iamsorandom
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Just a report on installing Linux on a Genesis V laptop.
This article was useful: http://www.howtogeek.com/175641/how-to-boot-and-install-linux-on-a-uefi-pc-with-secure-boot/ . Also, although it doesn't say this in the documentation sent with the laptop, I spoke to them on the phone and tapping F2/Delete alternatively (and fast, from immediately as you press power) got me into the BIOS. Secure Boot actually seemed to be disabled once I got in there - it does use UEFI boot.
For future reference I installed Kubuntu on it fine - presumably other ubuntu distros would work too - but didn't manage to install Debian, although I think this was a bug with the installer, rather than an inherent limitation ( I believe I was using the testing installer as well which isn't recommended by debian - installing wheezy and then upgrading is the suggested route)!
Network drivers worked out the box (the realtek / intel drivers are non-free but included in the kernel within ubuntu - not in debian though) and pretty much everything else seemed to. To get the brightness controls working I had to follow these instructions:
itsfoss.com/fix-brightness-ubuntu-1310
Good luck!
This article was useful: http://www.howtogeek.com/175641/how-to-boot-and-install-linux-on-a-uefi-pc-with-secure-boot/ . Also, although it doesn't say this in the documentation sent with the laptop, I spoke to them on the phone and tapping F2/Delete alternatively (and fast, from immediately as you press power) got me into the BIOS. Secure Boot actually seemed to be disabled once I got in there - it does use UEFI boot.
For future reference I installed Kubuntu on it fine - presumably other ubuntu distros would work too - but didn't manage to install Debian, although I think this was a bug with the installer, rather than an inherent limitation ( I believe I was using the testing installer as well which isn't recommended by debian - installing wheezy and then upgrading is the suggested route)!
Network drivers worked out the box (the realtek / intel drivers are non-free but included in the kernel within ubuntu - not in debian though) and pretty much everything else seemed to. To get the brightness controls working I had to follow these instructions:
itsfoss.com/fix-brightness-ubuntu-1310
Good luck!