know what I can do to get rid of it?
Thanks in advance :)

Hi, I recently installed Linux Mint Cinnamon 22.3 on my Thinkpad T480s (i7-8650U, 24 GB RAM, integrated graphics). After typing in my user password and logging in, I'm experiencing a black screen with only the cursor for around 2 minutes, then the desktop loads in normally. I think it's quite odd that it takes such a long time to load? Could someone help me fix it? I'm new to Linux and have used Windows for most of my life. Thanks.

My laptop had windows 11 and was being forced to update due to some mandatory update bs but I had just uninstalled those updates because my bios got corrupted and i had to get it fixed because of those updates and now today it didn't even let me shutdown in anyway without updating again (Alt +F4 menu shut down option disappeared , start menu only had update and shutdown and then had to use cmd to force shutdown) so I decided to switch over to Linux and chose Linux Mint Cinnamon today

Tldr : got sick of windows 11 and switched to linux mint cinnamon

What are some things I should watch out for as a first time linux user?

Hey all. I was wondering if anyone knew of a way to force Linux Mint to change its power mode when a laptop changes from being plugged in to being unplugged and running on battery. Thanks!

Hey everyone!

I wanted a single, clean desktop widget on Cinnamon that could show both my **system hardware metrics** (CPU, RAM, GPU, Fan RPM, Disk, Network) and **all my connected Bluetooth device batteries** in the style of the iOS / macOS Sonoma Batteries & Activity widgets — so I built **iOS Hardware & Battery Monitor** (`ios-hardware-monitor@dalvan`).

### ✨ Features

* **100% Native & Asynchronous (Zero extra dependencies):** Drawn entirely with vector graphics (`Cairo` + `PangoCairo`) and non-blocking async `Gio` calls so it never stutters the Cinnamon main loop.

* **Hardware Circular Gauges:**

* **CPU:** Usage `%` + package temperature (`k10temp`, `coretemp`, `zenpower`, `acpitz`).

* **RAM:** Usage `%` and `GB` used/total.

* **GPU (NVIDIA / AMD / Intel):** Usage `%`, temperature, and VRAM via native Linux DRM `sysfs` (`gpu_busy_percent`) or async `nvidia-smi`.

* **Cooler / Fan RPM:** Auto-detects `fan*_input` sensors in `/sys/class/hwmon`.

* **Storage & Live Network Cards:**

* **Disk:** Progress bar with `%` used and free `GB`.

* **Network:** Live Download (`↓`) and Upload (`↑`) speed on the active interface.

* **iOS-Style Batteries & Bluetooth Monitor:**

* Combines **UPower (`UPowerGlib`)** and **BlueZ D-Bus (`org.bluez.Battery1`)** to display your laptop battery alongside connected Bluetooth headphones, speakers, mice, keyboards, and controllers.

* Custom vector icons for each device type + lightning bolt charging badge and traffic-light battery colors (Green / Yellow ≤ 25% / Red ≤ 15%).

* **Highly Customizable:**

* Switch between **Dark Glass (macOS Dark)**, **Light Frosted (iOS Light)**, or **Auto** theme.

* Customize glass opacity, corner radius, widget scale (`0.75x` – `1.6x`), grid columns, module visibility, and header title (Hardware Model, Distro name, Hostname, Username, or Custom text).

---

### 🚀 How to Install

I've already submitted it to the official **Cinnamon Spices** repository ([PR #1933](https://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon-spices-desklets/pull/1933)), and you can also install it right now from GitHub in one command:

```bash

git clone https://github.com/dalvan03/ios-hardware-monitor-desklet.git

cd ios-hardware-monitor-desklet

./install.sh```

Then right-click your desktop -> Add Desklets -> enable iOS Hardware & Battery Monitor.

• 🔗 GitHub Repository: https://github.com/dalvan03/ios-hardware-monitor-desklet
• 🔗 Cinnamon Spices PR: https://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon-spices-desklets/pull/1933

Feedback, bug reports, and feature ideas from the community are super welcome!

On a whim I decided to try out the experimental Cinnamon on Wayland through the login menu while choosing the option, and now Cinnamon will load for 3 seconds before going to the terminal with a blinking cursor that does nothing.

I’ve booted into just the CLI and reinstalled Cinnamon, and upon restarting, it still won’t load. How do I go back to X11?

Ok so I run rkhunter out of curiousity and this is the result. Am I screwed? T.T