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My new laptop is agressively rejecting linux

First off, english isn't my first language and I'm not that good with tech by linux standards, so excuse me if something I wrote or did doesn't make much sense

So I bought a new laptop(asus adolbook 14 air with ryzen ai9 h465) and since windows 11 is terrible I decided it's time to try linux

Long story short - this is current situation after 9 hours of fighting with this mf:

the screen goes completely black if I try booting anything that is linux, unless I completely turn off acpi in grub with acpi=off

(Also touchpad and keyboard stop working after I leave grub but that's a secondary issue)

I succesfully installed mint with this tag, updated the kernel to 7.something, updated my bios, tried updating gpu drivers(not sure if it worked). And still nothing changes, it doesnt fucking work unless I cripple my laptop by disabling acpi

Things I also tried:

other distros like nobara and arch, same thing - black screen after I try to run the installer from grub, didn't try fully installing them though

lots of different flags for grub that are related to acpi and amdgpu

also it recognizes the integrated radeon 880m but doesnt see any drivers for it(probably because of acpi being off but I'm not sure)

so I dont think it's mint specific, since arch and nobara also fail, and the only thing I can think of is this laptop being cursed. Or it has something to do with it being made for chinese market but idk if they use linux or intentionally make their laptpops unusable with it

Is there anything else I can try or am I stuck with windows 11 now?

UPDATE: I tried basically everything you guys suggested, including different distros like fedora, ubuntu, cachyos, so I think the issue really is in bastardized acpi tables. For now my plan is to reinstall windows 11 and take a look at said tables, then try fixing them or give up and be salty about having to use win11

another update: I extracted said acpi tables and tried recompiling them, it gave off 77 errors and 158 warnings and failed to compile. Idk what amount of errors is normal but that sure sounds like a lot, I guess I'll try looking into it

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