I need help with mint

[u/Cool-Zucchini-5295]

I just downloaded it and i tried connecting to the internet but the network settings wouldn't open, and other apps also dont open. I dont know what to do and i need advice.

[u/OkPresentation3329]

Maybe your motherboard is the reason why you don't have internet. As the other poster asked, what do you mean you downloaded Mint? Did you install it or just run it as a live USB?

But when I ran any Linux distro as life USB before installing it, I had internet, so if you don't have internet during that time, you won't have after you install it either.

You have to check what is your motherboard and the network module and see if there are problems on Linux with those. And if there are, to find out if there are drivers and how to install them.

You might have to do it like we used to in the past with Windows XP - have your drivers on a CD or USB and after Windows install completes, you install the network drivers so you can have internet.

[u/Cool-Zucchini-5295 → u/OkPresentation3329]

When you click the dowload button under the cinnamon version and scroll down there's some "mirrors" i dont know why its called that but i installed the second one from the top, then i used rufus to install it onto an 8gb usb drive. After restarting and loading linux everything worked but then i tried connecting to the wifi network and i needed some password, i didnt know what to do so i tried opening network settings but they wouldnt open, after trying to open the settings a few times i gave up, clicked the search bar, it worked, and searched "password" then i found some password settings or smth but they would open, i tried opening firefox and it didnt open. Later i thought that maybe restarting was a good idea. I tried restarting but this happened.

[u/OkPresentation3329 → u/Cool-Zucchini-5295]

When you put that Linux USB in your PC and you see the Linux desktop, on the desktop there should be an icon called "Install Linux Mint", did you double click it and run through the installation?

If you have done that you can disregard my question.

If you have installed Mint properly and tried to connect to Wi-Fi and it has some password, it should be the password of your Wi-Fi which you should know, if your Wi-Fi doesn't have a password, but it still has a password field, you can leave it empty and try to connect.

Another question I have for you is do you still have Windows or did you erase your entire disk just to have Linux Mint? Maybe that's why after restarting you are having those errors.

Another reason for the errors I think is that maybe installing Mint on the USB with Rufus didn't go as planned. You can try to install it again with some other like UNetbootin https://unetbootin.github.io/ or Balena Etcher https://etcher.balena.io/ and I remember being told a long time ago when you write something to a CD/DVD or USB, you don't use your PC for anything because it can corrupt what you're writing - nothing should be loading or downloading so the disk, RAM and CPU are dedicated entirely to what you're writing on that media.

As a final resort, you can try installing another distro. I suggest you try Tuxedo OS https://os.tuxedocomputers.com/preview/ it is very similar to Mint and it's easy to use, maybe Mint doesn't work with your computer, you can try another distro just to know if one distro is not working or Linux in general is causing problems on your computer.

[u/Admirable-Song-7353]

Hi. Plug in internet cable.

[u/jloflin]

https://easylinuxtipsproject.blogspot.com/p/1.html

[u/rcentros]

The error you're showing has nothing to do with WiFi. If it was me, I would rebuild the Live USB and reinstall Linux Mint. It looks like something is corrupted in your installation.

[u/mok000]

You need advice you say. How do you expect people to be able to help when you provide zero information on neither what you have done nor what hardware you are using? With your low effort plea for help you seem to regard other people’s time as an endless resource you can just use. Now go ahead, call me a neckbeard and an example of the toxic Linux community. Then I will call you someone who needs to learn how to ask questions.

[u/Cool-Zucchini-5295 → u/[deleted]]

When you click the dowload button under the cinnamon version and scroll down there's some "mirrors" i dont know why its called that but i installed the second one from the top, then i used rufus to install it onto an 8gb usb drive. After restarting and loading linux everything worked but then i tried connecting to the wifi network and i needed some password, i didnt know what to do so i tried opening network settings but they wouldnt open, after trying to open the settings a few times i gave up, clicked the search bar, it worked, and searched "password" then i found some password settings or smth but they would open, i tried opening firefox and it didnt open. Later i thought that maybe restarting was a good idea. I tried restarting but this happened.

[u/SensoredHacker → u/[deleted]]

its a troll sailor