“Cinnamon” uses a ton of cpu | Linux Mint Community🍵 | Page 1

upper cloak Apr 8, 2026, 11:25 PM

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its the one at the top

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i also dont have wifi if anyone wants to help me fix that

steady bramble Apr 9, 2026, 2:45 AM

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Cinnamon could be using more resources because of a missing graphics driver that you probably can't install because of the lack of wifi.

Can you run sudo lshw -C network in the terminal and give me the output of that?

quasi gazelle Apr 9, 2026, 12:44 PM

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maybe it's running in software rendering

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can you show the output of inxi -Fmxxxz

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