If you are sticking to Windows 10 because it has fewer annoyances than Windows 11, especially in the Start menu, we have bad news for you.
    • DaddleDew@lemmy.world
      213·
      4 months ago

      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.

    • TheCookingSenpai
      124·
      4 months ago

      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

        • JovialSodium@lemmy.sdf.org
          11·
          4 months ago

          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.
        • Nik282000@lemmy.ca
          2·
          4 months ago

          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.

    • lengau@midwest.social
      31·
      4 months ago

      Super weird. My laptop had a new enough GPU that Windows didn’t even have proper drivers yet and it worked out of the box on Linux.

    • BCsven@lemmy.ca
      1·
      4 months ago

      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