My PC is a Ryzen 5 1600 with a ASUS Prime B350 Plus motherboard, 32Gb Ram and Nvidia GeForce 1660. I installed Linux Mint 22.1 on a separate Kingston 240Gb SSD hard drive.
I downloaded Linux Mint 22.1 from linuxmint.com and verified the ISO file as per instructions. Furthermore, I've followed the instructions provided on the website step by step which allowed me to install Linux Mint on the SSD mentioned above.
This is a dual install as I have other hard drives on the system as well. Windows 10 x64 is installed on a separate 512GB Nvme M2 drive.
I decided to install Mint due to the fact that Win 11 is s**t and will run out of options this year with Win 10 as we all know, so I want something alternative, an operating system that won't spy on me or sell my private data to the highest bidder. My plan was to ease off from Windows into Mint over time, I'm ok with computers a little both hardware and software.
However, after installation I ran into a whole bunch of problem.
First off dual load menu simply does not load. By default it always wanted to load into Mint. Not good, as mentioned above I still need access to Win 10. The only way I could go around that is loading into BIOS and switch the primary drive to boot from. Since it was pretty tedious I decided to download Easy BCD 2.4 to create a dual boot option menu, which worked for a little while. But now it just hangs on the "press F2 or Del to enter BIOS" screen and can't even load into Windows. I had to pull the cable from the Linux SSD to be able to boot into Windows. Before this issue it was a hit or miss, like if I restarted the computer it would hang, but if I shut down and turn back on it would load a dual boot menu. Fast/secure boot is disabled in BIOS btw.
Secondly I had all sorts of instability issues. When I updated anything from the software manager I - in the most literal sense - had to leave the PC alone or else it would hang and then freeze. I mean I couldn't even use a browser or click on anything. It would just hang and freeze.
Pretty much all these problems seem to have arose in a random fashion more or less.
Now I am on my last leg here in terms of patience. I understand that no one is getting paid for this and Linux is a project that made by developers on their own time, but I do not understand how come that a program that is around for about 30 years now is still not stable enough for users who were not born with tiny transistors in their blood?
I've tried other Linux versions before, Raspbian, Debian... not user friendly at all...
So I guess my question is, can Linux Mint work or it's just another underdeveloped software that will crash and bug for the next 30 years? I am honestly asking this as I am not a big Windows fan...
Linux Mint was a last hope....
I downloaded Linux Mint 22.1 from linuxmint.com and verified the ISO file as per instructions. Furthermore, I've followed the instructions provided on the website step by step which allowed me to install Linux Mint on the SSD mentioned above.
This is a dual install as I have other hard drives on the system as well. Windows 10 x64 is installed on a separate 512GB Nvme M2 drive.
I decided to install Mint due to the fact that Win 11 is s**t and will run out of options this year with Win 10 as we all know, so I want something alternative, an operating system that won't spy on me or sell my private data to the highest bidder. My plan was to ease off from Windows into Mint over time, I'm ok with computers a little both hardware and software.
However, after installation I ran into a whole bunch of problem.
First off dual load menu simply does not load. By default it always wanted to load into Mint. Not good, as mentioned above I still need access to Win 10. The only way I could go around that is loading into BIOS and switch the primary drive to boot from. Since it was pretty tedious I decided to download Easy BCD 2.4 to create a dual boot option menu, which worked for a little while. But now it just hangs on the "press F2 or Del to enter BIOS" screen and can't even load into Windows. I had to pull the cable from the Linux SSD to be able to boot into Windows. Before this issue it was a hit or miss, like if I restarted the computer it would hang, but if I shut down and turn back on it would load a dual boot menu. Fast/secure boot is disabled in BIOS btw.
Secondly I had all sorts of instability issues. When I updated anything from the software manager I - in the most literal sense - had to leave the PC alone or else it would hang and then freeze. I mean I couldn't even use a browser or click on anything. It would just hang and freeze.
Pretty much all these problems seem to have arose in a random fashion more or less.
Now I am on my last leg here in terms of patience. I understand that no one is getting paid for this and Linux is a project that made by developers on their own time, but I do not understand how come that a program that is around for about 30 years now is still not stable enough for users who were not born with tiny transistors in their blood?
I've tried other Linux versions before, Raspbian, Debian... not user friendly at all...
So I guess my question is, can Linux Mint work or it's just another underdeveloped software that will crash and bug for the next 30 years? I am honestly asking this as I am not a big Windows fan...
Linux Mint was a last hope....