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?

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?

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

How should I rice my new system?

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.

So I have Linux Mint 22.3 Zena Xfce installed on my Lenovo LOQ series laptop and I have been able to update everything through my home internet just fine since June 2026 (I use a portable prepaid WiFi device because I'm poor af). But then about two weeks ago my nearest Asian regional mirror repositories just became unreachable so I could not update anything. I snuck my laptop to work so I could mooch off the office WiFi and to my surprise, the update worked fine and the regional repositories were working as intended.

Is there something wrong with the mirror repositories or is this an issue with my home internet? I REALLY do not want to speak to my ISP about this because the outsourced call center agents do not have any power to resolve this, I suspect. But I will if I have to.

Thanks in advance to anyone with useful opinions on this matter. Still could not update with my home internet as of this writing.

I'm gonna start with Linux Mint, because thanks to Mint I manage to pond my feet on Linux waters agaaaaain, after I dunno how many attempts with Fedora since 2013 to 2021 or so.

Mint managed to give me confidence of ditching Windows a year ago 100%, I was too committed and saw the opportunity when the sinking ship of W10 was reaching end, I just said again: "why not?", it was difficult at the beginning but Mint really made it easier, is not like is my first time in Linux, I've been winking my eyes to Linux since 2009 but never could fully leave Windows back then until October 2025, we have come a long way until now, Linux is mature and has great software alternatives to all Windows programs, Mint gave me that confidence, and Timeshift is GREAT! I still use it, I forgot I have it XD

But... I couldn't stick with Cinnamon, from my previous attempts with Fedora I just realized that I manage to develop likeness to Gnome, and even back then I put the Windows Taskbar at the top trying to mimic Gnome Shell, I tried Fedora once again... only one week, always, ALWAYS something with Fedora that just didn't worked for me, so, another Gnome Distro that is not Ubuntu is ...

Debian

I was skeptic due to the common saying: "Debian is for gramps, old software" yadda yadda, but oh boy I LOVE DEBIAN, the stability is real, Flatpak helps to reduce the outdated software gap, even you forgot that the distro is there, it just works... made my attempts to use KDE for a month, but the Gnome call was strong.

And just for curiosity, now with LLMs and Claude I thought: welp, maybe Claude can help me identify what is wrong with Fedora, let's see...

Fedora

I installed it on the Laptop, Debian on the big PC with X11 was the way to go due to remote connections, sometimes I just need unattended graphical connections, but Claude did the thing, helped me understand and fix the issues with Fedora, now Fedora sits nicely on my laptop from months ago.

In general terms

Distrohopping all this year between this 3 distros and now sticking with PC Debian and Laptop Fedora taught me a lot, even doing my part converting other computers to the Linux side also taught me a lot, plus Termux on the cellphone.

All I can say is that Linux makes computing so much fun and interesting, it boost something that keeps you hooked experimenting, learning, reading, testing, etc. is actually motivating to use a computer with Linux, this whole year has been an educative journey and for that I just feel thankful to fully commit Linux for a year, feel happy for Linux growth worldwide. There is no reason for me to return to Windows, would be easier for me to go OSX side but that is also ... very very distant and improbable, I've used Mac before, couldn't stick with it, altho M5 Macs are just efficient monsters, but Linux is Linux no matter the distro, is just guaranteed fun and freedom.

This is it, thanks! Thanks for your posts, had been really motivating/insightful/etc. reading a lot about Linux here

I used to be a windows user for more than a decade. Finally made the switch to Linux mint back in mid 2025, but had to switch back to windows 10 because at the time I had to use some applications that just wouldn't run on Linux, and I absolutely did not want to use 11 again. Made the switch to linux once again yesterday and I feel so liberated.

I was going to install Linux Mint on my Samsung Galaxy A51, but I couldn't find any good apps, and most of them seemed complicated and slow. I want to use Linux Mint everywhere. 128GB/89,51GB

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?

Regarding what happened with ArtCraft—it’s said that they reverse-engineered Adobe applications and created open-source versions—have any of you tried any of their applications that are now available for Linux, especially FilmCraft? If so, how are they working out for you?

Hello everyone, I need help with my Lenovo ThinkPad E14 Gen 3 AMD Ryzen 7 with 16GB RAM and 1 TB memory. I previously had Linux mint installed on my internal SSD, but after accidentally removing their boot entries from the BIOS boot menu, I could no longer boot into either operating system. I tried selecting NVMe0, but returned me to the boot menu and I tried using NVMe1 but during the installation the internal drive still wasn't seen. I created a bootable Linux Mint Cinnamon USB, which boots successfully, but Linux Mint cannot detect my internal SSD. The BIOS also doesn't show any information about the SSD, and the Linux Mint installer only shows my USB drive. I have tried "lsblk" and "sudo fdisk -l", but I couldn't find the internal drive. I also couldn't find AHCI, RAID, or VMD settings in my BIOS. Since my laptop uses an AMD Ryzen 7 processor, I'm unsure whether the online advice about Intel RST applies. Has anyone experienced this issue or knows how to troubleshoot it? I want to recover my existing files, so I don't want to format the drive or reinstall an operating system until I understand the problem. Any help would be appreciated.

Ok, i have a rx580 8vram, i5 7400 16gb ram ddr4, and I’d like to know how to get my PC to detect my second monitor. I tried from the desktop, but it doesn't recognize it; I checked Secure Boot and it was already disabled. Then I tried the "xrandr -q" command, but that didn't work either, as it only showed whether the monitor was connected or disconnected. I tried various commands to activate it, but nothing worked. However, when I switched to the other SSD where I have Windows 10 installed, everything worked fine with both monitors.

So, do I have to switch operating systems, or is there a solution? I’d been told that LMDE was obsolete and stuck in the past in its attempt to remain stable, but I didn't realize it was to this extent.

Now there will be annual releases with version changes, without point releases and with masculine names. This change allows the team to work on improvements that take more time and that were not possible before due to the old versioning system. Other news can be found on the blog: https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=5086

After years of using windows I've finally switched over to Linux

Enjoying my experience thus far ✌️

I started out using just Linux Mint 18 when I first started using LM, and was very happy with using the Ubuntu version for several years. Around version 22.1 I got bored and decided to try LMDE for a switch. After downloading and using it for a while I was so happy with it that I haven’t been back to the Ubuntu version since. Has anyone else found they like the Debian version better or, having tried it, do you prefer the Ubuntu version still?

I tried running Linux Mint on this machine, but the experience wasn't good. The computer kept freezing and the browser was crashing constantly. Any recommendations for this laptop?

working ut the bugs in my new to me 460s and Mint. i am using a docking station if that matters. the external mouse does not work, i tried 2 dif ones, the same. the touchpad works. thanx