Hello! I am suddenly unable to login into Zorin Lite, whenever i enter my password it just goes to a black screen for a second then again back to the login screen. The same does not happen with a wrong password.
Also, I'm running it from a USB and there is no harddrive or other storage medium connected. Please help!
I think what you got is so-called "login loop".
This is quite common for NVidia users inclusidng myself after the system update.
If you are indeed using NVidia GPU, there are many sites offering a solution.
Since I've never installed Linux on a USB memory, I have no idea how it might affect the booting procedure. I hope other people on this forum would pitch in and help you.
Oops, I gave a wrong information.
I do have Linux installed on a USB memory. It is MXLinux for Raspberry Pi. It runs faster and is more stable than microSD card in RasPi. But it never occurred to me to install AMD64(x86-64) based system on a USB memory.
You can now get a 256GB stick with as much storage as your laptop, and it won't cost you much money.
A word of caution.
Watch out for those USB memories (and SD cards) with fake capacity claims. I was burned several times in past. If anyone decides to purchase a large capacity memory, I recommend running a test on it: