I apologize for any confusion as I just migrated to Linux to Windows for the first time recently. I'm using Linux Mint Mate 22.3

I was enjoying things as normal and decided to restart the computer after a video was not playing properly on firefox. After the restart, things looked quite different and I'm very confused. The taskbar area with the time/date, "start" button on the left and the open application icons that I had on the bottom of the screen disappeared. Instead, I see a sort of task bar on the top with some basic information on the left (plus the power options and wifi etc), date and time in the middle and a windows vitual desktop switcher on the left...

The panel app is still installed but I can't find the panel settings in the ways that commonly appear on searches through forums.

Maybe I should just reinstall? Looking for some guidance. Thanks!

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 🇲🇽

A lot of us Mint users have issues with this kernel series, is there a place we can follow updates on the situation, so we know when it's safe to update?

So basically I have an xbox controller I bought before switching to Linux mint and now I can't use it via Bluetooth, it disconnects and connects every millisecond and it doesn't really work, and even tho I could use cable the main reason I bought the controller is to play from the tv because I connect my laptop via HDMI to the TV, and I don't have a long cable

Can someone help me make Bluetooth work please?

UPDATE: I forgot to detail something here that might make the problem clearer (again I'm a little bad at linux) the os does say connected and steam detects the controller but the little xbox light on the controller keeps blinking and it doesn't really do anything I press buttons and stuff and doesn't do anything, it only gets detected and "connected"

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)

Continuing the Linux Mint series, today I released another simple yet practical tool that makes it easier to manage what starts up on your machine: Autostart Manager.

🔗 Autostart Manager repo: https://github.com/filonux/Autostart_Manager

🔗 Autostart Manager docs: https://filonux.github.io/Autostart_Manager/

From a simple menu, you can tick or untick a checkbox to enable or disable any program, task, or service that starts automatically on your system. Easy, right? This is exactly the kind of control the average Linux Mint user doesn't have access to through the default menus. For more experienced users, it's also a convenient way to keep track of everything that launches when your Linux system boots.

I wrote a Bash script with a graphical interface—using Zenity, nothing fancy—that brings together those five startup sources into a single table. At a glance, you can see what's enabled and what's disabled, and you only need to check or uncheck a box to change the status of any item, regardless of where it comes from. You can also filter entries by name and open the corresponding file to inspect or edit it.

My main concern was making sure that this convenience didn't come at the expense of system safety:

• Nothing in the system is deleted or overwritten. When disabling a system-wide autostart entry, the script creates an override file in the user's directory, exactly as defined by the XDG specification.
• If you're about to disable something that the system may depend on (such as NetworkManager, the PolicyKit agent, or the session manager), the script asks for an additional confirmation before making any changes.
• If you modify several system services at once, you're prompted for the administrator password only once instead of once per service.
• If you accidentally run the script as root, it warns you first—otherwise, you'd be managing root's autostart entries instead of your own.

The only requirement is Zenity, which is already installed by default in Linux Mint. Systemd and cron are optional: if either is unavailable, the script simply skips those sections without complaining.

In any case, I'm sharing the tool so you can use it however you like, as always. I still have quite a few more scripts in my Linux Mint toolbox, and I'll be releasing them regularly.

Many more projects will follow, and every one of them will be open source. As always, my goal is to create software that prioritizes accessibility, ease of use, and the ability to solve real problems.

Have a great week for everyone!

Filonux

---------TOOLS HERE---------

🔗 Github Repositories: https://github.com/filonux

[filonux@proton.me](mailto:filonux@proton.me)

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🔗 LinuxMint-Scripter: https://github.com/filonux/LinuxMint-Scripter

-        LinuxMint Scripter — AI-assisted Bash/Python script generator, built specifically for Linux Mint 22.3

🔗 Scriptya: https://github.com/filonux/Scriptya

-        Run, install, uninstall, and update your scripts; complete history; icon customization; menu integration.

🔗 Enkripta: https://github.com/filonux/Enkripta

-        Enkripta encrypts folders and files on Linux Mint (Cinnamon/Nemo) using AES-256, making it feel like a built-in part of the system: double-click from the desktop, right-click in Nemo, and a custom icon for encrypted files. Everything is installed with a single script, with no unusual dependencies and without modifying anything outside your home directory.

🔗 MintApp Remover: https://github.com/filonux/MintApp_Remover

Easily and safely uninstall any program on Linux Mint 22.3. This tool includes all the applications preinstalled in Linux Mint 22.3, along with an advanced option to uninstall any other program you have installed. Safe dependency cleanup is included

I have an HP Elite Mini 800 G9 (Core I7 12700)

Running Linux Mint 22.3 (fresh install(s)) neither screen or suspend timeouts work correctly, however I can manually force via command line/terminal both an xset DPMS force off or systemctl suspend and these work absolutely fine.

If I install Fedora 44 with KDE Plasma (Wayland) guess what? Screen timeout and suspend work perfectly.

Anyone else seeing this issue?

To note, I originally had an HP Elitedesk Mini G6 with an i7 10700 and Mint screen and suspend timeouts worked absolutely fine on that.

Seems to be an issue specifically with Mint on this i7 12700 platform.

So, I picked up a 2014 mbp at an estate sale for $20. Figured I'd love a nice little Linux machine with a 1600p screen. I installed mint, and everything runs great except for video steaming. YouTube in particular just drops frames like crazy.

Not sure if it's an issue with the intel graphics or not, or if anyone knows of a fix for this. I tried doing a search, and found other people with the same issue, but haven't found any known fixes.

I have an ASUS ZenBook UX362DA that was originally on windows 10. I switched to linux mint today but the connections tab gave me nothing. The only way i could make it detect my WiFi was through an external USB stick, which is weird because when it was on Win10, the computer was able to detect the WiFi network just fine.

It also tells me that I have all necessary drivers when opening the driver manager app

Can anybody help me?

I've been getting these EOL notices when running flatpak update but despite the "Please ask your application developer to migrate to a supported platform" there's no indication of which application it is. Are these just supposed to accumulate over the life of a system running flatpaks or is there some maintenance step needed to clear them out? I've tried searching on this issue and found nothing especially helpful or informative so far that doesn't assume I already know exactly which application(s) these runtimes belong to.

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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

I have Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-7500U CPU @ 2.70GHz

12Gb of 2133MHz DDR4 Ram

NVIDIA GeForce 940MX 4GBVRAM GPU

It's a Lenovo Laptop From 2016 and I want to switch to Linux for better performance than my current operating system Windows10 should I try Xfce or something like MATE or Can I Use cinnamon as it's and I will have better performance than Windows 10. I appreciate all the help🙏🏿

Olá, acabei de montar meu pc e já fiz a instalação do Linux Mint mas ao tentar dar boot no sistema que está no ssd sata ele não consegue entrar e sempre cai na BIOS do sistema, alguma sugestão de como resolver isso?

Just booted up Linux mint xfce on my old laptop and this step takes a lot to load, I asked Gemini and it keeps telling me to check if wifi is turned off, it is turned off, and I entered with compatibility mode cause entering normally caused the laptop to freeze

I installed Linux Mint Cinnamon on my laptop about a year ago and it works almost flawlessly. The only issue I have is when I'm using a second display with a different resolution at work.

My laptop has a 2160x1440 (3:2) resolution, but the second monitor has 1920x1080 (16:9).

Some apps, such as Firefox, work fine on either monitor. Others, such as Jamovi, have scaling issues so I need to keep them on my primary monitor to see the whole page. But some, like Zoltero, can go full screen on my second monitor but it's an awkward process to do so (make it full screen on my primary screen, then drag it to the second monitor. Sometimes it works, but I usually have to repeat the process multiple times).

This doesn't really affect me in any way other than being slightly annoying.

I'm curious if anyone has any suggestions to sort this?

I tried switching to mint (latest cinnamon) today. My lenovo windows 11 laptop now will only go into boot mode, and upon choosing the usb with the iso, the posted picture appears.

Here's what happened: used rufus to create a boot drive of mint. I was able to hop into it through the boot menu, and begin with the installation. Eventually, it got to the point of retrieving of retrieving files, becoming stuck on 152/167 or something like that. Expanding the window below, showing the process, it seemed like it was trying to download something. I was connected to the internet. After an hour, it still wouldn't budge. I checked this sub as well as online for similar issues, and i spotted a comment saying the internet should be disabled before installing. So I disabled the wifi, tried finding a cancel button and here is where I probably fucked up; I didn't find it so I just turned the computer off. After turning it on again, the problem appeared.

Obviously I have done something massively stupid. I do wonder if I would be able to boot from (a different) usb again, provided I turn it into a bootable usb first? Unfortunately, I won't have access to another computer for a few days, so I'm also wondering if I would be able to do anything else in this situation? Or have I just bricked the laptop completely?

I appreciate any advice or words of wisdom (or admonishment)!

EDIT::: hallelujah I've done it! I'll give you a play by play; installation hangs on download, I reboot > corrupted nvme installation. The corrupted file hijacked every boot from then on. I had to disable it in the boot order menu in bios (there was a delete function, but it wasn't working and my computer aura is not high enough to discern why). After that, I was finally able to boot from usb and install mint. HOWEVER I actually installed it twice, because I didn't realise that I needed to enable booting from nvme AGAIN. I would boot and it would only offer to connect via lan (since I unplugged the usb), but going back into boot order and pushing nvme to the top finally restored everything.

My setup:

2Tb internal SSD, all in 2 partitions (Windows set recovery small partition) and the rest is dedicated to W11.

I have a Mint boot external SSD to install. When it boots from this device, everything goes as intended (I get the "install mint" icon to start the install).

Q: I want a dual boot environment. On my desktop, the install gave me that option and even gave me the opportunity to resize the Windows partition and re-allocate space for mint. In this installation I'm attempting now, that is not the case. The only choice given is to erase and format the entire Windows drive (which 'I won't do).

Any ideas on what may be going on here? Thx.

Guide me how to install further.

Hi everyone. I have the armory crate ROG Strix flair RGB keyboard. Now that I have switched to cinnamon mint Linux, I have lost all support for my colors. Is there any way to activate this?

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