I heard Mint is supposed to be the simplest distro to get started with but my experience so far (following the setup guide on the website) has been:

  • Download ISO
  • Check ISO (seemed fine)
  • Burn image… crash
  • Burn image in administrator mode
  • Boot from USB via BIOS… crash
  • Boot from USB via Bios in safe mode
  • Download multimedia codecs… crash
  • Not download multimedia codecs… also crash?

And that’s where I am presently, it runs fine off the USB albeit a bit slow, and I know its connected to the internet because I can browse lemmy on it and make annoying posts on the Linux community. I knew Linux was going to be more work than windows but this feels like a ridiculous level of effort right out of the gate, I worry that even if I somehow get it running I’ll spend 10x more time fixing it than actually using it.

  • @CMDR_HornEnglish
    17•14 hours ago

    No, I wouldn’t expect any issues with Mint.

    1. what’s your hardware
    2. you say burn, but then mention USB, what are you using to create the install media? If I’m making a bootable usb in windows I exclusively use Rufus and haven’t had issues to date
          • Possibly linuxEnglish
            1•4 hours ago

            Gnome disks will work on anything gnome based. It isn’t great for writing images though. I would rather just use dd since I’m on Linux already

    • @CMDR_HornEnglish
      4•13 hours ago

      To add to this, if you’ve only been trying to write the ISO to a USB drive this whole time have you tried different USB drives as well?