Wow, this is ridiculous, I too regret buying a Dell computer. Fresh machine, same issue, I only lost an hour so far trying to simply install Ubuntu on the m.2 SSD. I won't be using Windows, just want to preserve it just in case. I just want Ubuntu on a different drive so I can boot one or the other, this is really basic stuff! I get the garbled screens (but safe mode graphics option seems to help a little), and the installer only saw the SATA Windows drive initially (even though BIOS sees it). I then changed BIOS to AHCI mode (was RAID), and then the installer saw the m.2 drive---but installation crashed and burned after the partitioning step. Really too as half the screen is off-display and I can't see it. Dell, you
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December 10th, 2020 13:00
Wow, this is ridiculous, I too regret buying a Dell computer. Fresh machine, same issue, I only lost an hour so far trying to simply install Ubuntu on the m.2 SSD. I won't be using Windows, just want to preserve it just in case. I just want Ubuntu on a different drive so I can boot one or the other, this is really basic stuff! I get the garbled screens (but safe mode graphics option seems to help a little), and the installer only saw the SATA Windows drive initially (even though BIOS sees it). I then changed BIOS to AHCI mode (was RAID), and then the installer saw the m.2 drive---but installation crashed and burned after the partitioning step. Really too as half the screen is off-display and I can't see it. Dell, you