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Have you tried the Void-MATE version? I find it quick and easy.

I use it a lot, together with tvheadend, to both watch and record terrestrial TV, and watch all the torrents I've downloaded - on a RaspberryPi with the OSMC distribution. 2 USB tuners + 5TB HDD for storage

If you're thinking Void, I recommend Void with MATE desktop.
I run it in a VM with 2G memory and a 2G swap - swap is unused after several days uptime.

Are you sure you're not trying a pae kernel on a non-pae machine?
More here. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PAE

Crosscourt,
Why do you particularly like Mint/MATE?

Have either of you tried Void Linux with the MATE desktop?
It's a "different" distro in that it's not based on anything else (seemingly); runit not systemd.
I find it quite fast to load, and quite complete.
Also exists for Raspberry Pi - but no MATE (yet) - installs to a command line.

I used to have (until 2010) a 3.5 litre / 250BHP Dodge Charger, 4 door. It was quite fast enough for me. Unfortunately, only about 20mpg, so too expensive to run in Europe. Cheers.

I find a lot of Linuxes as quite OK. But I use MATE as the desktop; if I can't get MATE loaded I don't use it. My latest Linux is Void 20181111. I have also recently tried OpenIndiana (Solaris) 11 which I like a lot (learning curve) and Antix 17 - both with MATE desktop. I also put MATE on Slackware...

Why bother badmouthing Windows on a Linux site? Although I use various Linux distributions regularly, I quite like Windows 10. (Ducks and runs for cover). Cheers.

There's a major mistake in that runthrough. He says "x=100" and then "echo x". That will echo "x" not "100". (Should be "$x"). ALSO he would be better doing a tutorial on the bash printf command.