I did all the same steps. I downloaded the file. I wrote it to the SD card, but then when I go to start it up, I just get this loading screen that lasted about an hour before I just shut it down.

What am I doing wrong here?

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    You didn’t install it. You just wrote a iso to a drive. The device tries to boot into the live image and fails as it is the wrong architecture. If you were to write Linux mint to a USB and then boot your computer off of it you could install it to your computer. It is for computers not raspberry pis (over simplification but pretty much true)

    For raspberry pi you need a dedicated OS that supports it. Linux Mint does not support the raspberry pi

    Side note: I don’t know what a district is but I assume it is a typo