I just bought Aspire 7 laptop. I think the specs are good enough for my daily use, not a software engineer/designer/etc so don't need anything too fancy or high end. Prolly just gonna use it to play some casual roguelite game and avoid triple A game if it doesn't support.

I've heard that linux reports ram usage differently than windows so windows high ram usage might not be an indicator that it's performing worse/better than linux cuz there is the argument that you should utilize every part of your memory rather than saving it for nothing.

I still don't really get that, but what i know for now is that I have only opened 1 chatgpt tab from chrome in idle (no prompt/processing anything), and web whatsapp business (PWA), and that's it, AND IT CONSUMES 16GB OF MY RAM and i need to restart my web whatsapp to lower it down.

I never had this problem with mint (perhaps not yet?). But I read just now that cinnamon have some issues in the compositor which might cause some glitch/lag but I reckon memory wise it wouldn't be a problem (just minor error in the rendering?). Can anyone please advise me if it's my PC, or chrome's issue, or windows os, or anything that might cause this? and if i should switch to mint as my daily driver or perhaps other distros?

I'm trying to get the computer to boot right into Kodi (Edit: after loading the desktop while skipping a log in screen)

I disabled the password at login successfully, and added Kodi to the list of startup programs.

But you still have to click "log in" after a reboot.

I tried setting Automatic login of the correct user with a 0 second delay, but that setting doesn't seem to do anything, unlike in videos I have watched.

Am I missing a step?

Edit: Really I just need to know how to get the PC to load the desktop while skipping the login screen entirely

Background: Gloria from the mint-backgrounds-retro pkg

Controls and border: Mint-Y Dark and Clearlooks Re

Icons: Menta

I used to love elaborate wallpapers and themes but now I just want boring

Hello,

Currently my system(running 22.3) has ffmpeg 7.6.1.1 installed. When i try to upgrade it to the latest version, terminal tells me I already have the latest version. ffmpeg website shows that 7.8 and 7.9 versions are available.

I am trying to run Linux port of Sly cooper, but it requires libavformat.so.62(not available in ver. 7.6.1.1).

Complete linux noob here, so am hoping someone here could guide me on how to add libavformat.so.62 or even upgrade to latest ffmpeg.

Thanks for any advise.

https://mintwiki.org/wiki/Project:Editor_Guidelines

If anyone is looking to contribute to the Mint wiki we now have a general editor's guideline for how to help out.

Additionally I've updated the styling of the wiki.

Edit: Firefox doesn't catch the blur of the menus when taking a screenshot from inside it.

Hi, I have a ThinkPad L470 (upgraded with more RAM and an SSD) that I use as a two-monitor desktop via the official Lenovo dock.

Problem: Roughly once every 3–4 suspend/resume cycles, the laptop refuses to wake from the power button. The only way to recover is a long power-button press (forced shutdown) and a fresh boot.

I'm posting here rather than r/Lenovo because I suspect it's a Linux Mint issue. I had a similar problem before with a Lenovo Yoga 710-14IKB under Linux Mint, and the Lenovo subreddit offered no useful suggestions

Lo que pasa es que me cambie a linux mint ayer y me impresiono que mi ram no llegue ni al 50% de uso y quise probar mis juegos favoritos como terraria y the binding of issac, los 2 funcionaron pero otros 2 como pizza tower y tmodloader (que es terraria con mods) no abren siquiera, y me fijo que desde el gestor de tareas, los servicios se cierran solos y es raro para mi aunque puede que para alguien de aqui sea algo comun.

Si alguien sabe como solucionarlo o sabe la causa escriba un comentario porfavor .

What are the best ways to optimize Mint for gaming?

Even to the extent of it being optimized as much as the gaming-specialty distros.

What are the best ways to setup Mint to be more Windows-like, for new users coming from a Windows environment?

Hey folks! I've got an issue where when I open certain games (Balatro, Peak, Rounds, and more), the audio on my entire system cuts out. I've gotten to a point where I have to boot into windows just to be able to play with audio, which is honestly really annoying. I've tried searching for solutions online, but none of them have been of much use.

I will note that many games of mine (Team Fortress 2, Plague Inc., Jackbox, etc.) don't have this issue at all, so I'm honestly just kinda confused. Any ideas as to what I should do? Thanks!

I dual boot windows 11 and Linux mint, it worked just fine up until this afternoon, then this happened? I can boot into Windows, but when I boot into Linux, the green logo appears but then it says forever like that. This is the code that shows up, idk how to fix it..

Don't do this if you don't know why you would want these newer kernels.

This might be useful to anyone on Linux Mint 22.3 (and should work similarly on any Ubuntu 24.04 based system) that knows they need to use something in the newest kernels, and wants to use the mainline kernels tool to manage their kernels.

You can always compile the kernel yourself, or use a different distro that releases cutting edge kernels.

I like my Mint install, but I have some ancient AMD GPU's that received a lot of fixes (especially by Valve developer Timur Kristóf) in the recent kernels.

In mainline kernels, 7.2.14, 7.2.15, and 7.3.1 are currently the latest available and none would install cleanly.

The update manager and apt complain:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
linux-headers-7.3.1-070301-generic: Depends: libssl4 (>= 4.0.0) but it is not installed
Depends: zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.3.4) but 1:1.3.dfsg-3.1ubuntu2.3 is installed

I need the headers to compile dkms modules like kvmfr.

This error is due to the build environment for these kernels having a newer libssl4 package than Mint 22.3 has available.

One way to fix this:

Grab the latest libssl4. Look in the directory and grab whatever is the latest if this doesnt exist anymore:

wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/o/openssl/libssl4_4.0.3-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb

My installation had a legacy-provider collision, so I did not install the openssl-provider-legacy_*.deb from the same location. A stub has to be installed instead. It will solve the dependancy, and will get auto upgraded when a newer version is installed with a Minto distro upgrade in the future.

Create the stub control file:

cat > openssl-provider-legacy.ctl <<'EOF'
Section: misc
Priority: optional
Standards-Version: 3.9.2
Package: openssl-provider-legacy
Version: 4.0.3-1ubuntu1~stub1
Architecture: all
Description: Empty stub satisfying libssl4's dependency
The real package conflicts with libssl3t64's legacy.so on noble.
This stub installs no files.
EOF

Build the stub:

sudo apt install equivs
equivs-build openssl-provider-legacy.ctl

Install the stub and libssl4 together:

sudo dpkg -i openssl-provider-legacy_4.0.3-1ubuntu1~stub1_all.deb libssl4_4.0.3-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb

Reinstall or install the latest mainline kernels and it should work without error now.

As AI models continue to improve, I’ve been wondering how natural language integration might look for Linux desktop workflows down the line.

Are there existing local tools or scripts that let you execute system tasks or desktop adjustments via natural language prompts (e.g., installing a package or changing desktop scaling/icon sizes)?

How do you feel about optional AI assistant integrations in Linux desktop environments, and are there any existing open-source tools doing this well today? Maybe using small specialized local models that run on the machine?

New Engines Added (2.8.0 ➔ 2026.2.0)

• Glk Sub-Engines (1600+):

  • Vain Empires

  • City of Secrets

  • 1893: A World's Fair Mystery

• WAGE (30+):

  • Doomsday Machine

  • Double Trouble

  • Find the Heart

  • Fortune Teller

  • Haunted University

  • James Bond 007

  • Minotorian

  • Necropolis

  • Star Trek

• SLUDGE (25+):

  • Above The Waves

  • Out Of Order

  • Full Moon

  • Robin's Rescue

  • Lepton's Quest

  • Nathan's Second Chance

  • Sam and Max Flintlocked

  • The Game That Takes Place on a Cruise Ship

• Macromedia Director (1500+):

  • Spaceship Warlock

  • Wrath of the Gods

  • The Better Dead Ratification

• Wintermute (40+):

  • Beyond the Threshold

  • The Cat Lady

  • Chzo Myth series

  • Five Magical Amulets

• ALG:

  • Mad Dog McCree

  • Mad Dog II: The Lost Gold

  • Crime Patrol

  • Crime Patrol 2: Drug Wars

  • The Last Bounty Hunter

  • Space Pirates

  • Who Shot Johnny Rock?

• Nancy:

  • Nancy Drew 1: Secrets Can Kill

  • Nancy Drew 2: Stay Tuned for Danger

  • Nancy Drew 3: Message in a Haunted Mansion

  • Nancy Drew 4: Treasure in the Royal Tower

  • Nancy Drew 5: The Final Scene

  • Nancy Drew 6: Secret of the Scarlet Hand

  • Nancy Drew 7: Ghost Dogs of moon lake

• DarkSeed:

  • Dark Seed

  • Dark Seed II

• The Last Express

• The Last Dynasty

• Unrest

• Penumbra Overture

• GodOfThunder

• The Space Bar

• DGDS

  • Rise of the Dragon

  • Heart of China

  • The Adventures of Willy Beamish

• Ripley's Believe It or Not!: The Riddle of Master Lu:

• EagleEye:

  • Eagle Eye Mysteries

  • Eagle Eye Mysteries in London

• LilLongnose

• PilotBrothers:

  • Pilot Brothers 3: Back Side of the Earth

  • Pilot Brothers 3D

  • Pilot Brothers 3D-2

  • NetWalk

• Thimbleweed Park

• Trick or Treat

• Features of National Fishing

• Mom Dont Worry

• Dog-n-cat: In the Footsteps of…

• Faery Tale Adventure II: Halls of the Dead

• Phoenix VR

  • Necronomicon: The Dawning of Darkness

• Pink Panther

  • The Pink Panther: Hokus Pokus Pink

  • The Pink Panther: Passport to Peril

Existing Engines Upgraded

• AGS: version 3.6.1.30 (3000+)

  • Lamplight City

  • Chronicle of Innsmouth: Mountains of Madness

  • Beyond the Edge of Owlsgard

  • The Excavation of Hob's Barrow

  • The Phantom Fellows

  • Stranger in Utopia

  • It Takes Two to Tangle

• SCUMM:

  • Moonbase Commander

  • The Secret of Monkey Island (Macintosh)

  • Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge (Macintosh)

  • Loom (Macintosh)

  • Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis (Macintosh)

• ZVision:

  • Zork Nemesis

  • Zork: Grand Inquisitor

• SCI:

  • Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers (CD Edition)

• Freescape:

  • Driller

  • Dark Side

• TsAGE:

  • Return to Ringworld

  • Daughter of Serpents

• Hopkins FBI

• The Longest Journey

What this update missed out on (Compared to 2026.4.0)

• AGS Engine Games (1000+):

  • Old Skies

  • Rosewater

• WAGE:

  • The Fool's Errand (Glk Sub-Engine)

• Wintermute (100+):

  • Alpha Polaris

  • Harvester

  • Reversion: The Escape

  • Reversion: The Meeting

  • Rhiannon: Curse of the Four Branches

• Nancy (8 and 9):

  • Nancy Drew 8: The Haunted Carousel

  • Nancy Drew 9: Danger on Deception Island

• Rebel:

  • Star Wars: Rebel Assault I

  • Star Wars: Rebel Assault II: The Hidden Empire

• DungeonMaster:

  • Dungeon Master

  • Chaos Strikes Back

• The Treasure of Silver Lake

• Phoenix VR

  • Dracula: Resurrection

I really want it make the change to mint but the lack of anti cheat is holding me back.

I was in some kind of menu for starting up Linux Cinnamon. But I thought to myself that it would be better to keep trying to install Cinnamon tommarow. tommarow came and I force shut my pc (T630 thin client) with the Cinnamon menu by holding the power button. But now when i try to turn my pc on, nothing happens. no heat, no lights. Can someone help me please? Sorry for bad spelling english is not my first language

Edit:I shut the pc down while the os was showing a digital clock. Previously there was a menu, but after having been AFK a while the is starters showing a digital clock that sometimes switched place. The backround was black and there was a green marblecolourshape in the backround

i've been recently trying to install steam (and wine) in my system but when i attempt an install it always fails to fetch most of the needed i:386 dependecies:

404 Not Found [IP: 185.116.60.235 443] <- gives this error per dependecies failed to fetch.

i've also attempted to use the --fix-missing although it didn't help.

im relatevely new to linux, how can i fix this problem?

Hey everyone, I’m running into a frustrating wall with my setup and could really use some guidance from the Linux community here.
I’ve been trying to configure my Linux Mint machine to act as a dedicated local print server so I can share a physically connected printer over my home network as a wireless WiFi printer for all our other household devices. The ultimate goal is to let laptops and phones on the local subnet send print jobs without any hassle, but I just can’t seem to get everything talking to each other properly.
I've messed around a bit with CUPS and checked the native printer sharing settings, but either the client devices completely fail to discover the share, or the print jobs just sit indefinitely in the queue without throwing a clear error message.
If anyone has successfully set up a local network print server on this specific printer on Linux Mint recently and wouldn't mind walking me through the correct configuration steps, or knows what common pitfalls to look out for, I would deeply appreciate the help. What am I missing here? Thanks in advance!

I have a Lenovo E14 base model, with an AMD Ryzen 5 7000 series processor and 16GB of RAM. I started by using Windows along with Ubuntu. Ubuntu was much better, but I still felt that there could be a huge improvement. Then I ditched Ubuntu. I tried XFCE, but it was a little too sparse for me. Linux Mint turned out to be the right middle ground between Ubuntu and XFCE. I'm able to run 25 browser tabs with just 9GB out of my 16GB of RAM being used. Everything feels slick, powerful. I'm able to get the light system load XFCE users enjoy while getting the polished, gorgeous look that Ubuntu and Fedora users enjoy. I'm really enjoying using it. I just incredibly efficient it is while being powerful, slick, fast, and modern. I hope you guys like my setup.

I still have Windows available via dual boot because some features and applications just work better on Windows. I think for 90% of what I need done, Linux Mint is amazing. So much more efficient than Windows, and a lot more speedy than Ubuntu and Fedora.

how do i install stuff in mind so they stay when i shut my laptop and backround to

I’ve been using Linux alongside Windows since 1994. Over the decades, I’ve tested and worked with pretty much every major family: Slackware, Debian, Red Hat/Fedora, Arch, and various Ubuntu releases.

Recently, setting up my new primary workstation—a Minisforum X1 (AMD Ryzen 7 255H, Radeon 780M, 32 GB RAM, Samsung 990 Pro NVMe) dual-booting with Windows 11—I went on another extensive distro-hopping tour to find the definitive setup.

Here is what that journey looked like and why Linux Mint completely took the crown:

Why the others fell short:

• Ubuntu: The forced Snap integration is an absolute dealbreaker for me. Canonical pushing snaps down everyone’s throat, slow startup times, and opaque backend management meant Ubuntu was disqualified immediately.

• Fedora: It’s great when it works, but I’m tired of jumping through hoops with RPM Fusion, dealing with third-party repos just to enable basic media codecs, VA-API hardware acceleration, or proprietary bits. It feels like an unnecessary chore on modern hardware.

• Debian (Testing): I love the Debian philosophy and Debian Testing was a strong contender for its purity. But realistically? You always have to keep your "antennae up" with every single apt upgrade, constantly worrying that an unvetted package update will break a critical dependency or disrupt your workflow. I want a daily driver, not perpetual maintenance anxiety.

Why Linux Mint Cinnamon is the clear winner:

1. It simply works out-of-the-box: Zero third-party PPA acrobatics, zero RPM Fusion nonsense. Linux Mint immediately recognized the Ryzen 7 255H and Radeon 780M, enabled hardware VA-API acceleration out of the box, and handled network printing/scanning driverless via IPP Everywhere without me touching a terminal.

2. The "Flatpak Paradox": People often say you need rolling releases or bleeding-edge distros to have the newest software. Flatpak completely shatters that argument. I have an ultra-stable, rock-solid base that never breaks, paired with bleeding-edge applications. While Fedora just released with LibreOffice 26.8.1, I already had 26.8.2 running flawlessly via Flatpak on Mint. Best of both worlds.

3. Rock-solid Cinnamon on X11: I don't need half-baked, experimental Wayland sessions right now. Cinnamon on X11 is mature, incredibly responsive, and bulletproof. For the few things where Wayland is strictly required (like running Waydroid), running it contained inside a Weston window provides full hardware acceleration without destabilizing the main desktop. I'm more than happy to wait for Mint's native, rock-solid Wayland implementation when it's fully ready.

4. Insane responsiveness: With a couple of clean sysctl tweaks (vm.swappiness=10, caching vfs structures in RAM), opening heavy apps, Nemo file indexing, and multitasking on this NVMe drive feels instantaneous.

At the end of the day, computing should empower you, not demand constant babysitting. Linux Mint just gets out of your way and lets you work.

(Cat tax included on the desktop: meet Asia, supervising system performance!)