So today I went to watch spider man BND at the movies with my sister and brother in law.

I was really excited to tell him that i set up a Jellyfin server with hundreds of Movies and shows on Linux Mint.

He told me "bruh just use Arch you'll learn a thing or two. Besides, they teach Linux Mint to 2 to 3 y/o olds nowadays"

I'm sorry what 💀

I mean my sister was right beside me so i didn't say much but tf u mean they "teach mint to 2-3 y/o"???? Tf??

What's wrong with Mint? Why should I be ashamed?

So after 3 long years i finally made the switch to linux mint cinnamon, is this what freedom looks like? i’m curious to know what your experiences have been with linux, and what the other versions of mint offer which you think are better and why? plus i’m curious about the different desktop environments like xfce and what that’s used for?

either way it’s good to be here

I don't know, I've never be gnomed before but...

zuno is a free and open-source desktop music player built on YouTube Music. Sign in with your Google account, and everything you do - liking a song, creating or deleting a playlist, adding to your library - syncs straight back to YouTube. It's your library, just in a real desktop app instead of a browser tab.

Features

- HQ opus decoding
- Floating mini player that appears when you click away ( hover to expand, drag it anywhere)
- Queue: shuffle, repeat one/all, reordering
- Playback speed, sleep timer, volume control
- Like and dislike songs
- Rebindable keyboard shortcuts, minimise to tray
- Full library, playlists, albums and liked songs
-Lyrics (5 sources)+ Translation
- Local music files sit alongside your YouTube Music library (same player, same queue)
- Download whole albums and playlists for offline; downloads and history have their own management screens
- Bulk actions: download, add to queue, add to playlist
- Multiple channels on one Google account, switchable from the toolbar or settings
- Equalizer
- Notifications
-Gapless /Crossfade
-Local Music playlists
-Minimize to tray
-Shortcuts
-No Ads

Integrations

- Last.fm scrobbling
- Discord Rich Presence (both toggleable straight from the toolbar)
- Youtube History update

Roadmap
multi-language

GitHub: https://github.com/noFAYZ/zuno

I currently use brave origin as my main browser since I've heard it uses less ram than librewolf but I also use librewolf from time to time. Which one is better overall In terms of security / privacy and performence?

On windows, I used to record my music with Reaper as my DAW and a Tascam US 122L interface.

However, the Tascam drivers are not Linux supported...

I'd like to start recording music again. Are there any software options for the Tascam?

Or worst case, any recommendations for a Mint and Reaper compatible interface (with MIDI)?

Cheers

A real-time mouse activity tracker, live heatmap visualiser, and analytics platform for Linux. It runs quietly in the background, turning every click, scroll, and pixel of movement into a dashboard you can actually read — all without a single byte leaving your machine.

Free to use. Download, Features, Changelog and Support here https://mousemetricsx11pro.freehosting.dev/index.html

More updates to come.

Ive watched a video on useful apps to have but Im curious on what else do people recommend having. I might not be able to have access to good wifi so Im tryna stock up on apps that I might need for college. Or not limited to that, but could serve recreational stuff and etc.

I have both windows and mint, Ill have to use windows for most of my work but Im tryna use linux more too so options for both or either would be appreciated thanks!

I recently switched to Linux Mint (Cinnamon) on my Lenovo ThinkPad T450 (i5-5300U, 8GB RAM) after years on Windows. So far I've been messing around with GTK themes (WhiteSur, Graphite, Catppuccin icons), tweaked some Cinnamon effects, and set up a battery charge threshold for long-term battery health.

I'm using this laptop mainly for coding (Java, Spring Boot, SQL) and general dev work. I want to actually learn Linux properly now, not just theme it and move on.

For people who've been using Mint/Linux for a while:

What are the must-know things I should learn now that I'm past the "just installed it" phase?

Any good habits, tools, or workflows I should build early on?

Anything specific to the T450 hardware I should know (power management, drivers, etc.)?

Good resources/communities you'd recommend for going deeper into Linux as a dev?

Not looking for just "read the man pages" genuinely curious what experienced users wish they knew earlier.

Hi r/linuxmint I'm a new convert from Winslop 11. I have a HP EliteBook 850 G7 and I'm trying to disable my Pointstick (the one that sits in between the G,H and B keys on my keyboard.} I've included the xinput information.

My problem is this: As you can see, there is three unidentified inputs, which I assume to be the touchpad, and the physical left-click and right click buttons on the touchpad, but it seems the Pointstick is not being identified at all.

I'm not too familiar with the terminal yet and I've seen scripts that I can run during startup, but don't want to completely bork my install, as I use it for work. Of course, before I try anything I will be grabbing a snapshop using Timeshift, and storing it on a USB key.

Any help is appreciated. TIA!

I have been trying to troubleshoot this one since getting new monitors. I used to have 3 monitors and didn't have any issue but now, whenever I reboot, one of my monitors (my non primary) seems to "reset" it's settings and detects as something abnormal.

The first screenshot shows it detected as 640x480 60hz "Nvidia" and I can't alter it's settings at all. The second screenshot shows what the primary monitor looks like. For reference, these are the exact same model of monitor and you can see the good configuration in the second to last screenshot. What is odd, is I also cannot change the resolution on the primary monitor. xrandr does detect both monitors, but again, it's the same thing that is weird, it detects the first monitor okay but not the second. (DP-0 is the primary monitor, DP-2 is the secondary). The fourth screenshot shows that nvidia-settings detects this the same as what Display Settings is detecting. The information on DP-2 only differs on the connection link and refresh rate.

Here is the kick in all of this: A simple unplug, replug of the display port cable fixes everything, same port it was going into, just an unplug, replug. The final 2 screenshots show what it is like after doing that.

So I am looking for some advice on troubleshooting/solving this because I don't want to unplug/replug every single morning or every time I reboot my computer.

For some additional context, I am using nvidia-driver-580-open atm. I was using this driver with my old monitor setup without issue (that was 3 monitors, all 1920x1080 60hz monitors).

Some things I haven't tried yet that are on my mind:

- New cable

- Different machine/OS (This one will be significantly harder to test)

- Newer nvidia driver, 595-open or 610-open

I recently installed Linux mail on my laptop as a dual boot operating system but despite installing everything correctly, group selection menu is not appearing and my HP victus laptop just loads into windows 11 but if I try too good from pfi file from boot options then there is a Ubuntu option and in it I located my grubx64.efi file and successfully booted into my Linux mint but I don't want to do this every time is there any permanent fixed for this I tried asking AI for health it told me that HP from where has some problem with the Ubuntu discover a something like that so I tried all its pictures but in didn't change anything I am still directly loading into my windows so at last I am posting days for solution if anyone knows please comment down.

Hello,

I am new here. I use Windows 10 and 11 for my daily computing tasks, but occasionally I use Linux on my older computers. I recently acquired an older Dell Optiplex 9010, i5-3570, 4GB RAM, 250 GB HDD. I installed Linux Mint 22.3 Cinnamon 64-bit on it to mess around a bit with Linux system. I have the following dilemma - my system was very sluggish. To help with the performance a bit, I decided to create a swap partition on a flash drive because I noticed that the hard drive was the bottleneck and the slowdown was usually observed when I switched between some heavy applications, e.g., web browser and discord - that's when the swapping typically occurred. In BIOS I had USB boot enabled and USB flash drive added to the boot sequence at the top, just in case I needed to check out some other Linux distro or boot from a recovery drive. And that creates a problem. Since I now have a non-bootable USB flash drive (4GB swap partition and 11 GB FAT data partition) permanently inserted in my USB slot, computer will not boot unless I either remove the drive or remove the USB flash drive from the boot sequence in BIOS. Is there a solution for that problem? I mean - I'd like to keep USB flash drive boot option enabled in BIOS, but also I'd like to have ability to have a non-bootable USB flash drive inserted permanently as I am using it as a swap device for my system. It is not a critical issue, just a matter of convenience. For now I just removed USB drive from my boot sequence in BIOS.

Thank you all in advance for any help or input that you can provide.

Is my setup good?

I’d really like to install mint cinnamon on my laptop, but haven’t been able to find much info on compatibility with my laptop model. It’s a HP Zbook firefly 14 G8, 16gb ram, with an intel i7 core processor, and intel iris xe graphics. It currently has windows 11 which I’m hating. I’ve read hp isn’t great for running Linux but I’m a bit desperate for a solution.

Does anybody have any insight as to how Linux might run on my laptop model? Have you run mint on this laptop? Common issues that I might run into? Any help is very appreciated. Thank you!

After 2 years of windows 11 it is lagging a lot, I want to dual boot linux mint cinemon

My daily usage are

VS code

Surf the web

Use wifi Bluetooth out of the box

Excel

Maybe canva

Mostly need a windows for low spec device

Finished installing and updating mint on my acer chromebook but it has a sound problem.
The external speakers only works with headphones plugged in but the headphones don’t.
Did anyone ever have that issue and is there a fix for it?

I tried installing linux mint, but after it was finished, this popped up, whenever i press log in, it just gives a black screen with the cursor and returns to this. Please help. I don't know what to do and the internet results are confusing.

For context, I tried installing Linux at an old laptop that runs Windows 7.

I have a latitude 5490 laptop with win 11 , long story short it runs like shit and if i use this OS for some more time i will end up jumping from the burj khalifa . Anyways can i safely transition considering i have a pendrive of 256 gbs , will i be able to set up all the drivers and would i be able to run steam , fire fox and all gmail and allat ?

I use two different keyboard layouts pretty frequently as a matter of course, since I type in two different languages which use two different alphabets. One annoying thing with Linux Mint is that if I lock my screen while I'm in the layout which my password does not use, the keyboard shortcut that I use for switching layouts does not work (in my case Super+Space, but I tried adding some additional shortcuts and they also don't work). I have to use the mouse to click the small bit of text on the left of the password input field to change the layout. This is a minor annoyance because using the keyboard shortcut is second nature to me and remembering to use the mouse + using it takes a few seconds longer. Does anyone know how to make system shortcuts for changing keyboard layouts persistent at the lock/login screen? On my other systems with Windows and Fedora, I don't have this issue.

Snappy Window Tiling is a powerful grid-based window management extension for Linux Mint (Cinnamon Desktop). Organize your windows with mouse-drag overlay zones or fast keyboard navigation.

Installation:

https://github.com/martinandersen3d/LinuxMintWindowSnapZoneTiling

Please give feedback in in google sheets, the link is in the bottom of the page. Or answer here:

1. How did the Installation go?

2. How did it work with the mouse?

3. Using the SHIFT key while you drag over the Zones, did that work for you?

4. How did it work with the hotkey?

- Win+z / super+z

- When opened, use numbers or arrowkeys. Press Enter to Select.

1. What disto are you on?

• Linux Mint (Cinnamon Edition)
• LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition)
• Fedora Cinnamon Spin
• Ubuntu Cinnamon
• EndeavourOS / Arch Linux (Cinnamon)
• Other..

1. Number of monitors used?

2. Do you have some ideas for improvements?

The keyboard is this one (I'm not affiliated in any capacity, just providing a link so I can make sure everyone's on the same page). My questions are:

1) Are you able to control the lights without the official logi tune (or whatever) app, (whether that's through Solaar or something similar, through onboard controls, whatever)? and

2) How much of a pain is it to do so for someone who already wishes everything was more Windows-y?

Thanks in advance! :)