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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.
Can’t tell if you’re riding the cliche or serious
i chose the nuke it strategy, just burned it to the ground from frustration, then eventually made it to bazzite
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:
Quick q: do you use all the space available or partition your disk?
What make and model, what problem is it giving you?
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.
What distros did you try?
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.
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
Skill issue.
What's the model number?
And specifically windows recovery partitions enjoy nuking grub at every step.
Well, there's your problem. Windows nukes it in a blind panic.
As an alternative, windows in a vm for your work software, Linux as the only physical install.
Does it allow for a second SSD?
What happens if you boot it with only the Linux SSD attached?