New Mini PC - Installed Linux Mint Cinnamon - Kernel Disaster

[aircop]

Hi All-

I have been using Linux Mint for about 5 years now. I recently purchased a mini PC and proceeded to install the latest version of Linux Mint. Now when I boot up, I get to the desktop and about a minute into it everything freezes. If I try to open an application for the first time, my screen turns purple with the Kernel Panic error fatal exception in interrupt error. I can't get past this and its a nightmare.

The only difference this time is I am using an AMD CPU. Here are the specs: Ryzen 7 8745HS cpu780m integrated graphics16gb DDR5 RAM1TB m.2 NVMe SSD. I did the memtest86+ and it passed. I tried to download Ubuntu instead but now I cant copy over to the USB boot (stops at 65%).

Any tips please??

 

[deb_user]

Mint stays well behind the leading edge. It's possible that your new and shiny mini PC with the Ryzen CPU needs a later kernel than the default kernel in Mint. I haven't used Mint in so many years I can't say for sure, however. I'm also far out of the loop on Ubuntu. Debian Unstable, aka Sid, might work, the current kernel for it is 7.1.4. The current for Mint is, AFAIK, 6.something. I don't know the kernel version your CPU requires, perhaps the manufacturer's website could provide that, providing there is one.