I've been a linux user for about 12 years now, and I gotta say I hate you guys, I can be trying to make a tutorial for the newbies and some of you will start throwing hate because Im explaining something you already learned. You guys are fucking assholes.

Not bragging or anything, I'm just bored and here to help if anyone has any questions -> about Linux.

I decided to give Linux a try after using Windows; I chose Mint, and I haven't been disappointed! For a long time, I couldn't find a use for my old monitor at my dacha, but just look at how cool this setup turned out!

id say ive already gotten pretty close but i know there people with like hidden knowledge to make look damn near identical

My laptop had windows 11 and was being forced to update due to some mandatory update bs but I had just uninstalled those updates because my bios got corrupted and i had to get it fixed because of those updates and now today it didn't even let me shutdown in anyway without updating again (Alt +F4 menu shut down option disappeared , start menu only had update and shutdown and then had to use cmd to force shutdown) so I decided to switch over to Linux and chose Linux Mint Cinnamon today

Tldr : got sick of windows 11 and switched to linux mint cinnamon

What are some things I should watch out for as a first time linux user?

Just wanted to share my little project I ported Black (2006) from the original Xbox to run natively on Linux Mint.

Not an emulator / Wine. It's a native x86_64 build using static recompilation + Vulkan + SDL3.

It's open source (MIT), .deb for Mint 22.x / Ubuntu 24.04, and needs your own original copy.

Getting 90-100+ FPS on my ThinkPad X270 (HD 620).

Super happy it finally runs!

I have an Asus TUF F16 with Linux mint on kernel 7.0
but when I close the lid, it enters into suspended mode, but doesnt get out of it. I can presse anything I want and it won’t come back. the solution is to do a hard reset everytime.

any known fixes? Bear in mind I’m very new so I know basically nothing

I've just installed 22.3 and I saw that there will be a new version coming out. How does upgrading work?

Will I have to wipe my computer and start from scratch?

I got Linux earlier this year (still kinda a Linux noob too, so sorry in advance, I might be slow to understand stuff) and ever since I got Linux, this has been a reoccurring issue. When I would come back to my PC being asleep, I would tap my keyboard to wake it back up. Keyboard lights up, I hear the PC's fans working, and I hear the volume sound effect when I turn it up. If I try tapping the power button, it shuts the whole thing off and I have to turn my PC back on, then everything returns to normal.

I've been sitting on this issue the whole time, but I finally looked into it and researched the issue myself. While I learned it's fairly common apparently, I still can't get why I'm having the issue. and could really use some help. I don't have a NVIDIA graphic card, I use AMD. I updated my kernel a few times since then so I'm not sure if it has anything to do with kernel's either.

LMDE 7 - Cinnamon 64-bit.

One other thing, from the day I got Linux, I've always been met with this error on boot. Looked into it, it doesn't seem harmful but I will mention it in case it's related. (I copied this from the mint Linux forums I had bookmarked, so I don't remember if I had the exact numbers or anything)

ACPI Bios error (bug): could not resolve symbol [\SB.PC00.TXHC.RUB.ss01], AE_NOT_FOUND (20210730/dswload2-162)

ACPI Error: AE-NOT_FOUND, During name lookup/catalog (20210730/psobject-220)

Im getting a New PC and Installing Mint Cinnamon on it, im currently running Windows 11. To get into Linux more I installed Mint Cinnamon inside VirtualBox

But Brightness Controll is (for me at least) Impossible. Ive tried different applets (Brightness and Gamma Applet, DDC/CI Monitor Brightness, etc) and even used brightnessctl in the Terminal (yes also with sudo) and nothing works

Its Not that Bad because i can still indirectly Set the Brightness because of Windows but im afraid that when im actually using Linux the Same issues when Happen and i cant Set the Brightness

any Help?

Several Kernel level security vulnerabilities were posted publicly instead of to the private security list.

The vulnerabilities are:

ZDI-CAN-33549 as a CVSS 9.0 scored vulnerability for SMB Direct remote code execution vulnerability due to integer underflow. For this one there is a patch in a Git branch of code intended for Linux v7.5 but now presumably will be expedited for getting to mainline.

ZDI-CAN-33774 as a KSMBD race condition that can lead to remote code execution. Another CVSS 9.0 rated vulnerability.

ZDI-CAN-33367 is a vulnerability for skbuff skb_zerocopy in the network code that can lead to local privilege escalation. For this one Linux kernel developers received a security report from another source last week over the same issue and a patch is expected to be posted soon.

ZDI-CAN-34068 as a VMWGFX VMware graphics driver bug with an out-of-bounds write leading to local privilege escalation.

ZDI-CAN-34076 an uninitialized resource in the NVMET code leading to information disclosure.

ZDI-CAN-32005 was also posted to the mailing list a day prior for a search-domain TCP query stack buffer overflow leading to local privilege escalation.

After doing VMware from windows 10 esu around November 2025 to July this year

Hey guys, I have a Monster SD100 speaker. It has bluetooth and 3.5mm line out. I would much prefer to use the 3.5mm but the volume is maybe half of the bluetooth volume. I've tried everything I could find on Google with no luck. Everything seems to be set properly but damn thing is really quiet even at 150% volume. Anyone know how I can fix it?

Good day, the on board keyboard on my acer aspire 3 a315 stopped working literally 15 mins ago. Was not paying attention of what changed as i was using an external keyboard, and was working and updating the system files at the same time. I'm only 2 months-in in using mint so my knowledge on this is fairly shallow. Need some help to try and fix this because i don't want to carry an external keyboard every time i want to use my laptop outside. Tell me what info should i pull up as again, im new to any of this. Thank you in advance!

My friend was struggling to get his windows 10 computer to do anything. Checking and writing an email was a process he would set 30-45 minutes for and despite his fine collection of music, he had reverted back to CDs because of how often windows media player would crash his computer. Unfortunately it has a HDD and is still a little slow in my opinion, but compared to what he was dealing with? Night and day.

Yay

My mom really likes the thing cause its screen size. I changed the battery. The issue was probably more about her placing the laptop on something cause of the heat.

She's going to keep using it regardless, and I'm wondering if Mint would have a better way of managing the battery.

Edit. I realized I should mention that this is a Chinese laptop I got for like 250 and it was starting to have problems even before this. Like losing power when playing ten plus year old games like dragons dogma or fallout new Vegas and even emulated PS2 games. So my guess is that my laptop is completely dead. But I’m still holding onto hope since the power button is still on and I can hear noise when put my head next to the fan

At this point, the only thing I have to go back to my Windows Drive for is to adjust the colors of the lights on my Legion tower. Because unfortunately, there is no Linux solution for that. Yes, I have tried RBG lighting, but that only adjusts the two fans. It won't change the GPU light or the Legion light on the front of the PC. And from what I found, no program seems to work for those. So I have to keep the Windows drive just for that.

Why is it impossible for the Mint team to finally find a solution/fix to transferring a lot of files or large files to NTFS drives? This has been an issue for years now. Every single time I try I end up with either data loss, corrupted files or whole folders that can't be deleted at all anymore. These are common issues:

- Transferring using Nemo results in an ever declining transfer speed that will eventually take an eternity/stall

- Stopping a transfer then seems to crash the whole file manager resulting in a forced restart of the whole device and often data loss

- When using an alternative file manager like Dolphin the transfer speeds are much lower

- If you use Dolphin to copy files, then close it when you're done and then unmount the device in Nemo it will take forever to unmount and in the end delete all your copied data or corrupt it

I only have this on Mint, no other distro. Also, it only happens with NTFS drives. If the OS can't handle NTFS drives, then why does it support them. How is it that other distros do not have this issue? It is honestly frustrating.