I had issues with mints install a while back. Turns out that it was my flash drive failing during the install. I used a newer one with bigger capacity and it worked fine. Not sure if tried a different USB but it’s worth a shot.

EDIT: based on your comments you probably have a different issue. But this might help someone else.

That’s very helpful, thanks!

The Amazon page explicitly says it’s not compatible with Linux. That’s confusing

I second Linux mint. It’s my daily driver and I love it. I first switched my laptop which wasn’t much daily driver to mint and when I got used to it I switched my main desktop.