Adding to this, I’m a new Linux user, and I’m distro hopping a bit. I started with Mint, now I’m currently using Bazzite (basically Fedora Kinoite with some drivers and apps preinstalled for gaming to basically be plug and play), but I find rpm-ostree to be more confusing than whatever Ubuntu is based on so I might switch to another Ubuntu-based distro. It’s fun to discover what you like best though, so OP if you’re reading this, that’s my advice as someone in the same boat as you. Bounce around and see what works best.

I was hoping to have someone say that.

This fixed it. Thank you!

I just tried Super+P and did manage to get it to show on my laptop, but I still can’t get the image to show on the monitor. I tried hooking up my laptop to my tv and there were no issues. My monitor doesn’t have any issues with windows or mint either, just bazzite for some reason. And it didn’t have an issue when I was first installing it either.

KDE or gnome but I chose KDE.

I just tried that and it did sort of work, in that I can now use my laptop screen, but I still can’t find a way to get it to show on my monitor. I hooked up my laptop to my tv to see if that worked and it worked perfectly fine. My monitor doesn’t have any issues with windows or mint, just bazzite for some reason.

I managed to get it running last night and installed on my system. Thank you for your help. I appreciate it.

Okay update, part way through the installation process (before it actually started downloading, when it’s still asking questions about languages and location and password and all that) it said it failed and lost connection to the drive or something, then froze. When I tried to re-boot it, it started saying “invalid magic number, load kernel first” or something around those lines. It’s getting late here, so I’ll try it again tomorrow. If you know of anything I can try, I’ll attempt it when I get the chance.

I tried redoing it right after replying to you.

Just tried Ventoy, it worked perfectly. Thank you! I appreciate it.

It was just a regular usb drive as far as I know, nothing fancy. Completely clean before hand, new. I used Balenta Etcher to flash Linux Mint onto it. It was specifically the August 2023 version of BE if that makes a difference. The current version was bugging and would just freeze.

Pretty sure it was UEFI

It’s from a regular usb drive as far as I know. It’s new and never been used, didn’t hold anything on it until I flashed the Linux Mint ISO onto it. I used Balenta Etcher to flash it, not sure how to verify with it.