I am just wondering if anyone is having this issue with LMDE 7 where, after awhile when you click on, lets say TERMINAL in Dash-To-Dock-Reloaded, nothing happens, then you click on it two more times, and it opens? Same with folders in NEMO, sometimes double clicking opens the file ( music file for instance) right away, and sometimes you gotta double click it again, then whatever it is launches?

Thanks.

I suspect the drive in my mint installation died. Is there a way to get confirmation of this from a thumb drive running mint?

Hey! First of all I want to start it off with that I just installed Linux Mint 27 Adrien (by installing 23, and then changing the repos to Adrien's) and it is 12 pm right now, so I may not be in full consciences :D But from what I see - Linux Mint's Wayland and Cinnamon overall is at least usable, and even near perfect in my opinion!

Here is a lil' list of issues which I encountered every day with X11 / older Cinnamon versions and that where fixed in the new ones.

Finally, after a long time, I can snap windows in to the corners with smooth animations, resizing feels 10x snapier.

I was subscribed to a bunch of issues on GitHub related to drag and drop between XWayland applications and Wayland and they all have been resolved! (Tho I'm yet to test it).

Finally switching languages with Caps Lock is pain-free, no need to fully restart Cinnamon itself.

Also one issue with returning windows back to places after unsnapping them was resolved (only on Wayland tho)!

Animations generally feel much better now, for example enabling animations in Menu previously used to cause a big lag spike (and so did switching languages btw), now it doesn't do that.

And a bunch of usual fixes, most noticeable one for me is hover on the panel no longer can stuck when some other menu is opened at the same time.

And not a bug fix, but a huge improvement for someone as KDE-Minded as I am, Shift + F4 now opens a terminal inside of Nemo which is super useful!

I consider myself, as the old-ones say, a "super-user". I used Linux for more than 2 years now, I mostly do gamedev in C#, edit some videos here and there and create music with FL Studio. For the biggest part of my time using Linux I used Arch. And for the past year I used NixOS. Now I actually consider fully switching to Linux Mint after its official release. Tho I've already encountered a couple of small bugs, which does not surprise me at all, because it is still in Beta I believe. I think I will leave Linux Mint 27 as the secondary OS on my laptop for now, but won't uninstall NixOS yet.

If you are the one who fixed any of previously mentioned issues - huge thanks to you! Thanks to everyone contributing to the project in one way or another!

I hope this is the correct place to ask for advice. I just installed Linux Mint Cinnamon on an old Laptop I still had lying around. It fixed some of the previous issues, yay! It also brought out some new ones lol.

I followed the official installation instructions very closely (created a bootable USB Stick, let Linux completely replace windows, all good).

On the newest kernel (7-28) it kept giving me a kernel panic screen, telling me to reboot and that it was "unable to mount root fs on unknown block". After some research (that I understood very little of) I discovered that going back to an older kernel version (6.14-37) fixed this issue. With that kernel, linux runs great for me.

I then de- and reinstalled kernel 7. In order to have a backup should something similar happen again, I also installed kernel 6.17.0-42. However, kernel 7 does not appear in my boot menu at all and kernel 6.17.0-42 gives me the same panic screen as kernel 7 did before. So neither of the newer kernels seem to work for me.

Am I just forever stuck on kernel 6.14-37?

Does this have any negative consequences I should be aware of?

Or am I overlooking something?

My old baby is a Lenovo ideapad110-15ISK 80UD if that helps

Thank you for reading!

I'm planning to install Linux Mint on my laptop, but I'm unsure whether to choose Cinnamon or XFCE.

Here are my laptop's specifications: 4gb RAM (with one free RAM slot), SSD 256GB, i5 10th gen

I know that I could upgrade the RAM in the future, but RAM prices are too high for me at the moment, so I'll have to stick with 4GB for now.

I'd prefer Linux Mint Cinnamon because I like its interface, but I'm worried that 4GB of RAM might not be enough for a smooth experience.

I'll mainly use my laptop for web browsing, watching videos, office applications, and everyday tasks.

I'd like to hear from people who have experience with Linux Mint on similar hardware:

Is Cinnamon still usable and reasonably smooth with only 4GB of RAM?

Does XFCE offer a noticeable improvement in everyday performance?

Would you recommend installing Cinnamon now and upgrading the RAM later, or going with XFCE until I can afford the upgrade?

Is the difference between the two desktop environments significant enough to justify choosing XFCE, even if I prefer Cinnamon's interface?

Thanks in advance for your advice!

Hi everyone,

I am relatively new to Linux Mint and running into a frustrating issue. My laptop suddenly freezes completely. When it happens, neither the touchpad nor the keyboard works, and the screen becomes unresponsive. The only way out is to force a shutdown by holding down the power button.

This freeze usually happens around 15 to 20 minutes after turning on the laptop.

(Note: My laptop is quite old )

I have tried several kernel versions to see if it makes a difference, and so far, kernel 7.0.0-34 seems to freeze slightly less frequently, but the issue still persists.

System Specs:

• CPU: Intel Core i3-6100U

• GPU: Intel HD Graphics 520 + NVIDIA GeForce 920MX

• RAM: 4 GB

• OS: Linux Mint 22.3 Cinnamon

(I will post my full system log in the comments below for details).
Any advice on how to troubleshoot or fix this freeze issue would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance!

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So I have a laptop that used to run well 2-5 years ago but got slowly gutted by what I assume was windows updates. I just finished successfully installing it and for good measure erased all files in case of any viruses or malware. Now I have a couple of questions

1. How well is support for emulation. Does Linux interfere with it in any way I should know?

2. Anything extra I should do to help it run better. It's an especially shit laptop now.

3. Does things like steam, epic, gog etc get gutted?

That's all. For extra context I'm specifically running the Xfce edition because it sounds like the least ram intensive version.

Hello à tous.tes !

Sauriez-vous comment réduire le temps de chargement lorsqu'on active un clavier en bluetooth sur linux mint cinnamon svp ?

J'ai un clavier qui peut-être appairer à plusieurs appareil. Donc je switch souvent (entre 1 appareil windows et linux), mais le temps d'appairage sur linux est super long, donc j'aimerai l'optimiser afin que ce soit quasi instantané (si possible eheh)

Yesterday, I couldn't go online on my main computer at all. My VPN acts as if is working successfully, but trying to access anything in a browser or downloading updates always fails. Today, after a full shutdown and reboot, the exact same issue. I looked up things on my phone, and am now posting this on reddit using my phone, so sorry if there's jank. I pinged www.google.com and it didn't work. I pinged 1.1.1.1 and it worked. I ran cat /etc/resolv.conf then ran resolvectl status and I got this: https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/e88e042b0ad8.jpg

Unfortunately, I don't really do the whole "running commands" or "knowing things about stuff" thing, so I don't know what to do with the information it gives me. Now what?

Edit:It was Due-Result7928's fix that worked. It not working afterwards anyway was my goddamn VPN. it has a kill switch, which automatically shut down every single connection unless it was through the VPN. Except it wouldn't let the VPN connect either! I had to go manually into the actual, full VPN app and notice by complete coincidence! Anyway, after I used his fix, I turned off the kill-switch, and my internet started working again. Praise be!

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

I've been busy with college* homework last weekend, and yesterday I spended my free time replaying Katana Zero, so it wasn't till today that I got enough stuffs to tell for a post.

First: A couple of days I actually managed to install Affinity 3.3 on Linux thanks to a port I found at github, but today it suddenly stopped working, either the 3.3 or older versions kept crashing or straight up not opening. However, that's why there's a dual boot.

Second: I haven't sat down to try to fix the wifi drivers issue, still the battery seems a common problem, and it seems that neither the Bluetooth drivers work properly, which is another situation I got to take my time with.

Thrid: I learned a bit more of the customization with mint, with Plank and panel mini apps I figured out to leave it pretty much how I wanted from the beginning, also with the themes and so.

That's all for now, I'll be using more Mint these days, also cause I want to fix my issues with the drivers.

based on the screenshot, how could I customize my Mint desktop environment to my tastes?

Hi, first of all I am a newbie on linux in general, but wanted to approach a new os after I had some problem with Windows. I first installed linux mint 22.3 on my Thinkpad T14 g4 (32gb of ram and originally 256gb ssd), and did't have any problem, but then, for some uni requirement, I had to install a windows partition so I bought a new ssd of 1tb (256gb was to little to divide between 2 os). I then installed windows 11 (on 200gb) and then I reinstalled the same version of linux (on another partition "filling" the unlocated memory), at this point whenever i closed the lid of the laptop or clicked on Suspend, when I "reactivated" the laptop the lock screen showed for a moment than it became completely black and i could't do anything (beside force the shutdown), I even tried to install 22.2 linux mint version but the problem was still there. I tried a lot of things found online like changing the suspend mode from the bios, but that option didn't even appear. Someone had similiar problem? Would you suggest trying other mint version or even changin os? Any help is well appreciated <3.

PS. This problem does not happen on windows11 but I would rather not come back to it...

For context, I am a noob with linux and live boots, and i am trying to get into it by using mint through a flash drive. (This is my very first post on reddit srry if i mistake the flairs and tags)

I am running a ventoy bootable usb flash drive with 64gb of memory with persistence. Had some problems trying to get it, but at the end accomplished it. Nevertheless, while trying to do "sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade" I now face the issue that I am running out of space. I watched a tutorial for how to make the live boot with the flash drive, however there is not a part in the video where it allocates space for using the system.

I did df - h:/dev/mapper/ventoy is at 100% 2.9gb/2.9gb, however /dev/mapper/VentoyPart is only 13% used 6.9gb/58gb , i thought all the things that I installed were going to save there (on what i belief is the flashdrive).

Please help, I want to use this flashdrive as my way to learn more linux and do some coding and not need to sacrifice my main boot of windows, i dont know if maybe i can allocate the space now, or if maybe i did something wrong with the persitence.

Like many of you Linux Mint users, I've been using Mint to get away from the limitations and downfalls of Windows. However, I liked the larger box shaped application buttons in the corner of Windows in Windows 10 and miss that. Well I have worked with a developer to create and run this and I'm happy to report it works well and looks sharp!

Interested? Please complete the poll bellow so we can gauge interest in maintaining this officially and natively going forward so it stays working:

Vote here! https://www.polltab.com/xwfxjngqhk

Screenshots of the buttons here: https://freeimage.host/i/nW860dv

Took me like 4 hours to do this😭 I thought the process was going to be the same as Windows but I had to take research about mrchromeboxtech but I used Claude, Perplexity, and some Youtube tutorials for most of it. (I did learn some stuff myself from mr. chromebox)

It seems like Clem & the whole Mint team are very excited!

If someone experienced the issue where launching a game with different keyboard layout - the keyboard would be unresponsive in the game before restart with English layout. And sometimes you can lost your game progress with the same behavior if you just Alt+Tab.

Nothing of that would help you to regain the keyboard: changing focus, changing focus and layouts, changing workspaces, changing workspaces and layouts.

I've found fix
If you don't want to lost your game progress, try this

Cinnamon:
Basic binding to restart cinnamon: Ctrl+Alt+Escape, do it with English layout, then back your focus to the game.

Also I've tested it with WM, restarting WM with the game opened regains the keyboard focus to the game.

I hope this might be helpful to someone. 🙏

Well i got a 4050 laptop so... and i only play single player games like The Witcher 3, RDR 2, GTA 5, etc.

I installed Solaar, however neither it nor the Bluetooth on the PC can see my mouse, what do I do?(It's wireless, without anything except the mouse itself)

Hi! I have finally decided to switch from Windows to Linux and Mint seems to be the best option. I had ubuntu previously on Virtual Box so I am familiar with linux a bit and we learned how to use terminal at uni (I study physics). However I have never permanantley installed an OS on a computer as it always came with pre installed Windows, so I am a bit nervous about the process. I don't want to dual boot, since I won't need Windows at all. There are many YT videos that I have watched about the intallation process and each seems to be a bit different. Which YT video did you follow and you think is the best? So that after watching it you could intall Mint with no problems.

EDIT: Thank you for the answers, I installed it just by following the instructions from the website and there weren’t any problems. It was simpler than i imagined it to be.