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.
I assume this is either a meme or a very unique situation. “Not working” is too generic, if you can provide more details we could even help
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.
What’s the model number?
And specifically windows recovery partitions enjoy nuking grub at every step.
