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Is setting up Mint supposed to be this hard? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

I'm probably still gonna try it later, managed to re-format the laptop back to windows and get it working again... still no issues outside linux related things but I'm open to the possibility that it might just be bad luck with hardware.