I feel like this has been said a lot but Linux folks really need to understand what "101" actually means, cos I have watched some Linux 101 videos this afternoon and read a "commands for beginners" post, and it talks about stuff that I have zero idea what they mean.

It is intensely difficult to learn something when the explainers assume you have knowledge which you simply don't.

Please get some non-techy folks in to help you write better 101s!

I am finally tooting from #Linux Mint! Huge thank you to everyone who has helped me sort this out; @TCMuffin , @lexicaleigh, @woe2you , @ujeenator , @neil . So, so appreciated!

p.s. I love how willing to help folks on Fedi are.

Much appreciate all the #Linux help yesterday. It turns out at least some of the problem was trying to dual boot so have spent all yesterday evening and all this morning shifting stuff from my desktop to my external drive or Nextcloud so I can just wipe it entirely.

This feels very not good.

So this is going really well...

Now also getting "init: line 38: can't cope dev/sr0: no medium found" in repeat. All I did was hit boot from usb. I hadn't event chosen any of the options after that.

Now "unable to find a medium containing a live file system"

#Linux

So I finally managed to verify the ISO last night and am gonna try and install Linux being as my law mowing plan has been temporarily rained off.

I'm out. I'm going to have to either just install it without the verify whatevering and take the risk, or not bother.

OK next #Linux question: what does it mean if when following the (very confusing and overwhelming) verify instructions (https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=291093) I keep getting "command FAILED: 0x80070002 (WIN32: 2 ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND)"?

Why is it so hard to just install it????

Edit: I think it might be because I downloaded the torrent and not the file? But I don't know what a torrent is and it doesn't explain it on the website, so...

Is #Linux Mint still good?

I'm trying to decide which Linux to go for on my desktop. I've used Mint before but a very long time ago.

Please do not fill my replies with techy talk. I want something easy.