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stanleyella

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Posted: 11:05pm 15 Feb 2026

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Lot of linux fans. I broke windows, screen went black but cursor and bleeps.
Turn on of and it says welcome then black screen when it should show the desktop....
so install Linux mint 22.3 cinnamon first to usb stick then alter bios to boot from stick and when it settles down install it to pc, got usb with linux boot just got to try booting on a pc... that had windows but doubt I'll fix windows and my experience with rpi 400 has been better than I thought

hitsware2

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Posted: 12:37am 16 Feb 2026

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stanleyella said
my experience with rpi 400 has been better than I thought

Try FYDEOS w rpi 400

my site

stanleyella

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Posted: 06:21pm 16 Feb 2026

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I think I tried Fydeos and didn't work on rpi. I tried Twisteros 64 bit and it's not like Twisteros 32 bit, well not yet. Rpi Trixie is pretty good.
Now I got to install mint on a win pc from usb.
let you know if it works.

stanleyella

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Posted: 12:11am 17 Feb 2026

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installing linux on pc. ie get linux image and use belana etcher to flash to usb but it doesn't, etcher gives an error. nothing easy. not building linux.

JohnS
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Posted: 08:19am 17 Feb 2026

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How about posting exactly what you did and where it didn't work? A 1-line post is pointless.

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Posted: 08:36am 17 Feb 2026

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The problem probably isn't with Linux, it's in understanding Etcher. Once you have the iso file on the USB stick it's just like installing from disk except that you have to boot from the stick. That's the bit that can get interesting on some machines.

I had a problem with one of the later versions of Etcher. I couldn't find out how to get it to do what I wanted. Help via the internet always referred to a different version.

In the end I used Rufus. It's far easier to use than Etcher IMHO. The end result is the same.

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Grogster

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Posted: 08:40am 17 Feb 2026

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JohnS said How about posting exactly what you did and where it didn't work? A 1-line post is pointless.

John

Indeed.

That's like saying: "It did not work, so Linux now sucks..."

I've been running LMDE6(Linux Mint Debian Edition v6) since October last year when the W10 updates ended. I had ZERO issue installing and running LMDE6, so you are not doing something right, and as JohnS said.......

Smoke makes things work. When the smoke gets out, it stops!

Volhout
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Posted: 09:25am 17 Feb 2026

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It may depend on the linux distro you want to install on the USB stick.
I think Rufus and Balena Etcher both assume UEFI installations.
Some older distro's (i.e. Puppy) may not work when using Balena. For older Puppies I needed to use Unetbootin.

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