xfce4 with lumen shell working perfectly for me

Hi guys after my last post about wanting to switch to linux mint a lot of people recommended that i do a live boot to see how it would perfom on my pc and i have to say i have not had this much fun using a pc since my school days when i was still discovering computers for the first time.The response from any action i do is so fast it makes me wonder why windows does the things it does it feels like i'm running a high end pc and don't see myself regretting the switch, come monday morning i'm buying an ssd and doing some basic maintance on my pc to prepare from my new journey thank you so much to everyone who responded to my post and gave me the push i needed to go through this. (also as a side note while searing for apps on flatpack i found a few games that play well on my pc without lag so i'll be fine on that end). i'll be counting on this community in the future if or when a problem occurs and hope in time i'll be able to help others in my community from discarding their computers that windows has forgotten.

I'm aware its not the best but its something. Any tips?

Edit: I did use AI to blur my name out on the terminals, but I think it might have messed some other things up too. The image is not AI though :(

I've been using Mint for the last 6 months as my daily driver after getting sick and tired of Winblows 11, and so far it's been a GREAT experience.

I've been using linux off and on since about 2004, but I never felt like it was "enough" to get me to ditch windows completely. Until the last few years that is. Valve has done such amazing jobs at closing the gaps with games that we're finally at an era I feel comfortable using it as my daily driver. And so far its been wonderful.

HOWEVER, I did run into my own idiot self doing something dumb. I was on the 615 Nvidia driver and decided to manually purge the Nvidia drivers and go back to 595 for the stability. So I purged them via command line (should have done it with the gui) and when I rebooted to reinstall I got nothing but a blank screen with a cursor at the top left. It appears the Nouveoux driver wasn't loading and leaving me at a black screen. SO I got into the grub command line, did the ole "nomodeset" thing and got in on safe mode. Realized after I got in that I had access to Time Shift, so I tossed on yesterday's image and voila. all back to normal without having to reinstall or anything.

first time I'd have had to use Time shift, and It's SUPER nice. way better than system restore on winblows, and handy AF for issues like this. for once I'm glad to have "wasted" the space of having 4-5 time shift snapshots on hand and could get my system up and running in a few minutes....and of course feel embarrassed by what I had done lol.

I don't understand why windows 11 takes about 1 minute to shut down but on same laptop, dual boot, linux mint shuts down in about less than 10 seconds. What extra efforts microsoft is adding just to shut down laptop?

Everytime i use my headset via audio jack the speaker output option is gone, it's pretty annoying, sometimes i just wanna use my headset for the mic but then i can't use my laptop internal speaker, can anyone please help me

hey descargado linux mint en la computadora de escritorio el cual es el que usa mayormente mi hermano menor principalmente por problemas con windows 11 pues no le habia gustado al consumir mas recursos asi que descargue linux mint y bueno todo hiba bien hasta que probamos los juegos en steam no nativos que usaban proton los cuales tuvieron un bajon comparado a windows 10 asi que vengo aca a preguntar a como se puede mejorar linux mint para juegos en si y cualquier cosa yo lo uso tambien en mi laptop en el cual al no jugar muchos juegos pues nunca note alguna diferencia pero en la caso de mi pc si

I've been a tech guy for many years. One of the few things I've never looked too much into is flashing an Android phone. I'd like to hear from those with knowledge on the subject. Ubuntu has always been my preferred distribution, but I want to know about the general subject, of Linux on Android phones.

My latest Linux Mint Cinnamon extension is now up on Cinnamon Spices. It's a port of the Gnome Desktop-Cube extension. Many enhancements over the current Desktop-Cube extension for Cinnamon and is meant to replace it, or at least I won't be adding anything new to the old one from now on.

Key features:

1. Mouse rotation: Spin the cube with your mouse using a Panel drag, Hotkey, Hot Corner or Edge Push initiation.

2. 360° panorama (HDRI) backdrops

3. Multi-monitor support (one cube per monitor)

4. Cinnamon 6.8 (Mint 27) and Wayland support (minimum requirements: Cinnamon 6.0+)

You can find it in the Extensions app under System Settings in the "Download" tab.

Cinnamon Spices: https://cinnamon-spices.linuxmint.com/extensions/view/119

GitHub: https://github.com/klangman/Desktop-Cube-Reloaded

Constructive feedback is welcome.

Hi all!

I'm Filonux, and I've been working on Color Mint, an open-source tool (GPLv3) for people who like tweaking how Cinnamon looks.

Another night in the lab, testing the program one last time before uploading it. I hope you enjoy the free work you get to play with. Download it before I change my mind (its a joke). Share it if it helps you, and if it doesn’t, share it anyway. What’s it to you, right?

Here’s what you asked for: the English version. And Color Mint 3.1.0 got far more robust, secure, and easy to use. What I pulled off:

• Installs and uninstalls without a trace. uninstall --restore-look brings back your old look.

• Presets are read as data, never run as shell.

• Atomic writes on every file it touches.

• A test suite that renders the real window.

Cinnamon scatters its appearance settings across the Settings panel, dconf-editor and gsettings, and some aren’t in any of them. Color Mint puts it all in one window, including a panel accent color, terminal palettes and a GTK accent, and every action is also a terminal command.

One Bash script plus yad. No daemon. English and Spanish interface.

- Color MInt: Docs, caveats and screenshots: https://github.com/filonux/Color-Mint

The best things in life are free; it’s just that we forgot how to enjoy them.

Want a version ready when the new Mint lands in a few months? Smash the likes, the stars and all that, so I go back to pouring countless hours into it.

A sneak peek at the chapters still to come before the first season ends:

• MintApp Remover update

• LinuxMint Scripter update

• And the final update, the season finale: Scriptya. And at the end of Scriptya, a surprise for everyone

After Windows 11 genuinely started tearing apart my computer, i finally installed Linux Mint XFCE. Noticed big changes in speed, battery life, and simplicity. I also kinda like this file system better than Windows 11. and just for fun i tried Minecraft today (its just a low end laptop) and it surprisingly runs really well, around 180-200 fps.

Thanks to all the linux memes and stuff😭🙏

I notice in XFCE the panel Workspace Switcher allows dragging apps from one workspace to another, but not in Cinnamon. Can this be enabled? Thanks!

Hi I'm still new to linux, my windows volume now shows up under devices but it never used to. I turned on OS prober recently because the grub screen wasn't showing up and was booting into linux, and also recently connected my phone. I know I encrypted linuxmint when I installed it. Not sure what's happening?

A few years ago i upgraded my aunts imac from 2007 to 6gb of ram and an ssd (an old crucial m4 with 256gb, my first ever ssd). I also had to swap the cpu with an intel core 2 duo t8300 so that it could run macos catalina (opencore legacy patcher).

It was running fine but a bit slow and with so many security issues being discovered and no more support from native apps i decided to give it a few more years with Linux mint.

The only issue that i found is the performance of the wifi card (AirPort Extreme/broadcom bcm4321), but i don't have the patience to debug such an old card nor to open the machine again so i'm adding an Asus USB-AC53 wifi card to give it decent download/upload speed and stability.

I find it amazing that such an old machine can run mint, even more given the hardware is from apple and pretty much out of the box after installation.

Despite genuinely liking Cinnamon, I've finally switched to KDE Plasma.

Cinnamon is great, but its limited customization options started feeling restrictive. Honestly, I wanted to recreate some of those cool Linux desktop layouts I've been seeing on TikTok, and KDE seemed like the perfect choice for that.

With a Seagate BarraCuda 500 GB SSD and 8 GB of RAM (DDR3 SODIMM). VAIO CPU Intel Core i3-330M (First Generation) connected to an external 24" Samsung monitor. It runs smoothly and stably—a very pleasant experience. Congratulations to the Linux Mint team... thanks very much ⭐️😎!!