Is setting up Mint supposed to be this hard?
Is setting up Mint supposed to be this hard?
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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- Download ISO
- Create bootable USB
- Boot from USB
- Install
- profit
This was my experience with Mint.
Add "Horribly mangle the system while experimenting with obscure pre-alpha open source customization software" and you have my experience with Mint.
Lol why the downvotes? I was just trying to be humorous! Y'all need to develop a sense of humor.
You should learn about containers and virtualization. You can experiment for a while and then blow it all away. Podman and virtual manager are your friends.
Oh, it was absolutely in a VM. I had a blast breaking stuff and not having to stress about it. It's the best way to learn how systems work, IMO.