I purchased a laptop for the sole purpose of using a linux based program. I had to return the laptop with windows 8.1 and uefi because I couldnt get linux in. I exchanged it for a different laptop with windows 7. Supposedly getting linux running was possible but I couldn’t do it
Btw... saying linux to me is like.saying niagara falls to curly
This is weird, but to run Linux on a W8 machine you can use the beta of W10 to delete the partitions (and hidden elements of BitLocker). Once W10 does this stop the W10 install and then install what you want. One of my very close friends did this on an HP 820g1 laptop and I got to see it done.