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The Linux Mint experience of the author is strange. I was able to install with no problems on three very different machines (Dell Inspiron, HP Laptop (forgot th
by chopin 8y ago
The Linux Mint experience of the author is strange. I was able to install with no problems on three very different machines (Dell Inspiron, HP Laptop (forgot the model, it's my daughter's) and an assembled game PC featuring 4 Monitors). The only qualm I have with it: For fear of data loss I decided against full disk encryption (the installation procedure asks for it) in expectation that one can switch after installation (I think Windows is able to do this). Unfortunately, that is not possible and imposing this later seems to include a lot of low-level work.
- AdmiralAsshat 8y agoThe article author was on a Linux podcast about a week ago and clarified that he couldn't reproduce the Mint issue, as it seemed to properly detect it when he retried later. But he had set strict guidelines for the article--basically, that he had to do this from a lifelong Windows user's perspective. So if the distro didn't work the first time, he moved on to the next one.
- chopin 8y agoYeah, I got that and I am absolutely fine with it. A bit strange though that this happened. Maybe he scrambled something during trying the live image... As I migrated not only me, but also (non-technical) other users I would have wanted to stick to Mint even at the cost of jumping through hoops as the migration is said to be easier for Windows users (as compared to eg. Ubuntu). We never looked back.
- wes-t 8y agoAnother anecode here, but I've had the exact same thing happen to me - Mint failed due to a similar issue during install, while Ubuntu installed without issue. I ended up using ubuntu for a while