Not too sure what happened but my LUbuntu upgrade (reinstall actually) from 18.04 to 22.04 went horribly wrong. What I ended up in the end after the 'upgrade' was a non-bootable PC with no recognisable operating system detected! I panicked obviously. Something about problems in creating a file system and unable to proceed. Nothing that made sense to me.
I reinstalled WinXP from backup, reinstalled LUbuntu 18.04 and everything was back to where it was. A big sigh of relief. Luckily. Nothing went missing or corrupted. Next course of action - backups. Before that I didn't do any as my previous Linux and Ubuntu installation were non problematic.
Linux Mint
I looked around for another distro, found Linux Mint Xfce with favourable reviews and it suites me fine with my 2GB RAM PC. I then decided to give it a go.
I downloaded the ISO image for Linux Mint 21.2 and used Yumi to create my bootable flash drive.
Boot up my PC with Linux Mint plugged in, launched the installer while connected to the Internet and have Linux Mint installed along side WinXP within 30 minutes. It booted up nicely from the internal SSD after that without any issues.
Since I owned a 13 year old PC, I didn't create an EFI partition. The installer did give me a warning during installation but it turned out well in the end.
Swapping is to a file and not a partition. Overall, performance is acceptable.
After having used Linux Mint 21.2 for about a week now, I must say I love it. The screen size especially, which is slightly bigger that on LUbuntu 18.04.
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