Installing Fedora on an Acer Aspire ES 17 ES-732: Bypassing the UEFI NVRAM Freeze
"Save old hardware and install Linux on it." That's my response to the ridiculous requirements from Microsoft. But first things first: I got a notebook from a friend, an Acer Aspire ES 17 ES-732 , with Windows 10 on an HDD. The request was: "could you do something about its speed?" I was like: "yeah, sure, I'll see what I can do." That was before I knew what I had gotten myself into. The Hardware Upgrade Usually, the method is straightforward for almost all devices: upgrade to an SSD and install a lightweight Linux distribution, especially since the hardware is from 2017. Before that happened, I was assuming that this applies to all devices, but this one here proved me wrong. This will be a rather long story about what the issue was, what I did to fix it and what you need to recreate the result. So let's start with the nightmare that cost me 14 hours in total . The first thing I did was check the hardware. Turns out there's a quad-core ...