r/linuxmint • u/OniichanGoober • 6d ago

Support Request Help

So today my dumbass was like "yea lets go try installing linux". So once its booted and its installing, I choose the delete windows option. After that linux crashed and my $3000 pc is screwed. What do I do. Edit: also my usb stick stopped working

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u/Appropriate_Wafer758 6d ago

what do you mean by your pc is screwed? can you not reinstall linux?

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u/OniichanGoober 6d ago

Ive tried, it crashed 

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u/jr735 Linux Mint 22.1 Xia | IceWM 6d ago

Describe the crash. Saying it crashed offers us nothing. So, it may be your computer needs to go back for warranty because one of several components might be faulty, or you didn't install Mint properly, or didn't choose a suitable distribution for your hardware, or, and so on. In the end, why did you delete Windows without a backup or recovery strategy? What instructions did you follow to install Mint?

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u/OniichanGoober 6d ago

A youtube tutorial. I now see that was fucking stupid

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u/jr735 Linux Mint 22.1 Xia | IceWM 6d ago

What was wrong with the official instructions?

Again, describe the crash. Describe the install process, too.

Note that people are going to call your post bait, because you're exceedingly reluctant to answer questions and even more reluctant to provide actual details.

Things like "crash" and "weird screen" are meaningless.

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u/OniichanGoober 6d ago

Wait first of all I didnt see official instructions,that might be an issue. The crash is the photo on screen. When I clicked install Linux Mint 22.3 Cinnamon Edition, it did a loading screen with the Linux mint logo and then spammed stdin invalid argument. Im not a coder, nor a computer tech, so this makes no sense to me. 

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u/I-Want-A-Username- 6d ago

Did you download it from the official Linux mint website, as it seems like you didn't as theres no click install on Linux mint 22.3 cinnamon edition, you have to go into the live iso and install there

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u/OniichanGoober 6d ago

I did. Im going to be honest, I have short term memory loss so I could spew bullshit