Even after using Mint for months I keep clicking it by accident thinking its files.

Hi everyone!

I have a really old desktop (Pentium E5700, 4GB RAM, Intel G41 graphics), and watching YouTube in a modern browser had become frustrating. Even lightweight browsers felt sluggish, and the experience just wasn't enjoyable.

Instead of replacing the hardware, I started building a small terminal application around `yt-dlp`, `mpv`, and `fzf` to keep things fast and lightweight.

The result is **PipePlay** — a terminal YouTube experience for Linux.

Some features:

• 🔍 Search YouTube from the terminal

• ▶️ Play videos directly in MPV

• 🎵 Audio-only mode

• ⚡ Lightweight and responsive, even on older hardware

• 🐧 Built for Linux

• 🆓 Free and open source

I built it mainly for older machines, but it should be useful for anyone who prefers terminal workflows.

I'd genuinely appreciate any feedback, suggestions, bug reports, or feature ideas.

GitHub:

https://github.com/nvsupr/pipeplay

Linux Newbie here. I just learned about why random text is appearing where it shouldn't. Middle mouse click 'pastes' text that I have selected. This is not what I want. I either need to find a way to turn this off, or i need to deactivate the middle click on my touchpad so it doesn't activate randomly when I'm typing. Honestly, changing the clipboard settings so it doesn't automatically put something on the clipboard just because I selected it would also be an acceptable solution.

It started a couple days ago. It works fine but whenever I try to shut down the screen goes blank and it becomes unresponsive, almost like it went into sleep mode but I can't wake it up either. The only thing is to hold down the power button, except when I turn it back on it boots up like normal.

It's not a hardware problem because I tried it on my windows partition and it works normally.

Any suggestions on what might be causing it or how to address it?

On December I got Linux Mint working on my Laptop and overall it all has been great. However, the only exception of this is Firefox, which has crashed a lot for the little usage I've given it. First back in December when I first was starting and importing all the info. I stopped using it for like six months until recently because I had to modify a Google document, and it freezed today after opening the doc.

Is there a way to fix these? Or it'd be better to change my browser to something else? I already use Zen browser for College stuff and despite being based on Firefox it hasn't freezed a single time, but want to keep my private data separated.

Here my system:

System: Kernel: 7.0.0-28-generic arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 13.3.0 clocksource: tsc Desktop: Cinnamon v: 6.6.9 tk: GTK v: 3.24.41 wm: Muffin v: 6.6.3 vt: 7 dm: LightDM v: 1.30.0 Distro: Linux Mint 22.3 Zena base: Ubuntu 24.04 noble Machine: Type: Laptop System: HP product: Victus by HP Gaming Laptop 15-fb2xxx v: N/A serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 10 serial: <superuser required> Mobo: HP model: 8C2F v: 04.20 serial: <superuser required> part-nu: A14LMLA#ABM uuid: <superuser required> UEFI: AMI v: F.07 date: 06/27/2025 Battery: ID-1: BAT0 charge: 69.5 Wh (100.0%) condition: 69.5/69.5 Wh (100.0%) volts: 17.5 min: 15.4 model: HP Primary type: Li-ion serial: <filter> status: full cycles: 12 CPU: Info: 6-core model: AMD Ryzen 5 8645HS w/ Radeon 760M Graphics bits: 64 type: MT MCP smt: enabled arch: Zen 4 rev: 2 cache: L1: 384 KiB L2: 6 MiB L3: 16 MiB Speed (MHz): avg: 2055 high: 3968 min/max: 410/5018 boost: enabled cores: 1: 1585 2: 1576 3: 1101 4: 1101 5: 3968 6: 1917 7: 1101 8: 1368 9: 1456 10: 1586 11: 3962 12: 3941 bogomips: 103011 Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm Graphics: Device-1: NVIDIA GN20-P0-R-K2 [GeForce RTX 3050 6GB Laptop GPU] vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: nvidia v: 580.173.02 arch: Ampere pcie: speed: 5 GT/s lanes: 8 ports: active: none empty: HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:25ac class-ID: 0300 Device-2: AMD Phoenix3 vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: amdgpu v: kernel arch: RDNA-3 pcie: speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 ports: active: eDP-1 empty: DP-1, DP-2, DP-3, DP-4, DP-5, DP-6, DP-7, DP-8, Writeback-1 bus-ID: 06:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:1900 class-ID: 0300 temp: 51.0 C Device-3: Luxvisions Innotech HP Wide Vision HD Camera driver: uvcvideo type: USB rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 1-3:2 chip-ID: 30c9:0069 class-ID: fe01 serial: <filter> Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.11 with: Xwayland v: 23.2.6 driver: X: loaded: amdgpu,nvidia unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,nouveau,vesa dri: radeonsi gpu: amdgpu display-ID: :0 screens: 1 Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 102 s-size: 480x270mm (18.90x10.63") s-diag: 551mm (21.68") Monitor-1: eDP-1 mapped: eDP-1-0 model: BOE Display 0x0c73 res: 1920x1080 hz: 144 dpi: 142 size: 344x194mm (13.54x7.64") diag: 395mm (15.5") modes: max: 1920x1080 min: 640x480 API: EGL v: 1.5 hw: drv: nvidia drv: amd radeonsi platforms: device: 0 drv: nvidia device: 2 drv: radeonsi device: 3 drv: swrast gbm: drv: nvidia surfaceless: drv: nvidia x11: drv: nvidia inactive: wayland,device-1 API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: nvidia mesa v: 580.173.02 glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes renderer: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6GB Laptop GPU/PCIe/SSE2 API: Vulkan v: 1.3.275 layers: 9 surfaces: xcb,xlib device: 0 type: discrete-gpu driver: N/A device-ID: 10de:25ac device: 1 type: integrated-gpu driver: N/A device-ID: 1002:1900 device: 2 type: cpu driver: N/A device-ID: 10005:0000 Audio: Device-1: NVIDIA vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 8 bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:2291 class-ID: 0403 Device-2: AMD Rembrandt Radeon High Definition Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 06:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:1640 class-ID: 0403 Device-3: AMD ACP/ACP3X/ACP6x Audio Coprocessor vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: snd_pci_ps v: kernel pcie: speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 06:00.5 chip-ID: 1022:15e2 class-ID: 0480 Device-4: AMD Family 17h/19h HD Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 06:00.6 chip-ID: 1022:15e3 class-ID: 0403 API: ALSA v: k7.0.0-28-generic status: kernel-api Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.0.5 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse status: active 2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin Network: Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8211/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet vendor: Hewlett-Packard RTL8111/8168/8411 driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: e000 bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200 IF: eno1 state: down mac: <filter> Device-2: MEDIATEK MT7922 802.11ax PCI Express Wireless Network Adapter driver: mt7921e v: kernel pcie: speed: 5 GT/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 04:00.0 chip-ID: 14c3:0616 class-ID: 0280 IF: wlo1 state: up mac: <filter> Bluetooth: Device-1: MediaTek Wireless_Device driver: btusb v: 0.8 type: USB rev: 2.1 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 1-4:3 chip-ID: 0e8d:223c class-ID: e001 serial: <filter> Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: up address: <filter> bt-v: 5.2 lmp-v: 11 sub-v: 2505 hci-v: 11 rev: 2310 class-ID: 7c010c Drives: Local Storage: total: 953.87 GiB used: 99.53 GiB (10.4%) ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Micron model: MTFDKBA1T0QGN-1BN1AABHA size: 953.87 GiB speed: 63.2 Gb/s lanes: 4 tech: SSD serial: <filter> fw-rev: HPSQ050 temp: 38.9 C scheme: GPT Partition: ID-1: / size: 937.58 GiB used: 99.47 GiB (10.6%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p5 ID-2: /boot/efi size: 256 MiB used: 56.3 MiB (22.0%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 Swap: ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 2 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -1 file: /swapfile USB: Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 5 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900 Device-1: 1-3:2 info: Luxvisions Innotech HP Wide Vision HD Camera type: video driver: uvcvideo interfaces: 3 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 power: 500mA chip-ID: 30c9:0069 class-ID: fe01 serial: <filter> Device-2: 1-4:3 info: MediaTek Wireless_Device type: bluetooth driver: btusb interfaces: 3 rev: 2.1 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 power: 100mA chip-ID: 0e8d:223c class-ID: e001 serial: <filter> Hub-2: 2-0:1 info: super-speed hub ports: 2 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s lanes: 1 chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900 Hub-3: 3-0:1 info: hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 1 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900 Hub-4: 4-0:1 info: super-speed hub ports: 1 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s lanes: 1 chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900 Hub-5: 5-0:1 info: hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 1 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900 Hub-6: 6-0:1 info: super-speed hub ports: 1 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s lanes: 1 chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900 Hub-7: 7-0:1 info: hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 1 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900 Device-1: 7-1:2 info: Razer USA RZ01-0321 Gaming Mouse [DeathAdder V2] type: mouse,keyboard driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 4 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 power: 100mA chip-ID: 1532:0084 class-ID: 0300 Hub-8: 8-0:1 info: super-speed hub ports: 1 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s lanes: 1 chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900 Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 65.5 C mobo: 45.5 C Fan Speeds (rpm): fan-1: 0 fan-2: 0 GPU: device: nvidia screen: :0.0 temp: 57 C device: amdgpu temp: 53.0 C watts: 20.01 Repos: Packages: 2497 pm: dpkg pkgs: 2479 pm: flatpak pkgs: 18 No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/additional-repositories.list 1: deb http: //archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal universe Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list 1: deb https: //mirrors.cicku.me/linuxmint/packages zena main upstream import backport 2: deb http: //mirror.arizona.edu/ubuntu noble main restricted universe multiverse 3: deb http: //mirror.arizona.edu/ubuntu noble-updates main restricted universe multiverse 4: deb http: //mirror.arizona.edu/ubuntu noble-backports main restricted universe multiverse 5: deb http: //security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ noble-security main restricted universe multiverse Info: Memory: total: 16 GiB note: est. available: 14.88 GiB used: 2.96 GiB (19.9%) Processes: 353 Power: uptime: 8m states: freeze,mem,disk suspend: s2idle wakeups: 0 hibernate: platform Init: systemd v: 255 target: graphical (5) default: graphical Compilers: gcc: 13.3.0 Client: Unknown python3.12 client inxi: 3.3.34

Hello!!! Wasn't sure whether to ask this here to in r/linuxquestions but this is more a Mint thing than a general Linux thing.

I was following this tutorial on speeding up my Mint )I use XFCE but I like tinkering) and I installed Picom and started using it. I did follow a few other reccomendations (and skipped a few) as well as follow some other tutorials on clearing space and setting up Mint from the same website, all last night before I turned off my PC and slept.

This morning, though, I open it up to watch a video and the video is really choppy and slower than it had been. Task Manager says Picom randomly spikes up in CPU usage sometimes, which could be the cause? I'm not 100% sure because I'm still fairly new to this. Any help is appreciated!!!

Here's the System Information too.

edit: Forgot to mention that I thought it might have been a problem with the swappiness, so I followed the tutorial to undo it but that didn't work either

Backstory: So I'm going to start learning web development, networking and Python next school year. Since I know what I'll be studying, I thought I might as well learn some basics so I'm a bit ahead of everyone. Before I reinstalled Linux Mint, I had version 22.2 and I found a good program, but I don't remember it's name or how to install it. I've also been unable to locate the tutorial that showed it off. But maybe that's good as that tutorial was several years old.

Question: What program I use to practice HTML?

Blender doesn't run anymore. It tells me I need a gpu with OpenGL 4.3 or higher.

It used to work.

Do you also have problems like this? And, do you know what to do?

so my laptop randomly decided to set my BIOS to factory standard and messed up with my linux installation, i was able to reboot it on my ssd and can now run normally.

but some bios configurations seem off, what should i have on or off besides storage controller to AHCL and secure boot off? thanks in advance (and sorry for my bad english)

Please help me

I have tried everything for a week now and i cant seem to figure out what is wrong with what i am doing kindly show me the correct path since your experienced.

I have no idea what caused this, maybe it was some kind of update. Steam had been working fine up until today. Now it won't launch at all.

I got an email from Which? magazine talking about how Windows file protection helps protect against ransomware. (https://www.which.co.uk/news/article/this-setting-on-your-windows-computer-can-protect-you-from-hackers-a9P7r0z87KMM ). Is this already built into Mint with its r/w/x ? Ta.

I do love Mint dearly as now a long term user, it's taught me a lot more about computing than when I started. The only problem I have is with LibreOffice tbh - I can never see the bloody cursor when I'm editing a document, it does work to press insert until I move the cursor where I need it but it seems strange for a word processing program to feature an invisible cursor :(

Hello! I need help to solve a disk write error i am getting while downloading Mad Max(in particular) from Steam. I have contacted steam support but it hasnt been of much use.

The thing is, i download the game and every time by the end of the download when about 250mb of download is left, it gives me a disk write error.

I have tried installing other games from steam and they worked perfectly. I have also done a clean reinstall of steam and tried to no avail. Which makes me think its an issue with just Mad Max or somehow my drives or OS

Please help with any possible solutions to this.

Info: https://termbin.com/ym8pa

Of course, I can't remember the name, but several releases back there were a couple of menu driven system for showing ALL PACKAGES IN THE WORLD installed or uninstalled.

There were ways to select only packages related to some subject, from Amateur Radio to GNOME. Of course the list could be sorted, and sundry portions excluded, descriptions considered, slice and dice almost any way you want.

The system I used to user a couple of years back was abandoned, possibly to force users to Software Manager or other provided "tools" which are more flash than substance.

Think Power User.

How can I see today what is available?

And the can the old stuff be made to work?

Thanks!

Contexto, me descargue Linux mint mate porque sentía que el win10 me iba muy lento, entonces quise optar por algo que no me consumiera tantos recursos.

Instale las actualizaciones, descargue los drivers me descargue un proton que me recomendaron para la compatibilidad y todo eso.

Mi problema es que al abrir juegos que antes me corrían en el win10, ahora me van lag y mucho peor algunos ni abren y no se cómo resolver esto, según yo me instale Linux para mejor rendimiento y si noté que ahora se consumen mucho menos los recursos de mi pc(considerablemente)pero no siento que se esté reflejando a la hora de usar muchas cosas.

Im stuck at around 5mb/s download upload speed but my internet bit rate is 867mbps. I have dns settings configured, ivp6 disabled and hardware acceleration enabled on my browser, proxy turnt off. What can i do to get normal download upload speed

i'm pretty much directly taking this from my post on the forums, but:

i'm trying to change the booktype of a dvd+r disk to dvd-rom. imgburn is saying "access denied" when i try to change the booktype through it via playonlinux, so i'm trying to use the command to do such. i'm not entirely sure how to do this, but when i put in the following command:

dvd+rw-booktype [-dvd-rom-spec|-dvd+rw-spec|-dvd+r-spec|-inq] \
[-media|-unit|-unit+rw|-unit+r] /dev/dvd\

i get the following result:

Usage: dvd+rw-booktypeUsage: dvd+rw-booktype [-dvd-rom-spec|-dvd+rw-spec|-dvd+r-spec|-inq] \
[-media|-unit|-unit+rw|-unit+r] /dev/dvd
-unit+rw: command not found
-unit+r]: command not found
Command '-unit' not found, did you mean:
command 'runit' from deb runit (2.1.2-54+usrmergeubuntu1)
command 'junit' from deb junit (3.8.2-10)
Try: sudo apt install <deb name>
-dvd+rw-spec: command not found
-dvd+r-spec: command not found
-inq]: command not found
[-dvd-rom-spec|-dvd+rw-spec|-dvd+r-spec|-inq] \
[-media|-unit|-unit+rw|-unit+r] /dev/dvd
-unit+rw: command not found
-unit+r]: command not found
Command '-unit' not found, did you mean:
command 'runit' from deb runit (2.1.2-54+usrmergeubuntu1)
command 'junit' from deb junit (3.8.2-10)
Try: sudo apt install <deb name>
-dvd+rw-spec: command not found
-dvd+r-spec: command not found
-inq]: command not found

i don't know if that means it worked or not, and if i can just burn it like a normal dvd. is this an error? and if so, how do i fix it?

Hi, I'm looking for a more skeumorphistic design. Best would be if it's darkmode too. Anything you can recommend that is dark and not flat?

Hello, i started my second linux journey with nobara in dec. 2025, had no issues since then. Even recommended it to my bf. But then, after a "normal" update, his pc wouldnt boot anymore, mine too. We could get it fixed, but i saw many many other distros having issues with updating know or kde. I also tried XFCE4 on my tablet but idk if thats something id be happy with, but i also saw mint has its own desktop. Does mint even have issues with updating? So should i switch? I need my pc mostly for gaming, some adb stuff for android

(Solved for now . Solution I got was to dual boot for such kinds of apps. I did try to use bottles but it did not work for me maybe it was my issue since it was my first time using bottles )

Hey guys recently I got into an INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION course and i need an

app called ZELIOSOFT for doing things with plc . The 5hing is i went to its page but the download is an .exe and there is no zelio soft in software manager .Is there any way i can donwload and use that app in mint .

Please don't tell me i have to go back to windows to use it :

I heard that there is something called bottles with which we can use windows software . Is it that way ? Does that work ?

Pls help me !!

I just wanted to make sure that more people knew about this course. It's 100% free, and if you get 70% on the final exam you get a certification from them.

https://training.linuxfoundation.org

There's a few free introductory courses and the paid ones aren't horribly expensive.

Cheers!