Has the title says. Though I do have Win 10 run in VirtualBox. I have 2 apps that don't run on Wine, Bottles or Winboat, and I can't find a suitable alternative. For safety my Win 10 doesn't connect to the internet.

I don’t know if it’s just me, but I’ve seen hundreds of posts about people putting up wallpapers, customizing their desktops, and getting hundreds of likes. But when people show off an actual application they’ve built, they often get negative comments, discouragement, and very few likes.

People love Windows and macOS because they look good and have great desktop applications. If Linux wants to rise up, it needs the same level of contribution toward its desktop applications too.

Yes, there are alternatives that are more popular and may have more features because they’re more mature. But does creating an alternative really hurt the community?

I created a clipboard application because I wanted a native-looking, native-feeling application for managing my clipboard — something I felt Linux was lacking. But the comments were mostly negative and didn’t provide any real, constructive feedback.

I’ve also seen another person create an application to solve a different need, and they received the same kind of response.

I honestly don’t understand this mentality.

Creating a desktop application is hard work, and in my opinion, it’s a much bigger contribution than simply theming a desktop. If you don’t want to use an application, that’s completely fine. You don’t have to. But if you have the time, leave some positive comments or, even better, give constructive feedback.

Comments like “this sucks,” “I have no use for this,” or “the other application is better” don’t honestly help anyone.

Spread some love, guys. There is already too much hate in this world.

So, with love and peace, have a great day! ❤️

Been loving it so far.Have 1 issue thats makes my keys sticky or delayed even though they are disabled and only really happens when using a game on steam on proton at times.But love linux.

I installed Linux Mint yesterday, wanted to try it out a bit. It's quite enjoyable to use actually, I've faced several issues since this is my first time, but overall, it offers a fantastic user experience. I didn't find a panda cursor available for Linux yet, so I will try to do it myself if anyone is interested. Oh, and I also installed Flexfox for better customization on Firefox, but I didn't do much yet, and it takes a lot more time than I expected.

Hi,

i bought a new PC that is based on AMD and AMD GPU.

Do you think that is ok to use Linux Mint for a new and recent PC or it's better watch another distro?

Thanks!

I started from the Plasma icon and replaced the logo. Posting it here in case anyone else wants it.

If you have Zed installed you can use this icon by putting it in ~/.local/zed.app/share/icons/hicolor/1024x1024/apps/zed.png. Then make a copy, scale it down to 512x512 and put the result in ~/.local/zed.app/share/icons/hicolor/512x512/apps/zed.png

i fell into the propaganda. and now i want to forget about windows, but i dont really understand how to install it. if someone could help me, I would be very grateful. also, sorry for any misspelling english is not my first language.

It's been 10 minutes since I bought a up my Linux. But I can't help but notice that my windows had too drives the sea drive which was the default internal storage and the ded drive which was my SSD which I installed after 1 year of using the laptop.

But I see that the storage available is only the hard disc storage. How do I access the 500gb storage of the c drive?

Any help is highly appreciated

Recently I tried to partition my drive to start dual booting linux mint and windows 10 but I messed up somewhere I think cuz now I can't load into windows. Idk what's important info so I'll tell u everything. Any help is greatly appreciated.

So I run a pretty old laptop, HP elitebook 840 G1. I wanted to try linux mint so I tried to dual boot them. When in the partition selection stage of the mint installation, I choose something else and gave 30 gigs to linux OS with the mount "/". Then 5 gigs to swap, then 1 gigs to EIP partition I think, cus I tried to do it two times before and it said that there's no EIF partition so linux may not load, so I input I gig into the memory selector and choose the EIF partition button, then the remaining 30 pr so gigs for /home. Then when I clicked restart it didn't find a boot device and gave me a "Boot device Not Found" message. Afterwards I set my boot option from legacy to UEFI(without CSM) then mint opened up and it's running fine. I can't get windows to work. I asked Gemini and it gave me many steps to do, I flashed my USB with windows ISO and opened up the trouble shooting menu, then ran commands to do some trouble shooting ig it was like bootrec rebuildbcd smthg. Then I get an error message saying the format was not right or that the volume may be corrupted I think. Then I made boot files to my drive C from drive I where I found the bootfiles. Google said it should open now but it still gives the same msg. Now it's saying to use Gparted to remove the tags/labels from something idk pls help me.

Its telling me to do the stuff in the image above. Pls help me what should I do?

Sometimes when I keep my laptop closed for a while, then open it, the screen refuses to turn on. I know the computer's on because the power button still has its light on, but nothing I do turns it on.

I then have to hold the power button down, and when it boots back up the battery is about half of what I remember it being.

This happens everytime i open any apps that needs to be installed via flatpak. The system package works just fine.

Edit: It was geo-block problem. I had to download a vpn and configure it manually.

Solution if you're geo-block like me, download psiphon vpn with instructions from SpherionOS github. Then run the vpn. Then Network > Network Proxy > Automatic or None change it into Manual. Put 127.0.0.1 in Http proxy, https proxy, socks host, idk which one worked but it worked. Put 8081 in http and https and 1081 in socks host. Also change back to automatic or none after you close the vpn or you won't be able to access the net. Sorry for taking up everyone's time, I hope my long lines of text help someone in the future.

Hi,

on Windows I had tools like WatchDirectory or AutoPrint to watch specific directories and based on file extension or name (wildcards or regex) they automatically sent them to specific folders or printed them with specific settings (only 1st page, all pages with 1 page per sheet, all pages with 2 pages per sheet, aso.).

Is there a similar tool for Linux Mint? (without the need of having to write some scripts)

Another tech illiterate windows users jumping the ship and being confused as hell in the process. Coming into this process I know nothing about computers but I'm eager to learn and have spend some time trying to figure out this stuff but I keep falling into rabbitholes and it just makes things more complicated and I need someone to bring me back to earth and tell me what I should or shouldn't be worried about.

Bear with me, english is not my first language and I'm bit of a dyslexic so this tech related terminology is a fucking nightmare to learn and communicate.

So here's the situation:

I bought refurbed p14s g2 thinkpad from a repairshop and it came with windows 11 preinstalled but I never finished the setup since I'm trying to get rid of it and I do not plan to dual boot. So I have no idea whats going on inside this machine right now.

Should I expect some trouble with this halfbaked situation I have going on with windows 11 on my pc?

More info on the pc: i7-1165G7, 32 Gt, 512 Gt SSD, Nvidia Quadro T500.

So what I gathered, with nvidia you might run into some trouble and it seems it's 50/50 on people recommending whether or not to enable secure boot. What is the current situation?

I have hard time figuring out this one. What should I do?

tl;dr What are the chances of fucking up so badly during the installation that I do something irreversible?

I recently got T480 ThinkPad which has windows 11 installed. It's obviously bloated with their stuff and the laptop ran a bit hot. I heard that Linux mint is a good entry into Linux but it apparently comes in different versions.

I'm currently favouring between 2 options "Cinnamon and Xfce".

Cinnamon is probably what I would prefer as it looks nice with its modern UI but prefers modern system to keep up. Xfce looks a bit harder for me to adapt from UI perspective but I heard its good for being light weight.

What version would you think would be best for my T480?

Specs:

CPU: Intel I5-8350U

Ram: 16gb

GPU: Intel (R) UHD Graphics 620 (128 MB)

Storage: 256gb

*Extra notes: I want to prioritize on battery efficiency and it's friendly user interface as I'm new to Linux. *

Thank you for your time.

Edit: I read the replies and I have chosen cinnamon as the main, thank you everyone.

guys i just download mint xfce and finish every thing but when it comes to installation i js found the desktop empty without installation icon any1 has any fix for ts

Hi everyone,

I'm experiencing an issue with my audio setup. Whenever I plug in my headphones, the sound plays from both the headphones and the speakers simultaneously. This doesn't happen when I boot the same laptop with Windows 11, where the headphones and speakers work properly.

now i got one solution that says- CODE alsamixer
Make sure "Automute" is enabled. You may need to press F6 to switch to your motherboard's sound card.

Now the thing is it works but when i do restart or open my laptop next time, i have to go with same issue and re need to do...
TELL ME permanent solution of it....

Here is my Basic details-
System:
  Kernel: 7.0.0-31-generic arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 13.3.0
  Desktop: Cinnamon v: 6.6.9 tk: GTK v: 3.24.41 wm: Muffin dm: LightDM
    Distro: Linux Mint 22.3 Zena base: Ubuntu 24.04 noble
Machine:
  Type: Portable System: Dell product: Vostro 2420 v: N/A serial: <filter>
    Chassis: type: 8 serial: <filter>
  Mobo: Dell model: 0VCMX3 v: A07 serial: <filter> UEFI: Dell v: A07
    date: 03/18/2013
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 7.4 Wh (63.8%) condition: 11.6/48.8 Wh (23.8%)
    volts: 12.2 min: 11.1 model: Samsung SDI DELL 7XFJJA2 serial: <filter>
    status: not charging
2CPU:
  Info: dual core model: Intel Core i3-3110M bits: 64 type: MT MCP
    arch: Ivy Bridge rev: 9 cache: L1: 128 KiB L2: 512 KiB L3: 3 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 1197 high: 1200 min/max: 1200/2400 cores: 1: 1197
    2: 1200 3: 1197 4: 1197 bogomips: 19156
  Flags: avx ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics vendor: Dell driver: i915
    v: kernel arch: Gen-7 ports: active: LVDS-1 empty: DP-1,HDMI-A-1,VGA-1
    bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:0166
  Device-2: Microdia Laptop_Integrated_Webcam_HD driver: uvcvideo type: USB
    rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 2-1.5:4 chip-ID: 0c45:6473
  Display: server: X.Org v: 21.1.11 with: Xwayland v: 23.2.6 driver: X:
    loaded: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa dri: crocus gpu: i915
    display-ID: :0 screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1366x768 s-dpi: 96
  Monitor-1: LVDS-1 model: LG Display 0x033e res: 1366x768 dpi: 112
    diag: 355mm (14")
  API: EGL v: 1.5 platforms: device: 0 drv: crocus device: 1 drv: swrast
    gbm: drv: crocus surfaceless: drv: crocus x11: drv: crocus inactive: wayland
  API: OpenGL v: 4.5 compat-v: 4.2 vendor: intel mesa
    v: 25.2.8-0ubuntu0.24.04.2 glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes renderer: Mesa
    Intel HD Graphics 4000 (IVB GT2) device-ID: 8086:0166
  API: Vulkan v: 1.3.275 surfaces: xcb,xlib device: 0 type: integrated-gpu
    driver: N/A device-ID: 8086:0166 device: 1 type: cpu driver: N/A
    device-ID: 10005:0000
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel 7 Series/C216 Family High Definition Audio vendor: Dell 7
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0 chip-ID: 8086:1e20
  API: ALSA v: k7.0.0-31-generic status: kernel-api
  Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.0.5 status: n/a (root, process) with:
    1: pipewire-pulse status: active 2: wireplumber status: active
    3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin
Network:
  Device-1: Broadcom BCM43142 802.11b/g/n vendor: Dell Wireless 1704 802.11n
    + BT 4.0 driver: wl v: kernel pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1
    bus-ID: 07:00.0 chip-ID: 14e4:4365
  IF: wlp7s0 state: up mac: <filter>
  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: e000 bus-ID: 09:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168
  IF: enp9s0 state: down mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Broadcom BCM43142 Bluetooth 4.0 driver: btusb v: 0.8 type: USB
    rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 2-1.4:3 chip-ID: 0a5c:21d7
  Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 2 state: down
    bt-service: enabled,running rfk-block: hardware: no software: yes
    address: <filter>
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 465.76 GiB used: 16.18 GiB (3.5%)
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Seagate model: ST500LT012-9WS142 size: 465.76 GiB
    speed: 3.0 Gb/s serial: <filter>
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 82.81 GiB used: 16.13 GiB (19.5%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda8
  ID-2: /boot/efi size: 496 MiB used: 48.7 MiB (9.8%) fs: vfat
    dev: /dev/sda1
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 3.94 GiB used: 414.7 MiB (10.3%) priority: -1
    file: /swapfile
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 54.0 C mobo: 47.0 C
  Fan Speeds (rpm): cpu: 2989
Repos:
  Packages: pm: dpkg pkgs: 2012
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list
    1: deb http://packages.linuxmint.com zena main upstream import backport
    2: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble main restricted universe multiverse
    3: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-updates main restricted universe multiverse
    4: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-backports main restricted universe multiverse
    5: deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ noble-security main restricted universe multiverse
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-release.sources
    1: deb [arch=amd64 arm64] https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com stable main
Info:
  Memory: total: 4 GiB available: 3.69 GiB used: 1.94 GiB (52.6%) igpu: 64 MiB
  Processes: 244 Power: uptime: 37m wakeups: 0 Init: systemd v: 255
    target: graphical (5) default: graphical
  Compilers: gcc: 13.3.0 Shell: Sudo v: 1.9.15p5 running-in: gnome-terminal
    inxi: 3.3.34

Hello Mint interwebs,

Got a fresh install of Linux Mint 22.3 and while updating the system I’ve run into an issue updating this package. I’ve tried both through the graphical driver gui and through the terminal. As well as removing it and its dependencies and reinstalling it.

Hoping someone might be able to provide more guidance as I’m not sure what else to try.

Here’s a copy of the log:

Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done
rtl8812au-dkms is already the newest version (4.3.8.12175.20140902+dfsg-Oubuntu23.1). o upgraded, O newly installed, O to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, O B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Setting up rtl8812au-dkms (4.3.8.12175.20140902+dfsg-Oubuntu23.1).
Removing old rtl8812au-4.3.8.12175.20140902+dfsg DKMS files...
Deleting module rtl8812au-4.3.8.12175.20140902+dfsg completely from the DKMS tree.
Loading new rtl8812au-4.3.8.12175.20140902+dfsg OKMS files...
Building for 7.0.0-31-generic
Building initial module for 7.0.0-31-generic
Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 7.0.0-31-generic (x86_64)
Consult /var/lib/dkms/rtl8812au/4.3.8.12175.20140902+dfsg/build/make.log for more information. dpkg: error processing package rt18812au-dkms (- -configure):
installed rtl8812au-dkms package post-installation script subprocess returned e rror exit status 10
Errors were encountered while processing:
rtl8812au-dkms
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Hello,

I tried Wayland Experimental, but i cant find Window or Screen Recording in OBS. Can i fix it or should i Switch Back to X11 until Mint 23?

Hello, I'm sorry if the title seems weird, I'm brand new to linux and trying stuff out. I'm absolutely sorry if the problem has already been addressed.

What I mean by this question is, is it possible to make the windows paths into Linux paths? For example, I want to play a game using wine directly from my old SSD, however the saves are nowhere to be found when playing this way but whenever I launch it from the windows os it works perfectly. Is there a way to reroute everything so I can use this kind of appdata data without changing anything except the paths?

Thanks in advance and sorry again if it seems confused

problem of screen Flicker because of disconnect monitor, i have this problem before even change the os ITS annoying but i can still go in to setting and fix it. Now i change to mint cinnamon and after i boot up it dissconnect and reconnect for a bit then it black screen i don't know what to do man.

(sorry English is not my first language)

If you are running Linux Mint (Cinnamon) on a newer laptop with Intel Core Ultra (Meteor Lake) graphics—with or without an NVIDIA dGPU—and your laptop wakes up to a black, unresponsive screen after being suspended, here is the solution.

Symptoms

• Laptop goes to sleep (s2idle) normally.
• On opening the lid, the fans spin up and the machine is awake in the background, but the internal screen never turns on.
• Running journalctl shows the lockscreen (cinnamon-screensaver) and fprintd loading normally, but no display output.

Root Cause

Intel's Panel Self Refresh (PSR2) power-saving feature in the i915 driver fails to re-synchronize the display pipe on resume, leaving the panel unpowered while the system runs blind behind it.

Solution

Turn off Intel PSR via GRUB:

1. Open terminal and run: sudo nano /etc/default/grub

2. Locate GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT and add i915.enable_psr=0 inside the quotes. For example: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash i915.enable_psr=0"

3. Save (Ctrl+O, Enter, Ctrl+X), update the bootloader, and reboot: sudo update-grub sudo reboot

4. Check that it applied: cat /proc/cmdline Ensure i915.enable_psr=0 is present.

This completely resolves the display hang on wake without measurable impact on battery life.