I have tried to install a number of Linux installations. Solus was the only one that manage to boot form the USB. Works fine from the USB but when trying to install it complaints that I have no drive available. I have disabled secure boot and created the USB using Rufus 3.8
rather new laptop with the following configuration:
OS Name Microsoft Windows 10 Home
Version 10.0.18362 Build 18362
Other OS Description Not Available
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Name LAPTOP-HG9CPN47
System Manufacturer Acer
System Model Swift SF514-54GT
System Type x64-based PC
System SKU 0000000000000000
Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-1065G7 CPU @ 1.30GHz, 1498 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 8 Logical Processor(s)
BIOS Version/Date Insyde Corp. V1.07, 2019-09-05
SMBIOS Version 3.2
Embedded Controller Version 1.02
BIOS Mode UEFI
BaseBoard Manufacturer IL
BaseBoard Product Yebisu_IL
BaseBoard Version V1.07
Platform Role Mobile
Secure Boot State Off
PCR7 Configuration Elevation Required to View
Windows Directory C:\Windows
System Directory C:\Windows\system32
Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume1
Locale United Kingdom
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "10.0.18362.387"
Username LAPTOP-HG9CPN47\claes
Time Zone FLE Standard Time
Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 16,0 GB
Total Physical Memory 15,8 GB
Available Physical Memory 10,3 GB
Total Virtual Memory 24,3 GB
Available Virtual Memory 17,4 GB
Page File Space 8,50 GB
Page File C:\pagefile.sys
Kernel DMA Protection On
Virtualisation-based security Not enabled
Device Encryption Support Elevation Required to View
Hyper-V - VM Monitor Mode Extensions Yes
Hyper-V - Second Level Address Translation Extensions Yes
Hyper-V - Virtualisation Enabled in Firmware Yes
Hyper-V - Data Execution Protection Yes
I guess this will not be enough to provide suggestions but please let me know what other info is needed to be provided and I will do so. For some reason I cannot choose category of the question on this forum.