You're not alone. I don't need my desktop to showboat like some cyberpunk manga birthday cake. I just want something subtle and easy on the eyes.

Transparent panel, date/time/weather in the middle, trashcan in the system tray, no desktop shortcuts. Cinnamox for the menu. Adapto Nokto for the windows.

I tried seeing if could save my old Win10 gaming PC that was semi-bricked by a windows update around a week ago with Linux. It worked and I liked it, this is my first time running any flavor of Linux on my own machine.

Since already had the USB started checking if was able to get any of the older PCs I had kept around for minor parts to run from USB. In total managed to bring 3 of my 5 'nonfunctional' PCs back to life, being gaming machines for their era even the oldest is still powerful enough to comfortably do generic office use today.

Outside of the shock of how many could still work well, I was pleasantly surprised the two most recent ones seem more responsive with Mint. So now one is my primary Linux PC, and the other recent one am using to test out various things might do as home server (I technically already have a home server, but it is running Win10, so would be good to get that to a supported OS).

The oldest one has such absurd amount of space for HDDs (4x by default, and 3x 5.25" bays that can be converted to 5x more) may turn into a NAS when get around to picking up some more disks.

I love how Linux cares about our privacy, control over updates and just plain no bullshit. Of course it's not all rainbow and sunshine sailing but it surely gets the job done for me. ^..^

I had several apps loaded in my 64Gb of Ram. I'm running ComfyUI in --CPU mode as I only hav 8Gb of VRAM on my RX580. The swap file was still unused as I had load of memory spare. When I started running a text-to-picture generation Mint suddenly decided to load a whole load of stuff into the swap file on my hard drive when there was still so much free space in RAM. Why did it do that? Is there a flaw in the memory management module or something? I've noticed it doing similar things before when there was plenty of apparently free memory. It doesn't make any sense as I thought the swap file was strictly for overflow because it's slower. It made the whole system crawl to an almost stop. What can I do to encourage it to only load things into the swap file when the memory is actually full?

UPDATE: Thanks for the responses, I've adjusted the swappiness right down to 1, I'll see how it goes.

Cinnamon Clipboard 1.2.0 released!

Hi everyone! 👋

I'm happy to announce Cinnamon Clipboard 1.2.0, a new release with a first-run welcome screen and a few small usability improvements.

What's new in 1.2.0?

• First-run welcome screen: New users can configure a couple of basic settings before the application starts. The welcome screen can also be skipped, in which case the application starts with its default settings.
• Clearer history settings: The Save history (privacy mode) option has been renamed to Record history, with an additional explanation to make its purpose clearer.
• Clearer history limit: The settings now clarify that pinned items do not count toward the history limit.

Welcome Screen

A note about privacy and security

I've been exploring database and image encryption for Cinnamon Clipboard. However, implementing encryption properly and maintaining it responsibly turned out to be more challenging than I expected. I wasn't comfortable shipping a security-sensitive feature that I might not be able to maintain to the standard it deserves, so I've decided to abandon that work for now.

Instead, I'd rather keep the application simple and focus on the privacy protections it already provides:

• Temporary history: Users can choose temporary history when they want clipboard history that isn't retained persistently.
• Secret filtering: By design, text copied from Bitwarden, KeePassXC, and other applications that mark clipboard contents with the standard secret hint is excluded from capture. This behavior is enforced by the application and cannot be disabled in the settings.

I believe it's better to be transparent about these limitations than to add a security feature I cannot confidently maintain.

What's next?

My next major goal is to investigate Wayland compatibility when the Linux Mint 27 beta becomes available.

For now, I don't see a need to add more features just for the sake of it. I'd rather keep the application stable, address bugs when necessary, and consider new features when users suggest something that genuinely improves the experience.

Availability

• GitHub release: https://github.com/Vaider13/cinnamon-clipboard/releases/tag/v1.2.0 — the .deb package is available for manual installation.
• Launchpad PPA: The 1.2.0 source package has been uploaded and should become available once Launchpad finishes processing and building it.

New to Cinnamon Clipboard?

If you're discovering the project for the first time, I'm sharing a screenshot so you can get an idea of what the application looks like.

Cinnamon Clipboard is a clipboard manager for the Cinnamon desktop environment, designed with one main goal in mind: keeping clipboard history simple and easy to use.

You can find more details, features, and installation instructions on the GitHub repository.

A note about AI-assisted development

I also want to be transparent about how this project was developed: Cinnamon Clipboard was created with extensive help from AI. I've explained in more detail how I used AI during development in the project's README.

If you prefer not to use applications developed with AI assistance, I understand, but this project may not be for you. I'd rather be upfront about it so everyone can make an informed decision.

Thanks to everyone who has tried Cinnamon Clipboard, provided feedback, or contributed to the project! ❤️

Feedback and suggestions are always welcome.

I play only mobile games . lately I wanna try PC games I am complete beginner at playing PC games , also I migrated to Linux very recently .

Can someone help me ? and suggest games for my hardware ?

I saw a video mention the Slack/Teams like app for Linux Mint called Matrix (i think).

Which is the better platform for questions or support?

I'm in love already. Having a blast with the terminal. Still tinkering with it to get it set up exactly how I like. I'm having a blast with the learning process. I'll get around to doing some actual productive work.....eventually. I know people like to hate on AI, but it's been a total game changer for me in the learning process and figuring out terminal commands, etc.

Hey Minters!

I ported NFS Most Wanted Black Edition (2005) to run natively on Linux Mint as a real Linux binary (Vulkan + SDL3), no Wine / Emulator needed.

Tested on my ThinkPad X270 (i7-7600U, Intel HD 620, Mint 22.3 XFCE) and it locks at 60 FPS.

It's a .deb package - just install and select your own original Xbox ISO. No pirated files included, it's an open-source preservation project.

No terminal needed:
1. Download .deb from Releases
2. Double-click to install
3. Launch from Games menu

Hello!! I had a lot of updates and it‘s been a while so I decided to just install them. It’s been doing this for a while I can’t restart the computer cause it keeps checking for more updates any advice would be appreciated!!

I have my server set up with many shares, private and public. When I mount to the IP of my server, it doesn't promt credentials unless I force it in the file path. Is there a way to make it remember between boots that I want it to connect me as a specific private user?

Was at the DMV for my license and realized all their stuff runs on Mint! Thought that was kinda silly

My laptop has 24 GB of RAM. I ran a VM with 8 GB allocated, Firefox and I was playing a game. At some point my computer became unresponsive. I managed to open TTY console and it took tens of seconds to log me in. I checked top, 200 MB ram free, 0 mb swap. CPU 50-60%. I killed firefox and everything went back to normal.

What should I do to avoid this? Besides closing apps, this time I really forgot about the VM and just wanted to relax by playing a game.

I'm thinking about two things: increase the swap size or use RAM compression, or both.

I let this kernel version install today, just like I've done many times before. This is the first time an update did something weird. Watching videos on YouTube, Reddit, and Facebook all showed this kind of green discoloration in various places. I went back to 7.0.0-38 and problem solved. I hope the next kernel update fixes the issue.

https://github.com/hiperfocoemtudo-lang/Mexerica-Linux-mint, um tangerine adaptado para linux mint, porém com uma estética mais diferente.

Hey everyone, I’ve been thinking about hopping from Linux Mint XFCE over to Fedora XFCE on my old Acer Aspire ES 15 (Intel Celeron 2957U, 4GB RAM, 1TB HDD). Mint has been a solid daily driver, but I’m really tempted by Fedora’s up-to-date ecosystem and want to get access to newer kernels and fresher packages without dealing with PPAs or manual upgrades.

Since my hardware is pretty low-spec, I'm worried about performance and resource overhead. Does Fedora’s newer stack and rapid update cycle make it feel heavier or completely choke up a standard hard drive compared to Mint? Let me know if it's worth flashing a live USB to try it out, or if I am better off just staying put on Mint!

I want a nice full icon theme compatible with Linux mint 22.3 Zena cinnamon that has a bit of depth but still keeps a bit of simplicity and doesn't change much of the original icon logo. I am currently using Papirus as my icon theme and i would prefer dark theme if it is there. If you have recommendations then please send with link. Thanks!

I am an old Linux mint user and i am willing to help anyone in his problem on the comments

Write me your problem and i am here to help

My buddy says I'm getting the classic Linux experience in my switch to Mint. At first it was issues with my WiFi card which apparently just happened to be one that didn't play well with Linux so I grabbed a new card no big deal. Now it seems like I'm having driver issues and from what I can tell, it sounds like Linux driver support for the 1080ti. Would my best bet just be to grab a newer card that should have longer support? All of the games I play currently are on Steam and play well with Linux (per protondb) so I'm thinking the only issue can be my graphics drivers? No matter what I'm playing I'm getting like 10FPS max.

TLDR; Should I just get a newer GPU or is there an option for 1080ti that I haven't been able to find or understand yet? 😅😅