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Have you tried some of the other flavors of Linux?

Sorry, no I haven't. I'm not very geeky and turned enough blue holding my breath when I took the Mint plunge some months back. Since it's the most popular Linux flavor, I guessed I'd have the best luck with it. I've used Unix/Linux at work since the 90s (using OpenSuse now at work, Sun UNIX before that), but only as a user, not as anyone involved in IT.

I really suspect it's a hardware driver problem since this new machine has a fairly current nvidia video card in it, and the stock drivers in the Linux .iso files are probably many, many, months behind the times from what I gather from the forums I read.

The trick as I understand it is to reset your machine to an older driver configuration somehow, get Linux to load, then load a more current kernel that has a better chance to support your hardware and current drivers. I just don't know how to do that.

This laptop I'm using now was a Win 10 machine with UEFI BIOS, but it was a refurbished DELL Latitude machine with presumably older hardware. I got Mint to dual boot with Win 10 with it with no trouble. This new desktop machine however has got me stymied.

Hate to repeat myself, but I love Linux Mint and the whole philosophy of open source software. And there's no worrying about Windows 10 and their "Windows Experience" they ram down your throat spying on every move you make on the internet. And Win 10 Cortana? Who needs/wants it? I don't.