This might be obvious but when you connect your phone to your PC have you enabled file transfers? Usually it defaults to charging only. It should show up in your notification bar.
Plug in cable to PC, go into android USB setting and switch it to file transfer instead of charging mode, it should show in your file manager as a connected USB drive. ( you can tell everyone is a linux or phone techy, everone gave the complicated merhods that didn’t address the question asked, but @OP all the other methods work also )
I’d use Kdeconnect or syncthing
This is the way. MTP is horrible and adb is annoying.
MTP sucks, it’s even slower than good WiFi and half the time it locks up in the middle of a transfer.
syncthing doesnt use usb sadly
Mtp is your friend, here is hiw I do it on my devices (samsung a23 and both opensuse and arch):
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I connect my phone to my pc. Then select mtp in the phone notification.
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Start my file manager (dolphine or whatever) and access my phone storage from there.
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Make sure to allow the notification on the phone asking if you want to sahre your storage with the external device.
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Plug it in, unlock it, tap the USB notification and change it to “transfer files”. I like to keep my screen on but you shouldn’t have to.
You need the package gvfs-mtp installed, if you want to do it via file manager. Or the adb tools for cli.
But really something you could have googled 3x in the time you asked this.
There is a package called android-transfer-file or something like that in the void repos but I’m not sure if its also in the mint repos, might be worth checking, its a gui app that makes it very straightforward to transfer files. Or in last resort you can always git clone the project and use ‘make’ to build manually the app
search usb in settings, set it to file transfer while its plugged into your pc. Alternatively you can install kde connect on both of the devices and transfer files wirelessly
fun tip, if you have a samba share and your devices are in the same network, use a file manager that can connect to local network (like explorer by speed software), and transfer your files wirelessly. it seems to be equally fast too, i haven’t used a cable for ages except for killing updaters and bloatware with adb.
