Installing Linux Mint on Dell G3 3579

Question

Hello,

I'm having trouble getting Linux Mint to run on my new laptop. I thought I would be a breeze since it shipped with Ubuntu, and last time I installed Mint on a Dell it was very straightforward. However even though liveusb worked fine and installation of LM Tessa 19.1 was successfull, when I try to login I get a black screen with a cursor. I wanted to try running it with nomodeset since I suspect that nvidia gpu is giving me trouble, however I cannot access regular grub as well. I get a "minimal bash like line editing" screen instead of normal grub.

Does someone know how to resolve it or did anyone successfully install LM on this laptop?

Thanks in advance

speedstep · Answer

There is no support for Linux Mint here.

Karl Harder · Answer

I got my issue solved after some tries. To whomever this may concern I've solved by following the steps below:

Installed Windows on a part of my SSD (I'd separated half of my total memory to each system)
On Windows, I installed a programm called 'Universal USB Installer' (only works on Windows)
Downloaded a Linux ISO from the Ubuntu site
On Universal USB Installer I've created a bootable Pen Drive by setting the options: Link to the image
After created the bootable pen drive I've turned off the system and then restart my PC selecting the pen drive as boot.
Installed Linux normally on the second part of my SDD (creating a SWAP and A root directory in advanced options)
And then every thing works perfectly after doing this (with dual boot) hehe

Note: I've followed a tutorial to get this conclusion: link to the tutorial

That's it!

LameLinuxLover · Answer

The freezing problem may be caused by the nouveau nvidia driver. Disable it before the boot  GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT='quite spash nouveau.modeset=0' and blacklist the nouveau kernel module

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Installing Linux Mint on Dell G3 3579

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