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A top-class job. My little Asus X205T will now boot LMDE 32-bit without any messing around adding files from elsewhere

It remains to be seen whether Cinnamon will run, so it might be back to MX Linux, but that isn't a fault with LMDE6

Excellent, thanks

My laptop with its 2015 motherboard much prefers LMDE5 to LM21.1, maybe its the difference between the 5.10 and 5.15 kernels?
It's got the same Cinnamon version so no visible differences. It's missing some little used bits like the Driver Manager but it all works and it's stable

what about nvidia driver?

Just installed it using synaptic:
installed nvidia-detect, ran that in terminal which told me which driver I needed
installed nvidia-driver (in my case)
It works

I prefer LMDE5 to LM21.1 because it has many of the same features, e.g. Cinnamon 5.6, but it works with my laptop better That could be the difference between kernel 5.10 (LMDE) rather than 5.15 (LM21); maybe newer isn't always best :D LM21 has a driver manager and I could install NVIDIA drivers easi...

You can run into various problems with settings in addition to Secure Boot and Fastboot. Windows disk encryption and Intel Smart Response are two examples, so have a look at setting these The LM installer doesn't work with my (very old) Asus with eMMC. See if another distro installs, MX Linux and De...

My thought is a bad sha256sum.txt.gpg file as already mentioned ^^

Nvidia has released a new Quadro driver (v. 525.60.11 Release Date: 28/11/2022) This version suits the Quadro T1000, Quadro P1000 and the Quadro M1000M https://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/196723/en-us/ https://docs.nvidia.com/datacenter/tesla/tesla-installation-notes/index.html I'd fi...

It looks like you have one hard drive in your G-Parted picture, split into many partitions, is that correct? If your data is backed-up to the same drive then it's a copy and not a true back-up; if the drive fails you lose everything. Your back-up should be on a separate drive kept somewhere else. I'...

LMDE is "friendlier" in a GUI-way than Debian with an update manager, for example. As a newcomer to Debian I spent too much time looking for terminal commands.
Debian doesn't seem to support the range of hardware out of the box as comprehensively as other Debian-based distros

The options that you've mentioned will need a certain amount of additional work to install due to the peculiarities of the X205T
MX Linux 21 XFCE 32-bit works "out of the box"

Is there a reason for using terminal commands? In Firefox left-click https://linuxmint.com/edition.php?id=297 Scroll down to "Integrity and Authenticity">>right click on "sha256sum.txt">>left-click "Save Link As..." and you're pretty much done, follow the dialogue Repea...

...and the answer is, "Yes, they do". MX-Linux 21 Wildflower works well out of the box although the auto update didn't. A couple of apt-get lines in Terminal sorted that one My preference would have been LMDE5, which is on my laptop, but I can't get that to install on the X205TA Debian 10 ...

That's interesting, do WiFi and Audio work out of the box too? Debian 10 and 11 needed extra work and incantations

There have been threads on this, here is a more recent one... viewtopic.php?f=46&t=370165

I'm not clear if you compared the sha256sum from the file download to the published sha256sum.txt
That needs to be done either immediately before the step you describe or immediately after

Doesn't MS do this here, e.g. Win10... https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/softwar ... ndows10iso

Is there any particular stuff to do; would you happen to give any advice on how to do this? Information on making the USB here https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=90&t=377890&p=2204725#p2204725 Back anything that you want to keep up to separate storage before you start While the in...

There's a similar thread here viewtopic.php?f=46&t=370165
Debian 10 and 11 32-bit work out of the box, LM/LMDE 32-bit won't without work but that's detailed in there

I never could make sense of how to verify downloads using checksums.

I've raised this on threads a few times. There are several ways to verify ISOs that are much easier for people unfamiliar with LM than the current installation guide. I raised a task on GitLab some time ago

Short answer: The ISO is legit.

Is that correct? Todd hasn't checked the the sha256sum for the downloaded ISO
The signing key is correct but there isn't a link to the ISO