Okay, I'm doing it. I'm giving #Linux a fair shot for the first time in about a decade. You fediverse people convinced me.
Well, that went poorly. Just a bunch of blank screens and unresponsive flashing cursors, even after updating graphics drivers.
Oh well. Maybe I'll try again in 2034.
So, I figure, maybe it was just not the best distro. So, I try downloading a whole other one. It has its own program to download an image and write it to a USB stick. Great. I wait and that finishes and I try to boot it and... it fails disk validation.
People, this is why #Linux will never overtake Apple & Microsoft. I want to believe and I'm super tech oriented and I can't even install the damn thing.
@LouisIngenthron what distro are u trying? What kind of machine do you have?
@carloshr I tried LinuxMint Cinnamon first; couldn't get it to run with hardware graphics.
Then I tried Fedora and had the bad image issue.
@LouisIngenthron @carloshr Try the Edge ISO of Cinnamon from Linux Mint.
Mint is based on the Ubuntu 22.04 Long Term Support release, first available 2 years ago. I.e., old kernel and old drivers.
The Edge ISO includes a newer kernel, etc., that supports newer hardware,
Kernel upgrades are available in Mint's Update Manager but not offered by default.
The bad Fedora image is almost certainly the result of download glitches.
@LouisIngenthron what's your graphic card?