deflatedrubberduck

Go with Ubuntu 20.04 or Linux Mint 20 (I hear some Microsoft users find Mint easier to adjust too) and just try with a USB flash drive or a burn a image to disk without installing first or you could always install Virtual Box on your windows and test drive a disto. A further option is to run a duel boot system, just follow the on screen instructions, it's very easy.

At the moment I'm not going to worry too much about EVGA 500w. It's in my second PC which is made up of second hand parts and total build only cost £350.

Beg your pardon, it is listed but on a different page. https://www.corsair.com/ww/en/Categories/Products/Power-Supply-Units/vs-series-config-2018/p/CP-9020171-UK

Not on the UK site it isn't. Hmmm.

This might explain why Corsair no longer list my VS550 on their website anymore.

OK, Thank you.

Your welcome.

So what you recommend?

I also use overclockers and ebuyer

Er no, two months old.

So I now find out I have two 'Tier E' PSU's in both PC's a EVGA 500W ATX and a Corsair VS550 in the gaming, oh well it's excuse to install modular in both.

Sorry, could you explain why it isn't a good PSU ....my PC likely to explode?

I been using a EVGA 500 80+ 500W, PSU for little under a year. https://www.novatech.co.uk/ EVGA 500 80+ 500W £52.70

Funny you should say that, I have got a DVD writer and yes I have managed to get MX to go past the GRUB loader. Ubuntu seems to be running OK for the moment so for the time being I going to use it on Virtual Box, this way I can have some dummy runs installing and coping with any other issues that may come. With the internet being so bad of late with the lockdown plus we're on old overhead telephone wires here I suspect my connection was interrupted when I was downloading the MX Linux ISO files. I take it your running MX?

I had a problem very much like this few years ago on Kubuntu and in the end I only cured the problem when a friend suggested resitting the ram. Might be worth a try.

I was going to but oddly no matter what I tried, two different USB sticks, USB formats and numerous ISO downloads, I could not for the life of me get MX to boot. Very strange. So now having learn't why drives were not list and finding out the cause of the Ubuntu 20.04 unexpected fatal error was down to a corrupted software centre, for the immediate future I'm staying with Ubuntu.

I owe @xAcid9 a apology and @Nayr438 for that matter. This idiot was reading the online manual this afternoon for my Gigabyte X570 motherboard and no I hadn't set something after all. The SATA mode selector was set to 'AHCI' which lists drives listed as external. Change to 'RAID' and the following appears... Sorry people. To add, this is very strange as my other PC also running a Ryzen-Gigabyte setup with a 120 GB SSD plus 1TB HDD, if you set BIOS to RAID the PC will not boot into Linux?!

Thanks for the suggestion but having tried Manjaro, I'm struggling to navigate it's terminal. I think I will go back to Debian.

Well having had Ubuntu 20.04 unexpected fatal error again I installed Manjaro this morning and yep, this original issue must be to do with my new computer or the new M.2 drive. Think I've got to learn to live with it or find out what on earth is setup wrong within the black box sitting to my right?

If it's any help, I upgraded my FX4350 for a Ryzen 3200g but was a little underwhelmed by it's performance. On it's own it's a great chip, but when I paired it with a RX570 it slowed right down remembering it's only got 4 cores, 4 threads and part of that is built in GPU. I end up upgrading to a Ryzen 2600X which has 6 cores and 12 threads and has far better performance and to be honest if you mind not having the latest CPU there are some great deals to be had on the previous architectures like the Ryzen 2600 with cooler for £120 / $100 on Amazon which would be a better match with your RX470.

Debian maybe the way forward but it takes a long time to set up properly and this time I'm running wireless and remember from last time how much of a pain it was to setup. MX or antiX which I hadn't heard of until today and are the basically the same disto made by the same team. After using Linux Ubuntu disto's for the last eleven years and one year of Debian think I need a little more so I will try Manjaro Gnome, I always liked the Gnome desktop. Just hope the new install sets up the drives correctly, if not I will have to use Debian Buster ....that will be some mission.

So @Nayr438 theres no 'SUDO' but 'yay -Syu' for terminal? I hope the main install doesn't load the file system like below, even the Manjaro file manager list my disks as externals in the trial version! ....or maybe it's just my PC and that damn M.2 drive.

Thank you @Chunchunmaru_ but I already Gnome-Disks and although, yes you can change disk settings, Ubuntu still wouldn't run anything else other than OS M.2 drive.

I read Manjaro has had some update issues, have you had any?

I ran Debian 9 for a year on my old FX PC and am tempted to go back to it but it does take quite sometime to set it up, which Arch sounds like it works on the same sort of format. Just reviewing Manjaro Gnome desktop, maybe I'll give it a try and see how it runs. M.