The Complete Installation Guide - Linux Mint

By: Anurag R.

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Linux Mint is an open source operating system which is available for use free of cost. One can use Linux Mint as a replacement for paid and proprietary operating systems. It is suitable for most users as it is easy to install, configure and use while being powerful in terms of features and performance. The latest Long-Term Support (LTS) version of Linux Mint with support till 2025 is Linux Mint 20.2 ‘Uma’. Linux Mint provides users with an option to choose a suitable Linux Mint Edition. The editions are Cinnamon, MATE and Xfce. Who this book is for? This book is intended for all computer users who need to install a wonderful free operating system “Linux Mint” on their laptop or desktop computers on their own without need of any Technical Support or Assistance. Apart from home and office users, aspiring Hardware Engineers, Technicians and System Administrators can keep this book handy for reference to various installation and troubleshooting procedures while learning and while working in the field as well. They can use the methods mentioned in this book to create safe bootable media and install Linux Mint in different ways, troubleshoot errors that occurs during installation process, backup data from systems, etc. It also covers topics with supporting information such as upgrading Linux Mint to latest version, repair flash drives if damaged during bootable media creation, manual Linux partitioning, etc. Why this installation guide? You may at once close this window and drop the idea of buying this installation guide thinking that the topics listed below could be searched online and applied. Internet search is an ocean of information. There is no topic or method on which you may not get a list of thousand resources as a result of search query. But there are certain facts behind these results which may render them unusable to solve your problem. Some of those are listed below: a. You have to fast scan through the long list of results to know what they contain b. All steps are not produced in a single resource and are scattered across internet. Each resource may be written by a different author in different style. Thus, there may be no sync between all steps of an entire procedure. c. Most top-ranking resources may be on top due to perfect SEO and may not contain content as per your requirement d. Most articles will be plain theory without any visuals in support of procedures e. Resources become irrelevant with change of Operating Systems versions. Each version may have changes in their procedures. Thus, this guide is perfect for you as it features visual demonstration of lots of actual screenshots captured during practical procedures covering each and every step in a sequence. You do not need to search for every internal step separately on internet as all the intermediate steps are collected in this single guide. It will be kept handy with you all times in your kindle device, phone, tablet or computer accessible through kindle library whenever you need. Above all, you will always get the updated edition of this book for free always!!! To get the most out of this book You should read the methods provided in this book while grasping the concepts that are inhibit in the methods. This approach will help you not only learn installation of Linux Mint, rather it will be useful to apply similar methods for installation and troubleshooting of other Linux flavours and other operating systems such as Windows as well. You should have the following handy with you to practice the methods mentioned in this book practically: • A Desktop or Laptop without any useful Data • Flash Drive • A re-writable DVD or a set of blank DVDs Disclaimer The content provided in this book is for educational and learning purposes only. Trademarked names may appear in this book with no intention of infringement of the trademark. All trademarks are acknowledged as belonging to their respective owners.