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I'm a complete beginner looking to start with mint. I have a USB but don't know how to make it. Are there tutorials I can use?

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[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

look up rufus or ventoy and start from there

[–] sleepybisexual@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

ATM ventoy is on the USB. Do I download the minto to a random folder to check first of do I verify it in ventoy? Also which mirrors are good?

[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

just do what ventoy tells you

you can download mint as a torrent, otherwise pick a mirror that is geographically close

[–] sleepybisexual@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

K, I'm gonna terminate my download and torenet it

[–] yum13241@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

And the benefit of Ventoy is that it's literally drag and drop the ISO once you setup Ventoy for the first time.

[–] yanutta@mastodonapp.uk 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] sleepybisexual@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Toreenting from official site. Is the torrent meant to be 3 GB rather than 2.8gb?

[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

that's how it looks for me in transmission (linux mint 21.2 cinnamon)