INSTALLED LINUX CRISIS?

patico · December 18, 2021

Hello, I've got an ACER Aspire A114-32 and I tried to download Pop OS on it, everything worked perfectly after I installed the OS, I even rebooted and it was ok. Now I'm trying to turn on my laptop and the only thing I get is a "[!!!!] Failed to start up manager" as shown in the image. I don't know what to do because this is the third time I've tried to get this working and it happens always, I've checked the bios setting and I can't seem to find my HDD for some reason... I just wanna add that I don't really know a lot about pc so I'm sorry if I sound dumb... Thank you in advance.

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I'm 99% sure is a disk issue at this point, I've tried installing like 4 times already and it's always the same (I got this weird error too while doing the installation, dont know if it has anything to do with it), I can't just go back to windows now and my usb flash drive decided to stop working because my main computer is not recognizing it so I can't install another distribution. I must say that yesterday in one of my re-install attempts everything worked smoothly and way faster that windows did for me, I went to sleep and when I try to turn the laptop on again, it came back to this annoying screen...

Windows7ge · December 18, 2021

It's hard to say what's causing this without more details about the machine and it's history but I would throw a wild guess at hardware/software incompatibility and that's a pretty easy assumption given it's a laptop.

The overwhelming majority of laptops are designed and spec'd for Windows compatibility as that's their target demographic. There are laptops explicitly designed for use with Linux but they're few and far between. For this reason running any Linux distribution on a laptop can be hit-or-miss. That's not to say it's impossible though.

The fix here could be as easy as picking a different distribution. Instead of PopOS, if you're not a fan of Ubuntu try Linux Mint, Lubuntu. Look at Manjaro, or Fedora.

There's many many different flavors available and each could have a driver/kernel compatibility that's better with your hardware than PopOS.

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I just wanna add that I don't really know a lot about pc so I'm sorry if I sound dumb...

The fact that you're venturing into Linux and know what Linux even is shows that you're still ahead of the majority of the herd. Most people know what Windows is but if you ask them about Linux they're ask what is that?

Keep learning. Keep exploring. Ask questions. And you'll get better as you go.

patico · December 18, 2021

1 hour ago, Windows7ge said:

It's hard to say what's causing this without more details about the machine and it's history but I would throw a wild guess at hardware/software incompatibility and that's a pretty easy assumption given it's a laptop.

The overwhelming majority of laptops are designed and spec'd for Windows compatibility as that's their target demographic. There are laptops explicitly designed for use with Linux but they're few and far between. For this reason running any Linux distribution on a laptop can be hit-or-miss. That's not to say it's impossible though.

The fix here could be as easy as picking a different distribution. Instead of PopOS, if you're not a fan of Ubuntu try Linux Mint, Lubuntu. Look at Manjaro, or Fedora.

There's many many different flavors available and each could have a driver/kernel compatibility that's better with your hardware than PopOS.

The fact that you're venturing into Linux and know what Linux even is shows that you're still ahead of the majority of the herd. Most people know what Windows is but if you ask them about Linux they're ask what is that?

Keep learning. Keep exploring. Ask questions. And you'll get better as you go.

Yeah, at this point I'm 100% sure that it's a compatibility problem...I'm tired of windows. And this is the 3rd laptop that I've installed linux (PopOS) on, it's just frustrating that all the times before it has worked but now that is MY laptop is just not, I'm trying now to get windows 11 on it but my flash drive decided to stop working and I'm currently fixing that. Thank you for replying, have a nice day!