Bought a "new" barely used for less than 1 year ASUS gaming laptop for very cheap at a local pawn shop in March 2017. I didn't install a Linux distro on that for a few months because the touchpad did not function in every distro I tried it with, including LL. I tried Manjaro KDE and stuck with it because the touchpad did work, but barely. Right click button did not function and left click button only worked about 50% of the time. This was fixed later with a Linux kernel update, and hopefully by now has trickled down to LL. I will try it again and see...
I was interested to hear your experiences of a recently bought i7 core Asus gaming laptop. I have the slightly older G750, compared to your more recent G752 model. My experience was that everything worked smoothly with LL or other distros I've tried (PCLOS, Manjaro, et, etc) on this laptop, if I didn't have a UEFI setup.
Did you use UEFI - maybe this is the source of your problems with the G752? The only pain I had was getting UEFI to work satisfactorily - you can see a tutorial & troubleshooting on this that I posted elsewhere on the forum. In the end I found it was just simpler to install without UEFI, using an msdos (MBR) formatted drive. I get the impression, that with UEFI, some firmware wont work properly so the computer can be compromised. UEFI is not considered very highly on this forum and seems to be just an added complication.
When you said you bought your laptop cheaply from a pawnshop, this made me wonder if the previous owner got rid of it because it wasn't working properly, hence the problems you experienced - just a thought ... These laptops are normally very expensive to buy (£1200 or more), not cheap by any means.
[/size]You could see it.
In the Beginning...
There was nothing.
And God said, "Let there be Light!"
And there was still nothing.
But
You could see it.
1In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
2And the earth was without form, and void;
and darkness was upon the face of the deep.
And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
3And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
Before Linux Lite? There was only darkness... ;)
Had an Amiga... was great but company died.
Had a BeOS machine... was great but company died.
Had/have Windows machine(s)... not great but need for work and gaming.
I then tried Ubuntu 9-10-11 a few years back. Played around with it a few weeks, just long enough to get World of Warcraft working on Linux/Wine at the time... a pain in the posterior. Had to recompile my own sound and video drivers and got the thing running fine, but this was more trouble then fun so I went back to the Dark Side a few years.
Came back about two year ago tried about 30 distros other than a plain ubuntu and landed on Linux Lite (insert angels singing or the 2001 monolith song, your choice :D ) . Now I spread this new found hapiness and joy to everyone! ;)
I have been away from Linux for almost 10 years. The last distro I used was Freespire.
In the old days laptops would never last but now I have an 8 year old Acer 10 inch that works fine but not with Windows.