Because ive been wanting to switch from windows to Linux and I recently found out about mint so I tried it out on distrosea.com and I liked it but is jt good for gaming and other stuff such as using 3d printing software like bambu studio is it also good for "first" approach to Linux because I'm not to familiar with linux (pc specs 12gb DDR4 RAM amd ryzen 5 5000 series with amd Radeon graphics inside it 512gb NVME SSD) and most of the games I play work on the steam deck

Just showing off my terminal-focused hackerbox. I feel real cool browsing the internet via w3m. You should try it!

I like gnome, but I also hate the feeling of breaking it when customizing it so...

In Cinnamon I rewrote some parts of the orchis theme to my liking and made a simple custom menu icon, also re-purposed the HP logo for the ascii art and colored in to sort of form a LM, if you see it, you see it (its for me to like).

Overall I enjoy Cinnamon the best, but just like many dislike the preset theme (no hate intended for those who do or the LM team).

Exited for the Adrien release!

Bought if from a old Lady at a yard sale. Her daughter really wanted to sell the stuff that was there. They thought there was nothing on there but I found some personal information, including her SS number. The first install came up with a kernel panic so I did another install after l booted up in compatibility mode and waited until it was done updating before installing software and it appears fine now. It has 16 gigabytes of RAM, Intel i5, and 500 gigabyte hard drive. I also have a external USB 3.0 2 TB HDD I got super cheap at another yard sale to go with it.

Hello Linux Mint folks!

It is my first time using linux and every research I did recommended Linux Mint.

I was honestly tired of windows constant updates and bloatware.

I was hesitant to do it on my main PC (9800x3D, 32gb RAM, 5080. 2TB DDR5) just because I am a complete noob and I worked hard to build it last year to save money and I do not want to break anything on this thing.

Then I remembered I have a Macbook Pro 2012 with 1TB storage I bought in FB marketplace during my university days that I haven't used in ages. The OS is still on Mojave and quiet slow now.

I did my research on how to install a new OS (as a complete noob btw) and I did it! I am so proud of
myself, I did some extensions to make the UI feel familiar and honestly was surprised how much it breathe a new life into the Macbook.

I love that Linux Cinnamon was so flexible and easy to use. Its faster too, on a 20 year old hardware!

I also switch from chrome to firefox since i want more privacy and adblock, more seamless than I thought, importing passwords are so seamless.

-KeePassXC is an amazing tool to store passwords!
-LibreOffice is amazing! no need for subscriptions!
-KdenLive is also amazing! I tend to edit my travel videos when I hike/climb mountains and this was a great alternative to Adobe.

Looking forward to discovering more.
Maybe if I get used to Linux Mint enough in the Macbook, I will eventually use it on my main rig.

The only reason that is holding me back is the gaming compatibility. The EasyAntiCheat is on some of the games I want to play in the future.

Otherwise I am really tempted to switch and leave Microsoft Windows for good!

The Linux Mint Community Wiki (https://mintwiki.org) is pending approval to be officially added to Linux Mint. With this change approved you will be able to find a link to it in the Welcome Screen app in Documentation which shows for first time users.

Pull Request Link: https://github.com/linuxmint/mintwelcome/pull/73

I’m just downloading all my games now and tinkering around with menu colors and other stuff lol. If you got any recs for programs I would benefit from please let me know!!

This was way easier to do than I thought it would be! Windows 11 was just so laggy and slow, and would randomly change things on me and a LOT of popups. Immediately this is a lot smoother lol

This week is LMDE with 5060 Rtx laptop. Took an hour to install due to Debian does not like new hardware, but succeeded! My Laptop does not like Fedora based distros but works well with Arch and FreeBSD. My favorite is Linux Mint. Used for awhile, but decided to give LMDE a shot. Much harder due to hybrid HP OMEN.

I downloaded Mint onto my new gaming computer and I'm having a bunch of performance issues. When i first started with linux I couldn't play anything since the graphics were abysmal and it would barely run. I fixed that when I found out that I hadn't even downloaded the nvidia driver... And while it's obviously a lot better now, I'm still having big issues! Discord crashes almost immidiately whenever i try to stream anything, Overwatch(which was running perfectly when i had windows) is choppy and basically unplayable, and the screen on my laptop will suddenly freeze all the time. The weirdest thing about the screen freezes is that when i had a TV connected via HDMI, it showed that it wasn't the computer that was frozen, cuz it functioned just fine on the TV, it was just the screen on my laptop. I suppose i wonder whether there are other things similar to downloading the driver that i don't know about that would fix these issues. Thanks in advance!

Those errors appear on mint, debian and LMDE as well, I haven't tested in others distros. I tried look this shit up, but there's too little info on that. I heard ventoy might cause some errors, but I have tried it medicat, ventoy and by rufus, none of them changed the output. My theory is that mobo (gigabyte b650 gaming x ax v2) might be the problem, or GPU (rtx 4060ti). Help me i dunno what to do.

Help!

I have a Mac mini 5,2 I want to revitalize and audio will not work. I've tried the HDMI and aux chord but the HDMI doesn't work and the aux chord is not even being registered. It says Intel sound card has no driver. I've tried troubleshooting with chatgpt with no success. Other than the audio it work really well and I'd love to fix it.

It happens during gaming sessions though steam or lutris i also bought a vent to put below it (don't know the exact word for it)

I have 5060 nvidia and i9 13000h idk why it is doing that got any tips

Also drives I see best performance with 615

Hardware: Dell Inspiron 5379

GPU: Intel UHD Graphics 620 (Kaby Lake)

OS: Linux Mint, Ubuntu 24.04-based system

Display session: X11

The problem

I was troubleshooting choppy video playback in my browser on Linux Mint. During the investigation, I discovered that although my laptop had an Intel UHD Graphics 620, OpenGL was using llvmpipe, which renders graphics in software using the CPU instead of the GPU.

My original "glxinfo -B" output showed:

direct rendering: Yes

Vendor: Mesa (0xffffffff)

Device: llvmpipe (LLVM 20.1.2, 256 bits)

Accelerated: no

OpenGL renderer string: llvmpipe (LLVM 20.1.2, 256 bits)

This explained why graphics rendering could be unnecessarily CPU-intensive.

Step 1 — Check the graphics hardware and driver

I ran:

inxi -Gxx

The output confirmed that the laptop had Intel UHD Graphics 620 and the kernel's "i915" driver was loaded.

However, the OpenGL renderer was "llvmpipe", which indicated that the GPU was not being used for OpenGL rendering.

Step 2 — Check VA-API video acceleration

I ran:

vainfo

This successfully loaded Intel's "iHD_drv_video.so" driver and listed supported video profiles, including H.264, HEVC, and VP9.

This was an important clue: the VA-API video driver was available, but OpenGL rendering was still falling back to software. These are separate parts of the graphics stack.

Step 3 — Investigate the Xorg log

I checked the Xorg log:

grep -Ei 'intel|AIGLX|swrast|DRI' /var/log/Xorg.0.log

The relevant errors were:

(II) intel(0): [DRI2] DRI driver: i965

(EE) AIGLX error: dlopen of /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/i965_dri.so failed

(EE) AIGLX error: unable to load driver i965

(II) IGLX: Loaded and initialized swrast

(II) GLX: Initialized DRISWRAST GL provider for screen 0

The legacy Xorg Intel driver was attempting to load "i965_dri.so", which was missing. Xorg consequently fell back to software rendering.

Step 4 — Inspect the Xorg configuration

I checked the configuration files:

ls -la /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/

There was no main "/etc/X11/xorg.conf", but there were several files under "/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/".

The important discovery was that the Intel configuration selected the legacy driver:

Section "Device"

Identifier "Intel Graphics"

Driver "intel"

Option "TearFree" "true"

Option "TripleBuffer" "true"

EndSection

For this setup, I switched the configuration to the modern Xorg "modesetting" driver.

Step 5 — Switch to the modesetting driver

I edited "/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf" so that it contained:

Section "Device"

Identifier "Intel Graphics"

Driver "modesetting"

EndSection

I saved the file and rebooted the laptop.

Important: Changing the Xorg configuration requires restarting the graphical session. Checking "glxinfo" before rebooting still showed "llvmpipe", so I initially thought the change had not worked. After rebooting, the result was different.

Step 6 — Verify the fix

After rebooting, I ran:

glxinfo -B

The output now showed:

direct rendering: Yes

Vendor: Intel (0x8086)

Device: Mesa Intel(R) UHD Graphics 620 (KBL GT2) (0x5917)

Version: 25.2.8

Accelerated: yes

OpenGL vendor string: Intel

OpenGL renderer string: Mesa Intel(R) UHD Graphics 620 (KBL GT2)

OpenGL core profile version string: 4.6 (Core Profile) Mesa 25.2.8

Success! OpenGL was now using the Intel UHD Graphics 620, and hardware acceleration was enabled.

What I learned

- Having the correct kernel driver loaded does not necessarily mean OpenGL is using the GPU.

- VA-API video decoding and OpenGL rendering are separate components, so one can work while the other has problems.

- Xorg logs can reveal why the system is falling back to software rendering.

- The legacy "intel" Xorg driver can cause issues on some systems when its expected Mesa driver files are missing.

- Switching to "modesetting" and rebooting fixed the OpenGL rendering problem on my system.

What remains to be tested

If you have a similar Intel GPU and Linux Mint setup, check "glxinfo -B" before changing anything. Your configuration and symptoms may be different, so don't blindly copy the Xorg configuration without checking your own logs.

Thanks to everyone sharing Linux troubleshooting advice!

Hi folks, for those of you who enjoy blog posts, I recently wrote about switching to Linux Mint full time.

I talk about the tweaks I made on both a MacBook Pro and a Surface Laptop to get things working comfortably, including screenshots and full scripts.

I just wanna reformat all of my shit so i can play my steam games again dawg AND THIS DRIVE ACTIVELY PREVENTS ME FROM DOING THAT.

GIVE ME THE ORDER.

I'm stuck on the boot. Trying to resolve it for the last several hours.

It happened after an unusual shutdown by pressing the power button.

I've replaced my laptop with mint and have been having a blast. Except for when it comes to trying and fiddling around with video and images. The lack of software and wine support for what I use is the reason I havent jumped ship on my main computer yet. The handful of editors I've tried with Linux dont really offer much in the scale of things either and seem to be for more minimal edits.

I currently use Vegas Pro and Paint.net on windows with an assortment of custom effects/add-ons that have been ingrained into my workflow so I'm mostly looking for something that has a bunch of actual effects, let me mask custom objects and puppet / key-frame those sources.

forward to hearing from everybody.

I'm new to linux and I've been distro hopping for a while.

I started it with my old laptop that dosent even have a gpu , windows was killing it so I installed Ubuntu on it, but it was still laggin so I tried to install Arch Linux as a beginner and completly bricked my system with sudo rmrf, months later I somehow managed to unbrick it with a new ubuntu installation. then i installed debian , deleted it and then i installed pop Os on it and it worked relatively well. (4 GB ram btw) I mainly use it for light coding and watching videos or as a secondary monitor.

On my second laptop with a GTX1650 and 16GB ram , I got sick of windows and its ads, i debloated windows but it was still taking up space, then I installed Kali OS only to realise its not a daily drive. then i installed Parrot OS, It was good but I cant get my Nvidia Graphics Card to work on it so I went back to windows.

Finnally I got sick of windows again, they made word paid and disabled the ability to download word,excel 2021 so Ive been using Libre Office and not to mention random updates even after I disabled and debloated it. Since most tools I use are already opensource I decided to Install LinuxMint after binging lot of YT videos

For the first time my NVIDIA graphics card actually works and I can use dual gpu ( i have amd and nvidia gpu) There are times I have to put it on performance mode to use nvidia but it actually works, Ive also managed to run minecraft with an average of 120fps and terreria from steam , I also managed to install a vm and got it to work properly for learning pentesting. I also manged to downlaod vpns and tor( its banned where im at rn) using protonvpn web extention. It's been 2 days and nothing is broken.

LinuxMint 22.3, Optiplex 7050 ssf, i5 7500
Mobo: Dell 0NW6H5, bios 1.70.0

USB controller: Intel Corporation 200 Series/Z370 Chipset Family USB 3.0 xHCI Controller

ugreen SDcard reader (in USB-2 port):
Bus 001 Device 013: ID 05e3:0764 Genesys Logic, Inc. USB Storage

works on my 2.0 ports (pic: Ventoy with a 64GB card boots), but it is not seen in my USB-3 ports.. other than it seems to stall running "inxi" in terminal until I remove the sdcard from the reader.

I have updated my BIOS to the most recent version (1.7.0) and have turn on everything I can find in the BIOS for USB-3. I am actually okay with installing OSs on this machine at 2.0 speed as I do that very rarely but I would like to use this device within Linux Mint at USB3 speed. It just seems like there is a mobo or driver issue I cannot figure out.

I have tried:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash usb-storage.quirks=05e3:0764:u" which seems to stop the stalling.. and "iommu=soft" does nothing, unless I am entering it incorrectly in GRUB.

I do share cellular data via a USB-C port but that's USB2 speed, so other than the ugreen card reader I have nothing else to test my 3.0 ports with.

Help me!

I am actually new to linux because my windows lags too much

I tried booting through usb but linux mint stuck on logo and then I tried compatibility mode but error codes and failed commands appeared. So I took help online and tried putting nomodeset and security boot disable and still the problem appeared. I tried zorin os later but that too failed and errors commands appeared

I tried Rufus, balena etcher, changed usb, tried different ISO.

Nothing worked.

Please help.

I’ve been using Linux Mint on my laptop and wanted to play Warcraft 3, so I downloaded Lutris. However, Proton doesn’t work when I use it; I’m forced to use Wine instead. This results in terrible graphics quality, and the game runs poorly—consuming far more resources than other games. Does anyone know how to get Proton working for the classic version of Warcraft 3, so I can avoid using Wine, which performs terribly and is extremely resource-intensive?