Mint has a more noob friendly approach with almost everything having a ui and it is Ubuntu under the hood so there wouldn’t be extra to learn after switching. Popularity wise mint is one of the best stable distros with Ubuntu as its base with community support as well so if you have doubts you can most probably find the answer just by searching

Tried that as well but that as well uses usb boot so that is also net detecting

How do you reset the firmware ?

Factory defaults tried that

Power through usb and the same on battery

Same I have already given up on it as well

I have completed the windows setup with the usual 3 partition and I used Ubuntu as well but booting is not the problem, the bios just doesn’t seem to pick up the pendrive

Tried that as well no luck

The only other option is diagnostics that also doesnt work

It’s gpt due to the disk management, I went with it.

I just got it this monday

The usb port is working fine for normal transfers . The bios just doesn’t wanna pick it . I tried with a friends hp laptop it works fine on his.

i enabled it to the boot order but the laptop is not picking it up

This what occurs

Tried with a SanDisk and that also doesnt work

Not with a uefi one , a legacy one I never had to care about since mbr would only work. And I created the ventoy mbr on the old laptop, and if that doesn’t show up means it is strange . Though one more thing I found odd was the efi partition does not show up on the file explorer in the new laptop but shows up on the old one.

Can usb ports die if you can transfer files through it ?. The bios is also what I thought so iam lost with that.

In the top comment you could see I tried reformatting with gpt as well that was also not working

The first was the ventoy one with mbr which I was fine other machines I have used it before with. It had like endeavour os , opensuse, pop os , linux mint windows 11 etc…

But I also reformatted it with windows 11 from meda creation tool as well to check but that also doesnt work which is the most strangest part