I have played around before trying to install a few times, but I’m not sure if that exhausts the question: I brought up two terminal windows to ssh into my Raspberry Pi and to manage logs on the other, while I had a browser up to look up netcat usage examples. It didn’t freeze or crash during regular activity, if we’re looking for that.

If by live environment you mean the one running from the USB (before I start the actual install) then yes, the install itself starts from a live Mint, running from the USB already. Sorry, I’m not sure if that’s what you meant.

Jenius

Yes, thank god.

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.

Well, it’s lightspeed, duh

I developed a habit way in my childhood.

You swallow. Then you tell yourself it was a peppercorn or some other bullshit. Unless you bit on something crunchy and super toxic, chances are you save yourself the disgust and loss of appetite.

But obviously check the rest of the food, just in case. Alternatively, you can check the food, then swallow if you didn’t find anything nasty.

Holy mackerel, it’s the house!

…and instead of joining the boycott, proceeds to do nothing.

Dang. It doesn’t show thumbnails for me, but at this point there are people who even recognise the link.

How about the accident on the 27th of July 1987 that has been the cause of severe pain and agony for literally millions of people?

It could be just me, but I always feel like “fuck, that must have been a scew/bolt/nail/T-72 that will fuck up my vacuum”. I’m sure there’s some kind of filter that was invented somewhere around 1947 to prevent exactly that, but the instant feeling is still the same.

I work for Belethor, at the General Goods Store.

I… I was today years old.

I honestly thought LibreOffice was some rebranded name. It’s been a while since I’ve used any of them.

Also, there has been more than a few days’ worth of data proving that he can’t really be taken for granted for more than one and a half minutes.

While it’s super annoying for the tech savvy, and gives a great opportunity to ill willed tech people, I’m sure it was an idiot proofing move. The average user is a not-so-tech-savvy office person, having relatively fuck all knowledge on extensions, and back in the day pretty much all programs got picky when facing an unknown/unsupported extension. Your average Joe/Jolene opened ‘veryimportantspreadsheet.xls’, renamed it to ‘veryimportantspreadsheetnew’ (without the extension), and made it impossible for Excel to open it by double clicking. Then in the best case they triggered an IT support request; in the worst case they reported that the very important spreadsheet got lost/corrupted and data was lost.

In my opinion it really depends on the person saying that. There are just way too many factors like Dunning-Krueger, the interpretation of the word ‘good’ (Just sufficient? Above average?), or just their own ego/modesty.

I would say I’m decent with numbers. I don’t like to boast, and I’m sure I’m terribly far from being a prodigy (I am quite far), but I have the feeling I can multiply double digit numbers in my head faster than the average. That doesn’t even tell you much anyway.

Possibly. I didn’t follow it that closely.