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.

  • TwanHE@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 day ago

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

    • Successful_Try543@feddit.orgEnglish
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      18 hours ago

      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.worldEnglish
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        14 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.