People online complain that Linux is hard to install for new users. But who are these people and why do they levy these complaints? The biggest barrier for the new Linux user isn't the installer; i...
Monitor: HDMI cable straight into the #1 HDMI port on my GPU. Probably have a DP cable around here somewhere but haven’t felt like fucking with it since it worked fine on an HDMI cable on Pop. It’s a standard desktop setup, not a laptop with a docking station or anything.
Wayland/xorg: no clue, it never asked and I never saw even the first pixel of graphical anything.
Yeah I thought so too re:Pop/Ubuntu, part of the reason I tried Ubuntu is because it was similar but I hoped it would have more stable drivers or the like. shrug
Secure boot: I don’t remember (and can’t reboot to check bios) - I think I remember having to disable it when I installed Pop, but that was several months ago and my memory is shit.
Boot: Yes, the windows boot drive (an old 128GB SATA SSD), but I hit F11 on boot adn selected USB to boot to that to do the install just like with Pop. But again the install worked fine at least on the older LTS version of Ubuntu. And it booted on USB correctly with the later version too, just as soon as it went graphical it b0rked.
Spare laptop: nope. Closest I have is an old headless NAS box that’s running an old version of RedHat I think?, but also it’s been in my closet for ~5 years because I don’t really have anywhere to set it up. So mostly no.
Distros; I mean a lot of years ago i messed a lot with RedHat and before that Slackware, but nothing on this hardware. I have not tried Mint, and I’ve heard good things about it, but I mostly wanted to go with a main-line distro like ubuntu because a lot of the forum posts and such I found talking about how to fix random things seemed to be for ubuntu so it seemed like it’d be easier to get help on.
And no problem, I’m happy to answer if it means I can make this work.
Boot: Yes, the windows boot drive (an old 128GB SATA SSD), but I hit F11 on boot adn selected USB to boot to that to do the install just like with Pop. But again the install worked fine at least on the older LTS version of Ubuntu. And it booted on USB correctly with the later version too, just as soon as it went graphical it b0rked.
So do you get a grub menu at all? Is there the Plymouth (green, grey and white text only) loading screen? What does booting look like? I need more detail here because I’ve had driver issues and this is sounding more like a boot issue. Would it be possible to remove other hard drives during a test installation then add them back afterwards? Totally understand work and life comes first and all but if you get the opportunity, I’ve got a hunch.
I’m thinking we need a matrix chat or something to send images and details on lol
I have to hit F11 to choose to boot the linux partition, at which point I get a grub menu. I don’t recall anything that says Plymouth on it, and I normally don’t get a text screen at all unless I boot into recovery mode, at which point I get the usual linux text-spam on boot.
Booting looks like:
POST, F11
Select Linux to boot from (it’s listed as the 128GB SSD because that’s where the MBR/etc is, but linux is on a 1TB NVMe SSD)
Get grub menu.
Select Ubuntu.
Wait a lot on a black screen.
Get a brief Ubuntu logo that lasts a couple seconds.
Black screen again for a few more seconds.
No signal.
Remove other drives: no, that would be a significant pain in the ass. But also Pop worked installed on the same NVMe SSD with the same other drives in the system, so I’m pretty sure it’s not a drive/BIOS-related boot issue.
I’d be happy to chat, though I have no idea what matrix even is. Feel free to DM (does lemmy even do DMs? I’m still kinda new) if you want to try to get something like that set up tho. I’m on discord if that helps?
Probably re:Pop nvidia driver edition.
Monitor: HDMI cable straight into the #1 HDMI port on my GPU. Probably have a DP cable around here somewhere but haven’t felt like fucking with it since it worked fine on an HDMI cable on Pop. It’s a standard desktop setup, not a laptop with a docking station or anything.
Wayland/xorg: no clue, it never asked and I never saw even the first pixel of graphical anything.
Yeah I thought so too re:Pop/Ubuntu, part of the reason I tried Ubuntu is because it was similar but I hoped it would have more stable drivers or the like. shrug
Secure boot: I don’t remember (and can’t reboot to check bios) - I think I remember having to disable it when I installed Pop, but that was several months ago and my memory is shit.
Boot: Yes, the windows boot drive (an old 128GB SATA SSD), but I hit F11 on boot adn selected USB to boot to that to do the install just like with Pop. But again the install worked fine at least on the older LTS version of Ubuntu. And it booted on USB correctly with the later version too, just as soon as it went graphical it b0rked.
Spare laptop: nope. Closest I have is an old headless NAS box that’s running an old version of RedHat I think?, but also it’s been in my closet for ~5 years because I don’t really have anywhere to set it up. So mostly no.
Distros; I mean a lot of years ago i messed a lot with RedHat and before that Slackware, but nothing on this hardware. I have not tried Mint, and I’ve heard good things about it, but I mostly wanted to go with a main-line distro like ubuntu because a lot of the forum posts and such I found talking about how to fix random things seemed to be for ubuntu so it seemed like it’d be easier to get help on.
And no problem, I’m happy to answer if it means I can make this work.
So do you get a grub menu at all? Is there the Plymouth (green, grey and white text only) loading screen? What does booting look like? I need more detail here because I’ve had driver issues and this is sounding more like a boot issue. Would it be possible to remove other hard drives during a test installation then add them back afterwards? Totally understand work and life comes first and all but if you get the opportunity, I’ve got a hunch.
I’m thinking we need a matrix chat or something to send images and details on lol
I have to hit F11 to choose to boot the linux partition, at which point I get a grub menu. I don’t recall anything that says Plymouth on it, and I normally don’t get a text screen at all unless I boot into recovery mode, at which point I get the usual linux text-spam on boot.
Booting looks like: POST, F11 Select Linux to boot from (it’s listed as the 128GB SSD because that’s where the MBR/etc is, but linux is on a 1TB NVMe SSD) Get grub menu. Select Ubuntu. Wait a lot on a black screen. Get a brief Ubuntu logo that lasts a couple seconds. Black screen again for a few more seconds. No signal.
Remove other drives: no, that would be a significant pain in the ass. But also Pop worked installed on the same NVMe SSD with the same other drives in the system, so I’m pretty sure it’s not a drive/BIOS-related boot issue.
I’d be happy to chat, though I have no idea what matrix even is. Feel free to DM (does lemmy even do DMs? I’m still kinda new) if you want to try to get something like that set up tho. I’m on discord if that helps?