so. ive been trying to install linux for the past 2 days now since i bought a secondary ssd for my laptop. (note: trying). i came on here and asked people for their opinions on different distros and a beginner friendly one and everyone recommended ubuntu. well, downloaded ubuntu, rufus and made a live usb to boot from, went into my bios and booted aaaaaand..... nothing. blackscreen.
after a bit of googling and trying (among much other stuff) "nomodeset" as a start parameter to prevent linux from loading my GPU drivers on boot to render the splash screen, i got a bit further. from then on it loaded the splash screen, filled one dot of the loading bar, then the next, and the next and the next but not the last one. never. it always stopped exactly there. i googled for 2 hours but couldnt find anything on it. so, i tried a different distro. downloaded centOS because ive used it at my university before and had at least a tiny amount of experience. made a bootstick and booted and.... didnt work. straight back to the bios. next distro. linux mint cinnamon. couldnt boot either, blackscreen again. tried the nomodeset again and: it worked! i actually came to installing the OS this time. partitioned it for a swap area, gave it 20 GB for the root folder and around 250 GB for the /home area for all my stuff. installed it, rebooted and.... even with nvidia drivers, it crashed. next distro. linux mint mate. same stuff as before, nomodeset, install, partitioning, everything works. says its running in software rendering mode but fine. installed nvidia drivers, rebooted and... it... worked? used it for like 20 mins, checked out the package manager, the browser, googled a bit, etc. then i decided to put "nomodeset" into my default linux startup file. well, one "sudo xed /etc/default/grub" later, i updated grub and rebooted. and this time, blackscreen again, it froze on the login screen. thrown it off my pc now, ill stick to windows, that works at least.
TLDR: im too stupid for linux.
