r/linuxfornoobs

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

Ive heard about linux a couple if weeks ago and it does all look pretty promising, but there are a lot mixed feelings about it, as far as i can see. The only thing i can say for sure thus far is that it isnt so easy to use unlike other OSs. There is mint, which is supposed to be the most beginner friendly distro but i did see people on r/linuxsucks101 talking trash about it (talking about glitches and various other problems, and not just on mint, they basically criticize linux as a whole. But i also heard that sometimes a problem that can occur isnt always down to linux or the distro itself but on the fact if the computer supports it or something (or the person who installed doesnt even know how to use it). I dont not anything about this im just talking based on the little that i do know or heard, so im asking if anyone can explain to me what could be going on here? Some swear by it, some dread it with all their being. Is it really just down to learning how to use it? If ones computer is the problem (maybe it doesnt have adequate drives or something) how can i know if thats the case with my laptop before installing linux and basically trapping myslef with it?

Maybe this is all written too unorganized or confusing, but thats because thats how i feel about all this, confused and im just willing to learn

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SOLVED!
I found this reddit post and adding this to my kernel parameters fixed it!

Hi there, I am very new to linux and I am having an issue with suspen/sleep, where my pc goes to suspend and then instantly fires back up, on my new nobara install.. I have an rx 9070xt and 9800x3d. I have gone through a bunch of troubleshooting steps through chatgpt to no avail, i have tried:

disabling all usb/network/pcie wake sources

updating bios to latest

enabling erp

physically unplugging all usb devices

forcing deep sleep

chatgpt seems to think it is this:

AMD GPIO controller (pinctrl_amd)

ACPI wake event firing immediately on suspend entry

BIOS/AGESA + chipset interaction bug

thanks for any help :)