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   On Mon, 2/9/2026 3:02 AM, Old Macdonald wrote:   
   > On 2/8/26 12:45, Graham J wrote:   
   >> What is wrong with the Mint installer?  Is it incomplete?   
   >   
   > I drifted away from Mint many years ago, but the last few versions that I   
   used all   
   > had a problem when the Ubiquity slideshow appeared during installation.   
   Removing that   
   > slideshow with the package manager while running live from the CD, before   
   installing, fixed the issue.   
   >   
   > Looks like they're still talking about that as recently as a few months ago.   
      
   >   
   > Whatever trouble you're running into, I suggest spending some time at the   
   Mint forums. They were excellent whenever I needed help.   
      
   For a friction free experience, you really need enough RAM.   
      
   There are all sorts of low-resource distros out there (the TinyCore being   
   pretty impressive), but they're not for naive first-time Linux users.   
      
   And from a processor speed perspective, any machine that can host   
   4GB or 8GB of RAM, should be fast enough, and have good enough   
   instruction set coverage for a good time.   
      
   The Debian netinst I just used, this version was smart enough to label   
   the screen "low-memory mode" or similar. In other words, when it saw   
   the 1GB I had to offer on the laptop, it was basically warning that the   
   RAM was too low to make this easy. And my plan was only to install   
   enough stuff to get the screen working in a graphics mode.   
      
      Paul   
      
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