#First time linux user and login loop

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vale jay
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Yo, as the title would suggest, I recently tried my hand on linux after getting tired of windows. I bought a new pc just for the purpose of trying it out, and it just so happened to have come pre-installed with mint 20.3. Once i secured an internet connection via usb tethering with my phone, i started downloading whatever updates were available, which included mint 21 Vanessa. After ignoring an error message during the update i rebooted as it instructed me to, and i'm now stuck on a login loop, entirely clueless on what to do now.
There really aren't any files or general information i'd like to keep given that it's a brand new pc with nothing inside.

supple tapir
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@vale jay what you need to do is make a recovery USB stick (bootable live medium)

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your choice what you want to download, but you'll need a working computer to do it on. linuxmint.com has older ISOs listed in the downloads area, if you wish to stay with 20.3

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or just get 22 stable (released this past July)

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for bootable usb, you can either use Universal USB Installer (UUI) from pendrivelinux.com or Rufus (both are Windows-only flashers) or ventoy, from ventoy.net

vale jay
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I went with ventoy and followed all the relevant instructions shown on the mentioned sites.
Got mint 22 up and running. Thank you very much.

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Would you happen to know somewhere i could watch/read to learn the know-how from here on out?

supple tapir
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n check some beginner youtube vids

tawdry magnet
supple tapir
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that said, I think our own #1295728709306683482 does a better job

tawdry magnet
supple tapir
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than the current doc on the official site

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check out the pdf from my first link and see

tawdry magnet
vale jay
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Oh boy, I think I might switch to Xfce edition. If the system monitor readings and the random crashes are anything to go by, my poor i5 3rd gen can't handle this OS

tawdry magnet
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Nonsense. I am running KDE Plasma and Cinnamon regularly on 2nd-gen Intels. I am doing that right now.

vale jay
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What could be the issue, then?

tawdry magnet
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Can you discern any pattern in these crashes, or are they really random? And what is wrong with your System Monitor readings?

vale jay
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So far I've tested performance with terraria and a browser game played on firefox. And the readings show sudden spikes of 100% cpu usage, followed by slowdowns or crashes, be it the game or firefox crashing, if not cinnamon itself.

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I believe that it could be a hardware problem this time around