Burning ISO flash drive seems problematic?

[az2020]

I'll try it on my new laptop tomorrow.

FYI: I installed it to the laptop (I installed 4.2 UEFI, then upgraded to 4.8 ). It's working fine. I really like this distro. It good to see that it installed because this laptop[1] is an "Amazon Choice," "Best Seller." I think it sells *a lot*. It's a Ryzen 3 3200u, Radeon Vega 3 gfx, for $320 USD. Seems like a lot of power, new technology for not much more expense than budget laptop. It would not surprise me if people google whether Linux Lite runs on that laptop. (Hopefully they'll find this post confirming that it does!).

I mentioned in my first pst that I did some "speed dating" with distros last April. (I collected memory-usage info. LL wouldn't boot then, and I didn't pursue it.). When I got this new laptop a couple weeks ago, I thought I'd collect the memory-usage comparisons again. I wanted to see how compatable this laptop is with Linux, how many distros woul install. (I think it's fun to speed-date distros too. You get initial impressions without getting bogged down in details.). You guys might be interested in seeing the info I collected:

For details, footnotes, see the PDF or original spreadsheet at: https://jmp.sh/kNTBnT4

It's self-explanatory. The real hardware environments use more memory because there are real hardware drivers loaded, etc. (Although, Bodhi is an exception. I.e., real & virtual environments have almost the same usage. I don't understand how it does that.).

I think the virtual environments are probably more comparable. But, in real usage, the hardware numbers are more realistic. It's hard to equate those two together. For example, Lubuntu is fairly heavy when actually installed on the laptop. But, it's more lean than other distros in the virtual box. Maybe it supports this laptop's hardware better, loaded more drivers (and therefore grew heavier than others of similar virtual size).

Anyway, it's fun to look at. (I think Neon KDE is surprising. I always thought KDE was synonymous with *large*. But, that's not too bad.).

[1] The laptop is: Acer Aspire 5 A515-43-R19L