I’ve seen several posts that haven’t really been addressed and I wanted to add mine to the pile to hopefully push for a resolution on this. I use gaming distros of Linux on most of my pcs. Bazzite, CachyOS, ChimeraOS as examples. Every single Linux distro I’ve used over the last few days on my GTi14, Gaming or Desktop based such as Ubuntu, does the same exact thing during the install process. It is a real pain to get the installer to even boot from a USB. Sometimes it’ll boot, sometimes the installer will freeze once it boots, sometimes the installer will actually complete and then the system will freeze as soon as you login to the Linux Distro. There doesn’t seem to be any rhyme or method to why the freezing occurs, and nothing every shows weird in the logs if you’re able to somehow capture one, but the GTi14 does not like Linux in it’s current state.
I honestly think there is something within the firmware, or the bios firmware, that is prohibiting the installation of any other OS other than Windows. I do not believe it is a hardware issue whatsoever, this seems to be an issue within the BIOS that is rejecting anything that isn’t a Windows installation. Regardless, Beelink needs eyes and attention on this immediately. I’m sure if others knew that you’d be hard locked into WindowsOS with this device, they would’ve canceled their orders or avoided this device all together.
Beelink, please look at this and provide us a solution or even acknowledgement of working towards a solution ASAP.
