I recently tried to help a friend with his computer. He is running 4gb of ram on a celeron with nvme and a 2gb graphics card in his laptop. It was painfully slow and he wasnt running any software that was windows-only.

I tried my best to get background processes and co-pilot related stuff down, but nothing could change the fact the operating system was bloated with windows crap.

As much as I tried to convince him he would be better off on Linux, he wasn't even willing to try it on dual boot. He thinks getting another stick of ram is the solution (kinda true, but ignores the problem of windows 11 eating every bit of available ram). I was wondering how the Linux mint community have managed to convince people to try it?

So I have Linux Mint 22.3 Zena Xfce installed on my Lenovo LOQ series laptop and I have been able to update everything through my home internet just fine since June 2026 (I use a portable prepaid WiFi device because I'm poor af). But then about two weeks ago my nearest Asian regional mirror repositories just became unreachable so I could not update anything. I snuck my laptop to work so I could mooch off the office WiFi and to my surprise, the update worked fine and the regional repositories were working as intended.

Is there something wrong with the mirror repositories or is this an issue with my home internet? I REALLY do not want to speak to my ISP about this because the outsourced call center agents do not have any power to resolve this, I suspect. But I will if I have to.

Thanks in advance to anyone with useful opinions on this matter. Still could not update with my home internet as of this writing.

Specifically its yoga slim 7x

soy un usuario de mint cinnamon reciente (ayer) y al intentar ejecutar un juego (people playground) me sale actualizando steam cloud y se cierra, ya actualice los drivers desde la terminal pero nada, me alegra haberme pasado a mint pero se me complica algunas cosas basicas, denme consejos o ayuda pls.

It has been 2 years + running Linux mint as primary OS while windows server on VM and Mini PC for cloud testing and deployment, my screen feels too boring lately, does anyone have tips for me? I want to improve the look

Is it possible to upgrade from an olde​r mint (lm17) to 23 without reinstall all over?

I wanted to boot up Linux mint and this happened.

Hello all, teacher here. A few years ago linux mint xfce revived my beloved macbook air from 2011/2012. Since then my 8th graders and I have repurposed dozens of 2012/2013 desktops for ourselves and local schools.

A school we helped put reached out and said they had even older macbooks and desktops in storage. My question is how old have you guys resurrected computers to comfortably use gmail/google docs etc?

what is even that?

i'm on linux since less than a week, and sometimes, if I don't touch the computer for a while and it goes to black screen, when I come back, it pulls me this kind of messages and then turns off/restarts... what is going on?

I was going to install Linux Mint on my Samsung Galaxy A51, but I couldn't find any good apps, and most of them seemed complicated and slow. I want to use Linux Mint everywhere. 128GB/89,51GB

Brought an old HP All In One back to life with a new OS. Here are the specs.

kernel 5.15

Panel 1 bottom, Panel 2 top and there is a Panel 3 hidden on the left that manages my window buttons w/o titles. I found icons online for thunar and a cool 3D gear for settings manager plus a something different for terminal. ENJOY!

Hi everyone, I really hope someone will be able to help.

I have recently had a friend install Mint on my laptop. I’d not used it for a few weeks and I forgot my password to log in.

What do I do? 🥲

Its also my first time installing any Linux distro besides raspberry pi stuff. I like it so far! Its true what they say, it just works.

Il mio Mint personale con impostazioni diverse. Ha dato al mio PC una nuova vita

Thanks to the Mint team for making a dependable, friendly desktop.

After many years of constant distro hopping, I landed here two years ago and never looked back. Mint just works for me. I install it, and the desktop feels familiar instead of like a project I need to configure.

Cinnamon is comfortable (not without its problems), updates are simple, and tools like the Update Manager, Timeshift snapshots, Driver Manager, and Software Manager really make it feel like home. It reminds me that it’s okay to take things slow.

Anyone else have that moment when Mint finally “clicked” for them?

Nothing too crazy to brag about. But got a deal on this "for parts" Lenovo chromebook 500e gen 3 with a N5100 CPU 4GB RAM 36 GB eMMC storage (under $40). Disabled the WP, and got coreboot installed and threw on Mint. Works great. Took some tinkering to get the speakers to work, and it won't auto rotate (yet) but it is a great little on the go machine. Love the form, keyboard is decent enough, display is nice. Even got some low spec Steam games going on this (battleMETAL, FTL, Into the Breach).

Anyone else rocking a minted chromebook?

Found this old Linux Mint 14 installation disc while digging through my stuff. A little piece of Linux nostalgia! Anyone else still have their old install discs lying around?