I'm tired of Windows and have settled on Solus Budgie as my new OS for both my desktop and laptop. I built my desktop nigh 3 years hence, and I'm not worried about installing on that, but it's been a real pain in the butt trying to get it on my Predator laptop. Windows seems to be hard-coded into the UEFI, and it refuses to boot from USB. Actually, no, I did boot it once, but then I only had access to the flash drive that the iso was flashed to. Before I continue I would like to just say I only have a cursory understanding of operating systems, UEFIs, and so on. Also I'm aware this is more an Acer issue rather than Solus, but the last time I used a hardware-specific forum to ask how to change the proprietary OS, the message got deleted by the admins, so I'm leery of wasting that time again. If you need any other specs or anything else just let me know. I have little to no idea what im doing, but i am 100% willing to accept any help and advice, and to provide any information, screenshots, etc necessary. I just wanna be rid of microsoft's grubby paws, yall. thassit.

    owlhat Check to make sure that in the BIOS (F2 at boot) that Secure Boot is disabled. Then see if you can change the boot order to boot the USB device in UEFI mode. The drive will not show up unless it is formatted with a GPT partition table (it should be on UEFI). Beyond that, the manufacturer can certainly do stupid things to prevent non-windows installations.

      owlhat this may be what your experiencing found it in another forum

      Hm. Once i owned an acer predator. Do not remember exact name.

      But what i remember was a bios that had the link to windows start-file hardcoded into its code. It was clearly a bug preventig to boot anything other than win 8/10 because they share the same start-file-name. But was never fixed. Acer just ignored it. I would check if you running current bios see if they fixed it if its the case other than that from the net it should take linux ok