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 just flash like #LinuxMint or #PopOS. Install it onto a flash drive using Rufus.
the barrier to adoption here involves a bunch of conflicting or incomplete information that tends to mislead the uninitiated.
@scien LinuxMint was the first one I tried. Couldn't get it to run with hardware graphics, even after installing the mfr drivers through the linuxmint driver installer.
@LouisIngenthron you using Nvidia or smth?
mint's default install can be uber ancient. afaik the Edge ISO option might fix something in that regard.
@LouisIngenthron drivers are indeed a bitch when they dont work automatically tho I will say.
if your computer is more on the old side you might want to look into MX Linux.
Or if it's something like Nvidia you might look into trying to get the latest Nouveau via Arch.
@scien Yeah, that was what scared me away from Linux all those years ago. I had heard it was better now, but apparently not better enough.
