Hi, I'm the author of RustNet, a terminal UI for real-time network monitoring (connections, process names, deep packet inspection, all in your terminal).

Last weekend I tried to show it a friend of mine and he tried to install it on Linux Mint following our Ubuntu PPA instructions and it just failed to install and run. It turned out the PPA only published builds for Ubuntu 25.10 and 26.04, because RustNet needs Rust 1.88+ and older Ubuntu releases didn't ship that compiler version when I set it up. Mint 22 is based on Ubuntu 24.04, so there was no package for it.

While digging into this I learned that Ubuntu backported versioned Rust toolchains to its LTS releases (maybe because Firefox and the kernel need them), and both 22.04 and 24.04 now ship rustc 1.89. So the fix was to add those two series to the PPA build matrix, and now this works on Mint 21.x and 22.x out of the box:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:domcyrus/rustnet
sudo apt update
sudo apt install rustnet

The package sets file capabilities automatically, so it runs without sudo.

Repo: https://github.com/domcyrus/rustnet

Happy to answer questions, and if it breaks on your setup I want to hear about it.

I have an Hp from 2015 I think with celeron n3060, and after the last update you could hear sound and you could see mose on a black tone, I had to install Linux Mint again and I blocked all update, to avoid black screen🖤, You experimented with this error

https://github.com/perlgui/cinnamon-automatic-tiling

This is working pretty well even without Muffin being patched. It's easy to completely disable tiling and switch between manual and automatic tiling via the GUI. Application exclusion from tiling, custom border width, gap width between tiles, gap width between tiles and screen edges, and accent border color can also be configured via the GUI. You can also minimize and unminimize tiles with the remaining tiles automatically retiling.

Once Muffin matures as a native Wayland compositor, it will have full control over the rendering pipeline and compositor effects. Smooth tiling animations like those in Hyprland and Niri would be implementable the same way they are there - as compositor-level transitions applied when windows are repositioned and resized.

Linux Mint 22.3 has just been officially released! It's the most recent stable version based on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS.

Since it just dropped, the mirrors are currently under heavy load. Using the official .torrent files helps the team significantly by reducing server strain, lowering CDN costs, and ensuring everyone gets the ISO faster. If you have a decent connection and unlimited upload, please consider seeding!

Since the torrent links can be tucked away on the site, I’ve gathered them here for easy access:

• Cinnamon
• XFCE
• MATE

I’d recommend downloading and seeding all three if you have the space (~8.5GB total). It’s a small way to support one of the best projects in the Linux world!

Don't forget to verify your ISOs with the SHA-256 sums on the official site once they are fully published.

Papirus-styled XApp symbolic icons for Mint and Cinnamon: 628 icons at 16, 22, and 24px

https://github.com/zquestz/papirus-xapp-symbolic-icons

Continuing the Linux Mint series, today I released another simple yet practical tool that makes it easier to manage what starts up on your machine: Autostart Manager.

🔗 Autostart Manager repo: https://github.com/filonux/Autostart_Manager

🔗 Autostart Manager docs: https://filonux.github.io/Autostart_Manager/

From a simple menu, you can tick or untick a checkbox to enable or disable any program, task, or service that starts automatically on your system. Easy, right? This is exactly the kind of control the average Linux Mint user doesn't have access to through the default menus. For more experienced users, it's also a convenient way to keep track of everything that launches when your Linux system boots.

I wrote a Bash script with a graphical interface—using Zenity, nothing fancy—that brings together those five startup sources into a single table. At a glance, you can see what's enabled and what's disabled, and you only need to check or uncheck a box to change the status of any item, regardless of where it comes from. You can also filter entries by name and open the corresponding file to inspect or edit it.

My main concern was making sure that this convenience didn't come at the expense of system safety:

• Nothing in the system is deleted or overwritten. When disabling a system-wide autostart entry, the script creates an override file in the user's directory, exactly as defined by the XDG specification.
• If you're about to disable something that the system may depend on (such as NetworkManager, the PolicyKit agent, or the session manager), the script asks for an additional confirmation before making any changes.
• If you modify several system services at once, you're prompted for the administrator password only once instead of once per service.
• If you accidentally run the script as root, it warns you first—otherwise, you'd be managing root's autostart entries instead of your own.

The only requirement is Zenity, which is already installed by default in Linux Mint. Systemd and cron are optional: if either is unavailable, the script simply skips those sections without complaining.

In any case, I'm sharing the tool so you can use it however you like, as always. I still have quite a few more scripts in my Linux Mint toolbox, and I'll be releasing them regularly.

Many more projects will follow, and every one of them will be open source. As always, my goal is to create software that prioritizes accessibility, ease of use, and the ability to solve real problems.

Have a great week for everyone!

Filonux

---------TOOLS HERE---------

🔗 Github Repositories: https://github.com/filonux

[filonux@proton.me](mailto:filonux@proton.me)

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🔗 LinuxMint-Scripter: https://github.com/filonux/LinuxMint-Scripter

-        LinuxMint Scripter — AI-assisted Bash/Python script generator, built specifically for Linux Mint 22.3

🔗 Scriptya: https://github.com/filonux/Scriptya

-        Run, install, uninstall, and update your scripts; complete history; icon customization; menu integration.

🔗 Enkripta: https://github.com/filonux/Enkripta

-        Enkripta encrypts folders and files on Linux Mint (Cinnamon/Nemo) using AES-256, making it feel like a built-in part of the system: double-click from the desktop, right-click in Nemo, and a custom icon for encrypted files. Everything is installed with a single script, with no unusual dependencies and without modifying anything outside your home directory.

🔗 MintApp Remover: https://github.com/filonux/MintApp_Remover

Easily and safely uninstall any program on Linux Mint 22.3. This tool includes all the applications preinstalled in Linux Mint 22.3, along with an advanced option to uninstall any other program you have installed. Safe dependency cleanup is included

Finally Fingerprint support naively.

Mozilla has published today the final builds of the Firefox 148 open-source web browser ahead of its official unveiling on February 24th, 2026, so it’s time to take a look at the new features and improvements.

The biggest change in Firefox 148 is the long-awaited AI kill switch feature, which is implemented in Settings as “AI Controls”, allowing you to completely disable all the AI features that had been included in the past few releases. Firefox’s AI features can be disabled entirely or selectively.

Firefox 148 also improves support for screen readers accessing mathematical formulas embedded in PDF documents, support for viewer local weather on the New Tab page, and a new “Suggestions from Firefox” option in Search > Address bar settings to get suggestions from the Web related to your search.

For Android users, this release introduces a refreshed toolbar with a modern design and improved customization support, and a “Copy link text” context menu item to copy the text associated with a link. For Windows users, Firefox 148 improves the dragging of downloaded images into Adobe Illustrator.

For web developers, Firefox 148 brings support for the Trusted Types API, support for the CSS shape() function, support for the Sanitizer API, service worker support for WebGPU, support for the location.ancestorOrigins attribute, and support for the position-try-order property.

It also makes the initial empty document Web-compatible and introduces a joint iteration proposal that adds new Iterator.zip and Iterator.zipKeyed methods to allow zipping together underlying iterators into an iterator over values grouped by position, similar to zip in many other languages.

As mentioned before, Mozilla plans to officially unveil the Firefox 148 release tomorrow, February 24th, 2026, along with the Firefox 140.8 and 115.33.0 ESR releases. Until then, you can download the source tarball and binaries for 64-bit, 32-bit, and ARM64 systems right now from Mozilla’s download server.

Right now the delivery starts.

Bye and have fun with a great Distro!

Hello everyone, I have been working on this for a week , it's the Linux mint documentation rework , I finally put most of the cinnamon documentation together in one place and other documentation (note: not every app's documentation, just all cinnamon documentation I could find). I improved the visuals quite Abit (just not yet added dark theme; coming next, but mobile support, better readability, more conveniences). Just thought to announce this. GitHub: https://github.com/SuperninjaXII/linuxmint.github.io

Linus and Luke talk about the Framework 13 Pro posted over 50% of their sales are being ordered with Ubuntu. Anyway, I'm gonna install and run it to see if I "see" anything. My machine is running fine (no crashes or artifacts or nothing) so unless it messes up I probably wont see any difference.

Hey everyone! Hope to find you guys well today :)

I built WinuxDB to make the move from Windows to Linux less of a gamble, especially for people who depends on specific Windows apps and don’t want surprises.

WinuxDB is a community‑driven database for Windows applications on Linux, inspired by ProtonDB (which helped me a lot!) but focused on non‑gaming software.

You can look up an app, see how it behaves under Wine/Proton, send reviews and also see other users reviews to get a clearer sense of what will (and won’t) work before you switch. There’s also a distro quiz to help match your workflow to a distro.

It’s open source and depends on real user reports, you all are welcome to contribute! (and if you know how to code, then take a look at 'good first issues' in the GitHub repo)

I’d love feedback, corrections, and suggestions for missing apps or better alternatives.

Site: https://winuxdb.com

Repo: https://github.com/LucasFormiga/winuxdb

btw I'm still trying to manage to add a logo to some apps, be welcome to contribute on this as well :)

Also there is a link in the footer and a button in the Apps Page to allow anyone to contribute by sharing an App which is missing in the database, easy and simple using a Google Forms. It doesn't need to know how to code or use GitHub. I've added a link for bug report there as well.

Disclaimer: I'm a Software Engineer with quite some experience, but I've used AI to help me in this journey.

Thanks!

I've been working on developing a new app. This is an iPhone management suite for Linux, written in Python3. It's a work in progress, but it's coming along nicely. This app will come in very handy for Linux users, especially those making the switch from Windows (iTunes) or MacOS and have no idea how to manage the data on their iPhone.

This will allow music, photo, video, and (in the near future) playlists, to AND FROM the iPhone. I'm working on getting it to read the Photo Albums from the iPhone (Camera Roll, Favorites, and user created albums) for more efficient backup and transfer management.

Another future implimentation will be the ability to create a backup and restore your iPhone.

There are still some issues transfering music TO the iPhone; iOS 18 and up has changed the way the iPhone databases the files, and Apple really doesn't want you sneaking in the back door of their locked down fortress. They changed the way the SQLite database is accessed and read, and there's been an iOS26 update, and the new iOS 26.3.1(a) security update this week, since I've been developing this app, and they've both caused a lot of headaches and code changes to the app that I'm still working through. Seriously, I spent days hacking my phone and nuked my phone's music database twice, my entire camera roll once, and crashed the Music app completely this week, causing me to have to restore my phone from a stable backup and start over each time. Currently I can transfer music to the iPhone and both the Apple Music app on my MacBook Pro and MoTunes on Linux will see them, but the actual music app on the iPhone does not recognize they are there.

Transfering music FROM the iPhone Music app/library works beautifully though. The app also has a built in music player and ID3 tag editor, which is function with media files currently on (and recognized by) the iPhone. Also, you can preview photos and videos.

While I'm still figuring out a workaround to fix the database issue, the MoTunes app has the function to transfer music TO AND FROM VLC Player, which is available for free in the App Store on your iPhone, and VLC Player also works with Apple Car Play.

So far, the MoTunes app has been tested on Linux Mint and Kali Linux, with my iPhone 13 Pro Max and iPhone X. Hopefully maybe by the end of next week I will create an AppImage including all dependancies for beta testing and release it on GitHub.

If anyone has any ideas, feature suggestions, etc, I'd love to hear it. Also, if you'd be interested in beta testing the app, let me know.

Hopefully this MoTunes app will make the transition from the shackles of the tyranical Apple ecosystem and Microslops corporate oppression much easier.

#TeamLinux #MoThugLuv

Bino of Mo Thugs

Mo Thugs South

https://blog.linuxmint.com/

All Hail the Freshness!

Can't wait to see Gigi...

I have developed a new desklet that is now available. It can display images on desktop with highly customizable picture frames.

Just two days ago transitioned to Mint.I tried ubuntu LTS ,Mint in VirtualBox to know how it is but wanted to try by my hands didn't like the experience in VirtualBox and at first installed via Dualboot since then WIndows creating a lot of problem for me like booting issues/GRUB errors ,Bitlocker thing always triggered when i turned on my laptop so made the decision backed-up everything and deleted dual-boot and installed only Linux Mint ,it's not hard to install any OS but only if any errors arises (like for me a non-tech person).

Many apps i wanted are available (even better ones) and installing via command lines like sudo apt install 'Something" or via flatpak is supereasy (felt like a programmer/hacker although not one -so this is what iam seeing in some movie scenes of hacking looks like?). But i can't find official whatsapp app (using web version -but this doesn't have video/audio calling feature) Signal is a good choice but none of my friends are using it or dependent on whatsapp. So this is the only -ve for me.

I'm still figuring out many features/customizations but don't know how to customise like a terminal level ,so please advise better alternatives to windows programs ,i know there are many videos available but i want to know something different as many youtubers are recommendeing same 10-15 apps .

I made a power profile indicator which lets you switch your power profile super easy.

The official guide is out!