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Everyone suggests Mint, but it won't install. (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/linuxquestions

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I did all the same steps. I downloaded the file. I wrote it to the SD card, but then when I go to start it up, I just get this loading screen that lasted about an hour before I just shut it down.

What am I doing wrong here?

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

You need a different distro for the raspberry pi, which has an arm processor. The easiest way to do this is to use the Raspberry Pi imager. From within the app you can select a number of different os options, and if you’re looking for something with a desktop environment, start with raspberry pi os, or Ubuntu, both of which can be selected in the app.

Edit: fix autocorrect error

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (3 children)

What is a district in this context?

And yeah, I have the Raspberry Pi Imager. That's what I used to write my previous OS's to my SD cards.

Years ago I used Rasbian, which I guess is now called Raspberry Pi OS. Years ago my fan worked. Then I switched to TwisterOS, and that worked great too. Then there was some issue with something. I forget what. But in order to fix it, I was instructed to do an update all.

I did, and my fan broke. I spent weeks trying to get it working again. It would work on raspbian, but not TwisterOS.

I had hundreds of gigs of roms on it, and I didn't want to format and start again. So I threw it in a drawer, and got frustrated with the thing. Well this week, I wanted to get it working, and even on Raspberry Pi OS the fan script won't work. It installs, but it doesn't do anything....

[–] possiblylinux127 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

You didn't install it. You just wrote a iso to a drive. The device tries to boot into the live image and fails as it is the wrong architecture. If you were to write Linux mint to a USB and then boot your computer off of it you could install it to your computer. It is for computers not raspberry pis (over simplification but pretty much true)

For raspberry pi you need a dedicated OS that supports it. Linux Mint does not support the raspberry pi

Side note: I don't know what a district is but I assume it is a typo

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Definitely a typo. Stupid autocorrect

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I believe the poster meant to write distribution. I don’t believe that Linux Mint releases for Raspberry Pie or if it does I’m not aware of this. The main downloads are for Intel or AMD machines only.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Yup. Autocorrect got me

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

As the other commenters said, “district” was an autocorrect typo. I meant distro/distrubution.

I can’t speak to what’s wrong with the fan, but if you use imager and write a supported distribution to the sd card, you can see if the fan works again, and/or try troubleshooting again.

Also, consider that it could be a hardware issue. The fan could just be dead. Hardware fails, and you should try to rule that out.