I've finally taken the plunge and got a Thinkpad (T480S) and tried out Linux Mint on it for fun. For the past few days I've been playing with Cinnamon and Mate. I started off with Cinnamon, but my laptop performed really poorly under it for reasons I was never able to figure out. Mate performs much better, although:

- Bluetooth audio just won't work (and I can't figure out how to get it working)
- Scaling options are less in depth than Cinnamon.

I'd much prefer Cinnamon but it just won't run.

CPU: Intel i7-8650U (u) @ 4.200GHz
GPU: Intel UHD Graphics 620
Memory: 799 MiB / 7686 MiB

Anyone have any suggestions? The Bluetooth problem is a work in progress, but I'm curious if anyone knows why Cinnamon is so slow, and if I can fix that.
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Re: First Time Using Linux (Mint) Issues Arise
By: Foriest Jan Smith to All on Fri Jan 02 2026 17:51:57

Memory: 799 MiB / 7686 MiB

Not familiar with this nomenclature. How many gigs is this?

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Re: First Time Using Linux (Mint) Issues Arise
By: Mortar to Foriest Jan Smith on Fri Jan 02 2026 09:09 pm

Memory: 799 MiB / 7686 MiB

Not familiar with this nomenclature. How many gigs is this?

Looks like about 7.5 gigs? (8192 would be a full 8 gigs)

MiB is something I've started to notice, maybe in the last 10-15 years or so (?) - It's short for "mebibyte". I've read that's technically the correct term for a unit of 1024 kilobytes (and technically, "megabyte" would refer to 1000 kilobytes). It seems odd to me though, because in the past, "megabyte" was used to refer to 1024 kilobytes (and I've seen that nomenclature used by Microsoft in their operating systems). I've seen some people suggest that Microsoft was wrong in using that terminology, but I'm not sure.

This is one page from Lenovo explaining "mebibyte" vs. "megabyte":

https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/glossary/mebibyte/index.html

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