It’s just so stupid. Obviously other notebooks don’t have this issue. Some people are blaming Mint for not doing anything about it, but I’m still blaming Lenovo mostly.
Admittedly, I’ve only been able to play with it on and off today, but I am really liking it so far (except Firefox, which apparently no longer has a compact mode). I’ve had to use Macs for years for work reasons, but I don’t have to anymore and I said to myself that when my ancient Macbook died, I would replace it with something that runs Linux. MacOS is okay, not terrific (I hate how much RAM it uses though). I don’t mind using it, but I am not going to pay Apple’s prices now that I don’t have to just because it’s less annoying than Windows. So Linux is the perfect answer!
I doubt I’d be able to afford one of those. I got this because it was $200 refurbished.
I’m surprised HP notebooks are trustworthy at this point.
I’ll try Ventoy next time, thanks. I just followed the install instructions on Mint’s website which says to use Etcher. Maybe that’s the problem.
how did you expect it to run Linux?
Because I asked in this community and got a bunch of people who said they ran Linux on it and it worked just fine? Which it does now that it’s been installed.
I didn’t even want to take a chance with an HP considering how fucked up their printers are.
I am that old and I admit, that is definitely true.
I’m not saying I want Fisher-Price here. I just don’t think there should be this much of a challenge to install Linux on an old ThinkPad like this.
I have no problem with Linux not being a push here dummy OS overall, but not only having to change BIOS settings twice, but having to spend two hours surfing around trying to figure out that was the issue, especially when it was installed but wouldn’t boot… that’s ridiculous. From what people are saying, it sounds like it’s a combination of Lenovo being dickish and Mint not supporting it well enough.
But whatever, it’s installed now and works fine. I just needed a rant after going through that.
It’s good to know for the future if nothing else, so I appreciate it.
Hm. Maybe I should have tried a different flavor of Linux in terms of ease of install. But Mint seemed like the best choice for me and now that it’s actually up and running, it’s fine.
I’m not familiar with Edge ISOs because I am a total novice here, but Mint’s website says, “If you cannot boot or install Linux Mint because your hardware is too recent and is not properly detected, you may get better results with the “Edge” ISO image.” This is 2016 hardware, so would it have applied?
I have never had to install an OS where I had to go into the BIOS multiple times to change settings back and forth.
I’d love to know what I did wrong if you can tell me. I used Etcher like the instructions on Mint’s website told me to.
That sounds pretty awful, sorry that you went through that.
secure boot is Mint’s fault.
Well now I’m just surprised considering this is a 2016 notebook. They should be supporting a feature that old, shouldn’t they?
It was so stupid. F12 should have been all it took, but it didn’t even recognize the USB drive existed.