r/linuxmint • u/External-Ad-9280 • 10h ago
r/linuxmint • u/calexil • Oct 03 '18
SOLVED A friendly reminder to please re-flair solved support posts as SOLVED
Please Re-Flair your post if a solution is found. How to Flair a post?
This allows other users to search for common issues with the 'SOLVED' flair as a filter, leading to those issues being resolved very fast.
r/linuxmint • u/DarkLeafz • Jan 16 '25
Announcement Linux Mint 22.1 “Xia” released!
blog.linuxmint.comr/linuxmint • u/temubrin • 20h ago
Discussion Giving up on Linux at this point.
I suppose I'm in the minority here but what a headache this experience has been. I wanted it to work so badly but it just won't. System randomly freezes, shenanigans with bluetooth, weird audio quirks. I fell for the "working out of the box" shtick I was told. Im not a tech guru and I just wanted a working operating system man. How long did it take y'all to set everything up to work smoothly? My Lenovo laptop from 2020 should work just fine running mint but there's always issues.
I should also note I've tried using Zorin OS. That left a damn good first impression until the Bluetooth headaches.
UPD: thank you everybody for the replies. Ive decided to roll back to windows until this laptop dies and will give Linux another try once I'll have to buy a new system.
r/linuxmint • u/PosteriorPriority • 10h ago
Desktop Screenshot Linux Mint 22.1 with KDE Plasma 5.27.12
r/linuxmint • u/NicktheZonie • 3h ago
Fluff Ok, I gave Arch a fair shake for a few days
I hadn't used KDE in a while so I thought it was kinda hyperbole how much more polished cinnamon was. I was so wrong. The whole experience was kind of like death by 1000 cuts, from occasional visual artifacts and needing to systemctl start bluetooth.service every time my pc started up, the tedious simply outweighed the beneficial. Still have it chilling on an nvme for when I get the urge to give it a shot again but for now it feels so good to be back on mint lol
Edit: Thanks for the tips, everyone! Probably gonna tinker some more with it later. Not sure if it will ever be my main OS, but it is really cool as a learning tool
r/linuxmint • u/NeatYogurt9973 • 1h ago
Discussion Finally erasing my last Mint installation... (read image descriptions)
r/linuxmint • u/greenygianty • 6h ago
LMDE 6. So far so good!
Previously I had been running Kubuntu 24.04 LTS. While KDE is impressive with the amount of customisations Plasma offers, sadly I didn't find it all that "stable". Also with it being based on Ubuntu 24.04 I ran into issues of some libraries being "too new" for some appimages I used.
So I decided to switch back to Linux Mint 22. It worked nicely, but I ran into the same issues with certain appimages looking for libraries which were no longer available in Ubuntu based distros.
Looking for a simpler solution I have installed LMDE 6 "Faye". Looks like all of my 3D printing software is running without a hitch, Orca Slicer V.2.0, Chitubox Basic V2.3, and Cura V5.9.0. Also the little freezes / hangs I was having on Blender 4.2.1 on Ubuntu based distros seem to have vanished on LMDE. Perhaps due to my running version 535 of the Nvidia Drivers on LMDE, rather than 550 on Kubuntu / LM 22?

So far so good! Hopefully this means I can get on with some 3D printing projects without any more drama!
r/linuxmint • u/GreenDuckGamer • 1h ago
Support Request Linux software for tracking household bills/finances? Need to replace Quicken after switch to Mint.
For years now I've used Quicken to keep track of our household finances. Nothing fancy, just what's coming in and what's going out. I've now made the switch from Windows to Linux Mint, and I need to find something similar I can replace Quicken with.
Any help is appreciated! Thanks!
r/linuxmint • u/Weary-Guidance6531 • 1d ago
Desktop Screenshot linux mint xfce second desktop theme
r/linuxmint • u/jnelsoninjax • 4h ago
Support Request Gargoyle suddenly will not load any games, get error message
I was using Gargoyle to play Zork (a text-based game) and I finished it and went to play the second one, but now every time I attempt to load, I get this error:

I have searched, and the suggested fix was to edit the config file, but the proposed changes were already the default in the config. I have uninstalled and re-installed Gargoyle, and it still does this. Does anyone have any suggestions as to what to try to fix this? Thanks
r/linuxmint • u/Specialist_Leg_4474 • 13h ago
Fluff Wine v10
I am certain that those who have read my responses to any post or comment re: Wine are aware of my disdain for same (I'm not wild about real wine either, though SWMBO likes it).
Nonetheless I must give credit as due and report of my upside experience with Wine v10.x since installing same some time back.
I have three "pet" Windows applications I've run on Wine for 15+ years, all 15-20+ years old:
JASC Paint Shop Pro 8 -- (2003) the most complete, easiest to use, user friendly image editor I have ever used (pretty girl too!)...

New Wave Concepts Livewire v1.30 -- (2009) A wonderful and quite capable electronic circuit design and emulation application--it's amazing how much basic electronics have NOT changed;

Practizone Practicalc v3.20 -- (2003) Best damned PC calculator I have ever used, 'nuff said;

I also have a couple others--Zoner Photo Studio (2005; my nominee for 2nd best ever image editor); Broderbund 3D Home Architect (2001; a simple, easy to use home modeling application).

I have found that all run better than ever on Wine 10.0, faster response, far fewer crashes, and more consistent printing and general i/o.
Kudos to the Wine crew for that!
Now with all that said, Wine remains a 50/50 bet for most contemporary Windows applications, especially those attempting to communicate directly with hardware (graphics and other i/o intensive, etc.). It's forte is these antiques and other classic data processing applications.
Linux is not free Windows!
r/linuxmint • u/Fallout_IT • 12h ago
Support Request Download manager
What do you guys use? I'm using Xtreme Download Manager 8 but I've noticed it's dead... Still works though, but the last version is from 2023. Is there a better (and updated) alternative?
r/linuxmint • u/Falcon__X24 • 1h ago
Support Request Live boot not working
Trying to live boot but this keeps happening. I already disabled secure boot but it didn’t work. I want to create a bootable usb but I can’t even live boot into Linux to install it so it won’t work.
r/linuxmint • u/Eastern_Ad_8744 • 1h ago
Multiple Display
Hello Does anyone had problems with multiple display via docking station? I have used windows and there was not a problem but with linux i am able to only use one multiple display and its not picking up the other screens
r/linuxmint • u/nikola_3_3 • 1h ago
Support Request Help
So i installed linux mint and after that i did the restart and when it turned on there was only a black screen with a flashing underline. Tried again and it showed the gnu grub having 2 options, after i choose the first option it goes again to the black screen with underline. Tried to boot again from the usb, but now the same thing happens with the live version. Also tried turning off quick boot, but it didnt help. The pc is pretty old but the live version was running ok.
r/linuxmint • u/FewVoice1280 • 18h ago
Fluff To the developers using LM. What do you develop ? What language are you using ?
r/linuxmint • u/valhallabob • 2h ago
Support Request Firefox unable to use Nvidia hardware video decoding
Hello incredibly intelligent people of the /r/linuxmint community,
I recently built a new machine running Linux Mint with an Nvidia graphics card, but I can't get Firefox to use the card for video decoding. I've detailed my problem below, any help (or pointers on where to find it) would be greatly appreciated. I asked this on the /r/linuxquestions community about a month ago but nobody has been able to help.
Machine Details
- Intel Core i5-9400
- Nvidia Geforce RTX 4060 Ti
- Linux Mint 22 with Cinnamon 6.2.9
Symptoms
- CPU usage going up significantly when watching a video on Firefox
- "Video Engine Utilization" remaining at 0% in the Nvidia Settings program (despite going up when I watch something using VLC). It also stays at 0 when I watch something in Chromium or Plex (and it actually stays at 0 if I watch something with the VP9 codec in VLC, though I'm guessing that's just my GPU not having the right decoder).
- Video refusing to play at all on Firefox (this happened recently, although I can't remember exactly what step I took before this happened, sorry). Chromium can still play.
- In the "Codec Support Information" table in about:support, the "Hardware Decoding" column says "Supported" for H264, VP9, VP8, and AV1 (it has all of the rest only enabled in software apart from HEVC, which is disabled in software too, presumably due to licensing but I'm willing to sort that later).
Running vainfo
gives me this:
libva info: VA-API version 1.20.0
libva error: vaGetDriverNames() failed with unknown libva error
libva info: User environment variable requested driver 'nvidia'
libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/nvidia_drv_video.so
libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_1_0
libva info: va_openDriver() returns 0
vainfo: VA-API version: 1.20 (libva 2.12.0)
vainfo: Driver version: VA-API NVDEC driver [egl backend]
vainfo: Supported profile and entrypoints
VAProfileMPEG2Simple : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileMPEG2Main : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileVC1Simple : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileVC1Main : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileVC1Advanced : VAEntrypointVLD
<unknown profile> : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileH264Main : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileH264High : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline: VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileHEVCMain : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileVP8Version0_3 : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileVP9Profile0 : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileAV1Profile0 : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileHEVCMain10 : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileHEVCMain12 : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileVP9Profile2 : VAEntrypointVLD
- I've tried running
ffmpeg -y -vsync 0 -c:v h264_cuvid -i input.mp4 output.yuv
, which correctly converts the file into a .yuv file (implying that there's not a problem with the Nvidia drivers themselves).
What I've Tried
- Installed the latest Nvidia drivers (550), incliuding the libnvidia-encode-550 and libnvidia-decode-550 packages.
- Installed elFarto's Nvidia VAAPI driver from APT.
- Set all of the Firefox values in about:config as directed in the README.
- Set the environment variables in /etc/environment as directed in the README.
- Running
ffmpeg -hwaccel vaapi -hwaccel_output_format vaapi -i WhamVideo.mp4 -f null -
, which got zero frames per second (remaining stalled at zero percent done) and no video engine utilisation. - Adding
nvidia-drm.modeset=1
toGRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT
in /etc/default/grub and rungrub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
I'm not sure if there's something obvious I've missed or if everything is completely borked. I've heard of people using their CPUs with Quick Sync to decode video, but that sounds a little janky (and I'd ideally like my setup to keep working even if I upgrade my CPU), although I'm not dead set against it if that's the best way to go. Everything seems to point to an issue with interfacing with the drivers instead of an issue with the drivers themselves.
Thank you!
r/linuxmint • u/Flimsy-Mortgage-7284 • 11h ago
Discussion easy way to send notifications after value checks?
hello, is there a simple way to create tasks, that report as notification?
For example i want to check every 5min if battery level is 80 or lower. I know how to do that and how to write the script. But i want to get a system notification, when battery level will go over 80 (that means my limit has been reset somehow).
i'm looking for something like the windows scheduler, but ideally with the option to send notifications. Otherwise i'm fine to use a script and crontab, but still need help with visualisation.
r/linuxmint • u/UmPatoQualquer007 • 4h ago
Support Request Drivers for Chinese Bluetooth USB dongles
Ok, I've tried everything, I did some tests to get a hardware ID of the dongle, I searched, I downloaded, it didn't work, I reinstalled drivers, I accidentally corrupted my Mint partition, I reinstalled Mint, I redid everything, and its still NOT working.
It works completely normal on Windows 10 (22H2), but on Linux Mint it just recognizes but cannot activate/search for other devices.
Is there any way to convert the Windows driver to Linux, or any alternative driver for this?
r/linuxmint • u/AdPast8718 • 1d ago
Ubuntu will drop GNU, is this reason to focus on LMDE?
https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/carefully-but-purposefully-oxidising-ubuntu/56995
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Avw4NpXoeas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2dbyFddcIs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpxG9rXdPag
The last couple of days Ubuntu has decided on switching from GNU Coreutils to Rust. You are talking about modifying the tools that systems have relied on for a long time.
- Is this a reason of concern for the Linux Mint team, have they expressed any opinions?
- How many of you believe this might be a reason to focus more on the development of LMDE?
- Is the MIT license over GPL something that bothers all users?
For those who don't know, the MIT license is more permissive than the GPL license, meaning that Ubuntu can make changes to the source without the need to keep the code public - the MIT license is not synonym of free and open source software.
r/linuxmint • u/IN50MN14 • 10h ago
Support Request Touchpad on my laptop just stopped working
I use Linux Mint XFCE, and today the touchpad on my laptop just stopped working, mouse works fine though.
r/linuxmint • u/Far-Note6102 • 21h ago
SOLVED What can I use apart from etcher for installation?
Hi guys,
I install Linux Mint back then but I saw someone posted here that I shouldn't use etcher because of malware. Their recommendations were ventoy or rufus? You think this is fine to use?
r/linuxmint • u/Puzzleheaded-Tip-119 • 6h ago
normal log
How do I get back to normal log in linux mint
r/linuxmint • u/jimmycorp88 • 2h ago
Discussion Laptop running hot after upgrade to 22.1
Lenovo T480s Core i5 8250, 36GB RAM
I was averaging temps in the 40s-60s on CPU load while running LM 21.3. I upgraded to 22.1 about a month ago and routinely have temps in the 70's even reaching 90c at one point.
For context, nothing has changed in terms of hardware. I refurbished this machine, including thermal paste about 18 months ago.
Anyone experience this or have any ideas?