Knowing that you got the AMD driver from their website, and I assume you got the correct one for your GPU as well, then I think you did it the best way! So kudos to you Fuchiii, you are stellar!
I have faith that we will get this figured out soon enough. Well, I am going to be going to bed and get some sleep, I been up for nearly 24-hours, so ya, my body is like, what you trying to do to my fool? Get your butt in bed before you have a body cramp or something. lol
My samsung 980 nvme has issues as well, after installing it refuses to boot. When i look in a live session and check the disk the boot and another partition have a mark (!). Saying the disk can not be booted. I suspect microsoft made a deal with samsung to lock the disk for other operational boots. I installed linux on a sata m2 and works fine
If it not works with Zorin use a different distro, microsoft uses alot of spyware and such.
My nvme refuses too with systemd bootloader, i installed linux on a sata m2 and it works just fine. I use the nvme for downloaded stuff and games. nvme does have good speeds but you would not notice much difference at all when booting.
I also refuse to use any microsoft products ever...used windows for 21 years (if not longer) and i am tired of them. Their spyware policy and their idiotic specs for a updated windows 10 aka 11 is just stupid...forcing to buy new hardware for they stupid toy(s).
Yes i know, but my nvme has 250GB and my sata has got 1TB(Gaming SSD).
I want the system to be on a seperate drive
I fell in love with Zorin on my Laptop, so..if it wont work right know.. Ill just wait until it works, maybe
I am using my pc for Video/sound editing and also for gaming, so windows is very comfortable at that. But i see how gaming is getting better and better on linux.
Well, NVME drives better get unproblematic real quick, its not like they are going away you know. Look at any PC gaming enthusiast PC, and you often times don't even find SATA drives in them anymore! They will have usually 1 or 2 NVME drives directly mounted to the motherboard, this is common practice.
If there is any type of driving that is going to be going away soon, it will be SATA drives. The 2.5" drive has been great and all, but with companies trying to make things smaller and cleaner, you have to make a sacraphice somehwere.
And look at the new Steam Deck! For portable handhelds, not even a full sized NVME will fit! There is yet another new standard making its way now, and its what the Steam Deck uses.
Keep in mind however, this may allow you to use modern NVME drives with a SATA III connection. However, if your computer is more then a few years old, you will probably require a BIOS update to utilize the drivers properly.
Ohhhh ok, so its just some kind of length adapter then. The color of that thing would clash so hard with my computer if it was used.
Then again, I see those red thingies in my notebook, I wonder if those are anti-vibration orings below the screws or something?
Well i used it because the second slot was much longer, acer created it's own adapter for it for the cost of $40-50 dollars haha. Aliexpress thought we can do it for a few bucks.
Here are some screenshots from my custom made small adapter.
If you look closely at the second picture you see the 980 nvme, on top the second m2 with extension gets added.
To get a better view of how it look, this is a picture of my older nvme card + the extra m2 sata slot.
Dude, I loved your pictures that you took, especially the last one. So thats cool to see that your notebook as two NVME slots too, yours does them stacked I see. Mine has two NVME slots too, but they are side to side of each other.
Thats neat what you did with the adapter, and yes I agree, about anyone can probably do the adapter for cheaper then Acer lol. I love your ingenuity, and trying out new things.
You seemed to have fully embraced the SSD life, which I love. I too have embraced SSD only these days, I will never go back to mechanical, I don't care about many TB of storage mechanical has, mechanical sucks.
Yes, you`re right - Windows is very comfortable here.
No, im not anymore - im playing Diablo 2 Ressurected right now - a bit red dead redemption 2... Cyberpunk 2077..
In addition, steam is working hard to bring games to work on Linux :>
Their new Handheld is based on Linux, so there could be a big rise on working steam-games :>
But after all you`re right, Windows is, right now, the better way for gamers.