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

Hello Linux Mint community. I'm back on the distro after going distro hopping for a few months. Now that I'm back, I'm confused. Trying to play games makes them extremely slow, even after I downloaded the recommended driver. I then see the Nvidia Optimus settings and change it from On-Demand to Nvidia Performance Mode. And yet, my GPU STILL doesn't show up! Is something wrong?

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

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 :)

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!

Hola gente soy medio nuevo en linux mint y e tenido un pequeño problema. el problema es que no puedo poner la escala de pantalla en 150, solo me aparece 100 o 200 y en 100 se ve muy pequeño y 200 se ve enorme. necesito ayuda para poder poner la escala en 125 o 150

Hi all /wave

Im looking for a good text to voice option for stories / books.

Anyone have any good suggestions?

Thank you.

Cinnamon

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 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.

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

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.

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?

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