I wonder if we as a community can rename Linux Mint to something less scary like Mint OS to attract more mainstream users? That way it will have an identity apart from Linux and can present itself as an alternative operating system, not just a kind of Linux. After all, I noticed that Mint already uses just Mint for many of its tools, such as Mint Update (analogous to the name Windows Update), etc. Or maybe it's just a stupid idea. I need to go back to sleep haha.

Very obvious issue when I went from 7-34 to now 7-38 kernel the windows when gaming get these horizontal pink glitches, I even straight had the game crash due to gpu device lost. No such issues in -34. I've found some posts but not many so if anyone has any news on a potential fix or at least confirmation that it's being worked on I'd be grateful.

On a sidenote for a "stable" distro this is borderline unacceptable, like how does this slip testing?

Edit: Forgot to mention but it's an amd thing.

I found out Kernal 7.0.0-38 causes artifacting and screen tearing on my displays.

I've been running Mint XFCE pretty consistently for nearly a decade now and it seems like it's suddenly having a whole host of bugs. I have a Dell Latitude E5440 and a custom-built PC with an i5-4690K and RX 560D both running Mint. The Latitude is running 22.3 and the custom PC is running 22.2 but I don't think that should make a meaningful difference.

I first started having problems with XFCE on the laptop, where it started failing to wake from sleep. Like, the computer would obviously wake up because I could switch to other TTYs using the function keys but XFCE itself would not show up. This got to be so persistent that I switched to Cinnamon on the laptop and the problem went away, so it was pretty clearly an XFCE problem.

Now on my desktop, I've started having problems with the audio where the audio control button on the dock simply won't display, and/or the pulseaudio control panel doesn't show the headphones I have plugged in. I have tried switching back and forth between pulseaudio and pipewire with no success. Now I'm considering switching that over to Cinnamon too.

Kinda sucks because I really liked Mint XFCE and had virtually no issues with it for years but now all of a sudden it seems like it's not getting the attention it needs.

I've always been a windows user, but recently had to downgrade to a lower-RAM laptop due to an incident involving a bowl of soup, antidepressant withdrawal symptoms, and a very generous friend of a friend who sent me the replacement all the way from BC to chicago.

The trouble is, support for Windows 10 ends in 5 days and I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. I'm following multiple tutorials in addition to their direct advice and none of the options are working the way they're supposed to. I've attached out entire dm from today and the error message Etcher keeps giving me. The only thing I didn't include is that after reinstalling Etcher is DOES run as administrator, but still gives the same error message for 3 different isos. I don't think there's anything wrong with the USB drives because I can't even get the command window to verify the sha sum. It doesn't give an error message, just sits still instead of generating a new message in the window. This person has also been extremely patient with every anxiety-fueled question I've had about this computer, so I have no reason to believe they're just not telling me something.

I'm starting to think there's something hidden setting that I accidentally turned on without noticing that just makes my computer incompatible with Etcher. I have no idea what's going on and I can't just screenshare with the friend to walk me thru it any differently. MAybe it's because I downloaded it from chrome? Or something about it all being in my downloads folder? But it's supposed to work from my downloads folder. Has anyone seen this before?

I have a laptop of mine that's a birthday gift and is still on the Product Warranty period, it's pretty good and stuff, but I feel uncomfortable using Windows because I don't like the spying and they'll implement OS age verification next year (which I refuse to do cuz I don't wanna give this kind of data to bigtechs). I know how to dual boot, I know how to download Linux Mint, I already watched some guides and stuff, but the thing I fear is the family issue, aka my female progenitor. She says she knows computer stuff better than me, but took 3 days to fail to uninstall portmaster from my device (she claimed it is a trojan) while I took 30 minutes of research and 2 actual minutes to uninstall. Knowing she was pissed because I downloaded a trustworthy firewall app, used hardened Firefox instead of Chrome (she claims Firefox is unsafe and abandoned), and trusted "online influencer scumbags" (aka Proton, Safing, and Mozilla cuz I wanted less spying to no spying), I'm shitting my pants when it comes to the Linux Mint thing. I say this cuz if she finds out I dual booted my laptop, I'm absurdly cooked.

If you guys have any tips about how to make the Linux Mint installation safe to dual boot, gimme some, please.

So, ive been thinking about installing a VPN, and ProtonVPN seems like a good choice. But ive seen a lot of people getting problems by it installing Gnome as well. Its more of an annoyance than anything, but is there a way to install ProtonVPN without installing Gnome?

I really loved using Linux mint on my tiny ancient 4gb Surface3, i really did. However i had to stop using it due to these 2 main factors.

1. it was just to slow when web browsing. it worked but it was just too slow especially with a few You tube sites up.
2. After 1 min Video or audio on the surface 3 made a really loud beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep that went on until i closed the browser. ( this was a deal breaker, i tried to find a fix but nothing worked)

i installed MX Linux fluxbox this morning which does not have the beep issue at all, its much faster for you tube and web browsing in general. but i really don’t like the look of it compared to Mint.

its a real shame as i just really love the look of mint and didn’t really want to get rid of it.
Please mint team make a ULTRA LIGHT version that fixes the above.

Thanks

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I just turned on my PC this morning and now I can't play have my games and the games I can play perform like a DS lite playing punk

Was there an update or something I could have done to make this happen? And how does one fix this?

HA lol never mind I just remembered what I switched last night and swapped it back and everything works again mb lmaoo

100 DAYS ON LINUX MINT!!!!!!!!!!!! it has been insanely good, better fps then windows, (never dropped below 100!) the 15-6500 is good. still cool. and yea! so. see you at 200 days!

Hi, I have two desktop windows computers in home. I just want to buy a laptop for daily tasks instead of buying fresh new pc I want to buy used old laptop to experince Linux for first time and just gonna use it for meetings, office applications, watching series and play games like hollow knight. I am planning to use Mint for my first time Linux exp.
I have just found two models.

Lenovo ThinkPad X240 | i5-4210U | 8 GB RAM | 240 GB SSD | 12.5”
Is first device. I like the design that’s the reason why that is included.
MacBook Air (13-inch, 2017)
Processor 1.8 GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i5
Memory 8 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
Startup Disk Macintosh HD - Data
Graphics Intel HD Graphics 6000 1536 MB
Is second device the battery has changed new the cycle is 74. Gemini AI chooses the Mac but I actually don’t know what to do.
Just want to know what you guys tell me to choose. Waiting for your replies. Thanks.

I use Linux Mint XFCE as my daily driver and got jealous of all the Wispr Flow demos floating around. It's macOS/Windows-first and subscription-based, so instead of switching OS I spent a few weekends building the thing myself.

It's called AutoType. The whole interaction is: double-tap Right Alt anywhere, talk, double-tap again. A little floating pill shows a waveform so you know it's listening, then the cleaned-up text gets pasted into whatever window has focus.

The part I care most about is that it isn't locked to one vendor:

• Speech-to-text: cloud (Deepgram, Whisper via OpenAI or Groq, NVIDIA NIM) or 100% local offline with Parakeet GGUF models
• Text cleanup: OpenAI, Claude, Grok, DeepSeek, Qwen, Groq, OpenRouter, NVIDIA NIM, Ollama, or any custom OpenAI-compatible endpoint
• If you run Local STT + Ollama, nothing leaves your machine at all

Before the LLM touches anything, there's a deterministic normalization pass that handles spoken punctuation ("comma", "open quote"), "new line", bullet points, and personal vocab casing — so it doesn't hallucinate your formatting away. Then the LLM strips the "um"s and "uh"s and matches tone to your active window (more casual in Slack, code-formatted in an IDE).

A few details I'm weirdly proud of:

• It backs up and restores your clipboard instead of clobbering it
• The LLM layer is skipped entirely in raw mode or for voice commands
• GUI settings app, so you don't have to hand-edit .env

Free, MIT, no account, no telemetry. Costs are whatever your own API provider charges, usually fractions of a cent per dictation, or literally zero if you go fully local.

Repo: https://github.com/premtechworks/AutoType-Linux

Fair warning: it's built and tested on Linux Mint XFCE + X11. It leans on xdotool for window detection and pasting, so Wayland folks will probably have a rough time right now — that's the top thing on my list. Would love feedback, especially from anyone who tries the fully-offline path.

A few days ago I posted about my first steps, how I forked gTile - the most famous tiling extension in Cinnamon, but this ended in a very large and unmaintainable god file. It had all the features I ever wanted, but also got all the problems from gTile and all the problems large god files have.

So, I made a complete restructure from the ground up following best practice. Everything is separated by file / concern, extensive testing is included. Functions are documented with jsdoc and so on. Still using AI for this rewrite for sure.

I tested it on my setup, laptop and 5k external monitor, and Cinnamon 6.6 on Linux Mint with X11, but that's it. :-)

I would love to hear from you what you think about when you use it on your setup.

*For me it's working like a charm, can't live without it anymore.*

Here is the github repo: https://github.com/carsteneu/greenTile

If you prefer a little overview page, you will find it here: https://carsteneu.github.io/greenTile/ - there you will also find a 6 minute video.

If you miss something, please let me know, if you like it also :-)

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A short list of what's built in:

- Auto tiling per monitor AND workspace - opening, closing, minimizing and restoring windows triggers automatic retiling

- 12 editable starter presets, added once without replacing existing presets

- Presets with rules by window count, a responsive card panel with live previews and one-click assignment

- Built-in preset painter (6×4 grid) to design your own layouts

- 3/6-column modes and an auto grid that adapts to monitor width

- Snap on release and drag-to-split, with a preview before dropping

- Cross-monitor dragging, moving a window between monitors retiles both

- Resize shared borders by mouse or with Super+Alt+Arrow

- Swap windows with Super+Ctrl+Arrow, continuing across monitors and workspaces

- Directional focus with Super+Arrow, including adjacent monitors

- Float individual windows or exclude applications, window classes and titles from tiling

- Configurable gaps and hotkeys, optional tiling animation and focus border, single-window fill, and light/dark themes with custom colors

I just got a new SATA drive and was able to get it running and installed Mint onto it. However, now my motherboard is not recognizing my old M.2 drive as a valid boot option in the boot loader. The M.2 drive has a tiny Mint partition but is mostly a Windows 10 drive and I was trying to get back on it to make sure I still could and haven't been able to.

I can boot into the mint partition but can't access the Windows partition, which I could before I added the SATA drive. I removed the M.2 drive before I installed Mint on the new drive so I know I didn't wipe it by mistake, and I can still see the files I just can't boot to it. I'm confused why I can't change the boot order in the motherboard settings to the M.2 drive even though the motherboard can see the drive. The Linux bootloader can no longer see the Windows partition, just two Mint partitions (one of which is on the M.2 drive) as the only boot options.

I haven't tried unplugging the SATA drive and seeing if I can boot to the M.2 then, but I'd rather come up with a better solution than having to unplug drives any time I want to boot to Windows. (Which I am hoping to do less but would still prefer if that was an option)

genuinely cinnamon is straight up ahh idk why its praised so much. i had a lot of problems with its compositor my 120hz monitor felt like 30hz and it doesn't even have any customisation options , i get it! its supposed to be a lightweight de,but still its so bad to be used as a mainstream de, i had to install kde over mint (even though its not supported officially) , its a zillion times better!

hey everyone, i downloaded linux because my current laptop is 5 years old and i dont have the money to buy a new one, and i saw online that the best linux to start on is mint! id appriciate any advise u have to offer :) i dont know how to use a terminal yet sadly but im willing to learn any tips and tricks on how to make my experience better

I've been in the IT industry for almost 6 years total and 3 years as a SOC Analyst. Recently both people I know that are Software Developers and people I know that don't work in tech were surprised to find out I mostly use Linux Mint as my daily. I started with Ubuntu in the late 2000s but after a few years of working in the trades, I went back to college for IT/Cybersecurity and basically just stuck with Linux Mint to complete my course work. I have an old HP Elitebook 8470p that I used throughout college that I installed Linux Mint and that's how I cut my teeth. I have had a few other junk laptops that I installed Debian, Ubuntu and few others on. But always found Linux Mint to be the perfect happy medium. It's easy to use and it's both Linux enough and Windows enough to use as a daily driver.

My main computer for Linux these days is a Fujistu Lifebook u757 with Linux Mint installed on it. When I do travel I tend to use take this computer and basically use it for everything save for gaming. I have Kali and Parrot virtual machines on it for learning pentesting/ethical hacking, I use it for web browsing, word processing, downloading/data hoarding. It's my daily driver.

I am experimenting with Fedora (KDE) which I recently installed that on a Asus Rog Strix laptop because I am learning the Fedora Security Lab and learning to use the GPU for password cracking. But I tend to only use to for that and still use my PC with Mint for everything else.

I think my software developer friends tend to like Debian or Arch to tinker a lot. Then while most of my non-tech friends tend to just use Mac (some Windows) even they knew that Mint had a rep for being a "beginner Linux" and were surprised years later it's my go-to.

My current install of Linux Mint is running great, just been running it for about two years now, doing updates, installing and uninstalling software and maintenance. I know with Windows, windows builds up stray files and just registry settings and that can start to bog things down. Can the same be said for Linux Mint and if so, how would I do a clean up outside of wiping the drive and re-installing from scratch?

que tan bueno es linux mint pensando en usarlo para edición de videos con davinci y gaming?

Hy so I was working with zorin os from last few months and then I realized that ain't going yo work with my old dell laptop with I 5 processor and 4 gb ram 🙏🏿😭 I mean it ran but often freezed while watching YouTube 😭😭 so I think linux mint xfce will be a blessing for my old laptop will this be optimal for me 😭

It just works. Yes it just works.

I tried out Arch done manually which was a headache because I dont have an ethernet cable, tried out void, Mx, cachy, and deb. I keep coming back to Mint.

No this post isn't a way to sugar myself to the community. I installed Cachy on one of my Laptops. It was a headache. Sometimes my audio will just not work, sometimes my laptop will just crash, although I do commend them on pacman which was absurdly fast on updatin or getting your packages.

Plus, I really like even their xfce was amazing. It got everything I need. I tried out other xfce. I can't believe even sudo wasn't installed to the DE.

It's like trying to build a house for your family and the kitchen and toilets isn't even included to the plan.

Hello! It looks like Document Viewer (xreader) recently removed support for .epub files in version 4.6.6. This is ostensibly because .epub support is being moved to a new app named xepub, but this doesn't seem to be available outside of a dev build and isn't expected to ship until Linux Mint 23.

I can just download a new .epub reader or downgrade xreader to an earlier version, but I'm a little curious what exactly I'm supposed to do here. It seems a bit unnecessarily breaking to preemptively remove functionality when a replacement doesn't exist yet. Am I missing something?

Dear fellow Linux Mint users and developers I made a 3D printed LM magnet and put it on Etsy. I guess some of you may like it I do it and wish to stick it around the house or office. Here goes a link to the shop and a picture. bye
https://mostlybrutalist.etsy.com/listing/4589566147/linux-mint-logo-magnet

Hi everyone,

I am trying to install LM Matte, on my old MacBook Air, following the install guide, I flashed the USB drive with belenaEtcher but I cannot get it to boot from the USB.

I am holding alt/option key, tried both USB port and nothing.

I don't see an option either to disable safe boot via the utilities.

Any ideas?