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Is setting up Mint supposed to be this hard? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 day ago by CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.world
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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.

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[–] CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world -3 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

I mean I got past that part as per the list. I've installed a custom win10 on the same laptop using the same USB before and it worked flawlessly. So far Mint just seems to be far more finicky about hardware than win10.

[–] JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world 17 points 22 hours ago

Yeah but if the crash is happening when burning the ISO then that's the problem of whatever software and OS you're using to do that, i.e. the ISO burning tool and Windows. An ISO is an ISO. As described, this problem is nothing to do with Linux. Phew! Once you fix this issue you'll find Mint is easy peasy and you won't look back. So keep at it.

[–] steeznson@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago

Try unetbootin on windows to create the liveUSB

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 3 points 18 hours ago

Try a different USB