I mean it took all of 30 seconds of having not used in it a few years to find the eclipse selection tool, force it to a circle and fill it with color. If you have a fancy tablet you could probably even put some patterns in it too but that is not a skill I have

So compatibility mode did work and now I’m just upset with how difficult it is to paste an image into discord but that seems like another issue for a different thread

Sadly there weren’t any good logs in the installer debug logs, but the syslog had a good lead to follow up on

Still running into issues, but I think this link might be a good next step. Commenting with the link now before I restart the live environment https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?p=2523101&hilit=INFO%3A+task+ubiquity+blocked#p2523101. It seems to indicate that multiple people are having this issue with linux mint 22 and that it might be related to graphics device differences/issues and several people said that they were able to install successfully after rebooting and selecting the compatibility mode setting when booting the live environment. Going to give that a shot and see if it resolve the kernel messages in syslog indicating that ubuitity has been blocked from starting for XYZ seconds that get printed out periodically.

This did get me on an interesting path. Seems like ubiquity is getting blocked from running which is stalling the installer. Going to see if I can download a newer iso and if that fixes the issue