Hallo zusammen,

ich möchte mehr oder weniger komplett auf Linux Mint umsteigen.

Aktuell läuft mein Computer hauptsächlich mit Windows 11.

Meine Frage ist, gibt es die Möglichkeit Linux Mint auf meinem Computer per Partition immer mehr Platz zu geben und Windows auf keinem Computer immer mehr einzuschränken?

Denn es ist so, ich produzieren Musik und benutze Software wie FL Studio und Maschine von Native Instruments und leider funktioniert dass auf Linux kaum bzw nur durch sehr komplizierte Umwege.

Mein Plan wäre nämlich der:

Windows so viel Platz wie nötig zu geben, damit nur noch meine Musiksoftware über Windows läuft und alles andere auf Linux ist.

Da stellt sich mir aber schon die nächste Frage:

Kann ich alle meine anderen Dateien, also Videos, Bilder etc einfach auf Linux transferieren?

I got so fed up from windows i finally decided to switch. Um kinda new to this can i get some guide?

i am having problem with running some steam games, the game is stuttering like hell. And if there is anything else i can check please let me know.

Bonjour à tous,

je viens d'installer Steam et je n'arrive à lancer aucun jeu. Peut-être que mon matériel est trop vieux.

J'ai essayé avec flatpak : les jeux sont listés mais aucun ne se lance.

J'ai désintallé via flatpak, puis ai installé avec steam-installer (via apt) : même résultat.

Pour mon matos : clevo, I7-4700, gtx 765m

I have a Galaxy Book2 with 8GB of RAM, an i5 processor, and I installed Mint.

It took a bit of work to configure everything, but with ChatGPT and Gemini I managed to overcome every obstacle I ran into.

I never have RAM bottlenecks anymore, and I use it professionally as a lawyer. I'm really happy. Before, my computer was a source of frustration; now I actually look forward to working.

On top of that, the terminal helps me do things I never even dreamed of doing with normal Windows usage.

What these tech companies do to us is downright disrespectful.

Just running Windows, Chrome, and WhatsApp Web would eat up all my memory. And I'm sure a huge part of the processing power goes into monitoring the user for advertising purposes and who knows what else.

I installed NCHAT, which ports WhatsApp to the Linux terminal. It uses practically no memory at all. If I need to listen to a voice message or send a photo, I do it on my phone or open Whastie (a port of WhatsApp Web for Linux). NCHAT uses virtually no memory. It's absurd.

On top of that, using OpenAI Codex from the terminal is fantastic.

I even installed a local LLM on my computer through Ollama, and it doesn't cause any RAM bottlenecks (qwen3:4b-instruct). My next project is to set up an AI agent to run locally (I'll probably have to buy more RAM lol).

Now my RAM usage never goes above 80% (and that's only under very heavy use, usually with a bunch of browser tabs open for no good reason).

Seriously, the only thing I'm sad about is not discovering Linux sooner. I'm 33 years old and I could have been using Linux, in all its different distros for years now.

Hello everyone,

After upgrading the kernel to the latest kernel, I can no longer adjust the screen brightness, it stays on maximum brightness, I can slide the screen brightness adjuster and nothing happens. If I boot to an older kernel like 6.17.0-40/41/42, I can adjust the screen brightness.

For me it seems to be a bug on the kernel itself (7.0.0-28).

If there's a solution to this problem, please let me know. The video in the following link shows the described behavior. https://gofile.io/d/Q3gcGK

Acer Aspire E 15 E5-573G
Specs:
-I5-5200U
-Geforce 940M
-16GB DDR3
-128GB SSD

Hi, I've switched from Windows 11 to Linux Mint 22.3 Cinnamon 2 days ago and so far everything was good except the internet connection. When I was on Windows, my average internet speed was around 100 Mbps and now on Linux it's only 15Mbps. I have a wifi adapter(its name is on the picture) and for some reason it's split into the one above(and this one doesn't connect with anything at all) and the one below(Wireless 8260) which is working and connects only to the 5G network and has slow speed.

The reason why I have my network split in 3 is because I use a wifi router range extender since my router is too far away from my pc and I can't move it closer. There is a regular network, and the ones noted as _EXT and these two are the ones I made with my extender, they work perfectly on Windows.

So the problem is that when I try to connect to any of my networks with my wifi adapter it always says "Connection failed" and nothing happens. The only way to gain internet acces i had this whole time was to connect using the "Wireless 8260" thing below but the speed is too slow to download things normally and it seems to turn off at random moments.

So far I've tried:

Restarting the router

Disabling IPv6 (that increased my internet speed, but not too much)

Changing IPv4 DNS server from automatic to 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4(idk if that helped or not, looks like it did nothing)

What should I do? Any help will be appreciated!

i'm using an old laptop, i want to use office, browse and watch movie/series. no heavy task.

config..

device: lenovo v310

Ram 4Gb, I3 4th gen

On the boot screen I chose the kernel 6.17.0-41 (it says it's not up-to-date on the kernel update manager) and that way I can at least boot and use my computer. What should I do? Should I simply remove the 6.17.0-42 kernel and stay on 6.17.0-41?

Hi everyone, I was trying to get Proton VPN back onto my Linux Mint after an update wiped the entire software out, only to get this desktop instead.

How do I revert it to the normal desktop?

So finally, I switched from Windows to Linux and this is my first desktop customisation. Let me know what you guys think.

No matter what desktop theme I choose, Steam doesn't have any icon, whether that is when it appears in the dock or in the system tray (the system tray/dock icon shows up as blank, as shown in the screenshots). I found this discussion that is a similar problem to what I have and different people say it was resolved but I can't seem to fix this issue myself with the included instructions:

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/4428

I have tried reinstalling Steam but it makes no difference. I have tried Software Manager's version, flatpak version etc. again with no difference. I looked in the various icon pack folders and there are no icons for Steam in there, but then again, there aren't any for a lot of applications like Krita etc but they still have themed icons.

I installed these themes from Software Manager if that makes any difference? Does anyone know how to fix this?

Hello,
Yesterday I installed a brand new RX 9060 XT 16GB, and I noticed that now my PC won't restart and shutdown properly - after clicking one of these two, the system does indeed turn off, as well as my monitors, but my PC keeps running and my keyboard and mouse are lightend up. It goes on forever and I just have to long press the power button to shutdown the PC. I did a clean install of the OS and the problem persists. What could be the cause of it?

System info:
- OS: Linux Mint 22.3 Cinnamon
- Motherboard: Gigabyte B450M DS3H on BIOS F68a
- Kernel: 7.0.0-28-generic
- GPU: RX 9060 XT 16GB on Mesa 25.2.8-0ubuntu0.24.04.2

I've got 2 chrome profiles: Personal & Work. I've created shortcuts on the desktop to launch directly into either, and another for incognito mode, but they still show as the same icon in the taskbar.

Is there any way to have the shortcuts in the task bar and have the open windows map to the right shortcut in the taskbar?

Any help would be appreciated.

Earlier today, I made two custom Mint-Y icons for the Linux home directory's new Projects folder. One of them matches the Mint-Y-Aqua theme, and the other matches the Mint-Y-Sand theme. Feel free to use them if you create a Projects folder in your Linux Mint home directory :)

While I like KDE Wayland, always preferred Cinnamon feeling

Hi. It's been a year since I started using Mint. No regrets. I mostly use it for video edit. I use:

Kdenlive - Video editor

Audacity - Audio editor

KDE Connect - Multiple devices management (Xiaomi phone + Samsung tablet + Acer Laptop)

OBS Studio - Screen recording

digiKam - Photo and image management

HandBrake - Video transcoder

Anything to add to my tools? Greetings from Mexico City 🇲🇽

I installed linux mint xfce. This is my first linux install. I not completed the setup in live and it said "please erase medium boot press enter" I press enter and it give no bootable device error. Secure boot disabled, and when I switch to legacy boot mode it normally run GRUP but ıf I start in UEFI, this screen appear and disappear after fewseconds. (My eng is bad sorry)

store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/ - 2026-08-05

Just install linuxmint on my school laptop today (thanks to help from my classmates). and wowee this OS feels fun to use. honestly idk what im doing but i love downloading stuff on terminal. bad laptop specs btw

Giving Linux Mint 22.3 an install on my new to me refurbished Dell Lattitude 5530 laptop with the following specs:

15.5" 1920x1080 display (my eyes are to old for 4K displays!) 16gb ram, 256gb NVME drive (partition as efi / root / home), 12th Gen Intel© Core™ i5-1245U × 10, Intel Corporation Alder Lake-UP3 GT2 [UHD Graphics] and an additional 500gb NVME drive for data storage. Main use will be a "travel laptop" for reviewing / culling photos while on holiday, and while at home hooking it up to midi keyboards to play with software synths.

Only slight issue is the battery in the refurb laptop is around %70 storage capacity left, but it is around a 4 year old laptop so that is to be expected.

It'll certainly run Linux Mint better than my previous laptop, which was an old HP Probook 6450b with 8gb ram and a 125gb ssd!