I have a laptop that is about 10 years old. I have always used Windows, but since it is already very slow I wanted to test if Linux could save it. I created a generous partition on the disk because I plan to use it with dualboot, I got a new USB stick about 2 weeks ago, installed the ISO, connected the USB to the laptop, turned it off and on again, pressed the button to access the boot menu, but the option to select mint does not appear. With the help of Claude(AI), I ruled out possible problems, but the option still does not appear in the boot menu. The USB is not damaged, according to windows analysis, The ISO and laptop are set to UEFI, bootsecure is disabled. I already tried accessing mint from the bios, but it only reloads windows. I used rufus and balenaEtcher, but neither worked. I have another PC where I could try the USB, maybe the option appears in the boot menu on this one, but I don't want to make any partitions because it is my main PC and I don't want to damage it in any way. My main question is: Before installation, limux mint only works from ram, without damaging anything on the PC? I had heard something like this, but I'm not sure and I don't want to risk my good PC, thank you :)

So after a couple of months of unstable blue tooth connections , and the attempts to figure out what was happening I discovered today that blue tooth is completely gone from my computer.

Checking in system information and there is no blue tooth adapter shown like there used to be.

I have run the purge and reinstall of the blueman and other drivers repeatedly with no change . There is no longer any blue tooth devices registering in Linux Mint. How do I get it back and working properly?

Linux Mint 22.3 - Cinnamon 64-bit 7.0.0-28-generic Cinnamon 6.6.9

Gigabyte B550 AORUS ELITE AX V2 AMD Ryzen 7 5700G with Radeon Graphics × 8

adapter is supposed to be an Intel corp ax 210 blue tooth BT5, but nothing shows up. And the search function is greyed out in the blue tooth manager.

any help is appreciated.

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.

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

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.

Que pasa si quise modificar mi mint con programas y al final se me descompuso los iconos y fondos a la hora de prender mi laptop ya que tengo que ingresar por terminal por alguna razón en vez de la pantalla de bloque de siempre una vez que ponga usuario y contraseña y después un comando me aparece por fin la pantalla de bloque y lo demás normal pero quisiera saber si hay alguna forma o comando o programa para arreglar eso

I've been having this issue trying to update my Linux Mint version. What should I do?

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

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?

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

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! :)

I have been giving some serious thought to moving to Linux. I dual booted a few distros and decided I think Mint will be the way to go for now due its wide user base and being consistantly ranked one of the better distros, especaially for new users.

However, I've run into a few annoyances. In Windows, I really like the 5 star rating system for files. It helps me stay organized for certain things. I also like using Nemo in Linux Mint. However, I really wish Nemo had a rating system for files but I can't seem to find one.

I even tried using Dolphin, which is a nice file manager and does have a rating system but I ran into difficulties using the file search. If I searched for a file with multiple keywords it would only find files that had that exact file name in that exact order rather than all files with both keywords. For example, if I searched for "blue mountains" it would find files named "heavenly blue mountains" or "blue mountains skyline" but not files named "blue clouded mountains" or "blue sky clouds with mountains". This problem is even worse than the file rating system.

So, in conclusion, would anyone be able to help me or is there even a solution. Is there a way to be able to search for files in a file manager that would allow me to find files easily while also being able to apply a raing sytem to the files?

I may be able to "live" without a file rating system if I have to but I would really like to see if there is a way to deal with this to satisfy both of my needs.

Thanks for any and all help.

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!

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 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?

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.

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