Bizzare freezing issue whilst booting on Zorin OS
Hello, I have a confusing problem and I don't know what to do. I also tried to get help from Claude, which did work kinda, but eventually even Claude gave up.
The problem is that for some reason my system freezes after I unlock LUKS, right when the Zorin text appears. It's not fully frozen animations play normally, but nothing happens. Shortcuts don't work either, nothing works.
The first time this happened, I thought maybe it was an issue caused by Secure Boot and the automatic LUKS unlock with TPM2, which I set up a few days ago. So I disabled Secure Boot and rebooted. The time before, it had frozen before unlocking Secure Boot; this time I could unlock it, but it froze right after.
Then I tried nomodeset, which worked, it actually booted and the issue seemed gone. But then I booted again without nomodeset, and to my surprise, it still worked. So I tried enabling Secure Boot again, and for some reason that also worked. This went on for a few reboots, but after about 3-4 reboots, I had the same problem again and this time, neither disabling Secure Boot nor setting nomodeset helped.
So I booted into recovery mode. That didn't help either it froze right on the screen where I can choose what to do next (resume boot normally, or something else).
I then tried a different kernel, thinking maybe it was a kernel problem. I pinned the 6.17 something kernel, since with the 7.x kernel I have issues resuming after suspend when opening my laptop lid. I thought maybe it was a kernel issue, but it's not, same problem with the 7.x kernel.
I even thought maybe it was a hardware problem, since you never know, so I ran the Lenovo diagnostics tool and it found no problems. There was also no issue booting and using live Linux distros from a USB stick.
I need help I have no ideas left.