Your laptop must be an exception. I’ve installed Linux Mint on an old laptop that couldn’t even run Windows 10 properly and it just worked with zero hiccup.
I had a similar problem with an NUC where the install would work but was unbootable after. In my case the USB showed up as both a BIOS and UEFI boot device and the mobo was picking the legacy mode. This made the install a legacy boot install which was not bootable.
To fix it I had to manually choose to boot the install USB’s UEFI mode.
It’s a maingear laptop. Installation appears to proceed normally, however on reboot grub will absolutely not allow me to boot into linux. I’ve tried ubuntu, mint, and arch. I suspect it’s actually an issue with the uefi, but as the hardware isn’t mainstream trying to run that down is fruitless.
I’m not familiar with the brand, but general ideas that come to mind to troubleshoot are:
Disable secureboot if enabled. Understanding you’ll lose that security feature of course.
See if there’s an option to mark your storage as removable in the installer (–removable flag in grub iirc). My (pretty old) motherboard does not seem to respect attempts to add uefi entities but it happily boots off a “removable” uefi install.
My home computing experience extends back to manually setting IRQs and programs that came in the form of booklets of code in text. I’m not a stranger to getting fiddly with my software. This laptop just will not play nice with linux. It’s from maingear, and not even windows 11 recognizes all the hardware without some proprietary drivers, for example the keyboard backlighting.
When you say Any Linux, are you referring to debian derivatives only? Have you tried rpm based? I had same issue with one laptop. However Bazzite offers images based on hardware type so one of those might work
I migrated the day before yesterday. A company can only feed you hot logs, straight from the factory, for so many years before you tire of pretending the taste is acceptable.
It won’t make them any more money so it’s not like there is a financial incentive for them, but they do occasionally do things just because they aren’t assholes.
A steam deck beta update from the past week or two that they were working on adding support for the ROG Ally. The verge asked valve about it, and they confirmed they’re actively working on making it support other handheld PCs.
Same, I bought 7 and 10 but have since put more into Debian, Wikipedia, Archive.org and some other projects than I will ever spend again on a Windows license.
Geez, MS, it’s a place to filter a list with a few keystrokes and/or click a link or punch enter. It’s such shit ad real estate you’re just pissing off people about to discover nobara or this for nothing