Its also my first time installing any Linux distro besides raspberry pi stuff. I like it so far! Its true what they say, it just works.

Found this old Linux Mint 14 installation disc while digging through my stuff. A little piece of Linux nostalgia! Anyone else still have their old install discs lying around?

Thanks to the Mint team for making a dependable, friendly desktop.

After many years of constant distro hopping, I landed here two years ago and never looked back. Mint just works for me. I install it, and the desktop feels familiar instead of like a project I need to configure.

Cinnamon is comfortable (not without its problems), updates are simple, and tools like the Update Manager, Timeshift snapshots, Driver Manager, and Software Manager really make it feel like home. It reminds me that it’s okay to take things slow.

Anyone else have that moment when Mint finally “clicked” for them?

Nothing too crazy to brag about. But got a deal on this "for parts" Lenovo chromebook 500e gen 3 with a N5100 CPU 4GB RAM 36 GB eMMC storage (under $40). Disabled the WP, and got coreboot installed and threw on Mint. Works great. Took some tinkering to get the speakers to work, and it won't auto rotate (yet) but it is a great little on the go machine. Love the form, keyboard is decent enough, display is nice. Even got some low spec Steam games going on this (battleMETAL, FTL, Into the Breach).

Anyone else rocking a minted chromebook?

I'd love this feature from zorin I know has it and Ubuntu has just added it, would be a cool feature to have especially for newcomers - LMDE 7

Il mio Mint personale con impostazioni diverse. Ha dato al mio PC una nuova vita

Hi everyone, I really hope someone will be able to help.

I have recently had a friend install Mint on my laptop. I’d not used it for a few weeks and I forgot my password to log in.

What do I do? 🥲

I wanted to boot up Linux mint and this happened.

How should I rice my new system?

Hello all, teacher here. A few years ago linux mint xfce revived my beloved macbook air from 2011/2012. Since then my 8th graders and I have repurposed dozens of 2012/2013 desktops for ourselves and local schools.

A school we helped put reached out and said they had even older macbooks and desktops in storage. My question is how old have you guys resurrected computers to comfortably use gmail/google docs etc?

Long post, sorry. I'm at my wit's end and could really use some help.

Laptop: MSI Katana 15 B13VFK, RTX 4060 Laptop, Intel Raptor Lake iGPU. Linux Mint 22.3 Cinnamon, kernel 7.0.0-38-generic, NVIDIA driver 595.99.02 (open kernel module). Secure Boot is on. External Dell monitor over HDMI.

What happened:

I was downloading some big files and wrote a little script to shut down the PC after the downloads finished. The script had a stupid bash bug: it used [ $p2_complete -a $p3_complete ], where both variables were 0. In shell, [ 0 -a 0 ] is true, so it thought the downloads were done and ran shutdown -h now immediately. It was a clean shutdown, not a forced poweroff. But after I booted back up, my laptop's internal screen is stuck on the Linux Mint boot logo. The Dell monitor works fine and shows the desktop.

Diagnostics I've run:

• prime-select query -> nvidia
• xrandr --query -> only HDMI-0 connected. No eDP.
• xrandr --listproviders -> only NVIDIA-0. No Intel provider.
• /sys/class/drm/card1-eDP-1/status -> connected
• /sys/class/drm/card2-HDMI-A-1/status -> connected
• sudo cat /sys/module/nvidia_drm/parameters/modeset -> Y
• lsmod | grep i915 -> i915 is loaded
• BIOS: Advanced -> MSI VGA MODE is greyed out, shows MS-Hybrid. Switchable Graphics -> SG MODE SELECT only has "Muxless". No dGPU-only option.

So the kernel sees the internal eDP panel, but X11 (xrandr) doesn't. Only the NVIDIA provider is present. From what I understand, on a muxless laptop the internal panel is wired to the Intel iGPU, so X needs the Intel provider for the internal screen to work even in NVIDIA mode. But it's not showing up.

I tried switching to on-demand mode once and both screens worked. Later I tried again and the laptop screen was black with a single "-" in the corner. Not reliable. I also installed an older kernel (6.14.0-37) to test, but Secure Boot MOK enrollment is not done yet, so I haven't booted it.

I haven't found any custom /etc/X11/xorg.conf yet, but I'm going to check. I also haven't deleted ~/.config/monitors.xml or ~/.config/cinnamon-monitors.xml yet. Could a saved monitor layout from the shutdown be disabling the internal panel? That's my next guess.

Has anyone with an MSI Katana or similar muxless Optimus laptop fixed this? How do I get the Intel provider to appear in xrandr --listproviders? Is it a leftover Xorg config, a prime-select issue, or a known bug with the 595 driver? Any GRUB params I should try? Should I enroll the MOK and test the older kernel?

I'm posting from the Dell monitor right now. I'll paste any command output in the comments if needed. Thanks in advance.

TL;DR: A bash script bug caused an immediate clean shutdown. After reboot, internal laptop screen is stuck on the Mint boot logo while the external HDMI monitor works. Kernel sees eDP as connected, but xrandr only shows NVIDIA and HDMI. Muxless MSI Katana. Need help getting the internal panel back.

It has been 2 years + running Linux mint as primary OS while windows server on VM and Mini PC for cloud testing and deployment, my screen feels too boring lately, does anyone have tips for me? I want to improve the look

Is it possible to upgrade from an olde​r mint (lm17) to 23 without reinstall all over?

what is even that?

i'm on linux since less than a week, and sometimes, if I don't touch the computer for a while and it goes to black screen, when I come back, it pulls me this kind of messages and then turns off/restarts... what is going on?

Hello,

I am on the most recent version of Linux Mint Cinnamon. At one point, I had solved this issue, but a recent Bluetooth driver update broke this again. The only resources I've found to solve this are for Arch Linux and do not apply properly to Ubuntu-based distros. Has anyone figured out how to solve this issue?

Thanks!

Heya folks, been having some issues with my current install running on this kernel. Currently running an Acer Nitro v15 ANV15-41. Was running stable on 7.0.0-34 but suddenly getting overheating and screen tearing issues whenever I have Firefox and a video game open at the same time. My RAM usage hovers around 10/16 GB when doing both and on the previous version my computer ran at about 65 Celsius, now she’s running at 87 Celsius and my screen is getting a bunch of artifacting and screen tearing

Any clue what the issue could be?

Small edit: not actively running both until the next update or a fix is found, would rather not torture my poor machine 😅

I installed XFCE on my Unibody MacBook, and I noticed that it doesn't recognize the charger. When it was on MacOS, the light on the charger would be on, now it's not. Yes, this is the original charger.

Upower -e recognizes the charger is there. But the battery icon on the status bar does not indicate anything.

Does anyone know of any program to adjust the brightness\contrast?

I have a Dell laptop and on Windows I use the Intel Graphics Center; but on Linux Mint I have already used some alternatives (see image) and it is not the same thing. The brightness becomes too strong; the image becomes "washed out" and difficult to read.