Before Linux Lite

[Teddy]

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.

I bought the laptop for about $780 USD in Mar/2017. My configuration is worth about $2000 USD when new in 2016. Everything was working, touchpad, CD drive, keyboard and the backlighting, came pre-installed with Windows 10. The charger still had the plastic wrapping on it. It still had some data from the previous owner, so I did a factory reset and used Windows 10.

ITried lots of live USBs of Linux, with Secure Boot off and BIOS mode on in the case of Linux Lite (No UEFI support with LL). I looked up the problem and the touchpad issue was because of a driver in Linux. The touchpad is an ELAN touchpad with two physical click buttons. Ubuntu and Linux Lite didn't even recognize it was there, forcing me to use an external mouse. Manjaro KDE was the exception, though the driver still didn't cooperate well. The ELAN driver bundled with the kernel thought that my touchpad was one of those "clickpad" units, where the entire pad presses down to initiate a left click (or right click) where mine has physical buttons for left and right click. Kernel update fixed it and works as it should now. No hardware error from my experience.