Ready for a laugh? Yeah, I have the version without systemd, so I did some reading and got a great idea in my head. I compiled and installed systemd from Git!
Right now, my system boots, it defaults to Cinnamon, but it's just a black background with a mouse cursor. I can access tty with CTRL-ALT-F1 but I have no network access for some reason. I can set a kernel boot parameter guiding it to use systemd by adding init=/directory/of/systemd to the linux line in grub. However when I do that, the system hangs on a screen saying "systemd[1] failed to start journal service". I've done a little research, and it looks like this may be caused by having systemd and sysvinit installed at the same times. I'm looking for a way to get rid of sysvinit altogether. Though honestly, I may just reinstall and do it right from the beginning. Didn't mean to totally hijack this thread, now I feel bad.
Yep, install the version with systemd. If you want you can recover your files using the command line from your current installation or by using a live image.
It was good fun. I run linux on my $20 2009 Del Studio laptop from the value village. It works great for low-power distros. I also don't keep anything on here I'm not afraid of losing, because I love just randomly diving in there head first. Right now, I play too many new games on my main PC to run Linux exclusively.
I installed Mint fresh, and installed i3. I've been doing a little custom configuration. It's working great so far!
I run Archlinux as a main system and I have a SSD running windows 10. Its not even in grub, I need to go into the bios and change the boot device every time I want to boot into Windows D:
