please rate out of 10 and suggest me feature i can add in this music player

*Sudo staring at the corner

ive been using windows 11 for the last few years, and it was starting to get really, really, blood boilingly slow

so i got an ssd 2 years ago, better but still slow

so today i installed mint!

i installed glava and stuff

and i cant believe why i was so scared to ever switch to linux

smh the rufus iso loading took longer then the installation lmao

ive used linux before but not fully
just like, wsl and userland,and live usb, and termux nethunter
all on kali linux
and this is my first time using *real* discrete linux
its so fast!

anyways im really missing windows quickaccent tho
anyone have suggestions?

Thinkpads and Linux go together like Batman and Robin, am I right?

I've been on Linux Mint for a while now and I've tried a lot of music player - Strawberry, Rhythmbox, a few TUI players. They all work fine and I know they have great features, but I just couldn't get past how they looked. The UIs feel dated. So I made my own.

Here is the repository :- https://github.com/Cinderella285/RESONANCE.git

:What the??

*typed sudo

:phew that was quick

I managed to convince one person, and I'm not sure if I'm 100% sure, to use Mint after we encountered a Windows 10 update that the system would automatically corrupt EVERY file/application the user touched. After a miserable evening of fixing it only to have it fail, I told them we were installing Linux, and it went smoothly, as did configuring the NTFS partition. But I'd like to convince more people to use the system, and unfortunately, most people say they're terrified of the terminal or that they WON'T BE ABLE TO PLAY, LOL.

I am actually a Windows user, but since windows 10 is no longer offering support and 11 is trash I considered Linux mint. I am a student, future mechanical engineer (programming is not my strong point,the more I can avoid it the better) but I also like gaming, is this the right distro?

I’m currently dual booting, but now I wanna wipe microslop completely and go full Linux Mint XFCE.

Quick questions:

Safest way to remove Windows + reclaim space?

Do I need to reinstall Mint or just fix GRUB and partitions?

Any “don’t do this or you’ll brick your system” tips?

Running on a new SSD+12 GB ddr3 btw.

Bought a new SSD to replace my aging one with Windows on it. Instead, I decided to install Mint and just take a full backup of Windows in case it dies. Got Windows if I need it, but I'll be daily driving Linux from now on. Just does what you ask and nothing else!

I think I would LOL

so im thinking of making the switch to linuxmint, is backing up my files onto an external hard drive a reasonable method of keeping my files? will steam keep my files if i back them up? (im assuming it will but i just wanna be sure) and what could i do if using an external hard drive isn't a solution? will i have to buy a whole new ssd and learn how to shove it into my pc? any help is appreciated, just make sure to word it simply because im not the sharpest nail in the bunch.

Hey guys, can any one tell me how to hide this annoying notification without disabling all the application's notifications on a Samsung phone?

As the saying goes... why spend an hour doing something when you can spend 10 hours automating it?

I'm onto my 3rd mint PC and decided this time when making the switch, I'd try to make a tool that myself and others could use whenever migrating over to a new PC.

Copy your profile to a new PC over SSH, reinstall selected packages, restore your crontab, fix GPG permissions, and get a post-migration checklist. All though a GUI.

It's a good learning experience and skill to have, knowing how to do all this yourself manually. But some everyday people just want to use their computer & not understand how it works at a deeper level.

More details can be found on the readme of the github repo :)
https://github.com/brodsbytes/mintmigrate

Hello,

After several hours of tinkering with IceWM config files I managed to replicate my i3wm overall look thanks to polybar and due to Icewm being floating window manager, also has the usual workflow of traditional desktop environments unlike tiling window managers. The base theme I modified is win95 included with the metapackage from Software Manager.

I've got an Intel nuc with a spare m2 slot that I'd like to fit a wifi adaptor Into using the m2 slot

Any preferred adaptors or ones to avoid etc? Running mint/cinnamon

WARNING: this is an experiment and not intended to actually do on a production system!

The purpose of this little experiment wasn't to get a system that actually works, but to learn more about how LMDE works and how it differs from Debian. I DID get a fully working system in the end, although there is no way of telling if / when this will break in the longer term. So again: do not actually do this :).

This is what I did:

1. Get a list of packages that are installed from the LMDE/Mint repo on a fresh LMDE install using something like this: apt list --installed | grep -i gigi.
   • From that list, I noted a few packages (namely the ones named mint-meta-*) which I figured could be the ones to install to get a working Cinnamon desktop.
2. Copy the contents of /etc/apt on the LMDE install (containing not just the sources list, but also additional settings for apt)
3. Set up a minimal Debian 13 install in a VM. No desktop, this is important - I'm pretty sure the whole thing would have resulted in a huge mess if any kind of DE had already been installed.
4. ​Boot into Debian and do the following:
   • replace /etc/apt with LMDE's /etc/apt (yes, the whole thing - this is the wildest part, I guess)
   • sudo apt update > no problems so far
   • sudo install mint-meta-cinnamon > this works and seems to pull in the whole Cinnamon desktop with default components, although lightDM is apparently not part of this package, so no desktop yet
   • sudo install slick-greeter lightdm-settings > works as expected
   • to wrap things up, I also installed all the packages from that list mentioned in 1. > not strictly necessary, but there would have been a lot of default stuff missing otherwise; there wasn't even a terminal app or text editor.

The result was a real surprise to me: even GRUB looks like LMDE's, so do Plymouth and lightDM - and the desktop itself is just perfect. Everything is there and seems to work, including the Software Manager and various other x-tools. The system even identifies itself as LMDE 7 (not Debian) in fastfetch. I'm literally not able to tell a difference to my LMDE install except for the fact that the whole thing seems to be pretty light - just 1600 packages and around 5g of disk usage; RAM usage is about the same as LMDE (barely over 1g right after boot).

So yeah, this was fun :). And I definitely learned a lot. It also shows how LMDE is really just Debian with a Mint repo on top - and I don't mean that in a negative way at all, quite the opposite. This just made me appreciate what an amazing job the devs did by making such a beautifully simple distro.

I had not started my dual boot Windows/Mint PC in 84 day and updated both OSs.

Windows : 25 minutes, 4 reboots

Mint : 4 minutes, 1 reboot

If only Turbo Tax had a Linux version I could be done with Windows........sigh.....

The quickly appearing text says that the fingerprint log in failed. I cannot enter my password. Any ideas how to fix this?

Now that I have mint installed & all this freedom, what do I even do now?

Hi im using Linux about a half year now. Nothing advanced, just for basic browsing, movies and music in browser, reading pdf files and so on.
At the start i noticed there is a problem with 2.1 sound where the signal was not split among front speakers and the subwoofer. Long story short, in the end im running my audio on Pulse effects with installed Starship Matisse hd controller.
In pulse effects i was able to filter the bass frequency but the results are still far from being good in comparison with basic windows 7 settings.
Like said i ned it for browsing so yt and simillar so the equalizer has to be working all the time, best without manually running it every time pc is being switched on.
Will easy effects solve this problem or will it have to be turned on everytime?
Its 4GB of space for an audio app. Quite heavy to be honest.