I'm new to linux but I've played around with a few distros. I'm wanting to try cinnamon but I keep getting a black screen with a blinking cursor when trying to load from the grub menu. From my searches it seems to be a graphics issue. So far I've verified the .iso, did a memory test and also tried creating a bootable usb with multiple programs. I've tried the 'nomodeset' and 'grub_gfxmode=1920x1080'. When I do this I get two lines of text. First one says "Loading /casper/vmlinuz". Second says "Loading /casper/initrd.lz......READY but that's as far as it gets. It keeps restarting my pc. I've installed a few other distros with no problems. Any ideas where to go from here? I'll keep digging for solutions, thanks guys.
PC Specs:
Windows 10 Pro x64
ASRock Fata1ty X370 Gaming X Mobo
XPG 256GB M.2 SSD
8BG G.Skill ddr4 3200
Ryzen 3 1300x cpu
XFX RX 580 gpu
PC Specs:
Windows 10 Pro x64
ASRock Fata1ty X370 Gaming X Mobo
XPG 256GB M.2 SSD
8BG G.Skill ddr4 3200
Ryzen 3 1300x cpu
XFX RX 580 gpu