Just installed it via package manager and I'm trying to get my brain around it. Anyone out there have any experience or tips for running WireShark on Linux Mint? Thanks so much!

Linux noob using mint for the first time, decided to boot from a flash drive before fully installing on my PC, just to try it out first. I'm having issues getting Wi-Fi to work during the live session though; clicking the Wi-Fi icon only brings up Network Settings and Network connections. Network connections lets me try to set it up manually, but I can't figure out how to get it to connect after putting in all the info I can find for my Wi-Fi. Is this normal? Did I mess up the installation somehow, or is a drivers problem?

Hardware: HP laptop, AMD Ryzen 5 7520U w/ Radeon Graphics (Model # 15-fc0025dx). OS: Linux kernel 5.15.0-91 generic, Linux Mint version 21.3, Cinnamon version 6.0.4. Booted off a flash drive (live session).

edit: I also get the following screen when I try to shut my laptop down from the Mint boot:

Hi all! I was wondering if there was anyone who installed Linux Mint on their Non-Retina Intel Silicon Mac (the Mac's up to/around 2012). I have a 2012 15 Inch Macbook Pro with an i7-3615QM. Between possible driver issues, and the fact that it's a Mac with a 3rd Generation CPU, I'm not sure if I can get away with using it or if I should just get some cheap Lenovo Laptop. Just looking for some feedback, thank you in advance!

I have this laptop in front of me that is still on 20.1 and I am trying to get it upgraded to latest.

This is such a pain, but I show you how I worked around it.

The GUI stuff all doesnt work. The update manager always warns about errors with mirrors, even though apt works normally. Clicking on "change mirrors" launched a password prompt but it didnt fix anything. The "package repositories" app didnt launch at all, also not from the settings.

The mintupgrade tool is not available in these repos.

Updates

Problems:

• mintupgrade not even in the repos
• updates are separated into "normal" and "full" updates. Really confusing, coming from Fedora

# clean up the system to make stuff quicker
sudo apt uninstall --purge#as many packages as I didnt need
sudo apt autoremove --purge

# normal updates
sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade -y


# system upgrade to latest. Dont get the logic and the difference behind these commands
sudo apt full-upgrade -y
sudo apt dist-upgrade -y

# you should at least reboot if there was a kernel upgrade
systemctl reboot

This got me to 20.3 at least.

Went into /etc/apt/sources.list and saw that this is empty. But in sources.list.d was a single file official-package-repositories.list that had all the sources. If you use a single file, why not just use sources.list??

Distro version upgrades

Problems:

• you need to know the next underlying Ubuntu version
• you need to know the codenames of target mint AND ubuntu version
• you need to change a file in an unexpected location

I did it manually: search on the internet for the codenames of both latest Mint (virginia) and the underlying Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (jammy).

So I went in there and just replaced the names with the new correct ones. Forgot the old names, was it disco and una? The automated command would be:

# update Ubuntu names
sudo sed -i 's/disco/jammy/g' /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list

# update LM versions
sudo sed -i 's/una/virginia/g' /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list

Then opened a terminal and repeated the above.

This took forever, and when I came back today the mint session had crashed and the error window didnt respond.

I exited to TTY (Ctrl+Alt+F4) and repeated the above. Package casper had conflicts. Never heard of it so tried sudo apt remove casper and it didnt try to uninstall my whole desktop (cough should have done that LTT) so I just removed it. Lol?

Repeated the steps, finished with a reboot and it worked. I am now on 21.3

Post version upgrade

Problems:

• mints updater is kinda iffy
• on stable distros, automatic updates should be no problem
• unattended-upgrades needs to be installed and set up in a very traditional way

First thing I did was

sudo apt install mintupgrade nala fish unattended-upgrades -y
sudo nala upgrade

Nala is poorly pretty bloated and uses tons of python stuff, but it is way more legible and user-friendly than apt, automating tons of stuff. It does not work in non-scrolling TTYs!

Fish is a way friendlier shell but dont set it as your default! It is not POSIX compliant and will give random breakages.

The unattended upgrades are very useful. To configure them, edit this file:

sudoedit /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50unattended-upgrades

And uncomment as many as you want.

Luckily this is not my main machine, I can recommend Fedora Atomic Desktops to anyone. I have no idea how this is supposed to be user friendly 😅

Cheers!

I recently bought a Lenovo L440 Thinkpad. Have installed Linux Mint on it and Keyboard backlit and touch pointer arent working. Rest is all fine. Can anyone help?

cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/11305365

Anyone have a list of changes that they've made to increase battery life? I've got about three hours (with 80% limit in BIOS, which I might get rid of), so I'm sure there's a lot that can be changed.

I just hibernated my laptop and then brought it back up, and it went straight into LMDE without asking me for a password on a lock screen. That seems.. like weird behavior. Is there something I can set to fix that?

Anyone been able to set up a fingerprint reader in LMDE 6 with Cinnamon? I can use fprintd-enroll and fprintd-verify successfully, but it doesn't show up in pam-auth-update so I don't know how to add it to the login screen or the terminal.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/13934384

Linux Mint 22 Adopts PipeWire, New Linux Kernel Cadence - OMG! Ubuntu

Hey all,

I’ve currently got Mint running on my old Mid-2012 15” MBP, mainly as a hobby project / Linux learning experience. I have a newer Mac as my main computer.

I’ve already had a ton of failed attempts installing other distros which didn’t work out, I’m assuming because of the now quite outdated hybrid Intel/Nvidia GPU.

I’m currently running the Nvidia driver, but have been reading things about the 390 driver not working on newer kernels. Moving forwards am I going to be better protected from updates breaking things if I switch to using the Nouveau driver instead?

Thanks!

…or two. I forcibly installed snap on my mint os. I also tried to manually remove flatpaks.

Not sure if snap affected this, but when I log in I get some error message saying : unable to launch “cinnamon-session-cinnamon” X session - - - “cinnamon-session-cinnamon” not found; falling back to default session.

Then it goes to a blank screen.

My work provided me with a free small VPS so i have been doing my part helping to get linux out there!