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Cake day: July 6th, 2023

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  • I can’t always buy my kind of stuff at cheap (enough) places. A few years back it was hella difficult to find straight fit jeans, and even now it’s rare to find one in the right size and colour. Bootcut (?) jeans made a pretty belated comeback in my country back when I was in my mid 20s, and I don’t think I can find them anymore. If I could, I would wear a not-too-wildly-bootcut one for summer.















  • Yes, I have done a few things already, including memtest. I’ll copy from the forum:

    The things I have tried:

    • Updating my BIOS.
    • The ISO I downloaded has been md5 checked, all fine. I have also tried 2 other ISO files from 2 other mirrors - same.
    • Three (3) USB drives to install Mint, ranging from 8 GB to 24GB.
    • Installing with or without multimedia codecs.
    • Turning on secure boot before install (I was desperate, found a forum post with a similar error message, later I found out that it was for a different reason).
    • Turning off secure boot before install (I found a different forum post where the exact opposite was recommended - later I found out that it was for a different reason).
    • Installing in compatibility mode.
    • Offering a sacrifice to Xebeth’Qlu, tormentor of souls.
    • Running gparted before install, deleting the previously half-installed partition, formatting it myself to ext4, then running the installer.
    • Splitting the aforementioned partition into a 16GB swap partition (I have 16GB RAM) and leaving the rest of it as ext4 (mounted at “/”).
    • Running chkdsk -f on the SSD containing the MBR+Win10, then rebooting the PC twice, according to one of the error messages in my post below (then trying to install again).

  • That was the reason I decided to install Mint Cinnamon.

    It’s been impossible to install for a week now. And I’m not even 100% IT illiterate. After ~3 days of struggling, I decided to do the walk of shame and post on the Mint forum, admitting my failure. It’s been unsolved for about a week now. >100 fails and errors, crashes, freezes.

    I can’t even imagine where I would (not) be had I chosen Kali or Arch.



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