Chris
Thanks for your efforts, you seem to have spent a fair bit of time on this, Your first suggested link recommends installing Linux without Grub, this I find daunting and too complex for me. I have now explored every avenue and believe that the Acer Aspire Laptop cannot be installed with...
I bought this new Acer Aspire ES17 last December and have been trying off an on to install Linux Mint 19.3.
I can run Mint from the USB stick but installing whole Laptop freezes after about 1 min into install Grub2 .
I have disabled secure boot and given access to bios a password. I did hear...