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 I have installed four(?) different distros in the last week, and they all went in fine except vanilla #Debian, which I don't know how I screwed it up, but I did. #Ubuntu, #LinuxMint, and #PopOS were all just as easy as #Windows was once upon a time: click "ok" a bunch until you hit a welcome screen. Notably absent was the requirement that I sign into their exclusive service to even use the software.
Just saying. Your mileage has clearly varied.
@OrionKidder LinuxMint was the first one I tried. Got it installed okay, but I just could not get it to run with non-software graphics, even after using their built-in driver manager.
@crft No; might give that one a shot tomorrow.
@LouisIngenthron Well, I should say that I'm very new at this, but if you've got a laptop with a known set of components, there's usually a post on the Linux Mint discussion/support boards that covers it. Sorry to hear it's not working for you.
@LouisIngenthron did you try Pop OS?