Here’s what I did:
- Wiped my USB stick
- Re-installed Ventoy on it
- Added an ISO for Linux mint 22.2 (along with a few others)
- Booted from the USB stick
- Ran the Mint installer
- Unmounted the drives when prompted
- Chose the “Something else” option and confirmed by running Disks that it had correctly chosen to use the 2 TB external Samsung SSD.
- Installed and done!
It seems to be running fairly decently. I’ll tweak a bunch of stuff (I need to disable Secure Boot to get it to recognize refresh rates higher than 120 Hz, for starters) and see how it goes. Before installing Mint, I also had a look at Kubuntu for the first time and I liked what I saw, but I’ll stick to Mint for now and do more distro-hopping somewhere down the line.
(Also, this was posted from Linux Mint.)
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