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.

Hi everyone,

For a while now, I've seen two common complaints in the Linux community:

1. Ubuntu's increasing push toward Snaps.

2. The fact that most distributions are ultimately controlled by a single "Benevolent Dictator for Life" or a company.

I wanted to build something that fixes both. I'm launching Lerke OS (working title).

What is it?
It’s a derivative built on Ubuntu LTS using the MATE desktop. It's specifically designed for newcomers. It completely strips out Snap in favor of native .deb and Flatpak.

What makes it different?
It's not just "another Ubuntu remix." We have a real governance charter. Lerke is led by a 5-member elected Maintainers Committee. I am acting as the Founding Chair, but the charter explicitly states that the Chair has no veto power. Major decisions are voted on, and maintainers are elected by active contributors.

Where we are at:
We are in the very early pre-alpha stage. The GitHub repo is fully public, the governance charter is live, and we are currently using GitHub Actions to build our very first test ISOs.

How you can help:
I am looking for founding contributors. You don't need to write code. We need testers to boot the ISO in VMs, writers for the newcomer documentation, and designers for a logo.

If you believe Linux should be easy to use and democratically run, please check out the repo, read the charter, and say hi in Discussions:

https://github.com/lerke-os/lerke

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!

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.

xfce4 with lumen shell working perfectly for me

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?

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.

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

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

I have an AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT, I know about the resent bug that came with the 3.5 update and i think all of those issues are fixed. Using google i was able to make some headway but i can't seem to fix this last issue. Any help would be appreciated.

quinten@Quinten-PC:~$ sudo dmesg | grep 03:00.0 | tail -n 25

[sudo] password for quinten:

[ 0.231565] pci 0000:03:00.0: vgaarb: setting as boot VGA device

[ 0.231565] pci 0000:03:00.0: vgaarb: bridge control possible

[ 0.231565] pci 0000:03:00.0: vgaarb: VGA device added: decodes=io+mem,owns=none,locks=none

[ 0.250374] pci 0000:03:00.1: D0 power state depends on 0000:03:00.0

[ 0.251003] pci 0000:03:00.0: Adding to iommu group 14

[ 4.070428] amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: enabling device (0006 -> 0007)

[ 4.070451] amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: initializing kernel modesetting (IP DISCOVERY 0x1002:0x7590 0x1EAE:0x8601 0xC0).

[ 4.070457] amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: register mmio base: 0xF6C00000

[ 4.070458] amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: register mmio size: 524288

[ 4.073523] amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: detected ip block number 0 <common_v1_0_0> (soc24_common)

[ 4.073524] amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: detected ip block number 1 <gmc_v12_0_0> (gmc_v12_0)

[ 4.073525] amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: detected ip block number 2 <ih_v7_0_0> (ih_v7_0)

[ 4.073526] amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: detected ip block number 3 <psp_v14_0_0> (psp)

[ 4.073527] amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: detected ip block number 4 <smu_v14_0_0> (smu)

[ 4.073528] amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: detected ip block number 5 <dce_v1_0_0> (dm)

[ 4.073529] amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: detected ip block number 6 <gfx_v12_0_0> (gfx_v12_0)

[ 4.073529] amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: detected ip block number 7 <sdma_v7_0_0> (sdma_v7_0)

[ 4.073530] amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: detected ip block number 8 <vcn_v5_0_0> (vcn_v5_0_0)

[ 4.073531] amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: detected ip block number 9 <jpeg_v5_0_0> (jpeg_v5_0_0)

[ 4.073532] amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: detected ip block number 10 <mes_v12_0_0> (mes_v12_0)

[ 4.073543] amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: Fetched VBIOS from VFCT

[ 4.073544] amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: [drm] ATOM BIOS: 113-44TC6SHB1-PH3

[ 4.077389] amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: early_init of IP block <dm> failed -22

[ 4.082215] amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: Fatal error during GPU init

[ 4.082219] amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: finishing device.

quinten@Quinten-PC:~$ grep -r amdgpu /etc/modprobe.d/

/etc/modprobe.d/amdgpu-bugfix.conf:options amdgpu bapm=0

also running this command did not work, sudo apt update && sudo apt install --reinstall linux-firmware sudo update-initramfs -u

Alguém pode me indicar um adaptador usb wifi compatível com o Linux mint? Estou enfrentando problemas pra me conectar no wifi, vi que é algo relativamente comum e que um dongle pode resolver. Muitas vezes estou trabalhando e o wifi cai, a opção de conectar some e investigando percebi que a placa chega a sumir. As vezes resolve reiniciando, as vezes só volta depois de horas.

Whenever I use a vpn on a non us location, I can't select us locations in the base mirror menu but I can in the main mirror menu. This doesn't happen when I'm on a us location. I checked this after finding downloads for updates were slow, like dial up internet slow. Is this something I should expect to happen?

I spent the whole afternoon trying to get the display above 60Hz (I have a 100Hz monitor)
I managed to do it, but then when I tried running a game, I realized that it still doesnt consider my GPU at all (0% usage)
I looked up online and it says I have to disable secure boot in bios, so I went in bios and the option is not here (not even grayed out, it really isnt available), even the option to change from CSM to UEFI isnt here

isnt linux mint supposed to be the OS where things "just work"?

I have a mid-2013 MacBook Air (MacBookAir6,2 / A1466) running Linux Mint 22.3 MATE and a 128GB SD card in a flush-mounted Nifty Air Silver SD card holder in the SDXC slot so it's always present.

After sleeping and waking, the SD card disappears from the system until a reboot.

The fix was hard to find but easy to implement: cycle the SD reader's power control through the Mac's existing ACPI firmware methods on resume.

Hardware and Software

• MacBook Air 6,2 (mid-2013, A1466)

• Linux Mint 22.3 MATE

• Linux kernel 7.0.0-43-generic

• Internal Apple SD card reader: USB ID 05ac:8406

Finding the cure

The MacBook's ACPI tables contain two methods under:

\_SB.PCI0.XHC1

• SPWR — SD reader power control

• SRST — SD reader reset control

The MacBook Air J113 (820-00165) board schematic identifies the associated GPIO signals:

• GPIO24 = SD_RESET_L

• GPIO44 = SD_PWR_EN

The ACPI SPWR method controls GPIO44, the SD reader's power-enable signal.

The arguments are:

• SPWR(0) — switch reader power off

• SPWR(1) — switch reader power on

Step 1: Install ACPI-call

Install the package in Linux Mint:

sudo apt install acpi-call-dkms

Load the kernel module:

sudo modprobe acpi_call

Confirm that the interface exists:

ls -l /proc/acpi/call

Load the module automatically at boot:

echo acpi_call | sudo tee /etc/modules-load.d/acpi_call.conf

Step 2: Automate recovery after resume

Create a systemd sleep hook to check whether the reader is present after waking. If it's missing, cycle its power. If it's there, skip.

Create the file:

sudo mkdir -p /usr/lib/systemd/system-sleep

sudo nano /usr/lib/systemd/system-sleep/sdreader-recover

Paste:

#!/bin/bash

# Only run after resume
[ "$1" = post ] || exit 0

# Give USB devices time to settle
sleep 2

# If the reader is already present, do nothing
if /usr/bin/lsusb -d 05ac:8406 | grep -q 05ac:8406; then
    logger -t sdreader-recover "Reader present; no action needed"
    exit 0
fi

logger -t sdreader-recover "Reader missing; cycling SD power"

# Power off
echo '_SB.PCI0.XHC1.SPWR 0' > /proc/acpi/call
sleep 2

# Power on
echo '_SB.PCI0.XHC1.SPWR 1' > /proc/acpi/call
sleep 1

# Record the result
if /usr/bin/lsusb -d 05ac:8406 | grep -q 05ac:8406; then
    logger -t sdreader-recover "Reader successfully recovered"
else
    logger -t sdreader-recover "Reader recovery failed"
fi

exit 0

Make the script executable:

sudo chmod +x /usr/lib/systemd/system-sleep/sdreader-recover

The result

The internal SD card now returns automatically after suspend/resume.

This is a working fix on my MacBook Air 6,2. It uses the Mac's existing ACPI firmware controls and does not require a kernel patch, a reboot, or a reset of the entire USB controller.

Hardware compatibility

This solution is confirmed on the MacBook Air 6,2. Other Mac models may have different ACPI namespaces, GPIO assignments, or firmware methods. The method names and hardware signals should not be assumed to be identical across models.

Hopefully this saves someone else the hours of troubleshooting it took me to find the solution!

Hi r/Ubuntu!

I'd like to share SysCheckup, a free and open source (MIT) desktop app that shows your computer's hardware, drivers and software in a single window, and tells you in plain words if something needs attention.

▶ Video: https://youtu.be/QK0TvLTFIl4 💻 Source code: https://github.com/MintMotion/syscheckup ⬇ Download (.deb): https://github.com/MintMotion/syscheckup/releases

What it does

• Home screen: overall status, live gauges (CPU, memory, disk, temperature, battery) and a summary of your PC.

• 21 sections: processor, memory (modules slot by slot, and optionally timings and XMP profiles read from the chips), graphics and monitors (driver, temperature, power, Resizable BAR, Vulkan, EDID data), storage (SMART health, SSD wear, day-by-day disk health history), sensors and fans, battery health, network and Wi-Fi signal, security (Secure Boot, TPM, firewall, encryption) and more.

• Driver updates: checks if your kernel, NVIDIA driver, Mesa, firmware and microcode are up to date, finds devices with no driver and missing firmware (and which package provides it).

• Automatic diagnosis: nearly full disks, bad sectors, high temperatures, worn battery, failed services, out-of-memory kills… Each warning explains what to do and opens the right tool (Software Updater, Additional Drivers, Disks…).

• Live monitor: graphs for CPU, memory, network, disk, temperature and GPU, plus the programs using the GPU.

• Voluntary tests: CPU stability and performance, memory, GPU and disk speed. They never run on their own, show a warning first and stop by themselves if the temperature gets too high or a laptop is unplugged.

• Export: text, web page, JSON, CSV or a summary ready to paste in a forum when asking for help. Personal data (serials, MAC, IP, user names) is hidden by default.

• Appearance: dark, light or System, which follows your theme, light/dark mode and accent color (Yaru accents included).

Privacy

It only reads information, changes nothing on your system and never connects to the internet. It only asks for your password if you choose to read the memory/CPU internal data or to uninstall it.

Install

sudo apt install ./syscheckup_0.7.2_all.deb

Works on Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Debian and any Debian-based distro, with any desktop (GNOME, KDE Plasma, Xfce, MATE…), on X11 and Wayland. Available in English, Spanish, French, Japanese and Chinese.

Honest disclosure

I'm not a programmer. I built SysCheckup with the help of Claude (Anthropic's AI): I decided what it should do and tested it on my own PC, and Claude wrote the code. It's been tested on Ubuntu 24.04 in a virtual machine and on simulated hardware, but not yet on many real computers.

I'd love your feedback

• Try it and tell me what you think.

• If something shows wrong or empty on your PC, open an issue on GitHub with the forum summary (Export → For a forum).

• Ideas and pull requests are very welcome, and feel free to use the code.

Thanks!

Hello new the mint but been on linux for a few years. And im trying to set up a kinda server and Ai is no help reinstalled 2 times now. I have a mnt drive im trying to share its a fat system so windows can use it as well as linux. I set it in disks mount at start and show plus uid=1000 and gid=1000 i dont want any restrictions when I try to change the folder owner I cant. Im not much of a command line that gets me in trouble and leads to reinstall so any gui instructions is best. Is debian this complex or is it mint any help is a life saver im about to try a different linux