Review and demo of Linux Mint 22, including full installation and setup tutorial for those upgrading from Windows.

Linux Mint 22 can be downloaded for free from https://www.linuxmint.com/.

The Etcher application that I used to create a Linux Mint 22 USB drive can also be downloaded for free here: https://etcher.balena.io/

And my video on dual boot options for Windows and Linux can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?vKWVte9WGxGE (it covers more than the dual drive setup mentioned in the title).

And you might also find my “Linux Survival Guide” series useful – the first part of which can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?vFeDYxBulZ6c

And my video “Linux Mint: Tips & Tricks” is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?vHKCowLHiQ8o

Oh, and a full list of ExplainingComputers' Linux videos – including reviews of many distributions – can be found here: https://www.explainingcomputers.com/linux_videos.html

BOOTING FROM A USB DRIVE
Exactly how you boot from the Linux Mint USB drive unfortunately depends on your particular computer. Often a boot menu can be accessed by pressing a specific key when turning on the computer, such as F12, F11 or F10. And if you can access such a menu when booting, you can simply select the USB drive.

Alternatively, you can enter the BIOS/UEFI by pressing an appropriate key again when powering on, usually F2, Delete or Esc. In the BIOS, you can then hopefully find a setting that changes the boot order to USB first, so your computer will always try to boot from an inserted USB drive first. For this to work, you may also need to disable a feature called "Secure Boot", which you may then need to re-enable if you want Windows to boot on your PC (it depends on the version). However, in the BIOS there is often an "Exit" or similar menu (usually at the bottom on the right) that provides a "Boot Override" feature. And this allows you to select booting from a USB drive once without having to make any BIOS changes. So here you would select your inserted USB drive and your computer would then boot from it just fine.

Unfortunately, UEFI/BIOS settings and USB boot configurations are not standardized, so I can't give you definitive instructions! However, I give more pointers in my video on "PC BIOS Settings": https://www.youtube.com/watch?vezubjTO7rRI

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Chapter:
00:54 Get Linux Mint
03:10 Installation
06:11 NVIDIA GPU drivers
07:16 What's new?
11:11 Applications
14:43 Updates & Snapshots (Timeshift)
18:06 Fix font! (Ubuntu Classic)
20:29: Xfce and MATE editions
22:43 Summary

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