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My system specs are as follows.

A fully updated Mint Cinnamon install, 9800X3d, Sapphire 9070XT, 64 gigs of ram, resolution 3840 x 2160.

I ran a command off the mint forums that said I was using a driver for a sapphire 9070xt. I am using HDMI because my monitor is a 65” TV that I bought specifically for the 144hz refresh rate. I bought a special HDMI cable to allow the 144hz refresh rate. And I got 144hz on windows 11 with the exact same setup. But the best I can get Mint to do is 120hz.

Any help is greatly appreciated, and you have my thanks in advance.

Hey everyone,

As the author of Albert (a standalone C++ / Qt keyboard launcher), I constantly deal with a recurring headache: most of the users sit on old software. Telemetry shows that most of the users are on Ubuntu LTS or Linux Mint (based on LTS).

Flatpak is not a silver bullet, its devs explicitly told me that it is not for Albert (okay, cool). To ship recent versions of Albert for the majority of users I have to provide like 3 to 4 years backward compat. This takes a _lot_ of time.

Now I wonder: why do I have to at all? Why are most users deliberately using software that is EOL or at least quite old?

EDIT:

With EOL I mean the particular packages. E.g. Ubuntu 22.04 ships Qt 6.4 which is EOL.

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Just got my new Steam Controller, and it is pretty awesome!

But just as a heads up, it has an issue updating firmware on Mint at the moment (as of 22 May). It will register that the controller is connecting and ask to update the puck's firmware. After a while of a loading bar, it comes back with an error saying that it cannot update the firmware.

The fix I found was related to a couple of missing libraries, and the need to add udev rules.

So, in the name of posterity, what worked for me was installing the libraries with: > sudo apt install libhidapi-hidraw0 libhidapi-libusb0

And then editing /etc/udev/rules.d/60-steam-controller.rules to contain the right bootloader for the controller firmware update. Add the following lines to the above file by running: >sudo nano /etc/udev/rules.d/60-steam-controller.rules

# Steam Controller bootloader
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="28de", MODE="0666"
SUBSYSTEM=="hidraw", ATTRS{idVendor}=="28de", MODE="0666"
SUBSYSTEM=="tty", ATTRS{idVendor}=="28de", MODE="0666"

Then either reload the rules or reboot the system, and it might work. It did for me at least. Of note, your /etc/udev/rules.d/60-steam-controller.rules file might be blank, mine was, since I do not use controllers often. Just add it to the file that is created.

We’ve had the power go off here 3 times in the last month, and it’s broken my Mint file system. When update pops up, it tells me my file system is broken; looks like it was a Nvidia package that got corrupted, but not sure. Any suggestions or comments ? Thanks.

Upon attempting to perform updates, I’m told “The Package System is broken”

Check to see,if using any 3rd party repositories, and disable if so. Run the command apt-get install -f (sudo)

Upon running, I’m told:
The following package is no longer required: nvidia-firmware-535-535.288.01: use apt autoremove to remove.

The following additional packages will be installed: libnvidia-compute-535

The following packages will be upgraded: libnvidia-compute-535

When run:
Dpkg-deb - - fsys-tarfile subprocess returned error code (3)
Errors were encountered while processing
/var/cache/apt/archives/libnvidia-compute-535-535.309.01
Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg retuned error code,(1)

Autoremove gives an error and advises using apt- - fix-broken install. : errors,on that too

In Windows 10 (which I intend to replace with Linux Mint), I have a number of "quick launch" buttons on my taskbar, as shown in the screenshot below. The "quick launch" buttons are a bit like regular pinned programs in the taskbar, but they aren't limited to programs: they can also be shortcuts to files or folders I access frequently (favourites).

Is it possible to achieve something similar in Linux Mint -- or another distro?

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Hi 👋. First time linux user here. I installed mint on monday. I didn't quite like the cinnamon DE so i installed KDE and customized. Feels much better than windows.

I was installing steam but it was taking long so i closed software manager and I cannot install anything anymore. Cannot even reinstall steam its cannot reboot nothing. It just keeps spinning in the software manager.

Edit: I ran dpkg configure it showed something about a "lock file and not recommended as it harm the pc" another process was also running.

I did a bit of bit of tinkering found the process id using pgrep -a dpkg​ the killed it using sudo kill <pid using the prev code> then used sudo apt --fix-broken install​after which i could see the install buttons in software manager again then randpkg --configure -a

LMDE7. I can see and mount my /, swap and /boot/efi just fine from the LiveCD but am at a loss as to how to fix this. Was goofing around with Netgate installer, which I assume wiped my boot info even though I did not proceed with installation.

Hi! Yesterday I successfully installed linux mint, but before that I did a backup for all of my files from windows using freefilesync and it's blazing fast. Now, I just want to know if there's anything on linux mint that has the same or better functionality than freefilesync coz I'm loving the Mint so far hehe ... Planning on completely ditching MicroSlop windows 🤧😅 Tnx

I tried to run Minecraft through the Modrinth launcher, I used the "xserver-xorg-video-nouveau" driver and Minecraft ran but at around 30 fps (120 on windows). I tried to switch to other NVIDIA drivers but I keep getting the message "Minecraft | No supported graphics backend was found. - Tried Open GL: Driver does not support OpenGL" I have a Geforce GTX 1050 Ti. Any help would be appreciated on how to solve this problem. I am an extreme linux noob.

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I've been having troubles with the update manager lately, is this because of the recent ubuntu news?
my laptop: linux mint 22.3 xfce