5 TWEAKS that improve Linux Mint!

Here's a list of 5 tweaks that I've come to love using Linux Mint over the last year. Let me know what yours are below!
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[@chaussettes99]

I'm convinced the cinnamon desktop is the only linux desktop that the developers of it actually use. It's not missing anything and is straightforward and I've never had any issues with it.

[@Aplifiedproductions]

create a distro thats stable and supported and then come back and we can talk about this undeeded salty comment@guitarszen

[@darthcabs]

I agree. I'm pretty sure Gnome devs all use macOS

[@LiegeMaximo]

Is mate still more stable than cinnamon?

[@Asfgxff]

I’ve been in Linux land for almost 15 years and that’s why I still use mint.

[@sviktor4]

I started my linux journey with Mint, then later I searched for the best distro/desktop for my needs and ended up with Mint Cinnamon, so I went full circle. Sum it up Cinnamon is the only desktop which is just works out of the box, change some settings, install some widgets and it's good to go. My 2nd choice would be Mate edition. I tried several distros, even SUSE, but I don't see the point to use a distro just to modify 100 things to my liking, I rather use a distro which is already fits for my needs 95%. The only distro what I didn't try is Fedora, I first tried to install like 15 years ago, no luck installing it, then tried 6 years ago, failed to install both on my laptop and my PC so I gave up on them. They couldn't even create a working live or install CD what 99% of other distros can.

[@PyroNexus22]

Here's one thing I think most people don't know: In the calendar/clock applet, if you select custom format, you can use %n to move to the next line. So if you want a Windows/KDE like clock with date on the bottom, just simply add %n%d.%m.%y (or a similar variation, if your date format is different). %n = new line %d = day %m = month %y = year

[@warthunder1969]

I actually have a calendar.json exported for exactly that since I like that style of clock

[@motoryzen]

Indeed. I love this format %I:%M %A %n %b %e, %Y

[@DaneSaysStuff]

You ABSOLUTE LEGEND!!! Thank you so much! This has been driving me nuts!

[@PyroNexus22]

@@DaneSaysStuff you're welcome

[@ObjectsCountries]

also you can use %-m and %-d if you don't want the leading zero (1/1 instead of 01/01)

[@themedivalchad]

I've made Linux Mint my main OS for the past 3 months. I love the simplicity and also the feature richness of this OS.

[@hopelessdecoy]

It is like the prime cleanest experience I have had on Linux, close second is Kubuntu and right now I am on Debian which is much clunkier but I find myself missing the Mint experience!

[@moetocafe]

@@hopelessdecoy how is Debian clunkier?

[@Smittron]

@@hopelessdecoy I find Debian 12 with the KDE desktop to be a good experience.

[@AlistairBrugsch]

​@@hopelessdecoytry LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition.) Straight Debian with Linux Mint customizations including Cinnamon Desktop.

[@moetocafe]

@guitarszen you can achieve that through Flatpak or by adding specific repository for the software you need.

[@FernandoMassa1976]

from Brazil, I've loved your videos since 2010. Yes, I've been following you since 2010 when you were a teenager. I saw your evolution and I would like to see more of your videos.😉

[@JustinGeekNerd]

Mint user here for 10+ years. Great video! To answer your Monitor Scaling question, yes. If you have your display set to 4k, you get 4 options: 100%, 125%, 150% and of course 200%. I have this PC on a 65" 4k TV. I like to keep it at 1080p and 100%. At 4k resolution it seems 125% is good but a lot of things don't scale up and are very tiny. The monitor scaling is still experimental, however, so I believe it will continue to improve.

[@warthunder1969]

I've found that the scaling doesn't work that well, though its mostly X11's fault there. I end up on some devices just lowering the resolution manually (like my surface go) but there is an app to help scale the pannels and UI as well called "UI Scaler" that does ok

[@LionSleepsAnotherNight]

With only one 4K display connected I can upscale to 400% if i have a second display it wont go beyong 200%. I would like to be able tp upscale 2 displays one at 1080p to 200% and the 4K 65" to 400%

[@OldieBugger]

I must agree your first statement. Linux Mint is the best distro for everyone who's not interested in playing with distros. I have an old laptop where I test various distros to find a better one. I still haven't found one to beat Mint.

[@OldieBugger]

@guitarszen "There are numbers of distros that are just fine." Sure, depending on what you want. I just want an OS with minimum effort on my part. A rolling release does not fill that requirement.

[@OldieBugger]

@@AquaFyrre And it also _is_ one of the best for anyone coming from Windows. I for one found it easy to learn. Now later, I've found Mint easy to tailor to my liking.

[@e002840]

I've settled with Mint on my laptop's primary partition. The second one is dedicaded for distros testing around. I found Mint more pleasing to use as it was my first Linux OS

[@mjdegrey4843]

Try LMDE. It's impressed the hell out of me.

[@OldieBugger]

@@mjdegrey4843I might. RIght now I'm using the Ubuntu-based Linux Mint 21.3 Cinnamon. Switching to the LMDE would not make a big difference.

[@KrishnaDraws]

Immensely useful video. I learned so much. Thank you! I'd love to see more videos along this topic.

[@JOBT0]

Thank you, so very helpful. I follow you as a new user of Mint so your channel is superb for me. Thank you very much.

[@user-tv2qj6oe8g]

I rediscovered your channel after what seems like 10 years. Good job!

[@UnchartedSand]

Nice, concise, easy to understand. Great work. Subscribed. 🤜🤛

[@phillip1211]

Excellent tips and well explained. I've used almost all flavours of linux but keep coming back to mint.

[@jesusrzr]

I found your channel n is so useful, thank you man!

[@Tyndaal604]

I'm currently installing Linux Mint MATE on an old(ish) laptop of mine. This video has been a great help in what to expect and how to ease my access to it when it's done :) Thanks bunches!

[@Jopekos]

great video! nice to see more videos about Linux mint.

[@TheLinuxITGuy]

Under Display -> Settings you can enable fractional scaling. In the video you clicked there but I don't think you saw it. Love the video! Keep it up.

[@QTMagic]

You can turn on window grouping on Linux Mint XFCE by visiting: Settings Manager --> Panel ---> Items --> Window buttons --> Group windows by application This makes it more like Windows where multiple instances of the same program are grouped together.

[@wisteela]

Great stuff. Nala looks great. I love the nicknames that Local Send comes up with. 😄

[@Sam-kx7jc]

Not sure if someone has already answered your question about scaling at 1080p but here's the solution: I found that if you want scaling at 125%, 150% or 175% in Mint 21.3 Cinnamon, you have to Open the Display Settings window, then go to the Settings tab and then enable the 'Enable Fractional Scaling Controls (experimental)' option. You will then have all scaling options available to you.

[@emjaycee]

One of the available extra themes in Cinnamon is called 'Faded Dream' (through Add/Remove). It gives me some transparency in the panel and also for the menu. I tend to prefer that to using an extension, but each to their own :) Always enjoy your work :)

[@wolfenstein6676]

I never knew that existed, thanks for that. I still prefer the idea of adding the extension version because you can actually change the theme by adding your own desktop wallpaper and still have the transparency.

[@emjaycee]

@@wolfenstein6676 Under 'Themes', the 'Faded Dream' actually only impacts on the bottom 'Desktop' category. You can still change the Pointer, Applications and Icons to suit your chosen wallpaper. I used to use the 'Transparency Extension' myself, but it broke once during a major update, so I stuck to using 'Faded Dream'. But, each to their own :)

[@Pax.Alotin]

*emjaycee* -- Re Faded Dream --- Yep --- it makes the Panel & Menu semi-transperent. Certainly more transparent than in Windows 10 or 11. Just wish the Mint team would allow the 'Themes' to connect directly to sites like Cinnamon Looks to get more themed options. KDE & Trinity allow such direct connections - so can't see it being too much of a problem.

[@towel9245]

Thanks for the tips!

[@BWGPEI]

Having had issues with Warpinator, I have to thank you for the Local Send idea. Definitely trying that out!

[@brianconnery2801]

Pairdrop > Local Send. Was having way too many issues getting Local send to connect. Pairdrop never once had an issue connecting and seeing my iPhone, Andeoid, and Linux Mint desktop. Its so good that I decided to self host it.

[@ThatStranger]

loved it keep on posting

[@thewillsfamilyaccount6486]

Nicely done!! 😊

[@MikeWood]

Nice selection of tweaks to adjust the DE experience. I changed the fonts and that was a please but subtle difference. Might give local send a go too. I can see how that would be useful. Have you considered an LMDE6 v mainstream Mint comparison video?

[@CheerupA1]

These are good tips, thanks

[@sviktor4]

Finally great content, I haven't seen a good linux video for years, good job! When I watch your video I don't feel like you speaking for a bunch of kids or noobs, really good style. My favorite distro is Mint 18.1 but it's getting old and half of my useful apps run with their custom scripts to don't break dependencies, so it's time to upgrade to Mint 20.1.

[@brianhasty6971]

4 videos in a month! Is it premature to say welcome back? I'm going to go ahead a resubscribe anyway. Good to see your content again.

[@samcgill]

Thanks for the tip on localsend. I've been looking for something exactly like that.

[@dbf1dware]

Great video. Thank you.

[@jozsefizsak]

Thank you!

[@davey820051]

Apologies if someone else has pointed this out: to enable fractional scaling in Cinnamon, you have to go to the Settings tab on the Display Settings dialog and flip a toggle to make fractional scaling available on the Layout tab. 125% scaling works well for me on my 13" 1920x1080 60 Hz laptop display.

[@pratikshashinde4737]

Is it blury?

[@davey820051]

@@pratikshashinde4737 No, not blurry at all.

[@theplaymakerno1]

@@pratikshashinde4737 If you use KDE Plasma with Wayland, fractional scaling is blurry. On Cinnamon, the reason why it is not blurry is because Cinnamon's Fractional Scaling is basically 'super resolution'. It scales everything up and then shrinks them down.

[@TonyMaroney]

@@theplaymakerno1 plasma 6 has solved the blurry problem

[@theplaymakerno1]

@@TonyMaroney It has other problems on Nvidia card. I am waiting for driver 555 which will hopefully solve the flickering issue that some software has. Explicit sync is required badly for Nvidia on Wayland. I am stuck on X11 for now as I can't work with my software flickering all the time. It makes some of my programs useless. And you are correct, the blur problem is solved as of Qt 6.6 according to something I read. I think 6.6 solved the blur problem. I might be wrong. It might be some other Qt version that solved it.

[@bond1844]

excellent tweaks.

[@50-50_Grind]

Thanks for letting me know about Nala.

[@davideocassette6312]

Can't thank you enough for introducing Localsend mate! I've been looking for an alternative to Warpinator since its beta project for iOS seemed to evaporate earlier this year. Localsend works a treat so far. My only gripe is that it's a bloody drive space hogging flatpak! But I've subscribed to your channel anyway :)

[@wikwayer]

solid job

[@John.0z]

Thank you for an interesting presentation. Cinnamon seems to have improved. I now use the MATE interface in preference to Cinnamon as I was also using Mint on an older server, and I opted for consistency... but that is now OMV. The other reason I used MATE was the file manager. I like the "Copy to other pane"/"Move to other pane" feature of it's Caja file manager. It is a feature that used to be on the default Cinnamon File Manager, but was dropped. However I am always open to new ideas, and as I am now using higher DPI monitors I will give Cinnamon another go on my old test machine. For my wallpapers, I mostly use photos I have taken myself. Each day is something of a walk through the best things I have photographed in the past.

[@Destide]

Set a bottom bar with a centre zone and drag "grouped window list" into it set it to transparent and hide behaviour to your liking for a native dock.

[@Rising_Pho3nix_23]

Thank you for this. I'm configuring my brand new Mint right now while listening and taking notes. I had no idea about the 4x4 tiling. Neat!

[@MiBaTech107]

Wow so interesting thank's a lot.

[@davidwayne9982]

I've been through a LOT of distros--- starting in ubuntu and then MINT and on through a whole bunch-- and back FuLL CIRCLE- to LMDE6 and I think I'll stay on this for a good while..

[@dominikandreasemmerich9559]

Linux mint is the all-inclusive package! No other distro has the tools and out of the box so much to offer and is so well maintained! Everything runs stable and super smooth! I am very satisfied and happy! Thank you very much! =))))))))))))))))

[@aymenchraf]

great video! i think mint only needs the support of Wayland to be the most complete distro out there

[@johanb.7869]

They are working on that. There is a trial version I believe.

[@satagiah]

I also add in ZSH or Bash config: alias apt="nala" alias sudo="sudo " (with space after word 'sudo') then normal sudo apt update/upgrade etc. will show as nala output. Pretty useful.

[@slap884]

Thanks for that one. LocalSend is a game changer for the family, since we have a mixed ecosystem of Windows, Linux and i-Devices :-)

[@dantahoua]

Beautifull wallpaper!

[@warthunder1969]

I end up using Horizontal OSD extension for a cleaner volume and brightness pop up. I do also use gTile. As far as other applets I use CPU temp indicator though its not needed, lock keys indicator, weather and also screenshot+record desktop to have a snipping tool in my taskbar rather than pinning the app.

[@Perspective_2005]

great video

[@nedludd7622]

One thing not mentioned is changing to a dark theme for the browser. That makes watching the screen much more comfortable, at least for me.

[@Maxxarcade]

Is there a way to make the close/minimize/maximize buttons a little bigger in Cinnamon? I got everything else scaled and themed the way I like it besides those buttons.

[@kychemclass5850]

I came across this, but I can't guarantee it will work and I can't be held responsible for any problems it may cause, but it looks pretty harmless IMHO. Maybe backup the ori gtk.css file? You may also need to change read/write permissions too. Open the GTK CSS file for your theme. The default location is /usr/share/themes//gtk.css. Find the following line: .titlebar-icon { image-rendering: -gtk-bilinear; } Add the following line below it: .titlebar-icon { width: ; height: ; } Replace with the desired icon size in pixels. Save the file and restart Cinnamon.

[@intergrale4x4]

I used Mint for about a year then swapped over to Kali which I find boots much faster .. Mint has really got me into Linux and totally rocks !! :)

[@shi-woonyi2605]

Nice, LocalSend is definitely something I will try. I've been using Linux Mint since last week and I love it, coming from Windows. The only thing that bothers me, but that is a Linux issue in general (at least after my research), is the font rendering, it's not nearly as clear as on Windows, not even close.

[@moetocafe]

font rendering is definitely clear or even better than in windows. If your experience differs, look for what to tweak or change the system font, although usually it is not an issue with the fonts, but with scaling, or video driver issues, etc.

[@eijentwun5509]

there is also qrcp that works through the terminal but you make 2 launchers/icons on the desktop for them..one for SEND and One for RECEIEVE and suddenlly you got Apple Airdrop like features and allow multiple files to be sent quicker than Local Send....I use Local Send Also

[@shi-woonyi2605]

@@moetocafe I doubt that. Even in videos about Linux, if the quality is good, you can see their font not being as clear as windows, I switched last week, and still use windows for ~1h daily. For me, it's easy to spot the difference. EDIT: If the font gets bigger, it looks better, sadly don't want the font size 30 /:

[@moetocafe]

@@shi-woonyi2605 you can doubt as much as you wish. I also have to use Windows for work, so I can see if there is a difference too, and there isn't, they look both crisp clear. What you see, is not what everybody else is seeing, remember. Check your screen resolution, if it is native to your monitor, check if any scaling is taking place, check if the fonts you use are clear enough and also check, if LCD screen optimization is enabled. I don't know where that option is in Mint, since I use a different distro, but you can search online if you can't find it.

[@davidwayne9982]

YES--- I LOVE Nala... I hate looking at a screen with nothing but text-- and NALA makes that beautiful- easy for me to read without problems and with my ONE eye now-- I can differentiate from one section to another much easier!!!! GREAT job..

[@saltyabcdef3202]

Those are great tweaks just came back to Mint, tried other distros such as Zorin OS 17 and Ubuntu 23.10 and finally conclued I'll stick with Mint. Working with 21.3 beta and liking it, especially the cinnamon desktop.

[@DarkTrepie]

I wish there were a clipboard manager extension for Cinnamon. I've used Diodon and it worked fine, but a more native solution would be better imo

[@Carboy45]

Thx so much for this I may have never knew of these ill check these out, just wish I would stop having my laptop freeze and lag so much been happening more lately ever since I updated to vera/Vanessa

[@e002840]

Nicely done, mate. Is there any other tweaking tool like MX Tools for Linux Mint? MX Tools does some very good and deep changes without typing on terminal, getting a lot of my attention since I don't like "coding" around to the get things installed. IMO Linux is awesome. I just think devs should focus on bringing literally everything to the concept of see-and-click set up scenario

[@ozoak]

Some good tips, thanks. Can I ask, because there must be a benefit to explain the setting existing: why scale font rather than select a larger pt size? I'm sure it's obvious, I just can't think why you wouldn't choose 11 pt or 12 pt instead of scaling, wouldn't the native font size be cleaner?

[@particletrap_inventor]

Hi, thanks for having Mint users on YT! I've been looking for a "working" monitor night light since I installed Mint 21.2 Cinnamon in August 2023. Tried a couple but they don't work. Do you have any tips on night lights for linux that reduce the blue light after e.g. at 21...

[@TerryButcher1158]

For scaling go to display, It will default to layout, Select settings, enable fractional scaling.

[@DireNeeds]

I have a 2K Gigabyte Monitor and it's either 100 or 200 percent scaling. I had to lower the refresh rate on it. At 160 things were blurry with fuzzy font. 120 Hz does the job just fine. And 48 on the panel height did the trick. Thanks! I've been using Mint for years now. Mate, KDE, XFCE and Cinnamon. A week ago I decided to give LMDE a try. Once I got past some weirdness setting up my 3 monitor displays it's been great. Everything else seemed to work right out of the box. It even found my network shares with little effort. That is something I pull my hair out trying to do with other editions. It uses the Cinnamon desk top. This is now my new favorite Mint!

[@LiegeMaximo]

Is lmde more stable than mate?

[@gmk27]

Improving LINUX experience is the correct title. Localsend and Nala stands out. And Inter font is the font that I install in every linux machine I have.

[@danw1955]

I just added the dynamic wallpapers, and they seem to work fairly well, but it seems to have an issue with displaying the correct background for the time of day. I'm set up to use network time with an offset for my timezone (Mtn. time US). Anyone else run into this problem? Thanks for the tips and tweaks. I've been using LM with the Cinnamon desktop for years, and it just works!😉

[@JoeZyzyx]

I just checked my LM panel, and very close to yours at 45.

[@AnilKumarIndia]

I have been using LM as my Office PC OS from LM2. Now on LM 21.2

[@mohamedazlaoui4217]

3:51 you can enable the fractional scaling controls in the display settings

[@DevJeremi]

I use almost standart Cinnamon DE, main diffrence is that I have panel at the top - is more ergonomic this way.

[@markyfromars]

Handsome content. Great Voice.

[@ehiebert1297]

The font I use is OpenDyslexic being Dyslexic this helps a lot and is easy to setup in Mint. Not like other OSs looking at you windows.

[@MarcoKrieger]

I'm in an on and off relationship with Linux Mint Cinnamon and Manjaro KDE. Mint has some features I miss in Manjaro, like the out of the box calendar that also has a schedule for events or appointments. On the other hand I'm in love with the bleeding edge software repository of Manjaro. Somehow I managed to install a few windows programs in wine under Linux Mint Cinnamon who doesn't run on Manjaro no matter what I do. I'm sitting between all chairs I guess. To my surprised I discovered that Manjaro also comes with the cinnamon desktop environment. I will have a look into it, maybe it has the right combination of features, the best of both worlds so to speak.

[@MarcoKrieger]

@@AquaFyrre "it makes you bleed..." That's actual funny 🤣

[@John7No]

my 1080 monitor has 100 and 200. I have to enable fractional scaling (it is off be default) to get the 125, 150 and 170 options. although I would say that it is a bit laggy as an experience

[@michaelbarbara5896]

Sometimes plasma gets to be too much even after i set it up and cinnamon does feel like that ideal middle, the one thing i inevitably seem to miss though is krunner, none of the alternatives ive tried are quite the same

[@bci3937]

good on point informations, thanks i use MATE (metacity/ marco) Flavor and i like cinnamon a bit more for editing the Panel...with my Theme "Adwaita-dark" there are some issues with icon size and so on, but i am testing a bit to find better stuff...i also just installed nala in mate...a big package, will try this out soon. what i dont like is the caja File Browser, i miss some options to hide stuff or get pulldown menues...can i switch to another on? so i hope you grab some of the ideas, cheers*

[@GjbMcN]

i would like you to do a piece on 2 topics 1. Setting my Linux laptop to airplay to used Apple router now just being an airplay device with optical out to my AV receiver.I can’t get the software to work coz of package type restrictions 2. As a TOTAL media player i would love you to try JRiver instal on mint and the best sound settings tweaks. I do it and i even use an ipad as a terrific media controller using the JRemote IOS app BUT i’m stuck with sound settings getting it to play just music no video signal via hdmi and i’m not sure that it also is why i can’t stop my laptop going to sleep

[@catriona_drummond]

Would you be up for a bit of a semi-deep dive into the differences between Normal Mint and LMDE? I am sort ov wavering between the two and don't know if LMDE comes with any major downsides.

[@johnarnold893]

run LMDE in a VM and decide for yourself

[@blipblap614]

The original reason for Ubuntu's existence was difficulty of installing Debian proper, and nonfree firmware, and third-party packages. I think those reasons vanished a long time ago, and Canonical's in-house stuff (snaps, etc.) is not worth messing with. LMDE with the stable-backports repo is rock solid. You might need to be a little comfortable with command-line apt to resolve the occasional odd package conflict, and package updates you read about in Linux news might not arrive for six months.

[@San4itos]

I use Cinnamon on my Arch Linux distro. It's my favorite DE.

[@craigritchie8470]

I’m new to Linux Mint…. Transparent Panels and Dynamic Wallpaper - check; Nala - check; LocalSend - Oh hell yeah! Thank you thank you thank you. Now my iPad, Mac Mini, Windows Laptop and Linux Mint can share files easily. No more uploading and downloading from cloud accounts.

[@mikehawk7307]

Thank you for this. I have been wondering how to do this. I installed Wobbly windows and it seems to have made my transparent taskbar extension to stop working.

[@user-xf4ng5mv4g]

You can go the Display, Settings and you will find a button to enable fractional scaling.

[@roikkudev8677]

The dude literally almost mouse-overed the option in this video, when wondering how it can be enabled. :'D Funny stuff.

[@eniojurko]

Where did you find that wallpaper?

[@karambadodox]

I just gave up on Cinnamon, and got KDE instead. Contrary to what some believe, KDE works perfectly on mint, but you must create a new user to use it with, and only ever use kde on the new account. Reason being is that all of the configuration files for a desktop environment are created once you log into it for the first time, so using more than one DE in the same user profile can make things buggy. But if you create a new user and only use KDE within that user, it just works!

[@manuelrivera6778]

In a way it makes sense 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

[@SvingitGolf]

Can you move the "start menu" top, left from bottom panel with few pixels like it is in Windows 11 where start menu is hovering like 10-20px from bottom and left corner?

[@galactustales]

Can you check out Bluefin or Bazzite please

[@simonharris4873]

I was trying for quite a while to put a shortcut to the terminal on the LHS of the task bar that I see in VNC Sessions, but was unable to. Any chance you could tell me how to do that? It appears on the task bar on the physical terminal, but not on the remote VNC task bar.

[@st_nikolay_pavlov]

hey there! hope u r doing well? im tempted to install open suse kde . whats ur opinion about this distro ? thx

[@johanb.7869]

Why full instead of slight? I tried Full on KDE Neon, but to blurred for my liking. I use Trebuchet font size 11. It's so much sharper than for instance Noto Sans which is the default font on Neon.

[@CoasterMan13Official]

I like this font called Public Sans.

[@genieur8188]

to your question at 3:50. I am running a Lenovo P72 with 3840x2160 and get 4 options clusterd in 100% steps.

[@davidwayne9982]

The only packages I had issues with in regards to NALA-- I tried through regular APT and the software manager and had the SAME issues on all 3- so it was NOT Nala that did it.

[@KamikazeMedias]

As a long-time windows user I occasionally used ubuntu or mint. EIther or two, none really set with me until recently, when I use Linux Mint i started to use it since september when they announced the copilot bullshit. Safe to say, I did not regret it since.

[@olek0019]

3:50 4k is probably next step which allow to choose more scalings. I'm currently on old retina mac (2880x1800) and both ubuntu and mint left me with choice of 100, 200 % and nothing in between

[@achyutarjun]

Used Elementary OS for a couple days, and it didn't work out for me. Now I'm on Mint (Cinnamon), and so far, I'm liking everything. Everything feels cohesive, and well-planned.

[@t-krupa]

I've got a 2k 3:2 display on my laptop. Only 100% and 200% scaling is available. Fractional scaling can be enabled in settings, however it's only experimental. This enables increments of 25%. When I tried 125% though, it didn't look the best, and it seemed to blur things out a little but too much.

[@williambryant7686]

What do you think of localsend compared to KDE Connect?

[@asnigirev]

I might be wrong but I believe that to get fractional scaling you actually need to use Wayland

[@kychemclass5850]

LocalSend seems very nice but I always worry about sending files/data through a 3rd party app. How secure is it? Is it Open Source?

[@jamesmason7124]

Hello I'm new to Linux Mint. How do I get Oblivion and Skyrim to work native on Mint without using a launcher or the internet after installing and how can I get HDR to work on Mint

[@davidrichardson2513]

Interesting video, shame the transparency extension doesn't do anything when I attempt to configure it. Wonder if it's anything to do with the fact I am using LMDE6 rather than the ubuntu based Linux Mint Cinnamon?

[@davidrichardson2513]

Thanks for that, will investigate further

[@GaryGiffin49]

not sure I picked the right distro using Fedora work station on a 2012 macbook pro. New to linux!

[@vladimirdorta6692]

I am returning to Linux (Mint LMDE 6) after many years on Windows. I have a Philips 1920 x 1080 (16:9) monitor; on Display I get the same options as you, 100% or 200%