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Is setting up Mint supposed to be this hard? (lemmy.world)
submitted 22 hours 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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[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 3 points 15 hours ago

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.

[-] BaldProphet@piefed.social 2 points 13 hours ago

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.

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