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    Trying to install Linux Mint 20.2 Cinnamon (64bit) on Dell Latitude 7480 (on internal M.2)

    Uhmmm... OK? I'm now curious to see if it works. BRB. EDIT: Welp, now Ubuntu installer asks me to DISABLE INTEL RST, which in turn, means that it's back to square one as RST is disabled via turning off RAID SATA :p So it seems that installing Ubuntu on that DELL laptop is IMPOSSIBLE after all...
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    Trying to install Linux Mint 20.2 Cinnamon (64bit) on Dell Latitude 7480 (on internal M.2)

    Ah, yes, it's because I had tried Ubuntu 20.04 a few weeks ago before making this post, but I've deleted the live USB disk image when I saw that after multiple tries it didn't work, but it's OK, I'll redownload it and follow the bug report procedure through Ubuntu.
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    Trying to install Linux Mint 20.2 Cinnamon (64bit) on Dell Latitude 7480 (on internal M.2)

    Your link is for Ubuntu. What I have is linuxmint-20.2-cinnamon-64bit.iso so can I still follow those instructions or will it cause a problem down the road? Also, in the instructions you linked, it says "If an application crashes, what typically happens is Apport will display a window noting...
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    Trying to install Linux Mint 20.2 Cinnamon (64bit) on Dell Latitude 7480 (on internal M.2)

    Yes, DELL was the most important keyword in this thread. It's why it fails with Debian. Debian does not seem to have decent NMVe controller drivers FOR THAT DELL motherboard. I'm not saying Debian (or Ubuntu or Mint or PopOS or any other Debian distribution) sucks. I currently use Ubuntu on...
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    Trying to install Linux Mint 20.2 Cinnamon (64bit) on Dell Latitude 7480 (on internal M.2)

    Alright, so since Debian distributions are seemingly useless on NVMe Dell motherboards, I am now trying another Linux branch (Manjaro xfce 21.2rc1, which is an Arch based distribution). The USB live stick not only booted faster than Mint and Ubuntu but it also installed flawlessly in just under...
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    Trying to install Linux Mint 20.2 Cinnamon (64bit) on Dell Latitude 7480 (on internal M.2)

    Again, I'm sorry, but can you please read the thread before replying? The SATA operation is already set to AHCI and the NVMe M.2 is seen and formated by the installer, no problem. The problem is that it then cannot write the file system to the partitions it created. This is all written above...
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    Trying to install Linux Mint 20.2 Cinnamon (64bit) on Dell Latitude 7480 (on internal M.2)

    I am under the impression that some people do not bother to read the thread before replying. It does run perfectly fine from the USB live stick and there is no Windows on the hard drive. It was erased using multiple options, including from within the installer, plus manually using GPARTED and...
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    Trying to install Linux Mint 20.2 Cinnamon (64bit) on Dell Latitude 7480 (on internal M.2)

    It doesn't look like Mint Linux can install the file system, but it can create the empty partition and set the partition type, but it just cannot create the file system on it. Make sure to check out all screenshots.
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    Trying to install Linux Mint 20.2 Cinnamon (64bit) on Dell Latitude 7480 (on internal M.2)

    SATA operation is already on AHCI. You want me to put it in RAID mode? (For this post, I have not set it to RAID mode) Alright, so I changed UEFI to LEGACY in the BIOS and now the Mint boot options menu is different, it has graphics in it. Before, in UEFI mode it only had a black and white...
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    Trying to install Linux Mint 20.2 Cinnamon (64bit) on Dell Latitude 7480 (on internal M.2)

    OK but the installation failed 5 seconds after it started. Of course, it's looking for a boot disk and doesn't boot. I may be a Linux newbie, but I'm not computer illiterate. I've used computers for over 30 years.
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    Trying to install Linux Mint 20.2 Cinnamon (64bit) on Dell Latitude 7480 (on internal M.2)

    Hi, thanks for trying to help me switch to Linux. The M.2 used to have Windows 10 on it before, but like I said, I removed all partitions with GPARTED and the installer still fails shortly after starting. Also, the Linux installer asks if I want to completely erase and reformat the drive and...
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    Trying to install Linux Mint 20.2 Cinnamon (64bit) on Dell Latitude 7480 (on internal M.2)

    Trying to install Linux Mint 20.2 Cinnamon (64bit) on Dell Latitude 7480 (on internal M.2) and it fails shortly after starting the installation process with: Cannot create file system on partition #2 /dev/nvme0n1 This is with all default options, including completely erase the whole hard drive...
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