# mount -o loop file.iso empty_dir
this post was submitted on 16 Jan 2026
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You might need to add sudo, OP
You probably know this already, but I thought I'd just mention here for OP and others: That's what the # at the beginning of the command implies (the command needs to be run as root), commands that can be run as a normal user are often denoted by $.
Wut
Twenty five years and I didn't know that
Neat! I've been using Linux for years and I didn't know that distinction. If it doesn't work as a normal users, I just enter sudo !!
Friend of mine has an alias for sudo named fucking and with some ZSH scripting (or whatever your preferred shell is) he also made ffs to execute sudo !!.
If you’re on Mint 23, just open up the file browser and double click the file, entering your password when prompted.
If you’ve got isos set to open as archives instead of auto mount, right click and select mount image from the menu.
Unimportant nitpick: Linux Mint 22.3 was released this week. There is no Mint 23 yet.
(it was OP's mistake but they at least added "(?)" to indicate they weren't sure)
As others have noted, you can use the mount command from the terminal. On Mint, you should also be able to use the Disks utility that ships with the OS if you'd prefer to use a GUI.
this is the most appropriate response in the thread, gold star
As others said there's a command, but pretty sure you can just right click and click "Mount" without bringing up terminal
The mount terminal command should work. But I'd expect you should be able to right-click an .iso file and mount it that way too. I'm not on Linux Mint but can confirm with GNOME on Debian it's easy enough to right-click the .iso file and select "Open With Disk Image Mounter", Cinnamon on Linux Mint should be able to do the same or similar.
Also keep mind you're probably going to need to do more than just mount a .iso disc image if you want to play an old Windows game on Linux. There's a few ways to go about that but I'm not too familiar on the best approach when you're not running Windows games through Steam.
I use the built in mount commend, personally.
Some older formats require cdemu instead but I'd start with using mount -o loop as others have suggested.
I recall being able to double click or use the context menu in nemo. Maybe I'm confusing it with something else.