Ubuntu 24.04 (Pentium N3530) Won't Boot

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Hi Matthew,

I have two Laptops with almost the same specs:

  1. CPU N4500 + RAM 4GB + SSD 128GB
  2. CPU N6000 + RAM 8GB + SSD 128GB
    Both are Acer Swift One, the second obviously newer than the first.

Although Ubuntu-MATE is very good, the installer Ubuntu switched to after 22.04 is, to use an understatement, an embarrassment.

If you are interested in some of the shenenigans of the quite underwhelming results of this insult of an installer, you might want to read this post

  1. If you laptop is UEFI capable, chances are high that it won't boot (the installer) at all in legacy/compatibility mode. Keep it in UEFI mode.

  2. The installer can hang, crash, refuse to install GRUB, completely ignore or trash language settings. All thanks to the ludicrous designdecision to implement the installer in flutter (including runtime) running from a snap, starting things in parallel without so much of a thought about raceconditions. In short, it lacks robustness.

The most robust way to install UM 24.04 LTS is to install UM 22.04 LTS and from there upgrading to 24.04 LTS.

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