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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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[–] shyguyblue@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yup, get a recovery/tool ISO and run a memory test.

[–] Successful_Try543@feddit.org 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Doesn't The Linux Mint ISO also offer to run Memtest86+?

Otherwise: https://memtest.org/

[–] TwanHE@lemmy.world 1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Memtest is quite shit, seriously unstable ram will still pass. If it doesn't pass memtest it's actually dead.

[–] Successful_Try543@feddit.org 1 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

Can you recommend a better solution?
The last time I've used it, it well identified the addresses of the RAM blocks that were broken.

[–] TwanHE@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

Sadly most good tools are windows only but: OCCT, karhu Ram test and testmem5 (anta extreme config) Are all good choices, but id usually recommend running more than 1.

[–] shyguyblue@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I've never installed Mint, but I've had a patriot memory stick go bad, and the RMA process involved sending both sticks to Patriot. Never buying from that garbage company again...

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 day ago

I have a bunch of there SSD's and they have been working fine for a few years. Not super performant but they also have been reliable especially for the cost.

I think computer ram is just easily damaged in shipping.