This laptop cannot be booted by a Linux Image on USB stick due to Microsoft’s hold on its BIOS.
When, I purchased, it had Windows without any software.
On my frequent sojourns abroad, I accidentally found it in Mustafa Centre in Singapore. I purchased it damn cheap, without knowing it had an issue with its Boot Menu. Additionally it had the figure of 8 virus which inserts itself at many entry points without an input. I now know how to negotiate this irritating inconvenience.
In my usual careless attitude on holidays, I did not have the inborn sense to test it before purchasing.
Of course, the sales person would not volunteer the defects he or she is privy of.
Beware if one purchases a "Marked Down" gadget even in Singapore.
Coming to Microsoft, it tries to own the hardware I have already fully paid for.
This laptop with Microsoft Interference is the very reason, I migrated to Linux for good.
Nowadays, I use Puppy Linux to test but before that Knoppix.
After a while, Windows Installation was erased with TRUE OS which is defunct now.
I used the TRUE OS CD to connect to the Internet, thereby bypassing the use of USB Slot to boot the laptop.
Microsoft owns the device by secret alliance with the O.E.M guys.
One has to be smart to bypass the Microsoft Hegemony.
I paid for the hardware and Microsoft cannot own it after the point of purchase.
What I do with the hardware is entirely my business.
This laptop is working fine with Endless OS installed.
In the first instance, I used Russian Astra Linux to erase any trace of Microsoft and Endless OS came to my sphere of activity much later.
Astra Linux had only a limited application bundle and I could not install even Abiword my favourite word processor.
I gave up Russian Linux for good on that issue alone.
By the way, Russians have moved away from MATE desktop and using Gnome in ALT Linux.
