Thanks, that was a very informative video. I'm about to take the leap into Linux - have thought of it over the last 25 years and even downoaded it once around 2005 or so. I'm tired of paying for Windows (98, Media Center edition, Win 7 and Win 10) and with end of life coming for Win 10 next year - my gov't pensions only go so far!! I built my pc in 2019 with a 500gb SSD and 5tb in drives, a Ryzen 2600 and AMD RX560 and 16 gb 3000mhz ram it's only used for Kodi, music, general browsing and keeping in touch with my kids and grandkids - so nothing too complicated most of my gaming is ps3 & ps4 I've got Steam but the only thing I've ever played on it was SimCity 4 LOL.
No problem! It's certainly worth making the dive. You can always go back to Windows so it's not a set in stone move that's for sure. Funny you mention Sim City 4. I was just thinking of firing it up again soon.
This was helpful. I found to get Mint OS to a USB the Chrome Recovery Utility was the only thing that worked for me since I only have ChromeFlex. You can download the operating system and change the file extension name from ISO to BIN then use the utility to load it on a USB. There is a video that showed them doing it with Ubuntu so I tried it. Works! None of the Linux steps in the terminal would work (like Belana Etcher) to flash the drive maybe this easy method could be done in any Chrome Browser by getting the utility from the web store. The Linux commands in developer mode and even on Ubuntu kept creating a number of errors too frustrating. ChromeFlex was fine but no Play Store and horrible File Manager. This looks great. Thank you for your introduction.
With all this ai stuff other tech companies seem to be shoving down our throats (my current laptop is Windows 11) I remembered my old, slow laptop & decided to give Linux a shot on it. Thank you for this tutorial, now that I have Linux installed I just need to learn ti use it…
Do you really have to worry about doing that ISO verification on the mint website? I assume most of the mirrors should be safe, yes? The verification process seems like a huge pain on windows, and the tool that they want us to use doesn't even download as an executable for me for some reason.
I'd appreciate it if you could help with this. I have been trying to install mint xfce 21.3 on a cheap hp pavilion with a single core amd Cpu and 4 gigs of Ram. No matter what I do, I can't get it to boot in regular mode from the USB, only in compatibility mode. After that, when I try to install, it does not detect my hdd. I've tried all the bios checks, and similar solutions but nothing helped. I got frustrated an made a Pop OS image and that instantly detected and installed properly. I even tried it again after that, just to make sure it wasn't something within Windows. Nothing. If you can help, I'll be grateful. But I understand that I might be stupid about this and asking like this. No problem if you can't help.
@@Digital-Scriptorium thanks for the reply.. Sorted. Had it on a stick using ventoy, 21.3 was fine on that but 22 don't like ventoy probably due to one of the upgrades.. Loaded it on another on it's own and no problem with install. Cheers.
System i5 7500T, 8GB Ram, 256gb hard drive. System is a 2019 HP EliteDesk Mini. It froze on setting installing from USB, stuck on installation screen where you select to format the existing hard drive once I pressed install, rainbow timer appeared. After googling it, some stated it took an hour or 2, thought maybe it was doing something, left it 2 hours. Came back, same screen, no progress same colour rainbow timer. I had to "force" exit of the installation. The system then wouldn't shut down. Had to hold the power to shut it off. I am now faced with the below; Failed to open \EFI\BOOT\mmx64efi - Not Found Failed to load image : Not Found Failed to start MokManager: Not Found Something has gone seriously wrong: Import_mok_state0 failed: Not Found I have tried; 3 different USB sticks, 32gb, 1 brand new. I have formatted the USB and reinstalled the boot to the USB Tired 4 different mirror downloads, all authenticated with no issues. Tired both balenaEtcher & Rufus to put the OS on the USB. Same issue. Tired the copying of the of the grubx64.efi and remaining to mmx64.efi which gets me back to the dos looking boot screen. Select the version and does the below; error: shim_lock protocol not found error: you need to load the kernal first Press any key to continue. Then goes back to the boot screen. On each occasion it seems to now fail. Any ideals?
Thanks, that was a very informative video. I'm about to take the leap into Linux - have thought of it over the last 25 years and even downoaded it once around 2005 or so. I'm tired of paying for Windows (98, Media Center edition, Win 7 and Win 10) and with end of life coming for Win 10 next year - my gov't pensions only go so far!! I built my pc in 2019 with a 500gb SSD and 5tb in drives, a Ryzen 2600 and AMD RX560 and 16 gb 3000mhz ram it's only used for Kodi, music, general browsing and keeping in touch with my kids and grandkids - so nothing too complicated most of my gaming is ps3 & ps4 I've got Steam but the only thing I've ever played on it was SimCity 4 LOL.
No problem! It's certainly worth making the dive. You can always go back to Windows so it's not a set in stone move that's for sure. Funny you mention Sim City 4. I was just thinking of firing it up again soon.
This was helpful. I found to get Mint OS to a USB the Chrome Recovery Utility was the only thing that worked for me since I only have ChromeFlex. You can download the operating system and change the file extension name from ISO to BIN then use the utility to load it on a USB. There is a video that showed them doing it with Ubuntu so I tried it. Works! None of the Linux steps in the terminal would work (like Belana Etcher) to flash the drive maybe this easy method could be done in any Chrome Browser by getting the utility from the web store. The Linux commands in developer mode and even on Ubuntu kept creating a number of errors too frustrating. ChromeFlex was fine but no Play Store and horrible File Manager. This looks great. Thank you for your introduction.
O very interesting to hear that work around for Flex. Glad to hear the video was helpful though! Enjoy! :)
Huge thanks for this man!
No problem! Enjoy! :)
Thank you for this.
No problem! Enjoy!
With all this ai stuff other tech companies seem to be shoving down our throats (my current laptop is Windows 11) I remembered my old, slow laptop & decided to give Linux a shot on it. Thank you for this tutorial, now that I have Linux installed I just need to learn ti use it…
Nice! Yeah, the best way is just dig in and see what you can do. If you can make it a daily driver that really helps too. Enjoy! :)
Do you really have to worry about doing that ISO verification on the mint website? I assume most of the mirrors should be safe, yes? The verification process seems like a huge pain on windows, and the tool that they want us to use doesn't even download as an executable for me for some reason.
I generally don't worry about the verification of the source.
I'd appreciate it if you could help with this. I have been trying to install mint xfce 21.3 on a cheap hp pavilion with a single core amd Cpu and 4 gigs of Ram. No matter what I do, I can't get it to boot in regular mode from the USB, only in compatibility mode. After that, when I try to install, it does not detect my hdd. I've tried all the bios checks, and similar solutions but nothing helped. I got frustrated an made a Pop OS image and that instantly detected and installed properly. I even tried it again after that, just to make sure it wasn't something within Windows. Nothing. If you can help, I'll be grateful. But I understand that I might be stupid about this and asking like this. No problem if you can't help.
All good. Have you tried version 22 yet to see if that helps?
@@Digital-Scriptorium I didn't know it was out until I saw your video on it. Will let you know how that goes.
@@syedsakifrahman3021 fingers crossed :)
@@syedsakifrahman3021 same problem here, i tried 21.3 and 22 both freeze.
What's the specs of your machine?
Should this work on an old Mac laptop?
I would say as long as it's a 2012 or newer it should be nice and peppy.
Is it stable
It was for me but naturally any release in the first few days is bound to be quirky.
Coconut
Yes.
Indubitably
@@ChimpWithaHandGrenade :)
First time ever I have had trouble installing... Plug in the USB iso burned to it and it asks for the kernel first... Won't install.
So you're booting from it and seeing some kind of kernal screen?
@@Digital-Scriptorium thanks for the reply.. Sorted.
Had it on a stick using ventoy, 21.3 was fine on that but 22 don't like ventoy probably due to one of the upgrades.. Loaded it on another on it's own and no problem with install. Cheers.
@@barrykirkby9626 ah gotcha. Good to hear all is well now :)
System
i5 7500T, 8GB Ram, 256gb hard drive. System is a 2019 HP EliteDesk Mini.
It froze on setting installing from USB, stuck on installation screen where you select to format the existing hard drive once I pressed install, rainbow timer appeared. After googling it, some stated it took an hour or 2, thought maybe it was doing something, left it 2 hours.
Came back, same screen, no progress same colour rainbow timer. I had to "force" exit of the installation. The system then wouldn't shut down. Had to hold the power to shut it off.
I am now faced with the below;
Failed to open \EFI\BOOT\mmx64efi - Not Found
Failed to load image : Not Found
Failed to start MokManager: Not Found
Something has gone seriously wrong: Import_mok_state0 failed: Not Found
I have tried;
3 different USB sticks, 32gb, 1 brand new.
I have formatted the USB and reinstalled the boot to the USB
Tired 4 different mirror downloads, all authenticated with no issues.
Tired both balenaEtcher & Rufus to put the OS on the USB.
Same issue.
Tired the copying of the of the grubx64.efi and remaining to mmx64.efi which gets me back to the dos looking boot screen.
Select the version and does the below;
error: shim_lock protocol not found
error: you need to load the kernal first
Press any key to continue.
Then goes back to the boot screen.
On each occasion it seems to now fail.
Any ideals?
If you can I would try a BIOS update just in case that's causing weird stuff.