[Bradford] ACER laptop fun

[John Robert Hudson]

Hi Nick

Perhaps there was a change which got sorted later because I bought Acers in 
2009 and 2018 (a 2017 model) and did not have any problems installing Linux. 
The only problem with the latter was that the touchpad setting had to be 
changed to Basic in the BIOS for it to work with Linux but the actual 
installation including UEFI went fine.

John

On Sunday, 27 June 2021 18:37:31 BST Nick via Bradford wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Its far from a new laptop, its an Acer e5-573 from mid 2015.
> 
> Cheers,
> Nick
> 
> On Sun, 2021-06-27 at 17:29 +0100, John Robert Hudson wrote:
> > Hi Nick
> > 
> > Sounds like that is a new feature. I used Acer laptops for years and
> > now have
> > a slightly old Acer all in one and the only problem I have ever had
> > installing
> > Linux was that the all in one would only accept DVD installation
> > media.
> > Otherwise everything has worked fine out of the box.
> > 
> > John
> > 
> > On Sunday, 27 June 2021 12:31:08 BST nick at ngrhodes.co.uk via Bradford
> > 
> > wrote:
> > > Hi everybody,
> > > 
> > > Still lurking, though I've not used Linux on the desktop directly
> > > for many
> > > months, I've still been using daily via command line on remote
> > > systems.
> > > Anyhow, I inheritted an ACER laptop and decided to give LinuxMint a
> > > try, I
> > > was suprised to find after installing it would not boot, no sign of
> > > grub
> > > loading, gave Ubuntu and Debian a try, same issue. After a bit of
> > > Googling
> > > I discovered that ACER UEFI is rather Linux unfriendly and you need
> > > to
> > > manually point UEFI at your bootloader after install, does not
> > > matter if
> > > your using secureboot or not. How annoying !!! Once over that
> > > hurdle
> > > everything else worked out of the box.
> > > One thing ACER does that is a nice little security feature is that
> > > you have
> > > to set a BIOS password to change the UEFI settings, which does
> > > really help
> > > secure things up a little bit more.
> > > 
> > > Cheers, Nick
> 
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