My favorite thing about Linux is that all my fuck-ups are my own. On windows, its always a broken update, a data leak, whatever. But on Linux, I can only blame myself. I'm in control. Sure, its scary to have the power to make your computer hate you, but I prefer it that way. I'd rather fuck up myself than deal with someone else fucking up for me.

Wallpaper: https://wall.alphacoders.com/big.php?i=1348349

Icons: https://www.opendesktop.org/s/cinnamon/p/1166289/

Theme: https://www.opendesktop.org/s/cinnamon/p/1891521

(credits to Michael Horn on yt)

Configuring Intellihide for my polybar was such a hassle icl 😭️🙏️

It felt so refreshing to be on Mint since the very first day. Of course, it wasn't a magic bullet due to the low RAM I had but still miles better than having that Micro$hit Windows, which would stutter for atleast half an hour after boot while I'm using any app. I couldn't even think about customising it.

Fortunately, I didn't face any issues which were too much of a strain on my brain. That's not to say, I did not face any significant ones.

Issues I fixed

1. Frequent audio pops/crackles with Easy Effects: As Gemini advised, I tried disabling power saving and increasing quant values/buffer sizes, but they only helped to some extent. After I grew frustrated enough, I scoured forums and any issue I could possibly find which was similar to my case, but it always lead me to a dead end. After that, I decided to move my entire audio stack (PipeWire + wireplumber + Easy Effects) to a newer version through piperoll. That finally seems to have fixed nearly all the underrun issues I was having, but I still have issues where it would make a pop sound whenever I seek or pause. I'm guessing things should work fine on native after Mint 23 arrives.
2. "Bluetooth not working": This one was very funny, actually. blueman doesn't have robust enough error handling when it comes to missing icons. Due to some misconfiguration/missing icon files on my installed theme (Orchis), the GUI was crashing constantly. The bluetooth was working fine the entire time.
3. YouTube stuttering: enhanced-h264ify fixed it. My hardware does not have support for newer codecs.

Aside from this, it has been mostly smooth sailing so far!

Es una broma, acabo de pasarme a linux...

Bueno el día de hoy oficialmente acabo de pasarme a linuxmint, se siente irreal, se siente demasiado suave, perdon por esta comparación pero se siente como el trasero de un bebé.

Estaba cansado de lo incomodo de Windows, que te pide pagar por todo, es demasiado lento y etc.

Asi que hoy mismo me instale linuxmint xcfe, he ido familiarizandome un poco y no es nada dificil.

Pero quería saber, hay algo que deba descargar? Algun programa o hacer algun ajuste para mantener optimizado mi sistema y el rendimiento?

Leí por ahí de blachbit o algo asi que es como un limpiador. Pero no se exactamente que casillas marcar o si se puede programar la limpieza automaticamente.

Estoy entrando a este mundo del linux asi que me ayudarian un monton si me pasan algunos consejos, tips que debo tomar en cuenta y que no tocar para no arruinar todo.

Mi pc tiene 4 gb de ram y es antigua.

Por cierto trate de descargar wine desde la tienda pero parece que no va, no se que hacer. Es para jugar al counter strike 1.6 jaja.

After my successful test with the Forbidden HP, I installed Cinnamon on my 7290. It’s taking some time getting my head around the terminal, but I love the flexibility in the OS. I really don’t think Windows has a place for me at the moment, but time will tell whether everything I need is supported on the platform.

i draw a lot using csp back in windows but csp isnt supported on linux so it runs really bad (i turned broke after buying csp)😢
i wanna try making beets too!! i rly like music stuff and wanna try it out 🥲
pls rec me some software that i can try?? if you dont know any free softwares pls comment paid ones too!! i might be able to buy them in the future

beautiful illustration (picture 1) made by me in drawing 🔥

thank you in advance!!!

idk what flair to use 😢 sorry if this is the wrobg one

Since I started dual booting Linux, I've rarely went back to windows, might give it all to Mint atp, smashed together some youtube tutorials and ended up with whatever is this. Should i erase Windows 11? I really only used fortnite and i can install it on xbox

Saludos desde Caracas, Venezuela..... me cambié a Linux Mint porque tenía una pc de torre viejísima con un i7 de primera generación sufriendo con Windows 11. Probé de todo un poco: Cachy OS, BigLinux, MX Linux, Fedora, OpenSUSE, y brother, nada se compara a la estabilidad de LMDE 7. Cuando empiezas a meterle mano para personalizarlo y le agarras el gusto, te vuelves imparable! Ahora monté un Ryzen 5 3550H con 32gb de RAM y esta vaina es un cohete!

I am from Caracas, Venezuela..... I switched to Linux Mint because I used to have a very old pc tower with an i7 first gen running Windows 11. I distro-hopped a lot, tried Cachy OS, BigLinux, MX Linux, Fedora, OpenSUSE, but man, nothing compares to the rock-solid stability of LMDE 7. When you start learning to customize it and actually enjoy doing it, you are imparable! Now I have a Ryzen 5 3550H with 32gb of RAM and this thing is a freaking rocket!

Linux Mint Cinnamon on my 2015 MacBook Air with an upgraded Intel AX210 wifi card. All hardware works out of the box except for the HD FaceTime camera. Since the camera uses PCI instead of a USB device, I found a fix in the Linux Mint forum, which involves running a script that downloads and installs the OEM drivers. https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=445168

Wrote a small work around in order to get my Broadcom WiFi to not automatically delete itself every update

I am a musician/producer and I am using Linux Mint.
It is working great.

Do I need to change anything?

Hey guys,

I use Linux Mint as my main OS and have a bunch of wireless devices on my desk. I got tired of checking battery levels in different places (or realizing my headset was almost dead when I needed it), so I ended up building a Cinnamon desklet for it.

I called it PowerPulse.

It basically sits on the desktop and shows the battery level of my laptop, keyboard, mouse, headset, etc. Right now it gets devices from UPower and I added HeadsetControl support because of my Logitech G933.

You can click on a device to see more details, and there are a few other things like low battery notifications, sorting, light/dark themes and some customization options.

I’ve been using it on my own Mint setup for a while and decided to clean it up and share it in case anyone else finds it useful.

Here’s what it looks like on my desktop:

It’s free and open source, so feel free to try it out:

GitHub: https://github.com/vicman/PowerPulse

If you’re curious about some of the other Linux stuff I’m working on, you can also check out https://vicman.app.

Feedback is very welcome, especially if there’s a device you’d like PowerPulse to support.

Also curious: what wireless devices are you guys using on Mint that are a pain to check the battery level for?

The straw was when I tried changing the system font on windows but then I find out that I have to go into the registry editor to do so.

so I swapped lol...

I'm dual-booting Linux Mint Cinnamon 22.3 with Windows 11 Pro. It's easy enough for me to change things up, so I wonder if making the change from EXT4 to Btrfs is worth the effort.

If anybody is using the Btrfs file system with their Linux, how are things going?

Hello, I have been using Linux Mint for over a year now and I am extremely happy with it. However, I have a small problem with freezes, especially when I have several heavy sites open and use them at the same time. I have changed several browsers in an attempt to solve this, but I have not been able to. I am currently using Chrome and Mozilla, I am testing and daving, but the result is the same. I have tried all kinds of browser and graphics card settings and all kinds of commands/combinations for power. The picture shows the parameters of my desktop computer. My card is very old and I think these freezes are due to it.

Can you tell me how to fix this, or should I just continue with this compromise until I buy a new card?

Also, would xface solve the problem?

Any advice is infinitely valuable.

Thanks!

I am looking for a second hand, very affordable laptop where I can install Mint Cinammon for my son. I am utterly clueless about models, brands, specifications. Any tips on which models I could look for, or on what are the specs I should look for? Any feedback is welcome.

I want the most performance I can get on my PC with 3060 ti 48gb ram and i5 9600kf.

Should I really change or not worth it?

from windows*

So i did a stupid thing which i dont even know why i did while decreasing my partition so i could put some gigabytes on a separate smaller windows partition I did the stupid thing and x’ed out of gparted while it said something like ‘moving partition x to the left and copying x amount of gigabyte’ I don’t really remember what it said but it was something along those lines. Now I’m guessing it’s over so I just wanted to know if there is anything I can still do or should do at this point.

I don’t know how to add a photo in here so I’ll just send it in the comments if that works

Edit: this might seem dumb but I can’t upload a photo on here nor the comments and if I just don’t don’t know how please someone tell me on how to add on using your phone